Now break. We are back at 17h30 London Time, Sidney 3h30 (+1d, good luck to the Australian spotlight presenter ;-), San Francisco 9h30. Next step: three spotlight presentations by Kanika Bansal Kanika Bansal , Daniel Korchinski Daniel Korchinski and Joel Hochstetter Joel Hochstetter

This was a super cool talk

I talked to VICE about Proctorio's attempt to bankrupt me and expand their SLAPP. My PPPA hearing was delayed 3 months by these tactics, but the worst part is that the injunction restricting my free speech and expression continues. It is Day 239! vice.com/en/article/88n…

The fruits of my MSc are finally in the wild! Phys. Rev. X 11, 021059 (2021) - Criticality in Spreading Processes without Timescale Separation and the Critical Brain Hypothesis journals.aps.org/prx/abstract/1…

Yeah, this isn't converging

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I could write a 50 page paper answering this :) A few points in outline form only: 1) The rocket exhaust is expanding into vacuum, so viscosity breaks down, so the gas does not obey the Navier-Stokes equation, which is the basis of CFD (computational fluid dynamics) models. /1

"q" should be at the end of the alphabet with the other misfits x, y, and z. Maybe just swap y with q? I'm sure it's closer to the Huffman alphabet

Hey neat, I guess we can finally throw out that 19th century 2nd law of thermo nonsense doi.org/10.1038/s41467…

ModernBERT is available as a slot-in replacement for any BERT-like model, with both 139M param and 395M param sizes. It has a 8192 sequence length, is extremely efficient, is uniquely great at analyzing code, and much more. Read this for details: huggingface.co/blog/modernbert

Happy New Year everyone! Jim and I just put up our January 2025 release of Speech and Language Processing! Check it out here: web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/slp3/

This is the most strikingly original and creative sci-fi book I’ve read in a very long time (and I’ve read more than 120 of them) It makes me realize most modern sci-fi is rooted in the 70s. We’re just rehashing the same tired tropes This one makes full use of many ideas that

“now it is our turn to study statistical mechanics”

I’m sure that when the ‘hire on merit only’ crowd find out that women are generally better candidates for long term Spaceflight they’ll tell NASA to stop hiring men. Equal performance, but lower mass, requiring fewer consumables and better radiation shielding around reproductive

🚨BREAKING🚨 The Canadarm has responded to US tariffs on Canada by holding astronaut Suni Williams hostage outside the International Space Station

I like to ask Claude to pick an idea or principle from some academic domain and to illustrate it for me with a story. Reading these little academic allegories has become my wholesome replacement for doomscrolling.

Summary of the situation so far: * arxiv.org/abs/2403.00910 * arxiv.org/abs/2503.05693 * arxiv.org/abs/2503.08247

insane cover choice by MIT here