Ioana Ciucă

📢 New dataset out!

We introduce HypoGen💥, a dataset of ~5.5K structured problem–hypothesis pairs (Bit–Flip–Spark + Chain‑of‑Reasoning) to advance LLM-driven scientific ideation💡.

Fine‑tuned LLaMA 3.1 8B & R1‑distilled models show significant gains. Humans are still the best🥇.

And another banger from the team led by our wondrous Sharaf Zaman 🥳 . So incredibly proud of the team, we're going open, multi-modal and inviting our community so we TBD together. A big shoutout to @mjjsmith.com and @pktrpl.bsky.social for spearheading our open community efforts 🚀 .

Excited to announce our new paper as part of our 2^2 week: AstroLLaVA, a vision language model for astronomy that enables natural dialogue with astronomical imagery! Shout out to Sharaf Zaman for leading this work arxiv.org/abs/2504.08583 🔭☄️

Another banger from the dream team💥 🚀 💫 ! Big congratulations to @atillaalkan.bsky.social and team, who have done tremendous work with hypothesis generation and bringing our community up to speed with the latest advancements 🥳 .

AstroCoder came to life at the @esa.int 💫 , for whose support we are incredibly grateful. To our community of scientists and friends, hope that you enjoy the agent as much as we do 💜. Please give it a try and let us know what you think - your feedback is key to our explorations!

Tremendous work drawing from the inspiring and expansive vision and commitment to excellence with purpose from @astronolan.bsky.social working with the wonderful support of the @universetbd.org team and @msftresearch.bsky.social through the AFMR grant 🥳 .

To a city I love Like no other, San Francisco. Before I met you, I thought London was the one. Rain and ruins and a sense of being close to the home I didn't choose, the one I always go back to on quiet nights when n...

Trying to connect with a gentler part of myself after a very tough year.
www.iciuca.com/hey-san-fran...

A collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Atlas Obscura Wild Life, Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party, Every Living Thing, Alien Earths, Becoming Earth, and Deep Water

A collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Frostbite, The Inner Clock, How to Kill an Asteroid, The Great River, The Last Fire Season, and Hoof Beats

A collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are The Serviceberry, Not the End of the World, Nature's Ghosts, Meet the Neighbors, The Light Eaters, and Our Moon

A collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Turning to Stone, The Weight of Nature, What If We Get It Right?, Waves in An Impossible Sea, The Tree Collectors, and Why We Remember

I was deeply disappointed by the lack of nature/science/climate/enviro on many major end-of-year book lists—so I decided to make my own!

Introducing: ✨🎁📚 The 2024 Holiday Gift Guide to Nature & Science Books ✨🎁📚

Please share: Let's make this go viral in time for Black Friday / holiday shopping!

Build a model, it survives a cycle. Build a team, it survives many.

OLMo 2: The best fully open language model to date | Ai2 Our next generation of fully-open base and instruct models sit at the Pareto frontier of performance and training efficiency.

The release that I am excited about:
allenai.org/blog/olmo2?u...

Just got all of my furniture under 500 dollars (not counting the mattress). Thrift goddess 😆.

On the Wednesdays when I work from home, I like to come here at noon. Saturdays too, Sundays at Embarcadero Pier.

Something about the ocean makes the unquiet rest for a moment.

We are on a bold mission to democratise science for everyone, and we want to do our part with integrity and courage. Stay tuned😎.

A great joy to see our team members contributing to the open-source MMU Collaboration and Dataset, which got accepted to NeurIPS 2024! Massive thanks to @mjjsmith.com for bringing folks together and inspiring us to take part in this great collaborative project together with many great people! 🚀✨🎉✨

fluffy neighbor ❤️

Incredible work done by @pktrpl.bsky.social and team 🚀✨🎉!

Join us on Discord tomorrow (Nov 28th) at 15:00 UTC for our monthly talk 🔭 🧪 ! @micginolfi.bsky.social (U Florence) will be talking about how we can infer many galaxy properties via a single neural net (nice X thread here with more details: x.com/micginolfi/s...).

Link: discord.gg/9PXcTH7cTn?e...

One thing everyone can do right now is follow @blackinastro.bsky.social and use and share their official starter pack: go.bsky.app/6nFQdRC 🔭 ⚛️

I know also @blackandstem.bsky.social plans to set up a presence in the coming months! 🧪

Lots of love in and for UTBD here where the skies are blue.

New house vibes in San Francisco after three months on the road after leaving Australia at the beginning of September. House appreciation day 🙏.

Reading the TÜLU 3 paper from @ai2.bsky.social. It's refreshing to see a research lab treating AI as a real science with full reports, data, code, logs, evals.

Paper: allenai.org/papers/tulu-...
Demo: playground.allenai.org
Code: github.com/allenai/open...
Eval: github.com/allenai/olmes

Notes

Okay, Bluesky is cool in all the good ways. I’m sold.

The element of surprise is an enticing feature of social media 🚀.

We introduced a reflection mechanism by adding the phrase: “Wait! Maybe I made some mistakes! I need to rethink from scratch.” at the end of each thought process.

Research into advanced AI reasoning mostly just proves why we all have anxiety

arxiv.org/pdf/2411.14405

“move slowly, grow things”

Think I'm not going back to formerly Twitter. Loved that place so much, the community, the news, the excitement when someone cool wanted to reach out.

But the vibes are kinda off nowadays. Whatever they've done to it, it's not the same. The transition tho.

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