the cathedrals in code and hardware are invisible to people. those who deeply understand that know the wonder that they hold in their hands to post this tweet instead of a slab of glass and metal.

This book is full of so many gems. I’m pretty sure that if a famous name had written it, it would have made all the top lists and won multiple awards. This is the first book that made me want to go back to the beginning and reread it right after I finished it.

Gorgeous paper.

Back to school 🍎

🚨 New publication alert: 📢 “Weakly Supervised Lymph Nodes Segmentation Based on Partial Instance Annotations with Pre-trained Dual-branch Network and Pseudo Label Learning.” 🖊️ L. Wang, Y. Qu, X. Luo, W. Liao, S. Zhang, G. Wang. ⬇️

One failure mode I had early on in my career, was due to underestimating the importance of the human and social side of science. Working with others and looking at your own work from others' perspective is fundamental to impactful science.

Damn. Turning 45 in a couple weeks! 🫣

Happy birthday to the late John McCarthy, father of AI & LISP: bit.ly/2omV4Y1 (credit: @Wired) Image v/The Associated Press

Thx for discussing! Zooming out tho, what's the ultimate goal of brain-based identification? No matter how good it gets, we'll likely always have better ways to ID people (eg DNA, actual fingerprints). Behavior prediction is more interesting/important IMO: doi.org/10.1016/j.neur…

Not really. Life is made up of sometimes controllable and foreseeable, but often unpredictable, chaotic, and seemingly random events. Your retrospective reconstruction is likely inaccurate and biased, but something your brain desperately craves.

Mario Draghi. He's kind of right, except that like a lot of outsiders he thinks "innovation" precedes "commercialisation." In fact most of it happens afterward. So the claim is not that Europeans have good ideas, but that they could have them. That much is true though.

Moved our lab's comms from slack to teams. With my transition from x/twitter to linkedin, i'll have unlocked a new level in midlife, right 😉

Are you writing an ICLR paper, and wondering... * What level of detail should the background have? * Why do people read related work? * How do I convey convincing results? I have some mostly satisfactory answers to these questions. youtu.be/qNlwVGxkG7Q?si…

Committees

Looks like a gorgeous read: math.ucr.edu/home/baez/what…

My research field, like anything in AI, is now largely about designing and implementing systems 😢

This is a nice step forward. Now just need one for Covid. nytimes.com/2024/09/20/hea…