Peter El-Jiz

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[Peter El-Jiz @peterjiz]

@elonmusk when will Starlink be available in Lebanon? Is roaming available for travelers headed to Lebanon?

[Peter El-Jiz @peterjiz]

@elonmusk I'd be happy to relieve you of a couple of millions! I offer true friendship and companionship. And, we can shoot the shit over whatever comes to mind. 😂

[Peter El-Jiz @peterjiz]

@Starlink

[Peter El-Jiz @peterjiz]

@elonmusk when will Starlink be available in Lebanon? Is roaming available for travelers headed to Lebanon?

[Peter El-Jiz @peterjiz]

I was considering getting them 😅

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

Meta will *not* release the multimodal versions of its AI products and models in the EU because of an unpredictable regulatory environment.
This means that EU users of Ray-Ban Meta won't be able to use the image understanding features.
It also means that the EU industry will not have access to future multimodal versions of Llama-3.

https://t.co/sRWyEKyV3D

[Peter El-Jiz @peterjiz]

GPU millionaire?! 😱

[Sai Zhang @saizhang0]

Someone is running jobs on 128 GPU nodes (~1000 A100) during holidays. Is this a normal PhD life?

[François Fleuret @francoisfleuret]

Reminder that if you are "doing deep learning" and have the impression you know 5% of what is needed to do things: *everybody* has this impression the second they step outside the narrow topic they have been working on for two years.

[Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D. @hubermanlab]

The reason to deliberately do hard things is so that when non-self-elected challenges arrive (& they will), you can tell yourself: “I don’t know how this is all going to turn out, but I am certain I can do hard things.” Don’t self injure. But doing hard things is always worthwhile.

[Peter El-Jiz @peterjiz]

😂

[Pedro Domingos @pmddomingos]

The psychology of AI alarmists:

Elon Musk: Savior complex. Needs something to save the world from.

Geoff Hinton: Ultra-leftist, world-class eccentric.

Yoshua Bengio: Hopelessly naive idealist.

Stuart Russell: His only impactful application ever was to nuclear test monitoring. Fixated on nuclear analogies and regulation ever since.

Max Tegmark: Shallow, opportunist, publicity seeker.

Yuval Harari: Clueless purveyor of vacuous nonsense.

Eliezer Yudkowsky: Has a screw loose.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

We the Lebanese are fed up with proxy wars. Proxy wars never end because the players don't have skin in the game.

[Peter El-Jiz @peterjiz]

@Nikic_Lab @cheerful_neuron Čestitke Nevena! Never doubted you for a second 😎

[Paul Graham @paulg]

@_david_ho_ Have you checked what gender each of them identifies as, or are you just assuming their genders based on their appearance?

(Tip: When publicly enforcing orthodoxy, you have to be careful not to leave room for someone to one up you by being even more orthodox.)

[Nathan Baugh @nathanbaugh27]

I revisit this lesson on writing structure every 3-4 months.

Gold:

[Peter El-Jiz @peterjiz]

Ground-breaking, years-in-the-making, inspiring work by @cheerful_neuron 🔥
Very happy to see all your efforts pay off and you enjoy the fruits of your labor!

[Nevena Stajković @cheerful_neuron]

Super excited to share the publication of my PhD research paper https://t.co/u7pFWZfnOa in @J_Cell_Sci 🎉I am also thrilled to have been selected for the first person interview and to have my work featured on the cover ☺️Huge thanks to my mentor @Nikic_Lab and the collaborators

[Mohamed Abdelhack محمد عبدالحق @mabdelhack]

🚨Preprint Alert🚨
Resting-state activations of higher freq. of insomnia resemble those of sleeping longer… 🤯🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️Puzzled?! We were too! Check details in 🧵
w/ @peterzhukovsky, Milos Milic, @ShreyasHarita, @neurodidact, @wake_sleep & @DanielFelsky.
Link: https://t.co/IZzEnOjjfM

[MarcoBonizzato @MarcoBonizzato]

Out today on @CellRepMed, 5 years in the making
Autonomous optimization of neurostimulation
Collaborative science in @DancauseNuma laboratory& @_MartinezLab & @g_lajoie_
at @UMontreal
👉AND WE ARE HIRING RIGHT NOW to scale this up. Join: check thread!
https://t.co/vdbPBFOumQ
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[Oren Gottfried, MD @OGdukeneurosurg]

There are two types smiles: the "social smile, and the genuine "Duchenne" smile. The social involves consciously activating the mouth muscles, and real involves an additional set of muscles, which results in lower lids crinkling into "crow's-feet.

[Pradeep Reddy, Raamana @Raamana_]

an obvious major downside of #Mastodon being decentralized: it is or becomes a collection of "echo chambers" (instance), if there is eligibility criteria for each instance (progressives, dems, republicans, etc). so I say #mastoDonT :) #Musk

I aint paid by @elonmusk. Not yet :)

[Pradeep Reddy, Raamana @Raamana_]

@NicoleCRust if I may, what’s the rationale, beyond the “I don’t like a billionaire owning a media company in a capitalist country”?

[Peter El-Jiz @peterjiz]

Got sick of doing it manually. Just forked omnigraffle-export and automated my @OmniGraffle -> PDF_Tex workflow https://t.co/CC1DVguhVh

[Peter El-Jiz @peterjiz]

@debivort To answer your question. In a utopic society, no. But then again, there would be no profits.

[Peter El-Jiz @peterjiz]

@debivort It's unfortunate that the default forum was a private for-profit platform. I think moving to Mastodon, this late in the game, will just lead to more divide and fragmented communities, making certain people less accessible. (2/2)