Infornomics

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Hand painted wooden hex logos of various R packages

My wife secretly hand painted a number of wooden hex logos of #rstats packages I’ve created / worked on over the years, I love them so much!! Each is roughly the size of an open hand.

Reminder Superman is not a power fantasy, he's an altruism fantasy.

The idea of someone with godlike powers using them solely for good (with an antagonist who is a billionaire, who by definition do the opposite) was dreamt up by Jewish kids in the 30s and its just as if not more relevant now.

Today, feeling close to cosmopolitans or feminists separates voters of the left from right voters who identify with people who are down to earth and hard working.

Yet, these identities do have structural roots, just like class identities did.

Our short CUP book on cleavage formation is out in OA.

Starter pack for open-source maintainers in the Python ecosystem! Feel free to share and let me know who I'm missing!

go.bsky.app/D2Be5mg

a graph of tech sector investment, showing year on year increase in tech sector investment rising from $35B a year to $110B a year

Data released yesterday shows US tech sector physical investment continues to skyrocket amidst the AI boom—tech companies' net holdings of property, plant, & equipment have increased more than $110B over the last year, another new record high

Adidas headquarters raided for second day in €1bn tax evasion probe German sportswear giant says long-running investigation unlikely to have ‘any significant financial impact’

I was hoping to finally have the time to focus on a key end-of-year project. But.....

www.ft.com/content/4290...

Fascinating article on translation and reference to the 'self'.

'Speakers and writers of Japanese have...a range of choices when referring to the self.

Each of the Japanese pronouns is loaded with meaning, suggesting gender, age, rank or relationships between people (among other things).'

the problem is you're not using a proper linter/formatter

A year and a half ago, I started my Substack "Optimally Irrational" to share insights from behavioural and social sciences that are often missing from public conversations.

Today it reached 5,000 subscribers! 🙏
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www.optimallyirrational.com

Model-Based Transfer Learning for Contextual Reinforcement Learning Deep reinforcement learning (RL) is a powerful approach to complex decision making. However, one issue that limits its practical application is its brittleness, sometimes failing to train in the prese...

10/n For more details, see the full paper "Model-Based Transfer Learning for Contextual Reinforcement Learning": arxiv.org/abs/2408.04498 📄✨ #MIT #ReinforcementLearning #ML #RL #ContextualRL

👼 As an applied RL researcher, this is the most optimistic I have been about RL in years. It feels like seeing the light at the end of the tunnel when RL training starts working reliably. Without a ton of compute or tuning. Very excited for what is to come. Here is what we did👇

Climate Change AI Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning

In case you're not familiar with Climate Change #AI (@climatechangeai.bsky.social); more people should be: climatechange.ai #ethics #education #tech #ML #environment #sustainability

VIAVI: The decomposable AI landscape A reality check on AI, ML and GenAI in telecom with Per Kangru and Takai Eddine Kennouche at VIAVI Solutions

How can #AIOps integrate #AI and #ML in network operations in an efficient and streamlined way and optimize the reliability and quality of experience?
Check out this conversation with Takai Eddine Kennouche, PhD and Per Kangru at VIAVI Solutions

senzafili.com/viavi-the-de...

Machine learning to support prospective life cycle assessment of emerging chemical technologies. Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry Volume 50, December 2024, 100979 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogsc.2024.100979

A recent review highlights how machine learning (ML) can revolutionize life cycle assessment (LCA) to prospectively achieve greener chemical technologies. Let’s dive in! #Sustainability #MachineLearning #greenchem #chemsky #datascience 🧬🧪🖥️
doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

CfDs seem like a really important social technology for the transition.... cc @lionhirth.bsky.social

Failed offshore auction highlights how Denmark missed winds of change Denmark's failure to attract any bids in an offshore wind power tender this week stems from a rigid auction model, a failure to adapt to a changed economic reality for renewable energy projects and rising competition, analysts said on Friday.

A cautionary tale unfolded last week as Denmark failed to attract bids for offshore wind. What can we learn from this?

This is a multi-dimensional problem, but the primary lesson I believe is that Denmark wrongly expected developers to take on market risk. 🧵🔌💡1/9

www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Bracing for a Russian attack: EU defense chief wants €100B for weapons Andrius Kubilius is the EU’s first defense and space commissioner.

Amazing that we think, at the same time, good luck with that, mate, and: that’s by far not enough. www.politico.eu/article/kubi...

Structure-based drug design with equivariant diffusion models - Nature Computational Science This work applies diffusion models to conditional molecule generation and shows how they can be used to tackle various structure-based drug design problems

After two years, our paper on generative models for structure-based drug design is finally out in @natcomputsci.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/s43...

When I say Bluesky is a bizarre and exciting experiment, this is both /not at all/ and /exactly/ what I mean.

DAMASCUS:

1000s of prisoners have been freed from Sednaya prison, now flooding the streets, an monumental moment.

For many, the frantic search begins, desperate to know if their loved ones are among the living or the lost.

Either way, the "human slaughterhouse" is no more.

I also recommend (to German speakers) the TV debate Scholz-Laschet-Baerbock on foreign and security policy, hosted by the @munsecconf.bsky.social in late 2021.

Two ... how can I put this politely, naive and overwhelmed men, and one clear-eyed woman.

"If you don't offer an electric car for less than €20,000 in 2025, I fear you will fail in the market"

Robert Habeck to then #Volkswagen boss Herbert Diess in 2019.

Vacancy — PhD Student Computational Modelling of Adolescents' Climate Friendly Choice Are you interested in computational modelling of human behaviour?  Do you also want to apply this interest to a societally relevant research question, that is, how to mitigate the climate crisis? Join...

Two PhD openings in Psychology at the University of Amsterdam about adolescents and climate friendly behavior: one co-supervised by me, and another one more on computational modeling. Thanks for sharing

werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

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Keynote by @laurenfklein.bsky.social! 🎉

"When Theory Leads: Towards a Humanities-Forward Model of Computational Research"

This talk is a response to the idea that humanities people can only contribute to LLMs by improving model output as "AI tutors," "prompt engineers," "consultants."

#chr2024

YouTube video by Bundesakademie für Sicherheitspolitik Sicherheitspoiltisches Gespräch am 04.12.2024 mit Friedrich Merz, MdB

Finally have some time for this now:
Monday’s discussion with Friedrich Merz (CDU chancellor candidate) on security and defence policy. Let’s see whether he says anything interesting.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oDH...

Highly recommended: my colleagues at the GESIS Computational Social Science department are searching for a new team lead.
Great people, great research, work on research infrastructure and open science. Plus: tenure option ("Entfristung")

Two stages of writing:

1) This shouldn't take too long
2) Oh no

Murat Bakeev

🔥Meet the #ModelTransfer team: Murat Bakeev has been working on the project as a PhD student since October 2023, doing research on the history of agent-based models and the chalenges for their transfer from computer science and complexity science to macroeconomics.
Check out his webpages below👇