Wes McKinney on Agents - a lot of this rings very true to me wesmckinney.com/blog/mythica...
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Wes McKinney on Agents - a lot of this rings very true to me wesmckinney.com/blog/mythica...
Observation of a Rapidly Pulsating Radio Source by A. HEWISH S. J. BELL J. D. H. PILKINGTON P. F. SCOTT R. A. COLLINS Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge Unusual signals from pulsating radio sources have been recorded at the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory. The radiation seems to come from local objects within the galaβΉy, and may be associated with oscillations of white dwarf or neutron stars. In July 1967, a large radio telescope operating at a frequency of 81-5 MHz was brought into use at the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory. This instrument was designed to investigate the angular structure of compact radio sources by observing the scintillation caused by the irregular structure of the interplanetary medium'. The initial survey includes the whole sky in the declination range - 08Β° < 8<44Β° and this area is scanned once a week. A large fraction of the sky is thus under regular surveillance. Soon after the instrument was brought into operation it was noticed that signals which appeared at first to be weak sporadic interference were repeatedly observed at a fixed declination and right ascension; this result showed that the source could not be terrestrial in origin.
Jocelyn Bell and Anthony Hewish announced their discovery of a βrapidly pulsating radio sourceβ β what we now refer to as a pulsar β with a paper in @nature.com #OTD in 1968. π§ͺ π βοΈ
www.nature.com/articles/217...
I enjoyed reading this thoughtful position piece by
@hogg.bsky.social on "why we do astrophysics" - a lot of these points can naturally be expanded to particle physics and any fundamental science
arxiv.org/abs/2602.10181
TMLR's 2025 annual report! The word of the year is growth: whether it's our number of submissions, published papers, or reviewers, pretty much everything has increased ~50%.
EXCEPT: our review period, which is still shorter than NeurICMLR (91 vs 126 days)
Read on for more! 1/n
1/ Happy International Day of #WomenAndGirlsInScience!
To mark the occasion, women from across the @eiroforum.org organisations, including ESO, shared one piece of advice that helped them in their professional journeys π
Discover more: www.eiroforum.org/news/eirofor...
We reject the proposal of funding up to 20 percent of the construction costs for world-class facilities from FP10. This also applies to investing the cited EU investments for possible βmoonshotsβ (see above) in a potential Future Circular Collider (FCC) at CERN.
Very strong language from the German ministry of science to the EU about funding FCC. π§
English: www.bmftr.bund.de/SharedDocs/D...
German: www.bmftr.bund.de/SharedDocs/D...
Wow - seems to rely a lot of verifiability and curious how one could translate this to HEP and the Neurips bet
Rogerβs Statistics Book is a staple among particle physicists - RIP
Lots of unsolved problems! Probably one of the biggest ones is to understand what the universe is made of: 85% of matter is completely not understood. By scaling these AI models, we can analyze the data at the LHC much better (equivalent to years of data-taking) and maybe we get closer to an answer.
A fascinating corrolary of this work is that it doesn't seem totally out of the question, that we will run out of jets at a hadron collider ;) 4/4
Link to Paper: cds.cern.ch/record/29536...
Instead of training on ~300M jets we train on up to 10 Billion(!) jets and see not only performance improve but improve predictably with the ultimate limit seemingly still far away. Now that we have the scaling laws, we can try to start understanding them. 3/4
This paper led by Matthias Vigl, Nicole Hartman and Nikita Pond shows indeed there is still *much* more to gain and that the gain is predictable similar to the scaling laws we've seen in language and vision. 2/4
Scaling Laws in Particle Physics Data! This is a result I've been itching to share and it's finally out. One of the big open questions is how much better AI-based methods at particle colliders can still become. 1/4
An @inspirehep.net HEP mystery: what happened here?
Really sad to miss it - just couldnβt get teaching to work out - enjoy !
Also this might help?
perfect choice! Nice citation, too!
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CepC proposal will not be included in Chinaβs next 5-year plan
cerncourier.com/cepc-matures...
Seems that #pyhf has finally creeped over the 200 citations on INSPIRE recently. :) π
inspirehep.net/literature?q...
inspirehep.net/literature/1...
Nice little milestone for us all to celebrate, @lukasheinrich.com, @giordonstark.com, @kylecranmer.bsky.social. Cheers!
Applicants with background in exploration of large, complex search spaces are especially invited to encouraged.
Please distribute to potential candidates! @aspuru.bsky.social @kylecranmer.bsky.social @lukasheinrich.com @tuebingen-ai.bsky.social @jenseisert.bsky.social @franknoe.bsky.social
The bitter lesson strikes againβ¦
Very interesting work by our own @rythian47.bsky.social that I finally understood a bit better recently when he presented it at our MIAPbP workshop. Happy to see this accepted at Neurips!
I got tired of mashing together tools to write long threads with π«π’ππ‘ ππππππ‘π‘πππ and β³Ξ±β ββso I wrote Laππ€πππ‘!
It converts Markdown and LaTeX to Unicode that can be used in βtweetsβ, and automatically splits long threads. Try it out!
keenancrane.github.io/LaTweet/
Call for Applications / Ausschreibung
Springboard for an international scientific career! π§¬π§ͺπβοΈπ§ π± Call for #MaxPlanckResearchGroups launched; applications are possible until October 14, 2025 www.mpg.de/max-planck-r... #ScienceCareer
RIP Herwig Schopper, CERN director general from 1973 to 1976. He made LEP possible, and thus also the LHC. Not so long ago I worked with him on a book about the scientific discoveries at CERN.
Read the interview in the CERN courier about the lessons from LEP cerncourier.com/a/lessons-fr...
@annalenakofler.bsky.social giving a great talk on SBI in gravitational waves at our βBuild Big vs Build Smart Workshopβ indico.ph.tum.de/event/7906/
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