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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).
@pronoiac Apologies for the slow reply. That looks fine to me (after removing the `;` to make it work). A previous version of my bookmarklet could be tricked into setting the `document.location` to something starting with `javascript:`, which can't happen with this code.
Mastodon has content security set such that the javascript wouldn't run anyway. But potentially if someone tricked you to trigger my old mastodon bookmarklet on a non-mastodon page there could have been a problem.
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.
And now fixed the bookmarklet so it can toggle to/from an instance located somewhere other than the domain in the username.
But the bookmarklet's still pretty hacky/fragile.
