| phonetic notation of my name | Sældʒan |
| Website | https://www.selcanmutgan.com/ |
📢 The spring program for the IAS Seminar Series is now out, and it is on 🔥. We welcome everyone to join our meetings on Zoom or in Norrköping.
📢 IAS@LiU is looking for one or two postdocs (two-year) on using machine learning and causal inference to evaluate the impact of local development programs in Africa as part of the Observatory of Poverty project.
Deadline: 9th of March 2023
Details here: https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/20873
📢 IAS@LiU is looking for one or two postdocs (two-year) on using machine learning and causal inference to evaluate the impact of local development programs in Africa as part of the Observatory of Poverty project.
Deadline: 9th of March 2023
Details here: https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/20873
Steven Tijms Seeing Is Believing Throughout the history of mathematics, quite a few mathematical problems have achieved celebrity status outside the circle of mathematicians. Famous problems such as squaring the circle or proving Fermat’s last theorem have intrigued thousands of people over the centuries. But almost no mathematical problem has been as fiercely and widely […]
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Less brief: this critique of the “cult of novelty” strikes me as very apt and important:
“it puts pressure on scholars to misrepresent their work. This isn’t only a matter of creating incentives on academics to “inflate their claims in order to emphasize their novelty.” It also encourages them to misrepresent other scholarship by downplaying, effacing, or simply ignoring how much it overlaps their own.”
#Academics on Mastodon, by #discipline. Curated Accounts Lists; Groups; #preprints #Bibliography #Bots; #servers and #communities... a webpage by @hendrikerz and contributors... Thanks to all of them for this wonderful ressource tool!
How does modern AI work, what is its history, and how does it compare with human intelligence? My book gives an in-depth, accessible guide for lay people & experts alike.
Coming in 2023: new chapters on transformers, generative AI, and AI "alignment". (Not a new edition but I will likely just put new chapters on my website. Stay tuned!)
CNBC: abortion laws are affecting students' decisions about where to attend college.
Not mentioned: if access to reproductive health care is important to enough students' decisions, Dobbs (and states' responses to it) will exacerbate existing "red" vs. "blue" state disparities in university-level resources, hasten the demise of the colleges and universities in anti-choice states that are already struggling to meet enrollment targets.
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/19/gen-z-on-new-college-and-career-plans-in-post-roe-america.html
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