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We were fortunate to be joined by two new machine learning faculty in Edinburgh Informatics this year. Both are looking for PhD students:
Viacheslav Borovitskiy (Slava), geometric learning or uncertainty quantification: https://vab.im/vacancies/
Nikolay Malkin, Bayesian machine learning (including probabilistic reasoning in language, generative models, and neurosymbolic methods) and applications in the sciences: https://malkin1729.github.io/
The University of Edinburgh is looking for someone to direct a new generative AI lab. It's a professor role, with lots of resources. More info: https://www.aspenpeople.co.uk/uoe-gail/
For earlier-career faculty jobs (and a communications role) see: https://www.ed.ac.uk/informatics/about/work-with-us/vacancies
Machine Learning faculty job hunters: there's an open position in Edinburgh. Hard deadline 15 Jan 2024 (UK time).
Full details: https://elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1001/job/8801
A thread by a colleague on why Edinburgh is awesome: https://nitter.net/oisinmacaodha/status/1720142344618451193
I've stolen the photo he used of the inside of our building.
Applications are invited for an academic position in machine learning in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh, one of the largest centres in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in Europe. The appointment will be full-time (35h per week) and open-ended (equivalent to a US tenured position).
All major machine #translation systems #translate the Chinese sentence 她每天都不吃早饭。incorrectly to “She doesn’t eat breakfast every day”. Does #ChatGPT get this difficult case wrong too? Yes.
If asked to be careful, or to reason about the sentence, does ChatGPT give any indication that there's a problem? Usually not!
However, discussing the sentence in Chinese does work. And with the right prompting, it is possible to notice and then fix the issue.
Full exploration here: https://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/imurray2/pub/22chatgpt.html
My second Mastodon #bookmarklet is to toggle all content hidden with #CW / #contentWarning / #contentWarnings https://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/imurray2/code/mastodon.html
This thread is marked with a CW for those who find meta chat boring. Any replies are also hidden by default. This bookmarklet can show/hide all hidden content on a page with one click.
The preferences let you always expand all CW content. There's also already an 👁️ icon to toggle CWs in threads, top right of column.
All three books I've co-authored are freely available online for non-commercial use:
#Bayesian Data Analysis, 3rd ed (aka BDA3) at https://stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/book/ and lectures plus #rstats, #Python and #Stan code at https://avehtari.github.io/BDA_course_Aalto/
#Regression and Other Stories at https://avehtari.github.io/ROS-Examples/ including #rstats and #Stan code
Active Statistics at https://avehtari.github.io/ActiveStatistics/
The websites also have links to the publishers' web stores if you prefer hard copies of these
It's unfortunate that a different version of the bookmarklet is needed depending on whether you are on a recently-upgraded Mastodon instance or not.
To avoid this split in future, I filed an issue about the problematic (broken) redirect behavior in v4:
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/20145
[update: and a fix was committed in less than a day! It will take a while to filter through to all live v4 instances, a downside of distribution.]
Steps to reproduce the problem Go to https://mastodon.social/web/@[email protected] Expected behaviour Redirect to https://mastodon.social/@[email protected] Actual behaviour Inst...
I've made a #bookmarklet to quickly swap between #instance websites when browsing #mastodon in a browser: https://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/imurray2/code/mastodon.html
Unlike in apps, swapping between instance websites is sometimes needed to follow/comment, or see everything correctly. The bookmarklet might make it easier. But I'm probably foolish to release it immediately. No promises it will work for you!
Aki Vehtari