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Do-it-all robots aren't ready for our homes.
Scientists at MIT & beyond think compliance might change that: tinyurl.com/2hbumhwm
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Left: MIT computer scientist Katie Bouman w/stacks of hard drives of black hole image data.
Right: MIT computer scientist Margaret Hamilton w/the code she wrote that helped put a man on the moon.
(image credit @floragraham)
#EHTblackhole #BlackHoleDay #BlackHole
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3 years ago MIT grad student Katie Bouman led the creation of a new algorithm to produce the first-ever image of a black hole.
Today, that image was released.
More info: bit.ly/BHoleGuardian
2016 story: bit.ly/BlackHoleCSAIL
#EHTblackhole #EventHorizonTelescope
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Here's the moment when the first black hole image was processed, from the eyes of researcher Katie Bouman. #EHTBlackHole #BlackHoleDay #BlackHole (v/@dfbarajas)
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You can now Rick roll in 4K, thanks to machine learning.
bit.ly/37ms0aH
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This robotic mouth chants algorithmically generated prayers: bit.ly/3a3cmQK
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Watch Katie Bouman speak about the significance of today's black hole breakthrough: bit.ly/2KqIsO4 (v/@nature)
#KatieBouman #BlackHole #EHTBlackHole
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A demo from 1993 of 32-year-old Yann LeCun showing off the world's first convolutional network for text recognition. #tbt #ML #neuralnetworks #CNNs #MachineLearning
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800 free computer science classes you can take online right now: bit.ly/800CSclasses
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800 free computer science classes you can take online right now: bit.ly/800CSclasses
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All major neural networks, in one chart: bit.ly/2HB7tl9
v/The Asimov Institute
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Happy birthday to Caltech professor Katie Bouman! As a PhD student at MIT she was part of the team that helped create the first-ever image of a black hole.
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#otd in 1977 Bill Gates was arrested in NM for a traffic violation.
He used the silhouette of his mugshot as the default profile pic for Microsoft Outlook 2010.
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MIT offers free video lectures and online materials from more than 2,400 courses, including intro classes in computer science, AI and algorithms.
Browse our open CS courses here: bit.ly/39jH8DV
(v/@MITOCW)
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Happy birthday Joseph Fourier, whose 1822 equation allows us to listen to mp3s today: bit.ly/22kbNfi
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25 years ago today the first major web browser was released: Mosaic 1.0. bit.ly/2Hr9Khu #otd #todayintech (via @NCSAatIllinois)
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Left: MIT computer scientist Katie Bouman with the stacks of hard drives containing data of the first image of a black hole.
Right: MIT computer scientist Margaret Hamilton with the code her team wrote that put a man on the moon.
#BlackHoleWeek #BlackHole #WomenInSTEM
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Happy birthday Joseph Fourier, whose 1822 equation allows us to listen to mp3s today: bit.ly/22kbNfi
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This robotic mouth chants algorithmically generated prayers: bit.ly/3a3cmQK
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MIT’s “Introduction to Algorithms,” published #otd in 1990, is the world’s most cited CS text, with 67K citations & over a million copies sold.
bit.ly/3y1yMPR
@mitpress
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60 years ago this month, the Fast Fourier Transform was created, a powerful tool for image compression & data analysis.
Watch a classic MIT breakdown of FFT, perhaps the most-taught algorithm at the Institute: bit.ly/4cNMbPm
v/@MITOCW
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MIT’s “Introduction to Algorithms,” published #otd in 1990, is the world’s most cited CS text, with 9K citations & half a million copies sold.
bit.ly/3qQNJPJ
(@mitpress)
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Happy birthday Joseph Fourier, whose 1822 equation allows us to listen to mp3s today: bit.ly/22kbNfi
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A free MIT course breaking down fundamental math concepts in computer science: bit.ly/4kXuqQ6
Here, MIT prof. Erik Demaine breaks down state machines (Lecture 4).
v/@MITOCW
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An MIT introduction to computer science & Python programming: bit.ly/4iLKYd3
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"The Computer Girls," was a 1967 Cosmopolitan piece about a strange new field dominated by women. It was called programming: bit.ly/2xwrJ1c
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2014: MIT professor Regina Barzilay is diagnosed with breast cancer.
2017: she develops an ML model that could have diagnosed her cancer years in advance.
Today: she is announced as the first winner of a $1m award for her work.
More: bit.ly/Barzilay1m
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25 years ago today the first major web browser was released: Mosaic 1.0. bit.ly/Mosaic25 #otd #todayintech
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Free MIT videos & online materials from more than 2,400 courses, including intro classes in computer science, AI and algorithms.
Browse our open CS courses here: bit.ly/39jH8DV
(v/@MITOCW)
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A kid on Reddit says he uses OpenAI to get A's on his homework.
When asked on ethics, the same AI responds below.
