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…

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/ Brett Larsen Nic Becker Stanislav Fort

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

Our dispatch with @michael_bannert is out Current Biology! We discuss the excellent paper by Meenakshi Khosla Apurva Ratan Murty Nancy Kanwisher @[email protected] (plus 2 related preprints, involving cvnlab) who used big data to discover food selectivity in the human brain. bit.ly/3SXI9Jt

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 Elon Musk. Not yet :)

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

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

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.

Out today on Cell Reports Medicine, 5 years in the making Autonomous optimization of neurostimulation Collaborative science in @DancauseNuma laboratory& Marina Martinez & Guillaume Lajoie at Université de Montréal 👉AND WE ARE HIRING RIGHT NOW to scale this up. Join: check thread! cell.com/cell-reports-m… 1/

🚨Preprint Alert🚨 Resting-state activations of higher freq. of insomnia resemble those of sleeping longer… 🤯🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️Puzzled?! We were too! Check details in 🧵 w/ Peter Zhukovsky, Milos Milic, @ShreyasHarita, John Griffiths, Sean Hill & Daniel Felsky. Link: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Ground-breaking, years-in-the-making, inspiring work by Nevena Stajković 🔥 Very happy to see all your efforts pay off and you enjoy the fruits of your labor!

David Ho 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.)

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

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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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

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.

GPU millionaire?! 😱

I was considering getting them 😅

The ceiling at the Sheraton hotel fell and almost hit me! I could have been seriously injured. Marriott Hotels management did not handle this properly at all, and offered a 30% refund or 10k points. Unacceptable