Enoch’s Hammer of Luddite fame, at the Tolson Memorial Museum. I gave a talk at the Pint of Science Festival – an international science festival that takes places at local pubs and cafes across the world – this evening.
Honoured to be a co-director of this programme along Elinor Carmi. This new MSc will provide students with the practical research skills and knowledge to critically understand and ethically assess how data is used across a multitude of industries.
Introduction Hey there, fellow science enthusiasts and stats geeks! Welcome back to the wild world of Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithms. This is part two of my series on the powerhouse behind Bayesian Inference . If you missed the first post, no worries! Just hop on over here and catch up before we dive deeper into the MCMC madness.
Author Dhruv Gupta ( ORCID : 0009–0004–7109–5403) Introduction Large Language Models (LLMs) have become the new face of Natural language processing (NLP). With their generative power and ability to comprehend human language, the human reliance on these models is increasing every day. However, the LLMs have been known to hallucinate and thus produce wrong outputs.
A note on the personal significance of collecting and listening to records, comparing it to meditation. I use Walter Benjamin’s concept of “erfahrung” to argue for the unique experience afforded by physical music formats. Finally, I share a mix of vinyl records.
por Mariana Ortiz Cortés Los primeros trabajos para descubrir la pirámide del Sol en su totalidad, en el sitio prehispánico de Teotihuacán, en el Valle de México, se llevaron a cabo en el contexto de las celebraciones del Centenario de la Independencia de México. En 1905, estos trabajos fueron encargados al pionero de la arqueología mexicana, Leopoldo Batres, quien se comprometió a descubrir la pirámide en solo cinco años.
(with contributions from Michelle Barker, Neil Chue Hong, Matthew Turk, Jeffrey Carver, Hannah Cohoon, and James Howison;
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Back when I had optimistic views of my time, I vowed to do more blogging this year. Sadly, life had other plans. But I return with an update to an earlier post on the Portal rodent community. To recap, in April 2023, my student Pat Dumandan and I were afraid. Afraid that Chaetodipus penicillatus (the Desert pocket mouse) was about to undergo a population explosion.
On how our constant connectivity demands a particular way of existing.