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#business

It's a short essay from HBR.
The essay is not bad, it's just, somehow, trivial.
I didn't know you could write for HBR on such trivial topics. Amazing...

https://hbr.org/2024/01/getting-machine-learning-projects-from-idea-to-execution
Harvard Business Review
Getting Machine Learning Projects from Idea to Execution
Getting Machine Learning Projects from Idea to Execution
Machine learning might be the worldā€™s most important general-purpose technology, but itā€™s notoriously difficult to launch. Outside of Big Tech and a handful of other leading companies, machine learning initiatives routinely fail to deploy, never realizingā€¦
business
#ai

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06747-5
Nature
Solving olympiad geometry without human demonstrations
Solving olympiad geometry without human demonstrations
Nature - A new neuro-symbolic theorem prover for Euclidean plane geometry trained from scratch on millions of synthesized theorems and proofs outperforms the previous best method and reaches the...
ai
#career

Cloudflare's layoff process is broken.

Source:
https://www.reddit.com/r/TikTokCringe/comments/194v9y8/ae_at_cloudflare_records_hr_trying_to_fire_her/
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#ml


Interesting idea to use Hydra in ML experiments.

https://github.com/ashleve/lightning-hydra-template
GitHub
GitHub - ashleve/lightning-hydra-template: PyTorch Lightning + Hydra. A very user-friendly template for ML experimentation. āš”šŸ”„āš”
GitHub - ashleve/lightning-hydra-template: PyTorch Lightning + Hydra. A very user-friendly template for ML experimentation. āš”šŸ”„āš”
PyTorch Lightning + Hydra. A very user-friendly template for ML experimentation. āš”šŸ”„āš” - ashleve/lightning-hydra-template
ml
#ai

Simple yet deep. I love this piece of work.

Nylund, Kai, Suchin Gururangan, and Noah A. Smith. 2023. ā€œTime Is Encoded in the Weights of Finetuned Language Models.ā€ arXiv [Cs.CL]. arXiv. http://arxiv.org/abs/2312.13401.
ai
#misc

https://yihui.org/en/2024/01/bye-rstudio/
yihui.org
Bye, RStudio/Posit! - Yihui Xie | č°¢ē›Šč¾‰
Who is down? Me. After more than 10 years at RStudio/Posit, the time has come for me to explore other opportunities. A little over two weeks ago, I was told that I was laid off and my last day would ā€¦
misc
#fun

https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/s/HM8GHdRtzw
Reddit
From the Damnthatsinteresting community on Reddit: A city made of ice in Harbin that's built annually and will melt away afterā€¦
From the Damnthatsinteresting community on Reddit: A city made of ice in Harbin that's built annually and will melt away afterā€¦
Explore this post and more from the Damnthatsinteresting community
fun
#fun

Just Google overseas France

https://www.reddit.com/r/mapporncirclejerk/s/mNvPNp6yf8
Reddit
yes, Europe : r/mapporncirclejerk
5.7K votes, 185 comments. 224K subscribers in the mapporncirclejerk community. Cartographers with nothing left to lose.
fun
#visualization

Source: https://www.statista.com/statistics/520952/netherlands-number-of-live-born-children-by-marital-status-of-the-mother/
visualization
#funny

https://www.reddit.com/r/facepalm/s/WtvvbXycN0
Reddit
From the facepalm community on Reddit: The Irony
From the facepalm community on Reddit: The Irony
Posted by HASSAN-elje12 - 43,373 votes and 468 comments
funny
#ai

Looks like Gemini is a handy tool for researchers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPiOP_CB54A
YouTube
This is changing the way scientists research | Gemini
Gemini ā€” Googleā€™s newest and most capable AI model.

200,000 scientific papers with crucial science information gets read, understood, and filtered by Gemini all in one lunch break. Join DeepMind Research Scientist Sebastian Nowozin and Software Engineerā€¦
ai
šŸ‘ impressive step by step visualization of how GPTs work
https://bbycroft.net/llm
bbycroft.net
LLM Visualization
A 3D animated visualization of an LLM with a walkthrough.
#visualization

Finland vs UK, and
Turkiye/Turkey is such a nice example of data quality issues.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/s/QYGauVmzOP
Reddit
From the MapPorn community on Reddit: Did Google auto generate roast your country?
From the MapPorn community on Reddit: Did Google auto generate roast your country?
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visualization
#misc

Background: https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/s/7SA4Ri7bZW

Someone made a visualization of "the percentage of workforce who are women by country".

The visualization itself is terrible, especially the color scheme. However, it sparked a lot of discussions and this one is top.
misc
#misc

My recent experience sort of supports this idea.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/s/e3HPle3UIN
Reddit
mcjoness's comment on
mcjoness's comment on "[D] Skill Creep in ML/DL Roles - is the field getting not just more competitive, but more difficult?"
Explore this conversation and more from the MachineLearning community
misc
#fun

I was digging into my google drive files and found this funny story in one of my slide decks.

Just in case, Guido is the creator of Python.

I do not have any reference for this screenshot as I didn't include one in my slide. So I would call this unverified.
fun
#research

https://clarivate.com/highly-cited-researchers/

Update:
I got the full list of researchers as a csv file:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iequOfuGECEcDWt9AhljJzxHQYdArguN/view?usp=sharing
Clarivate
Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers 2025
Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers 2025
The Highly Cited Researchers 2025 list identifies and celebrates individuals who have demonstrated significant and broad influence in their fields of research. Through rigorous selection criteria and comprehensive analysis, we recognize researchers whoseā€¦
research
#misc

OpenAI announces leadership transition
https://openai.com/blog/openai-announces-leadership-transition
Openai
OpenAI announces leadership transition
OpenAI announces leadership transition
misc
#hp

https://ppc.cs.aalto.fi/
ppc.cs.aalto.fi
Programming Parallel Computers
Aalto University Ā· This is a practical hands-on course on algorithm engineering for modern parallel computers. You will learn how to design programs that make the best possible use of the computing power of multicore CPUs and GPUs.
hp
#fun

There are normal and professional contests, and then this:

The International Obfuscated C Code Contest

https://ioccc.org/

Alright, someone please host a Python version of it. It could go completely wild.
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