Don't forget that you can present your recent JMLR paper at this upcoming ICML's Journal-to-Conference track!

icml.cc/public/Journal…

Deadline for submitting a request to present is May 3rd this week!

*Alice goes to a differentiable wonderland!* 🔥

I published a short free book on the design of neural networks, from convolutions to transformers, SSMs, and a few other topics.

As a bonus, I tried to make it looking nice - any feedback is appreciated! sscardapane.it/alice-book

“Education is a measure of the recursion depth that you can handle if a curious child keeps asking you 'Why?'”
—Byrne Hobart

One of the post docs in my PhD lab used to call this “let’s go get refresh,” and I’ve never had a better description of this act.

Leonardo da Vinci's drawings - a thread 🧵

1. Vitruvian Man

Selecting all images with traffic lights

Starting on an exciting journey at the new Wadhwani School of Data Science and AI. The video summarizes the motivation for starting the school. Come join us in enriching the Data Science and AI ecosystem at IIT Madras. RBC-DSAI@IITM Centre for Responsible AI, IIT Madras IBSE AI4Bharat Dept. of Data Science & AI, IIT Madras

Kudos to IIT Madras Dept. of Data Science & AI, IIT Madras on this new department + school for Data Science & AI! 👏 And congrats to the indefatigable Balaraman Ravindran on his leadership! 🥂

Great to see IITM go from strength to strength in this arena across research, education, and industrial/societal impact. 👍

Baris Kasikci this is incredible <3

Since James Mickens is not active on here, I feel it's my duty to share this gem with the world: tentimesyourmaster.com

Yes, James formed a 5-person band consisting of himself only and wrote a heavy metal album

+1 to Vijay's book - it covers issues that I had to learn 'on the fly'. Wish I'd had it when I started! :-)

Sara Hooker Research is social. It's important to talk to people, interact with other students, ask things, email researchers, go to conferences, talk about your work, and ask to talk about your work. It's intimidating, might feel awkward, but crucial.

I am seeking applications for *two postdoc positions* at UFMG, in Belo Horizonte/BR. The scope is on improving proof search and proof production in SMT, better proof checking, and integration between SMT solvers and proof assistants. More details at: hanielbarbosa.com/postdocs.html

Prague is probably the world's most beautiful city.

Here's why... (thread) 🧵

Reading this new report out from the White House today about increasing AI talent across the federal government — over 150 hires have already been made in the past 6 months, and over 500 more are planned in the next 18 months: ai.gov/wp-content/upl…

So, this happened... $400M for an academic AI data center approved the NY legislature -- that's $400M for GPUs that go brrrrr...

governor.ny.gov/news/governor-…

Congratulations to everyone landing CS faculty offers!

Please check out my book, 'The CS Assistant Professor Handbook': vijay03.github.io/asstprofbook/

I talk about things like funding, teaching classes, recruiting students, and so on. I've gotten feedback it is useful for new faculty!

Are you interested in working with FPGAs and Operating Systems? Let me know!

We are looking for a PhD student to join our group!

Eli McCann We all need a friend who will just keep us company while we do our drudgery.

In response to a bunch of requests, the reading list for the course 'Essentials of AI for Life and Society' is now online (along with the lecture videos):
cs.utexas.edu/~pstone/Course…