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github copilot is the best piece of software ever created

The oldest newspaper in the world - the Wiener Zeitung - has been printed for the last time. This is the final front page

Massively under-reported science story because there's so much going on right now but...it turns out that we might have figured out what's causing this very scary spike. Quick thread, on how WE'VE BEEN ACCIDENTALLY GEOENGINEERING FOR DECADES...but then we stopped:

The hardest part about being an immigrant is not the immigration system but having to choose between pursuing a world class career and seeing your parents grow old

Gràcies per aquests 25 anys ❤️

Why are policy gradient methods typically so sample inefficient? Whenever a trajectory contains a reward, they credit all actions leading to it. But not all actions mattered! What if we could only credit actions that did matter? Our NeurIPS spotlight paper does just that 🧵️

Happy to see my thesis work out today in nature! nature.com/articles/s4158… Josh Merel Jesse Marshall lhq Yuval Tassa Ugne Klibaite Amanda Gellis Greg Wayne Matt Botvinick @BOlveczky Google DeepMind Video credit to the talented Kristian J Herrera

Scent Teleportation Update: WE DID IT! #Osmo #TechNews #AI #Scent

Plane to Vancouver delayed, waiting room full of patagonia jackets and ML startup branded vests. Gate crew: "Dear passengers, we hope to start boarding soon. The team is currently rebooting the plane". Is this some on-season NeurIPS joke?

This is the most sci-fi take off I have ever had so far.

Nowhere near close to a truthful world policy and really hard to measure feedback on any policy. Nevertheless a super interesting framework on how we could go on thinking about maximizing alignment to social welfare.

“When a community gets so large we lose being able to teach better the next generation.”

Really refreshing to shift gears for a bit and get some neuroscience at NeurIPS

The bane of my existence

A speaker just started a talk by saying “I’m gonna skip the what are LLMs RAGs blah blah blah, ‘cus you know” I think I’m gonna start using that template for all my future presentations

Why the East-West block divide between MLSB and AIDrugX? Couldn’t we have both next to each other? Or even better stagger the events?

こんにちは(Konnichiwa) and hello, Japan! We're thrilled to announce that Waymo, in partnership with 日本交通株式会社【公式】“桜にN”のハイヤー・タクシー and GO株式会社, will bring our autonomous vehicles to Tokyo for our first international road trip. Read more: waymo.com/blog/2024/12/p…

Curious what drove this floor. A big seller going online? A competitor? Also what drives this floor up? Is that a dip on the 6th a combination of Swifties that also attended NeurIPS. Is there any trading firm already trading compute as a commodity? sfcompute.com

When your date sends you the simplest message