Abusing minions, torturing cats, maligning the innocent. 🐘 @BAPearlmutter@fosstodon.org

South Dublin, Ireland
Joined April 2013
NeurIPS has no feedback path for reporting false positives from its automated citation checker. arxiv.org/abs/2601.06096
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THE REPEATED-STIMULUS CONFOUND IN EEG (Jack Kilgallon, Jeff Siskind, Barak Pearlmutter) We identify 16 affected publications. Decoding accuracies were overestimated by 4.46-7.42%. arxiv.org/abs/2508.00531
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According to the US Constitution, tariffs are up to Congress. Choosing to delegate this to someone else, Joe Blow in Poughkeepsie or some guy in the White House or whatever, does not absolve them of sole responsibility. People should be furious at their congressmen.
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I never thought I'd see Geoff Hinton being respectful to nobility. What a time to be alive!
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Barak A. Pearlmutter retweeted
BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPrize in Physics to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.”
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Time to throw in the towel, @DougJBalloon, satire cannot hold a candle to this sort of self-parody.
News Analysis: American officials said they had no advance warning of the attack on a Hamas leader in Iran, raising worries of a power vacuum that could lead to a broader geopolitical crisis. nyti.ms/3yiGcCh
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Barak A. Pearlmutter retweeted
Post-Doctoral Researcher (Formalising Specifications for Software Verification) (Temporary Contract to 31.1.26) Department of Computer Science / Maynooth University | University Vacancies Ireland universityvacancies.com/mayn…
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A second fantastic project from @StKiliansDS, this one on the ‘Math Behind the Dobble’ 🟰
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If we can't even get simple stuff like this right, how can anyone be less than petrified about our ability to get actually important AI safety stuff right?
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We're desperate, get used to it We're desperate, get used to it We're desperate, get used to it —X (the rock band? the window system? the company? you decide.)
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Bing Chat dispensing incorrect medical information. (Ibuprofin is in fact a commonly used muscle relaxant.)
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The warnings on the splash page of @OpenAI's ChatGPT don't seem to include this sort of horror:
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new lecture hall @MaynoothUni
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Played a bit with @OpenAI's @ChatwithGPT. It immediately veers into crazy confabulation, both positive (made up quotes) and negative (stating that an article does not contain information that it in fact does). Perhaps if it were trained in the Navajo language...
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ChatGPT is also pretty amazing at Automatic Pajamafication. Same for murder mysteries set in other cultures: it seems to sort of regress everything towards the mean for that sort of story.
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Do you reckon the authors of the Galactica paper read and understood what they’re citing here: “Despite these limitations, today’s large models will become cheaper with experience (Hirschmann, 1964)”? Because it’s about process improvements during mass-production runs.
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Barak A. Pearlmutter retweeted
Applications open now for the 5th intake of PhD students in the foundational areas of data science. Please RT!
📢Recruitment call! Fully-funded PhD scholarships are available with our CRT commencing in Sept 2023. Join 113 students & begin your 4-year PhD journey with us. data-science.ie/how-do-i-app… Application portal opens 2nd Dec data-science.ie/the-crt-prog… #believeinscience #phdchat
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R⁷R𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩?
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