During Fiona Hill's testimony to Congress on Oct 14, 2019, she described how Trump and Putin discussed exchanging Ukraine for Venezuela. The quid pro quo was if Trump refuses to help Ukraine fight off a Russian invasion, Putin would not help Venezuela (a Russian ally) resist a US takeover.
Wenn er echt ist, ist der Werbespruch genial.
Happy ฯ Day everyone! This year we collided some masses together.
In practise: youtu.be/vlUTlbZT4ig
And in theory: youtu.be/6dTyOl1fmDo
NEW: The actions of Trump and Vance in recent weeks highlight something under-appreciated.
The American right is now ideologically closer to countries like Russia, Turkey and in some senses China, than to the rest of the west (even the conservative west).
My column: www.ft.com/content/3046...
There is no act of censorship more explicit than literally banning words.
The Trump administration is requiring federal agencies to remove all references to โgender,โ โdiversityโ and โinclusionโ from federal documents.
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If I were Canadian PM I would immediately:
1. Create a new $15B science fund
2. Offer any credentialed US scientist funding for lab startup and replacement of NIH grants if they move to Canada
3. Immediate permanent residency
4. Citizenship after 2 years
Overnight a science superpower
Europe ๐ช๐บ โฆ Go for it!
And please add DEI just because โฆ
Every year, the World Economic Forum at Davos reports on the consensus of risks facing the world.
In the short-term, it's DISINFORMATION.
Long-term, it's CLIMATE CHANGE.
And, guess what, they're linked!
Ein paar Gedanken zur Amtseinfรผhrung und den letzten 24 Stunden: Trumps 3 Reden markieren einen historischen Bruch. Schon seine erste Rede, die offizielle Inaugurations-Rede, war eine so nie dagewesene Verhรถhnung des anwesenden politischen Gegners.
Stimme vรถllig zu. Und es gibt genรผgend europรคische Wissenschaftler in den USA, denen man genau jetzt ein attraktives Rรผckkehrangebot machen sollte. Das gleiche gilt fรผr die Start-Up-Szene im Silicon Valley.
Wir wollen von Medien nicht schlecht behandelt werden, schreibt FPร-Mediensprecher Christian Hafenecker.
Wir werden Medien schlecht behandeln, schreibt FPร-Vizebรผrgermeister Dominik Nepp.
The Disintegration Theorem is already a result of measure theory en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disinte...
A List of Predictions Made in 1925 About 2025
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๐ก These bounds enables us to quantify the interplay between optimisation hyperparameters and the tail-index. Doing so, we contribute to the ongoing discussion on links between heavy tails and the generalization performance of neural networks.
Find our paper here: openreview.net/pdf?id=EFrgB...
๐ป We give explicit upper and lower bounds on the tail-index of the resulting parameter distribution and validate these bounds in numerical experiments.
๐งฎ In our paper, we analyze a continuous diffusion approximation of SGD and show mathematically (in a regularized linear regression framework) that it leads to an asymptotically heavy-tailed parameter distribution, even though local gradient noise is Gaussian.
TL;DR: Heavy tailed parameter distributions can emerge from locally Gaussian gradient noise, as we show both theoretically and empirically.
It has repeatedly been observed that loss minimization by stochastic gradient descent (SGD) leads to heavy-tailed distributions of neural network parameters.
On my way to represent ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig at #NeurIPS2024 and to present a poster on joint work with Zhe Jiao on "Emergence of Heavy Tails in Homogenized Stochastic Gradient Descent"
This CD player was my birthday present in 1997 along with the incomparable Fresh Hits 1997. I found it recently and COULD NOT BELIEVE how rich the sound was, after years of streaming Spotify on my phone. My column today is about this phenomenon, which Iโm calling โqualitynesiaโ on.ft.com/3ZlwHf5
I wrote a thing for @fm4.bsky.social about how it's just not good enough to run for the next best platform in the face of fascism. Auf Deutsch.
fm4.orf.at/stories/3044...
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