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Peter El-Jiz

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


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Bye bye 🥹

صور لن يفهمها جيل الجديد

McLovin652's tweet image. صور لن يفهمها جيل الجديد
McLovin652's tweet image. صور لن يفهمها جيل الجديد


I was considering getting them 😅

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…



GPU millionaire?! 😱

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

saizhang0's tweet image. Someone is running jobs on 128 GPU nodes (~1000 A100) during holidays. Is this a normal PhD life?


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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.


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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…


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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.…



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


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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.)


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

nathanbaugh27's tweet image. I revisit this lesson on writing structure every 3-4 months.

Gold:

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!

Super excited to share the publication of my PhD research paper journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/13… 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



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🚨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: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

mabdelhack's tweet image. 🚨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: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Sleep-insomnia superposition: opposing brain signatures of sleep in task-based and resting-state conditions biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_neursci



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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! cell.com/cell-reports-m… 1/


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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.


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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 :)


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


Got sick of doing it manually. Just forked omnigraffle-export and automated my @OmniGraffle -> PDF_Tex workflow github.com/peterjiz/omnig…


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Our dispatch with @michael_bannert is out @CurrentBiology! We discuss the excellent paper by @meenakshik93 @apurvaratan @Nancy_Kanwisher (plus 2 related preprints, involving @cvnlab) who used big data to discover food selectivity in the human brain. bit.ly/3SXI9Jt


Definitely helps to filter ideas/ventures to pursue from excess noise (less promising avenues).

Steve Jobs famously said innovation is "saying no to 1000 things" before you say yes. For more than a decade, Apple has used Pablo Picasso's Bull to drive home the lesson. Here's a breakdown 🧵

TrungTPhan's tweet image. Steve Jobs famously said innovation is "saying no to 1000 things" before you say yes.

For more than a decade, Apple has used Pablo Picasso's Bull to drive home the lesson. 

Here's a breakdown 🧵


Peter El-Jiz reposted

1/ Our new work: "How many degrees of freedom do we need to train deep networks: a loss landscape perspective." arxiv.org/abs/2107.05802 We present a geometric theory that connects to lottery tickets and a new method: lottery subspaces. w/ @_BrettLarsen @caenopy @stanislavfort

SuryaGanguli's tweet image. 1/ Our new work: "How many degrees of freedom do we need to train deep networks: a loss landscape perspective." arxiv.org/abs/2107.05802 We present a geometric theory that connects to lottery tickets and a new method: lottery subspaces. w/ @_BrettLarsen @caenopy @stanislavfort

Peter El-Jiz reposted

There is not much we know for certain about Lebanon's future. But I have no doubt that, whatever happens, the economic and political elite will focus on plundering resources at the expenses Lebanese. We need to fight back. synaps.network/post/lebanon-c…


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