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Idris

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@northwestern CIS @jhucompsci CS PhD student 🤓 Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu brown belt 🤼‍♂️ Let’s talk tech, philosophy, and public policy 🗣

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IMERSE Lab will be presenting two papers at @ieeeiros in Abu Dhabi this year 🎉 1/3 🧵

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Excerpt from a video I just posted on YouTube (about the multilayer perception layers in a transformer, and how LLMs may store facts).


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Superised to find that Google Deepmind released a benchmark for Tracking Any Point in 3D (TAPVid-3D)! 😍 tapvid3d.github.io I believe human perceptions for low level motions is not just those 2D flows. We understand 3D dynamics and motions!


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A ton of AI and Robotics developments this week. Big announcements from UCSD, Kyutai, Figure, Meta, Salesforce, Amazon, Adept, Runway, Sanctuary AI, Apple, OpenAI, and Clone Robotics. Here's everything that happened and how to make sense out of it:


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110 new faculty. Cutting-edge computational resources and advanced technologies. The leading academic hub for data science and artificial intelligence. Read about our new Data Science and AI Institute in the Daily Record.

.@JohnsHopkins leaders say a new endeavor will make Baltimore a hub of the booming artificial intelligence industry. thedailyrecord.com/2024/01/29/new…



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America’s top universities should abandon their long misadventure into politics, retrain their gaze on their core strengths and rebuild their reputations as centers of research and learning. My take:


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Out of all the terrible problems there are in the world today, the problem of small numbers of American university students with stupid or even evil opinions seems to me the least important and least interesting. But clearly, I am in a minority.


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People ask me all the time if I am "pro-Israel" because I am a Jew who has lived in Israel, and my answer is that being "pro-Israel" or being "pro-Palestine" or being a "Zionist" does not properly capture the nuance of thought most people do or should have about this issue. It…


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The science of global warming beautifully and simply explained by Dr. Carl Sagan, ca. 1985.


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I graduated from Cornell! When I first came to Cornell, the then-Graduate Director encouraged me to drop out and go to a “less competitive environment.” Instead of giving up, I became the first PhD graduate in the math department to get a postdoc at MIT in a long time.

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If you really want to understand the roots of rage in the red states, think about how much time people in those states spending think about cities and blue states. Now considcer how little time anyone in those places spends thinking about what goes on in, say, rural Alabama. /1

She needs a lot of history lessons. Including one about my Wilder cousin from the Civil War! 😂😂😂 salon.com/2022/10/19/mar…



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To mark the beginning of Black History Month, we celebrate pioneering physicist Shirley Ann Jackson '68 PhD '73. She was the first black woman to earn a doctorate from MIT and was featured in Ebony magazine in 1974.

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#NewProfilePic 10/10 times will pet a dog 🐶

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Following in the footsteps of his predecessors, @UChicago’s new president, Paul Alivisatos, is starting off strong, publicly declaring the importance of #freespeech in a recent op-ed. (1/3)


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Educate yourself about things. Study hard what interests you the most. Don't worry about what others think of you, that's none of your business. Train your mind to think, doubt, and question. That's how you grow. 🧠


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Excited to present Consistent Online Depth Estimation at #WACV2023! mli0603.github.io/codd/ Depth is key for mixed reality. Temporal consistency is also important! This is a notoriously difficult problem given scene dynamics and online settings. CODD skillfully solves it by:


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The eyes of the charismatic never show fear or nerves.


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Banning Trump after Jan 6 is entirely compatible with the foundations of democracy, even necessary. By the Gödel-Popper rule, a democracy should never give its tools to those who want to thwart it.


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I’m just trying to get through my PhD


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5 dumb things I did during my PhD...and 5 smart:


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