Viktor Senderov

Works and lives in Sweden. I tweet about probabilistic programming and evolutionary biology. NO TO WAR!

[Viktor Senderov @vsenderov]

@tomwarren Can it play ET?

[Genomics Data Science - SFI CRT @GenomicsCRT]

Well done to CRT students @SophiieMatthews and @kev_ryan_95 on winning prizes for best lightening talk and poster presentation respectively @UniGalwayMaths research day👏👏👏

[Viktor Senderov @vsenderov]

You can see the ships lights all go out and then eventually some of them come back online shortly before the impact. I wonder if there was some sort of electrical issue on the ship, preventing it from maneuvering?

[rolandsmartin @rolandsmartin]

@Hacksaw_9xx @sentdefender live feed https://t.co/yKApfuAV9H

[Viktor Senderov @vsenderov]

@ggreenwald In Russia they have laws against "foreign agents." This is eerily reminiscent of that.

[Markov @MarkovMagnifico]

it's actually crazy how much better triangle notation is than the standard notation

[Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER @doctorow]

The #OpenAI soap-opera hijacked the attention of millions of productive people and nonsensually crammed the fine details of the debate between #EffectiveAltruism and #EffectiveAccelerationism into them, a genuinely absurd debate that was allegedly at the center of the drama.

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[Viktor Senderov @vsenderov]

@aylwyn_scally This is actually a problem: not with your group in particular or anything like that but with academic "teams" in general: they are so dysfunctional as teams that the synergy effect is close to zero in many cases

[Nick St. Pierre @nickfloats]

Do I have this right?:

“GPT store”
@adamdangelo pissed
Starts coup
@ilyasut convinced
Board listens
@sama fired
@gdb ousted
@miramurati CEO
Greg quits
Employees pissed
“We’ll quit”
Board scrambles
Bye Mira
Hello @eshear
@satyanadella negotiates
Hires Sam
Hires Greg
Ilya regret
Employees threaten
Letter drafted
747 sign
Shared trauma
Bond stronger
Netflix series
Emmy award
AGI achieved

[Viktor Senderov @vsenderov]

https://t.co/7GBsFjZVKq

[Viktor Senderov @vsenderov]

The best way to become a 10x developer is to teach 10 developers to be as good as you. --- not me, but I like the quote

[ProbAI = Probabilistic AI ✌️ @probabilisticai]

ProbAI goes beyond Nordics! Apply now to the Tropical Probabilistic AI School 2024 in Rio de Janeiro 🇧🇷, 29 Jan – 2 Feb. https://t.co/o7AWMMos4U 🌴 #ProbAI #ProbabilisticAI

[Viktor Senderov @vsenderov]

@LessThanMorgan @CollinRugg In MMA, the most brutal of sports, you stop after somebody is knocked out. Guy was beating up on her, after she was KO'd. This _is_ attempted murder.

[Michael 英泉 Eisen @mbeisen]

I still believe deeply in the need for a radical restructuring of science publishing to create an open and fair system that works well for science, for all scientists everywhere, and the public that supports us, and am proud of the steps we have taken to begin to get us there.

[Viktor Senderov @vsenderov]

Oh no https://t.co/NsT3RhCr1Z seems to be down! https://t.co/HMWEiAyCzn #isitup

[Spider_papers @spiderspapers]

TreePPL: A Universal Probabilistic Programming Language for Phylogenetics https://t.co/mQ96snumJW

[Piers Higgs @piers_higgs]

We're all locally famous at #tdwg2023

[Viktor Senderov @vsenderov]

If you believe you are more intelligent than GPT-4, then you are most definitely not.

[Viktor Senderov @vsenderov]

Attending the LLM session at #ISMBECCB2023 . A lot of people share that they are ChatGPT to write outlines, but then fill in the details themselves. I think this is backwards: write your own bullet points and let LLM do the mundane work of forming syntactically correct sentences

[BiCIKL_H2020 @Bicikl_H2020]

📢 BREAKING: the Biodiversity Knowledge Hub is here!
💜🧡💚
#BiCIKL_H2020 is proud to announce the arrival of this game-changer in scientific research.

Read the full story and TEST IT here:
🤜https://t.co/8iA4KcuntI🤛

#biodiversity #FAIRdata

[Andrew Akbashev @Andrew_Akbashev]

#PhD student: Makes $30k a year. Works on weekends as well. Zero life-work balance.

"Do you think I have a chance to become a professor?"

Prof: "Yes, of course! Finish this project and we will publish excellent papers. I am sure you will easily find a faculty position."

▫️

2 years later:

Student finishes the project. Professor writes a report. Papers are published.

Student: "Do you think my CV is strong enough?"

Prof: "Yes, you are the best!"

▫️

Next 4 months:

Student submits 50 well-tailored applications for faculty positions.

Zero interviews. A lot of broken dreams.

▫️

Key takeaways:

1. Make sure you distinguish encouragement from reality.
- By encouraging you, your advisor may unintentionally give you too much hope. Keep a cool head.

2. Always ask other faculties for external opinion on your case.
- Your advisor’s opinion is always biased. Look for more input outside your group.

3. Don’t expect fairness during candidate selection.
- Hiring process is subjective by definition. It is done by people with very different views on who is the best. You may put tons of efforts into a research statement only to find out later that no one really reads it.

4. The reality is brutal.
- Departments can receive 300-500 candidates per opening. Many have excellent CVs and cool ideas. At top- and mid-rank universities, selection criteria can become extremely questionable (like, who exactly was your PhD advisor? Is your recomm. letter 3 pages long? etc).

And there is no need to say “You don’t know anything about it. It’s not like this”.

I went through this myself. Many times. Along with many colleagues.

Do not expect fairness. See luck as a big factor.

Apply broadly but have a backdoor ready.

#AcademicTwitter