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Department of Statistics @oxfordstatistics.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

🏢 Vacancy: Novo Nordisk Postdoctoral Research Fellow (4 posts) 📍 Department of Statistics, University of Oxford 📃 Contract: Full time, fixed-term for 3 years 💷 Salary Range: £36,024 – £44,263 ⏲️ Deadline: 12pm UK, 30 Apr 2025 Full details & how to apply 👉 shorturl.at/3l47e

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Desi R Ivanova @desirivanova.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Our paper on the best way to add error bars to LLM evals is on arXiv! TL;DR: Avoid the Central Limit Theorem -- there are better, simple Bayesian and frequentist methods you should be using instead. We also provide a super lightweight library: github.com/sambowyer/baye… 🧵👇

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Nathan Lambert @natolambert.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Come work with me! We are looking to bring on more top talent to our language modeling workstream at @ai2.bsky.social building the open ecosystem. We are hiring: * Research scientists * Senior research engineers * Post docs (Young investigators) * Pre docs job-boards.greenhouse.io/thealleninst...

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The Allen Institute for AI

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Desi R Ivanova @desirivanova.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

I’m teaching a grad course for the first time (a bit terrifying 😅) and I’ve decided to write a short blog post after each lecture, that will highlight a key takeaway from it and reflect on what can be improved. First one ⬇️

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Desi R Ivanova @desirivanova.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

📣 Jobs alert We’re hiring postdoc and research engineer to work on UQ for LLMs!! Details ⬇️ #ai #llm #uq

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Desi R Ivanova @desirivanova.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

📣 Jobs alert We’re hiring postdoc and research engineer to work on UQ for LLMs!! Details ⬇️ #ai #llm #uq

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Desi R Ivanova @desirivanova.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

A tiny "embers of autoregression" artifact in simple arithmetic probapproxincorrect.substack.com/p/embers-of-au…

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Department of Statistics @oxfordstatistics.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

🌟 Research Collaboration Morning 🌟 Our recent Research Collaboration Morning featured talks from Hrushi Loya (SGBE) & @desirivanova.bsky.social (CSML) over tea & coffee, followed by amazing treats from Waste2Taste & Blakes Food. Thanks to Prof Simon Myers and Bev Lane for organising!

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Brandon Amos @bdamos.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

📢 My team at Meta (including Yaron Lipman and Ricky Chen) is hiring a postdoctoral researcher to help us build the next generation of flow, transport, and diffusion models! Please apply here and message me: www.metacareers.com/jobs/1459691...

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Postdoctoral Researcher, Fundamental AI Research (PhD)

Meta's mission is to build the future of human connection and the technology that makes it possible.

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Andrew Gordon Wilson @andrewgwils.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

We're excited to announce the ICML 2025 call for workshops! The CFP and submission advice can be found at: icml.cc/Conferences/.... The deadline is Feb 10. Submit some creative proposals!

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ICML 2025 Call for Workshops

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Ben Golub @bengolub.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

It also makes for a bad equilibrium where publicly disagreeing with a paper (except very mildly and boringly) is infrequent and therefore an extreme signal. So people don't do it even when they feel published papers are wrong or misleading. 3/

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Desi R Ivanova @desirivanova.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Being able to do “academic research” at a tech salary was a zero interest rate phenomenon

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Razvan Pascanu @razvan-pascanu.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

For my first post on Bluesky .. I'll start by announcing our 2025 edition of EEML which will be in Sarajevo :) ! I'm really excited about it and hope to see many of you there. Please follow the website (and Bluesky account) for more details which are coming soon ..

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Marvin Schmitt @marvin-schmitt.com · 11/12/2024

cool now do this bsky.app/profile/labu...

