It seems Global Warming is already fact. Indeed we should spend serious €€ to minimize & mitigate consequences. Instead we will wait until chaos ensues and then we will vote right wing power hungry opportunists with simple solutions to power. And we all know what happens next.

💡We're excited to announce our upcoming Computational Linguistics Seminar w/ Matthias Lindemann as our speaker!

'Structural Inductive Biases for Better Systematic Generalization with Sequence-to-Sequence Models'

📅 02/04/24

⏰️ 16:00 (w/ snacks & drinks)

📍L3.36 Lab42

Huge thanks to the organizers for putting this together. It was a super high quality 1 day symposium with a mix of ML, physics, chemistry and biology. What an exciting field. Enjoyed every single talk!

Like to work on cutting edge generative AI using physics tools such as the Renormalization Group, with the briliant mathematician & physicist prof Miranda Cheng at U. Amsterdam (co-supervised by me)? Think no more and apply to below!

academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/27314

We proudly present our 524 page book on equivariant convolutional networks.
Coauthored by Patrick Forré, Erik Verlinde and Max Welling.
maurice-weiler.gitlab.io/#cnn_book
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Last Tuesday Maurice Weiler graduated from U. Amsterdam Cum Laude with his 500 page thesis 'Equivariant and Coordinate Independent Convolutional Networks'. Huge congratulations! Thanks to the stellar committee (also incl. Kyle Cranmer, Gianfranco Bertone, Yaron Lipman, Danilo J. Rezende)

This looks amazing: capturing carbon from seawater and generating hydrogen as a byproduct. Given the rate the climate is changing I am sometimes wondering why we are not pouring billions into these projects and put ITER / LHC on the backburner for a while. newatlas.com/energy/equatic…

Look what arrived! Maurice Weiler’s thesis (I’m on his thesis committee). Also basis of book with Patrick Forré, Erik Verlinde and Max Welling.
maurice-weiler.gitlab.io/#cnn_book

The UvA Amsterdam and ELLIS are starting a masterclass series where experts explain all about their favourite topics in and around Machine Learning.

Join us for the first on March 6th; 'Differential Geometry for Deep Learning' masterclass by Alex Gabel. ✨

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This is the recording of a public talk I gave in the Copenhagen Koncerthuset. It was an amazing experience to talk to a sold out concert hall before an audience of >1000 or so. Thanks to Jacome Armas for making this possible.
youtube.com/watch?v=6FZ12D…

I gave a talk on Wednesday in the Feynman Lecture Hall where Feynman taught his famous Feynman lectures. It was a humbling experience.

The second coming of Christ is neigh. And she is an AI.

📣From LLMs, LSTMs and Gemini, to Diffusion, VLMs and NeRF: join our ELLIS Winter School on Foundation Models in Amsterdam!✨ 🚀 ❄️

📅 March 12-15, 2024
📍Informatics Institute University of Amsterdam
🌐 amsterdam-fomo.github.io

#AI #ML #ELLISforEurope ELLIS Elise AI UvA Amsterdam #winterschool

Third post by Maurice Weiler in his series of posts on equivariance to support his amazing book.

What a soothing oasis of rest to find one of Gabriel Peyré posts on math in between all the sceaming and mud throwing on X. Thank you.

Hilarious, this is.

It's likely other advances in quant comp will improve stability, reduce errors, and 'buy time' for scaled-up devices to operate in optimal ways. But whether entropy will have the final say on just how powerful quant comp’s can get, only time will tell. sciencealert.com/physics-preven…

Not AI but Trump poses the biggest threat to the world in 2024. Trump, and all those other nuts.

Another stunning blogpost by Maurice Weiler to explain his new book (which you should read if you want the ultimate intro to equivariant DL).

Sindy strikes again with an oral at Neurips. The truly amazing thing for me was that if you train a VAE unsupervised with addional internal phase degrees of freedom it will automatically align phases within objects and segement them. 🫨