Yarin

@yaringal
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Associate Professor of Machine Learning, University of Oxford
OATML Oxford Group Leader
http://yarin.co
I keep seeing lots of long-time #fediverse users saying 'don't favourite posts it does nothing' but actually when you favourite my posts it makes me smile and I'm sure I'm not the only one.

🎉 #Mastodon 4.0 is out now! This server software update includes a ton of improvements, like following hashtags, translating posts, editing, an improved filtering system, customizable user roles for administration, but also some important security fixes.

Check out the full changelog:

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.0.0

Release v4.0.0 · mastodon/mastodon

Upgrade overview This release contains upgrade notes that deviate from the norm: ℹ️ Requires two-step database migration process for zero-downtime deployment ℹ️ Some migrations may take a long time...

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Unfollow that account you hate. Stop reading that book you think is meh. Close all those tabs.

Life is simply too short.

#ICML2023 deadlines are out:

🚨Paper Submissions Open on @openreviewnet:
🗓️Jan 09 '23 02:00 PM UTC

🚨Full Paper Submission Deadline:
Jan 26 '23 08:00 PM UTC

Since Twitter is embracing double checkmarks, Tumblr is mocking them by allowing users to purchase double checkmarks—or in my case, quadruple checkmarks! 😂🤣😂

It only shows up on the Tumblr social display of my site, though.

So it does not show for https://www.darnell.co but it will for https://tumblr.com/Darnell (I wonder why‽)

Darnell (Creative Obsessions)

Celebrating God and Space, plus the Human Race! | Darnell.bio

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#introduction

I'm a senior researcher at Microsoft Research AI4Science in Amsterdam.

My research interests include AI4Science, single- and multi-agent reinforcement learning, and structure, symmetry, and equivariance in deep learning.

#reinforcementlearning #ai4science #machinelearning #deeplearning #equivariantagents

*mic check! one two! one two!
here's my genesis block #introduction

I'm a PhD student working with @yaringal in OATML at the university of Oxford.

I'm working in bayesian sequential decision-making, experimental design and causality. I'm also interested in generative design and architecture, artificial life, cybernetics, biology and music. More about me here https://ptigas.com/

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ai/ml researcher, educator and artist

Looking back on the last decade, it seems clear that Twitter caused some pretty significant shifts in how ML/AI research was driven. Papers could go viral in a way that wasn't really possible at conferences or on arXiv. This incentivized lots of work in areas that could grab your attention in a tweet - anything with cool videos or visuals. The current wave of generative AI probably wouldn't exist if it wasn't for social media. Was this a good thing? Will academics moving off Twitter change that?
Developing Mastodon, I strive to use terminology that is familiar to as many people as possible so as to not put up unnecessary barriers in understanding. For this reason I am happy that we went away from calling posts "toots". It has always been a point of friction for people. Not that I dislike branding, quite the opposite, but in my experience receiving feedback over half a decade, it had a negative effect on the platform for little benefit.