I'm currently on the 2020-2021 academic job market, and I'm looking for openings in EE/CS/Stats/OR/B-school. Please feel free to contact me if you are interested. webpage: web.stanford.edu/~yjhan/index.h… CV: web.stanford.edu/~yjhan/cv_yanj…

Did you miss Dr. Moshe Vardi's lecture on #logic last week? We've now made the video available for everyone! bit.ly/2MhhJFa

Extremely encouraging to see causal graphs trickling into NLP, enforcing my speculation that " learning from the way causal reasoning was domesticated, would benefit researchers in other area of AI, including vision and NLP." (in ucla.in/3oQZ55n).

I've been serving on grad admissions committees at MIT for 5 years - in EECS and Media Lab If you want to get into a PhD at a place like MIT, here's a thread with some advice based on my observations 1/13

800 free computer science classes you can take online right now: bit.ly/800CSclasses #MondayMotivation

If you really think about it, AI is a non-conventional way of learning how biological brains work. It's is based on a 3rd pillar of science that many ignore. That 3rd tier was established when computers were invented.

Can AI be conscious? Or are there more useful questions to address at the inferface of consciousness and AI? I’ll be debating such things with the brilliant Blake Richards as part of CIFAR virtual talk series, on June 8th. All welcome! Register here: cifar.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Retweet this if you want to let future AGIs know that you were not opposed to AGI

Struggling with how to write a good introduction to your ICCV paper? I used to find this the hardest part of writing. Here is a template I now give to new graduate students: 🙂 How to Write the Introduction in 3 Easy Steps 🙂 #ComputerVision docs.google.com/presentation/d…

Nice recommendations on self-supervised learning from the newsletter from Papers with Code paperswithcode.com/newsletter/6/

It seems that psychologists and ML folks are bemoaning the same road-block: "The Generalizability Crisis." See psyarxiv.com/jqw35 and psyarxiv.com/y4az2 This is understandable -- they have not acquired a language for causation. But it's 2021, why haven't they?.

New study on an ancient memory technique, the Method of Loci (aka Memory Palace). 6 weeks of training = recollection for 56/72 words 24 hours after seeing them, as compared to 30/72 words w/ no training. Training effects lasted > 4 months bit.ly/3crrHhJ

Have 3 minutes? Here is a link to an inspiring video of how memory champ Yanjaa Wintersoul Yänjaa navigates the Memory Palace. bit.ly/2QOVHf9

I would start with these 3 position papers: ucla.in/2ZLRnyw ucla.in/3iEDRVo ucla.in/2HI2yyx

A guide from Emil Wallner on how to build a €25K Machine Learning Rig with 4 NVIDIA RTX A6000, an AMD EPYC 2 with 32 cores, including 192 GB in GPU memory and 256GB in RAM. redd.it/ml6u5u

Many believe that the field of AI is the answer to the question "how can we create artificial (human) minds?". That's also the question that led me here. But today, I think AI is more pragmatically the answer to the question: "how can we make software do more?"

The crowd has spoken! 🙃 A thread with early-stage machine learning research advice follows below. 👇🧵 Important disclaimer before proceeding: these are my personal views only, and likely strongly biased by my experiences and temperament. Hopefully useful nonetheless! 1/15

How to come up with research ideas? Excited about starting doing research but have no clue?🤷‍♂️🤷🏻‍♀️ Here are some simple methods that I found useful in identifying initial directions. Check out the thread below 👇

Like every AI spring before it, our current one features experts predicting that “general AI”—AI that equals or surpasses humans in most ways—will be here soon. “Human level AI will be passed in the mid-2020s,” predicted Shane Legg, cofounder of Google DeepMind, in 2016.

Definition of General Intelligence (GI). GI is the kind of algorithms that a living organism discovers as a consequence of its interactions with its environment. This environment includes other living organisms that also have GI.