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Today, human rights leaders from 20 countries told Congress how bitcoin & stablecoins aid in the struggle for global freedom. The letter was signed by some of the most respected activists in the world, whose stories deserve attention. 🧵 (1/6) https://t.co/TBHmFsm0xW

No, brains don't build generative models at the pixel level. They learn abstract representations that *eliminate* noise, unpredictable stuff, and irrelevant information. The salvation is in Joint Embedding Predictive Architectures (JEPA). https://t.co/42ApHRbge9 https://t.co/g3oPzIliG2

How to successfully write a grant proposal. I have worked on >50 grants over the last few years and host workshops about how to write your own. These are my master tips. A 🧵 @openacademics @YTacademics #scicomm #Academittwitter #academicchatter 1/4

Nancy Pelosi’s trading is just uncanny. She literally nailed the exact NASDAQ bottom on May 24th buying those $AAPL and $MSFT calls. I mean… She’s 82yo, yet trades options better than a Citadel algo running on a dedicated $300m mainframe computer. Bingo or Bridge, this is not. https://t.co/CP9WdutUbb

I’m thrilled to announce the launch of https://t.co/kSJeQHkaLp, a new web site where any economics instructor in the world can browse the Cornell Suite of Economics Assessments and set up online tests for their students! Check it out! #ctree2022

A reminder than OpenAI claims ownership of any image generated by DALL-E2 https://t.co/USSYeEHHSH

🔥Preprint out: `Toward a realistic model of speech processing in the brain with self-supervised learning’: https://t.co/rJH6t6H6sm by J. Millet*, @c_caucheteux* and our wonderful team: The 3 main results summarized below 👇 https://t.co/mdrJpbrb3M

@JacobKaplanCrim Fixed it: Quantitative and qualitative researchers looking down at each other https://t.co/z7visIzg4t

Mercator Misconceptions: Clever Map Shows the True Size of Countries 🗺️ https://t.co/Dz2wgCqqUn https://t.co/a9oKicoRYt

Excellent strategies! 🙌 📷 @ValentinaESL https://t.co/hsYALSwJhM

A great list of academic studies about the effects of social media on political dysfunction: polarization, echo chambers, emotional amplification, incitement to violence, trust in institutions, populism.... https://t.co/8wNPoHC6u1

I've been trying to convince many of my more theory-oriented colleagues of the unbelievable power of gradient descent for close to 4 decades. 1/2 https://t.co/T4oobT8P5w

How to get a tenure-track faculty job? Interested in pursuing an academic career? Summer is the best time to kick off your search! Here are some tips that I learned. 🧵

Parenting abad 21? Yuk kita susun bersama-sama di: https://t.co/Q0EHpumcNt

Seminal moments in AI & machine learning in this century 2012: Alexnet winning ImageNet 2015: AlphaGo by DeepMind, winning in Go 2017: Transformers: Attention is all you need 2020: GPT-3 talking like a human 2022: DALL-E 2 & Imagen creating photorealistic art

The elegance of ML is the elegance of biology, not the elegance of math or physics. Simple gradient descent creates mind-boggling structure and behavior, just as evolution creates the awe inspiring complexity of nature. https://t.co/zggpNv00LC

Am I the only ML/AI person jaw-droppingly floored by the amazing accuracy of the @PictureThisAI plant identifier?

Venice, Italy https://t.co/psPF0fTJNA

Financial ratios can be broken down into five pillars: • Price Ratios • Debt Ratios • Liquidity Ratios • Efficiency Ratios • Profitability Ratios We will cover each of these pillars below.

The balance sheet is one of the 3 major financial statements. It shows company’s: ▪️Assets: What it owns ▪️Liabilities: What it owes ▪️Shareholders Equity: It's net worth attributable to its owners At a FIXED point in time

Berikut daftar perintis (startup) yang sudah untung 🫰 di Indonesia: Utas ini akan diperbaharui secara berkala. https://t.co/rBWucNm8Rh

Let's break it down. https://t.co/yFaHCl3lbn 📸 @meagan_e_kelly #edutwitter #educoach #teaching https://t.co/aklLTuqQ7L

The Flash Crash of 2010 How a solo British Trader Wiped $1T off the US Stock Market while trading from his parents house in London, UK Time for a Ticker History 🧵on Navinder Sarao https://t.co/AM9PGc47mA

Wahai Sungai Aare, sebagai sesama mahluk Allah SWT, aku titipkan jasad anak kami kepadamu. Sudah kukumandangkan adzan terbaikku dihadapanmu. Bahagiakan dia dalam keindahanmu. Selimuti dia dalam kehangatanmu. Lindungi dia dalam kemegahanmu. https://t.co/XroTSDJiGc

I made some visualizations for the new video from Quanta and @AlexKontorovich on the Langlands Program! I wrote a little bit about some of these visualizations here: https://t.co/iSsgzBzTH8 https://t.co/QiXwLsKWKE

Physics, mathematics, reality, dots. Schrödinger's Cat enters the Matrix. Visualization by Mike Wong, based on charged particles. Source: https://t.co/ILJOrd2dW9 https://t.co/uN3ywe3fQH

The distance between dreams and reality is called discipline.

First and most important, she is *always* trying to help other people grow. She’s the one who has the hard conversation that someone needs, at the moment they need it, when nobody else will. This isn’t fun, which is why most people don’t do it…

A photo from last year’s site visit, at a narrower part of the Las Vacas river. Yes, you’re looking at a river. https://t.co/hRakfAuCGS

how a photograph is edited https://t.co/CvptZGtbQn