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things, stuff

[Steven Skiena @StevenSkiena]

Still Red. Still Read. Proud to show off the new third edition of "The Algorithm Design Manual"! https://t.co/S7UzL0Gtzb

[Simon Willison @simonw]

This is a very compelling demo! SQLite in WASM as the state engine for a reactive JavaScript application, such that if you modify rows in the database the UI automatically updates to match

[Hamel Husain @HamelHusain]

I had fun giving this talk in @chipro 's ML Systems Class @Stanford about a subject we don't talk about enough:

1. How to evaluate ML Tooling
2. How to spot & deal with 🔥Tool Zealots 🔥

We have recorded the full talk 👇
https://t.co/BPEuepEkOX

Also a 🧵👇

[Patrick Collison @patrickc]

In Q1 2019, 39% of Stripe's hiring was outside Bay Area and Seattle. Last quarter, it was 74%. I think the rate at which tech industry is going global is still under-appreciated, and that this will be a big tailwind for the world over the next decade.

[Brian Armstrong @brian_armstrong]

Inspired me to look up the same numbers.

For Coinbase, Q1 2019 was 30% outside the Bay Area, and last quarter (Q4 2021) was 89% outside the Bay Area.

Tech is definitely decentralizing. Silicon Valley is now in the cloud.

[Matthew Prince 🌥 @eastdakota]

@patrickc Same thing: In 2019, 48% of @Cloudflare’s hiring was outside the Bay Area. Today it’s 78%. Our San Francisco office is our only office globally that shrank in 2021.

[Yohei @yoheinakajima]

2021 was an exciting year for web3. 🚀

👀Thought it'd be fun to kick off 2022 with...

130+ interesting web3 startups/tools.👇

[Peter Beck @Peter_J_Beck]

Here's our most epic video of 2020. Turn the sound up!

[Neil Conway @neil_conway]

We've spent the last 3 years at @DeterminedAI building a deep learning training platform, and I'm excited we're now able to share it with the ML community! Open source now under an Apache V2 license. https://t.co/Z6uBpOtges https://t.co/aiijpmKC2p

[Ed Yong is not here @edyong209]

Hello! A lot of you have started following me in the last couple of months, so let me introduce you to some people I respect, who've created some of the pandemic writing that's really stuck with me.

[Yasaman Bahri @yasamanbb]

In our preprint “The large learning rate phase of deep learning: the catapult mechanism" https://t.co/H0CdiPXrUl, we show that the choice of learning rate (LR) in (S)GD separates deep neural net dynamics into two sharply distinct types (or "phases", in the physics sense). (1/n)

[Jascha Sohl-Dickstein @jaschasd]

Predicting + demonstrating counterintuitive neural network training behavior:
- training at learning rates which diverge under NTK theory
- exponential *increase* in loss over first ~20 training *steps* (not epochs)
- drastic reduction in Hessian eigenvalues over first ~20 steps

[Keren Landman @landmanspeaking]

Appreciate the interest in #Georgia & the many Georgians who explained to me how hard we're all struggling to do the right thing, among them @JasmineForHD108, @RepMParis, @TrammellBob, @Seth_C_Clark, @JennJonesATL, @joshuasweitz. Grateful for you all. https://t.co/RdrmZS8NMB

[Jascha Sohl-Dickstein @jaschasd]

This is very cool work. Read this if you want to really, really understand how a neural network solves a specific problem -- like actual scientific understanding.

[Rose Yu @yuqirose]

I have some exciting news to share. After spending some wonderful years at Northeastern, I will be joining @ucsd_cse at @UCSanDiego as an Assistant Professor in July 2020.

I want to thank all my mentors for their support, and for folks at UCSD for making this happen.

[Maithra Raghu @maithra_raghu]

A Survey of Deep Learning for Scientific Discovery

To help facilitate using DL in science, we survey a broad range of deep learning methods, new research results, implementation tips & many links to code/tutorials

Paper https://t.co/N4wLdL7sm3

Work with @ericschmidt

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[pierre @pidueck]

Where there is a will there is a way

[Jeremy Howard @jeremyphoward]

TFW you start reading a tweet and half way through start to realize it's about you. 🧐

[Erik Brynjolfsson @erikbryn]

I'm delighted to be joining the faculty at Stanford to lead a new Center on Advanced Studies of the Digital Economy.

Very much looking forward to working with the amazing folks @StanfordHAI, @SIEPR, @StanfordGSB and @Stanford Dept of Economics.

https://t.co/4HpQr5MFke

[Aurélien Geron @aureliengeron]

Wow, thanks a lot for your kind words, Tim! 😊
It's been a wild and exciting ride, and I feel incredibly grateful to everyone who helped me along the way. The field is moving so fast, I'm curious to see what this new decade will bring! 🦎

[Sisu @sisudata]

Frustrated with the complexity and challenge of working with extra-wide datasets? Check out how the Sisu #ML team uses graph coloring to perform efficient column reduction in wide datasets without sacrificing data quality. https://t.co/QSkZ1o8Dxf