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Paul Bürkner @paulbuerkner.com · 26/11/2024

Prior specification is one of the hardest tasks in Bayesian modeling. In our new paper, we (Florence Bockting, @stefanradev.bsky.social and me) develop a method for expert prior elicitation using generative neural networks and simulation-based learning. arxiv.org/abs/2411.15826

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Expert-elicitation method for non-parametric joint priors using normalizing flows

We propose an expert-elicitation method for learning non-parametric joint prior distributions using normalizing flows. Normalizing flows are a class of generative models that enable exact, single-step...

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Jeremy Howard @howard.fm · 25/11/2024

I've never, personally, had any direct utility from traditional academic peer review for my scientific work. I've never used that peer review as any kind of signal or credential in judging a paper or deciding whether to read it. Nearly all the papers I read are preprints.

A random snapshot of my Zotero account, showing that nearly all the papers are from arxiv

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Desi R Ivanova @desirivanova.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

How about we stop writing and submitting papers that should have been a blog/reddit post at best

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joao @joao.omg.lol · 23/11/2024

I was raving about this paper for 1 month or so, I think everyone working on Reinforcement Learning should read it, and probably people working in other machine learning subfields should read it too

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Dan Roy @roydanroy.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

For those who don’t feel like they fit into my Grumpy Machine Learners list (which I still need to update based on 100+ requests) I’ve created another starter pack: go.bsky.app/Js7ka12 (Self) nominations welcome.

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Paul Bürkner @paulbuerkner.com · 22/11/2024

The beta version of BayesFlow 2.0 is becoming more powerful and stable by the day. If you are curious about Amortized Bayesian Inference, give BayesFlow a try! github.com/bayesflow-or...

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A Python library for amortized Bayesian workflows using generative neural networks. - GitHub - bayesflow-org/bayesflow at dev

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Desi R Ivanova @desirivanova.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Bring stats to LM evals!! open.substack.com/pub/desiriva...

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Desi R Ivanova @desirivanova.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

💥 the most exciting new CDT just opened for admissions!! More details will be announced soon, I promise it will be huge!! www.dtc.ox.ac.uk/foai-cdt

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Fundamentals of AI Centre for Doctoral Training

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Desi R Ivanova @desirivanova.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Decent 0-shot performance (conditional on it has been like 100 years since retirement) 😅

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Desi R Ivanova @desirivanova.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

StatML is probably the best programme in the UK to do an ML PhD/DPhil!

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Desi R Ivanova @desirivanova.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Thanks to UK academia, today I was reminded (for the N-th time) what happens when you allocate resources by optimising the wrong objective 🫠

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François-Xavier Briol @fxbriol.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

The next UCL centre for Data Science/UCL ELLIS unit event will be on "Computational Statistics and Machine Learning in the Sciences" will take place in-person on the 5th December at the London Mathematical Society. Full details, incl registration: www.ucl.ac.uk/big-data

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Dan Roy @roydanroy.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

I've created an initial Grumpy Machine Learners starter park. If you think you're grumpy and you "do machine learning", nominate yourself. If you're on the list, but don't think you are grumpy, then take a look in the mirror. go.bsky.app/6ddpivr

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Jeremy Howard @howard.fm · 18/11/2024

Hi. It’s my first visit here for 18 months or so. Have I missed anything?

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Aaron Roth @aaroth.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

If you are on the job market, and work on the kinds of topics that might be published in FORC ("Foundations of Responsible Computing"), fill out this form and get on the job list. This covers mathematical research on privacy, fairness, and related topics.

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Maike Osborne @maosbot.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Trembling with excitement in announcing the first ever International Conference on Probabilistic Numerics! Probabilistic Numerics is about machine learning FOR numerical computation, like optimisation. 1st - 3rd September 2025, EURECOM, France, submissions due 5th March 2025. probnum25.github.io

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Yoav Goldberg @yoavgo.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

there are many smart speakers and thinkers around AI/ML and/or NLP. but i find almost everything to be kinda predictable by now, minor stylistic variations on the same story. who are some *interesting* speakers i should listen/read? i want things that may surprise or inspire me.

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