When American universities admit foreign graduate students, what happens to domestic ones? This paper argues that, on average, an influx of 10 international students leads to 8 additional domestic students, as foreign students subsidize domestic ones. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Brainstorm A.I.: Why Stanley Black & Decker’s CEO initially had the chief A.I. officer report to human resources | Fortune fortune.com/2021/11/08/sta…

Making the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index for the fourth consecutive year only makes us want to work even harder to achieve our goal to create a more sustainable world. Explore our efforts > bit.ly/3kOrBEz #StanleyBlackandDeckerEmployee bit.ly/30ILaaB

The engineering market at the moment in India is, well, crazy. Chetan Dalal writes about how startups looking to hire from India can navigate this increasingly complex market weekday.substack.com/p/hiring-quali…

Thanks Miriam Vogel and KayFirth-Butterfield for an enjoyable conversation about #ResponsibleAI. #ai #podcast

While this specific approach may not ultimately prevail, innovations in science and technology will continue to improve human condition while solving our biggest problems. MIT scientists think they’ve discovered how to fully reverse climate change yahoo.com/entertainment/…

Awesome chess dance

Another data point on how the world is getting better in the long run!

Excellent talk yesterday by Yann LeCun on "From Machine Learning to Autonomous Intelligence", organized by the Princeton AI Club. Thanks Yann for answering my question "If we have some positive and some negative instances, won't a hybrid of contrastive and regularized work the best?"

Glad that #gartner is highlighting that digital twins of a customer (DToC) could transform the way enterprises deliver experiences. Also called "user models" by academic researchers. #ai #data #digital #customer #ml #business #marketing #sales linkedin.com/posts/mukeshda…

Interesting images of Barack Obama and KATY PERRY using stable diffusion with textual inversion concepts: watercolor-portrait and madhubani-art from Hugging Face. Incredible progress in Generative AI!

Uncanny similarity with GPT-3 🙂

# automating software engineering In my mind, automating software engineering will look similar to automating driving. E.g. in self-driving the progression of increasing autonomy and higher abstraction looks something like: 1. first the human performs all driving actions

The way to think about asking a factual question to an LLM is that it's a bit like asking a person who read about the topic previously, but they are not allowed to reference any material and have to answer just from memory. LLMs are a lot better at memorizing than humans, but the

Predictions for the future of software engineering:

My #1 reason: the unbounded American dream