@NateSilver538 Will you please analyze the current government attacks on higher Ed in the River/Village framework? I tell my students that the River won the election but did not expect flooding the zone to become flooding the Village.
Progress on the group isomorphism problem, a longstanding problem in computer science. Nice piece by Kevin Hartnett for @QuantaMagazine. https://t.co/pBNjapKlIV
Most data scientists use linear/logistic regression to figure out which features are important in a dataset.
I almost never do this.
Instead, I generally use leave-one-out feature importance (LOFO) + LightGBM.
Here's why:
Saturday marked my 10th anniversary at the @simonsfoundation, where I founded @QuantaMagazine, hired an amazing team of science journalists, and have been getting my mind blown by big ideas in science and math since 2012. What a ride it's been. A 🧵 of a few memorable moments...
DALLE-2 was paywall-released recently by an extremely well-funded company.
Just yesterday, a group of independent researchers released their own model (Stable Diffusion) that you can use in a few lines of code for FREE.
The speed of the ML research community is insane 🤯
I've learned one thing: people who practice anonymous hate speech and surround themselves with others practicing anonymous hate speech earnestly believe that this is something everyone does.
What happened is scientists discovered chlorofluorocarbons were bad for the ozone, countries believed them, the Montreal Protocol was signed, and CFC use fell by 99.7%, leading to the stabilization of the ozone layer, perhaps the greatest example of global cooperation in history.