Ayan Paul

ML/AI Researcher | Theoretical and Computational Particle Physicists | Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer -- KarmaV

[Ayan Paul @ayanpaul]

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[Ayan Paul @ayanpaul]

@LightYagami2435 @Zugzwang_Sor just like string theory... :)

[Ayan Paul @ayanpaul]

@freyablekman @Ukerzel the landscape is certainly very different from 2012 - 2015 when it was easy passage for any particle physicist. Now it's quite a fight. Besides data science is very different from ML/AI research. Lots of people do just data science and claim ML research in the industry.

[Ayan Paul @ayanpaul]

@freyablekman @Ukerzel as someone who made that transition, yes particle physicists are still welcome into the Industrial AI community. However, now they have to compete with PhDs in ML and many companies that are serious about AI/ML require ML conference papers that particle physicists don't have.

[Ayan Paul @ayanpaul]

indeed, multivariate demands multidimensional...

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

Einstein was incredibly smart and loved sailing.
Yet his sailing skills were so bad that his family was terrified every time he went sailing.

Can we finally abandon the whole idea that intelligence is a one-dimensional quantity?

https://t.co/ilwdGurS3o

[Ayan Paul @ayanpaul]

@DavidMarzocca Weinberg's paper certainly vastly increased our understanding of nature but hasn't done much for humankind. A room temperature superconductor will indeed change the fate of humankind and of particle physics experiments... :)

[Ayan Paul @ayanpaul]

finally someone wants to pay postdocs a proper living wage... :)

[Anshul Kundaje @anshulkundaje]

All postdocs in my lab are paid in the range of 85-95K. One of the reasons I can't go beyond is (reverse) equity concerns from HR. I would ideally pay them 105-115K. I think that's how much I could afford based on funding I can pull in & reducing lab size to a functional minimum.

[Freya Blekman @freyablekman]

And of course (sorry forgot to tag @sustHECAP No coffee yet)

[Freya Blekman @freyablekman]

The summary on sustainability in basic research (with examples of good practices!) is now available on arxiv
https://t.co/or0xHS9d7M

Good idea? It is also possible to endorse this document/effort here: https://t.co/AuVn1fgKYE 🥳💪

Thanks for sharing! 🤝

[Ayan Paul @ayanpaul]

@AlessandroStru4 Of course, it does. It's time for scientists (including physicists) to wake up to the reality that our work has environmental, social, and geopolitical ramifications too. Otherwise, we forget to be human and forget to build more human-centric scientific practices. :)

[Ayan Paul @ayanpaul]

@AlessandroStru4 Thank you for your suggestions. Physicists can also contribute meaningfully by working with the collaboration in all future works. Without social justice a lot of good physicists get marginalized and I can tell you all about it over some good fair-trade coffee.

[Nature Reviews Physics @NatRevPhys]

We're looking forward to reading the Sustainability in HECAP+ reflection document, which was released today
https://t.co/E1hBtsGOuI

[Ayan Paul @ayanpaul]

@NatRevPhys and here comes the not-so-abstract abstract :)

[Ayan Paul @ayanpaul]

@benrayfield @ylecun NSF allows for max 2 months' salary per year and NIH discourages more than a few months' salary for the PI. Other grants are similar. Even if they allow for PI salaries, the amount is set by the university to normal academic year salaries. No one gets a bonus salary from grants

[Ayan Paul @ayanpaul]

absolutely true...!!

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

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[Ayan Paul @ayanpaul]

@AlasfarLina given a knife one can make delicious food or one can stab another human. The fault is not of the knife and the solution isn't stopping the production of all knives. As I keep repeating, there are two problems with AI, 1. human ignorance and 2. Human greed. :)

[Ayan Paul @ayanpaul]

@ylecun there are only two problems with AI

- Human ignorance
- Human greed

The threat does not come from AI, it comes from within us.

[Ayan Paul @ayanpaul]

@remarkablepaper of course I have connect, but guess what. As soon as the tablet turned on it synced and deleted the file everywhere. Spontaneous combustion of the file and now I'm left high and dry to figure out what I wrote on all the pages ... this isn't remarkable...

[Ayan Paul @ayanpaul]

@remarkablepaper fantastic concept - terrible implementation. My remarkable 2 lost battery power while I was working and deleted the whole notebook. Completely unacceptable! I lost some very important calculations right before a deadline... This isn't reliable!

[Ayan Paul @ayanpaul]

@remarkablepaper so I googled the problem, and guess what... I'm not the first one to face this. Evidently it's quite common. How can you make a product in 2023 that deletes a file on power loss...?