Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
@EPFL , @ETH_en and #CSCS today released Apertus, Switzerland's first large-scale, multilingual language model (LLM). As a fully open LLM, it serves as a building block for developers and organizations to create their own applications: https://t.co/7bJlINiIdn #Apertus#AI
@xbresson True that. Unfortunately the “just share it openly” approach, for many aspiring researchers, only works once they have made it past the “successful Ph.D. defense” post with its usual “n peer-reviewed publications” requirement.
Oldies but goldies: D Hubel, T Wiesel, Receptive fields, binocular interaction and functional architecture in the cat's visual cortex, 1962. Describes the organisation of the visual cortex using oriented filters. Nobel prize in 1981. https://t.co/j45tCL6c1I
I'm reminded today that the world of science is what I wish the entire world could be: people of different nations, races, creeds, and opinions working together to achieve great things. #sfn2024