From HN: Google laid off its “Python Foundations” team. Responsible for internal Python tooling and migrations, and contributing to the external Python ecosystem. Fascinating discussion on HN as well. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40171125
"To keep pace, an essential step is to modernise the long-term EU budget and to double the spending for research and innovation" -- Statement by the ERC Scientific Council on the next EU framework programme for research and innovation (FP10).
Yes, that is correct -- double (!) EU spending for research and innovation.
Our #AAAI24 poster today is about turning gold into blue and changing a 3 into a 5, all with the help of the energy that trained models happen to collect anyway. ECCCos FTW! (Poster nr 514)
Yann LeCun has some recommendations in his #AAAI24 keynote:
• Abandon generative models in favor joint-embedding architectures
• Abandon probabilistic model in favor of energy-based models
• Abandon contrastive methods in favor of regularized methods
• Abandon Reinforcement Learning in favor of model-predictive control; Use RI only when planning doesn't yield the predicted outcome, to adjust the world model or the critic
At the opening event of #AAAI24, the 38th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, in Vancouver.
The scale of this AI conference is quite different from what I'm used to in software engineering. 2,400 accepted papers (out of 10,000 submissions), all presented as posters in three nights with 800 posters each, and a subset of 240 papers presented in "orals". And 5,000 participants.
RIP Dries van Agt, Dutch minister of Justice (1971-1977) and prime minister (1977-1982) for the Christian democrats. He later voted the green party, claiming it wasn’t him who had changed, but his own party which had become less progressive.
After a visit to the West Bank in 1999, Van Agt became a prominent advocate of Palestinian rights: “Then I saw the many unholy things happening in the Holy Land.”
Interested to lead and organize the 50th edition of ICSE, the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering, in 2028 in North America? Make a bid!! See the @SIGSOFT blog for more details! Letter-of-Interest due by March 1st, 2024!
Decided to not be annoyed by, but to embrace the fact that Mastodon doesn't try to list all replies or the exact number of boosts and likes of posts from other servers.
They're a selection that reflects the interests on my local server. If I need see the exact answers and numbers, I can just copy the URL of the post, and open it in a separate browser tab.
Fantastic post on (levels of maturity) in managing performance, by @slightlyoff
> Teams that reach top-level performance have management support at the highest level. Those managers assume engineers want to do a good job but have the wrong incentives and constraints, and it isn't the line engineer's job to define success — it's the job of management.
“Making the world’s fastest website, and other mistakes”
> To prove we weren’t wasting everyone’s time, we used Web Performance Optimization Stats and internal data to calculate that each kB of client-side JavaScript cost us ≈$100,000 per year, and every millisecond until Time to Interactive at least $40,000.
Brilliant five part blog post on web app performance by @tigt