urs koster

[Jonathan's translucent form @jmcrookston]

Please tell someone around you they can re-use N95s until straps don't work or dirty. Too many aren't using because they think too expensive.

And gov should be providing to everyone, since they bungled this so badly but that's a whole other issue.

[urs koster @neurotalker]

@Yemeth pls DM me

[urs koster @neurotalker]

Exited to talk about wafer-scale deep learning at O'Reilly AI today.

[Cerebras @cerebras]

and a talk by our head of machine learning, Urs Köster @neurotalker https://t.co/z8OX5iYIyc @OReillyAI #MachineLearning #AI #DeepLearning #Waferscale #BuildBigChips

[Nal @nalkalc]

NIPS registration just opened.... uh aaaand tickets are sold out! 😯

[Adam M. Smith (史亚当) @rndmcnlly]

I'm visualizing what time of day my daughter was sleeping/napping during the first year of hear life. Future parents take note: It takes about two months before newborns discovery our day/night cycle. Every datapoint is there because we were awake to enter it.

[Jonathan Pillow @jpillowtime]

New #biorxiv paper with G. Barello and @BaselessPursuit on combining the sparse coding model with variational auto-encoder (VAE).
https://t.co/IWImodXLnZ

[John Williamson @jhnhw]

First 1e6 integers, represented as binary vectors indicating their prime factors, and laid out using the sparse matrix support in @leland_mcinnes's UMAP dimensionality reduction algorithm. This is from a 1000000x78628 (!) binary matrix. Very pretty structure emerges.

[James Wang @draecomino]

Nvidia's down ~5% after its Q2 report. They expected $100m in crypto revenue. Actual was $18m. They are modeling for $0 going forward. ‼️

[urs koster @neurotalker]

@jeremyphoward @AlecRad @Miles_Brundage @hardmaru @arankomatsuzaki Mystery solved: They had a bug and were testing on the training data, see https://t.co/32WLA1UyX0

[Jeremy Howard @jeremyphoward]

Leslie gives very few talks, so don't miss this!

[Peter Singer @PeterSinger]

My response to 15 economists (including 3 Nobel Laureates) who don't like the focus on aid effectiveness: https://t.co/ipcnKoHzUv

[urs koster @neurotalker]

As the late, great David Mackay put it, “If everyone does a little, we’ll only achieve a little.”

[Steven Pinker @sapinker]

Grasping at straws: Why "performative, scolding environmentalism [e.g., banning plastic straws] that is disconnected from the scale of the problems it claims to address" is not an effective way of meeting environmental challenges. https://t.co/J1kE6g4NkX

[Chris Olah @ch402]

3D style transfer is one of my favorite parts of our latest Distill paper. Still kind of amazed that it works! https://t.co/fwcpoGwSw9 1/5

[Carl Vondrick @cvondrick]

The "deep inversion" quiz by Oxford: how well do you understand neural network visualizations? https://t.co/w2TkqI4uwM

[urs koster @neurotalker]

Food for thought

[daniel read 🇨🇦 @danielmabuse]

Passage from David Mackay's "Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air." Banning straws too is like bailing the Titanic with a teaspoon.

[urs koster @neurotalker]

Would this be any different if the facial recognition had a true instead of a false positive? Should police be allowed to stop and search at will without a warrant or probable cause? https://t.co/ZXJdlzjZUI

[Dr. Casey Fiesler is no longer on here @cfiesler]

It's extremely important that we anticipate & critically examine the harms of false positives in algorithmic decision-making. Not only in practice (like this real world scenario!) but in scholarship--if you classify things, let's see discussion of what happens when you're wrong. https://t.co/yhm0gBuVjz

[urs koster @neurotalker]

Great news! I love Lime bikes https://t.co/hp0KZmeTug

[Lime @limebike]

Today, we are thrilled to announce that Lime is raising $335M!
Read all about our story and the round led by @GVteam, with participation from @alphabetincUS, @atomico, @Uber & @a16z, below.
Ride on, #LimeNation! 💚 🛴
https://t.co/v2LwCTigGL

[Ferenc Huszár @fhuszar]

So only European teams remain in the World Cup. Might as well call it Euro 2018 from this point on. Also no Spain, Germany, Netherlands, Italy or Portugal. Who would have thought it?