Saad Alqithami

Associate Professor: PhD in #AI & #ComplexityTheory

[Saad Alqithami @ALQITHAMI]

@eisa_ayed Congrats! 🥳

[Stephen Wolfram @stephen_wolfram]

I never expected this: finally we may have a path to the fundamental theory of physics...and it's beautiful
https://t.co/1zNCYDMxhM

[McKinsey & Company @McKinsey]

How to build a network of teams that is empowered to operate outside of the current hierarchy and bureaucratic structures of the organization during the #coronavirus crisis. https://t.co/h2vBja11pH

[Albert-László Barabási @barabasi]

In this exceptional moment of need, we decided to turn the BarabasiLab's network medicine toolset to aid the hunt for a treatment for COVID-19. We will also forgo the usual guardedness of research, and post the results, as the arrive, here: https://t.co/HmzP1JfxWH.

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

Overanxious and Underslept:
Last week we learned how deep sleep and slow waves cleanse the #brain from toxins.
Today, on the slow waves & mechanism tied to anxiety due to sleep deprivation
https://t.co/lE4gcnGHOu
@NatureHumBehav @sleepdiplomat @UCBerkeley @UCBerkeleyNeuro @etoosh

[Johan Ugander @jugander]

"An Experimental Study of Structural Diversity in Social Networks," new paper with @jessicatysu, @krishna_kamath, @aneeshs, and @5harad, to appear at ICWSM 2020: https://t.co/wuMxzodIx9 Several years in the making, I'm really excited to share this work! 1/n

[AI at Meta @AIatMeta]

Oculus Insight is the revolutionary system that made our fully untethered Oculus Quest headset possible. Insight utilizes CV algorithms for precise, real time SLAM-based room mapping and position tracking to keep players fully immersed in the experience. https://t.co/GBk8gcQ7vl

[Santa Fe Institute @sfiscience]

@nature There it is, as plain as day:

Surround yourself with people like you & you will consistently underestimate the # of people unlike you.

Want better estimates about the world beyond your blind spots? Cross the aisle.

@nature:
https://t.co/UKT3fTgdbG

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[Johannes Wachs @johannes_wachs]

My paper "Social capital predicts corruption risk in towns" with @TahaYasseri, @blengyelb and @janos_kertesz is now published in @RSocPublishing Open Science. Most of this work was done during a visit at the lovely @oiioxford.
https://t.co/siqUHuSqh0
A quick summary follows:

[World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) @WIPO]

Artificial intelligence-based inventions are booming – IBM and Microsoft are in the lead. New WIPO “Technology Trends” report on #AI has latest data on key players, fastest-growing areas, geographical and market trends: https://t.co/zhZbvkmL3E. #WIPOtechtrends

[Google DeepMind @GoogleDeepMind]

In a collaboration with Google Brain, we are releasing the Hanabi Learning Environment: a testbed for collaborative multi-agent learning and theory of mind in the card game Hanabi.

Paper: https://t.co/MTT5PvMHoP
GitHub: https://t.co/hDzYElHfQa

[WIRED @WIRED]

Between 35-85% of mental health conditions go undetected and undiagnosed, according to the World Health Organization. Enter virtual reality. VR has been used to treat some conditions and it may help diagnose them. Here's how: 1/ https://t.co/iPqVi0d85Q

[Alessandro Vespignani @alexvespi]

Social capital predicts corruption risk in towns
“fragmentation as fostering in-group favoritism and conformity, which increase corruption, while diversity facilitates impartiality in public life and stifles corruption”
https://t.co/maQ2dEIFa8

[Saad Alqithami @ALQITHAMI]

@SteadiaIO @Aljohani_A_J الف مبروك د. عبدالله، فاتحة خير باذن الله 💐

[Chris Anderson (in London) @chr1sa]

It's time for schools to teach Python, not Java, as their main intro to computer science. Along with being easier to learn and *actually* able to run anywhere on anything (like Basic back in the day), it's the dominant language of AI and computer vision

https://t.co/eFVcxG3NMB

[Steven Pinker @sapinker]

Bertrand Russell: “The law of causation…is a relic of a bygone age, surviving, like the monarchy, only because it is erroneously supposed to do no harm." Judea Pearl disagrees: The Book of Why is a profound explication of the science of causality. https://t.co/I86vO7z5KM

[BBC News Technology @BBCTech]

The psychopathic AI https://t.co/8eQVBO9i3P

[Fei-Fei Li @drfeifei]

Here is a thoughtful piece by Prof. Michael Jordan on #ML, #AI, statistics, etc. "In the current era, we have a real opportunity to conceive of something historically new — a human-centric engineering discipline." Yay to Human-centered AI! https://t.co/K6YPlEAT4u

[Andrew Ng @AndrewYNg]

Get a free draft copy of my book on how to structure Machine Learning projects: https://t.co/TgvKPa033r I’d started this before but got distracted building Deep Learning Specialization; I’m now rebooting this. Sign up to get free chapters as they’re released!

[Insider Tech @TechInsider]

Sleep deprivation is worse than you think — make sure you're getting 8 hours a night