A new brain-spine interface implant reportedly restores natural walking ability in a tetraplegic patient #neuroscience: nature.com/articles/s4158…

1/4) Several people I admire immensely have signed this, but respectfully, I'm afraid I just don't agree with the claim that "mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority". I think this statement is naive and a mistake.

The {marginaleffects} 📦 book is now online! 25 chapters on post-estimation analyses and interpretation with #Rstats. The 📖 is full of tutorials, case studies, tips, and technical notes. Please check it out and let us know how we can improve this resource vincentarelbundock.github.io/marginaleffect…

Want to use machine learning to do something good? The Wikimedia Foundation (we host Wikipedia) is hiring a REMOTE technical-focused Research Manager You'll work on anti-vandalism, anti-harassment, and other projects to make Wikipedia and Wikidata better, safer, and more better

This looks amazing.

MidJourney has been sitting on the iron throne of text-to-image, and very few startups can mount a serious challenge. But a new player is in town! Ideogram.ai is built by the former Google Brain Imagen team. One of the founders, Jonathan Ho, was lead author of the OG

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Curious about salaries in biotech? r/biotech's annual survey data for 2024 is out. With 700+ entries showing a range from $400k - $30k in annual base. Leadership roles earn significantly more and the inflection point is at director level and up. Link below👇

A tremendous waste. Mere retraction of such papers is inadequate punishment. Beyond the obscene waste of time and tax payer money, they also undermine public trust in science. Those who knowingly participated should have their grant funding cut off at the very least.

It's official. I'm writing the #marginaleffects book! The provisional title is “Model to Meaning: How to Interpret and Communicate Statistical Results in R and Python” Please reply with better titles, artwork ideas, content suggestions... What do you want to read? #Rstats

1/8 Looks like my paper "Tabular Data: Deep Learning is Not All You Need" just hit 1,000+ citations 🥳🥳🥳 Here's the story of how we almost didn't publish it... arxiv.org/abs/2106.03253

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Interesting new paper on how dopamine and serotonin both contribute to reward processing and reward associated learning in the mouse brain

What is one sentence that has stayed with you after reading it? (Bonus points for including the source.)

If you like AI and/or causal inference, you should definitely check out our new working paper on whether LLMs can help you build a reliable causal model! 👇🏼👇🏼

Feeling this might be a good time to repost. Come to Canada! TT Asst/Assoc position in Neuro. Translational research in human disease/disorders. Serious applicants only please.

Recently I was targeted by an extremely sophisticated phishing attack, and I want to highlight it here. It exploits a vulnerability in Google's infrastructure, and given their refusal to fix it, we're likely to see it a lot more. Here's the email I got:

We tested a pre-release version of o3 and found that it frequently fabricates actions it never took, and then elaborately justifies these actions when confronted. We were surprised, so we dug deeper 🔎🧵(1/) x.com/OpenAI/status/…