@OpenAI
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Happy birthday to Margaret Hamilton, the MIT scientist whose code put a man on the moon: s.si.edu/22CL8H8
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This MIT CS class teaches you things that all the other classes don't teach you, like...
🖥️ Shell tools and scripting
🖥️ Vim
🖥️ Data wrangling
🖥️ Command-line environment
🖥️ Version control
Watch all 11 lectures for free here: bit.ly/MissSemester
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Programming languages ranked by how much electricity they use: bit.ly/ProgEnergy
(v/@DavidCasselTNS @thenewstack)
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The energy consumption of different programming languages (v/@burkov): bit.ly/3WiXC9M
One finding: Python consumes 76x more energy while being 72x slower than C.
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MIT’s “Introduction to Algorithms,” published #otd in 1990, is the world’s most cited CS text, with 67K citations & over a million copies sold.
bit.ly/3y1yMPR
@mitpress
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Robotic mouth chants algorithmically generated prayers.
bit.ly/3a3cmQK
("The Prayer," v/@DiemutStrebe)
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Springer just made 400+ textbooks free to download, including CS books on Python, deep learning, data science & AI.
Full list: bit.ly/SpringerCS
#MondayMotivation #ML #DeepLearning #AI #CS #BigData #Python #Scala #TensorFlow #Programming #Coding
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All major neural networks, in one chart: bit.ly/2HB7tl9
(article v/@TDataSciencechart v/@asimovinstitute)
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Happy birthday to professor Katie Bouman! As a PhD student at MIT she was part of the team that helped create the first-ever image of a black hole.
#WomenInScience
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When programming languages were created:
1957: Fortran
1958: LISP
1964: BASIC
1972: C
1978: SQL
1980: C++
1991: Python
1993: R
1995: PHP, Java & JS
2001: C#
2009: Go
2014: Swift
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Happy 87th bday Margaret Hamilton, the MIT scientist whose code put a man on the moon: s.si.edu/22CL8H8
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Happy birthday to Python creator Guido van Rossum. The open source language was named after comedy troupe Monty Python: bit.ly/2B8R7h6
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MIT researchers found that massive neural nets (e.g. large language models) are capable of storing and simulating other neural networks inside their hidden layers, which enables LLM to adapt to a new task without external training: bit.ly/3jIiesP
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Python is ranked the #1 programming language by IEEE Spectrum for 2021: spectrum.ieee.org/top-progra…
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The 25 most important mathematical definitions in data science, v/@DailyDoseOfDS_.
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The 10 most helpful *free* online machine learning courses, via @chipro
Full thread: bit.ly/Top10chipro
#MondayMotivation
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14 sorting algorithms in just 60 seconds.
v/@7etsuo
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800 free computer science classes you can take online right now: bit.ly/800CSclasses
#MondayMotivation
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This MIT CS class teaches you things that all the other classes don't teach you, like...
🖥️ Shell tools and scripting
🖥️ Vim
🖥️ Data wrangling
🖥️ Command-line environment
🖥️ Version control
Watch all 11 lectures for free here: bit.ly/MissSemester
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Happy birthday to the late Sister Mary Keller, who helped develop #Basic & in 1965 was the first woman to earn a computer science PhD in the US: bit.ly/2M5v8LQ
(@mental_floss)
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BREAKING: MIT and Harvard just filed suit against ICE and the DHS seeking to reverse their ban on international students being able to stay in the US while taking classes remotely.
Full complaint: bit.ly/MITsICEsuit
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Tech birthdays in 2022:
Lyft: 10 years
Snapchat: 11 years
Uber: 13 years
Twitter: 16 years
Facebook: 18 years
Tesla: 19 years
Google: 24 years
Mozilla: 24 years
Netflix: 26 years
Amazon: 28 years
Apple: 46 years
Microsoft: 47 years
Intel: 54 years
HP: 83 years
IBM: 111 years
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Minecraft launched #otd in 2009. What started as “just” a game has become a platform that over 85M students have used to learn coding: bit.ly/2k0Fhg7 @codeorg
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Happy birthday to Joseph Fourier, whose 1822 equation allows us to listen to mp3s today: bit.ly/22kbNfi
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#otd in 1991 the Linux kernel was publicly released by Helsinki grad student Linus Torvalds: bit.ly/3N5sfLG
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2014: MIT professor Regina Barzilay is diagnosed w/#breastcancer.
2017: she develops a ML model that could have diagnosed her cancer years earlier.
2020: she wins AAAI's $1m award for her work.
More: bit.ly/Barzilay1m
#BreastCancerAwarenessMonth #BreastCancerSurvivor
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#otd in 2019 scientists released the first-ever photo of a black hole.
Here’s the moment that Prof. Katie Bouman and colleagues first processed the image.
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"Students shouldn't go out into life without the ability to communicate.
Your success in life will be determined largely by...
-your ability to speak,
-your ability to write, &
-the quality of your ideas,
**in that order**."
-Late MIT Prof. Patrick Winston
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Python libraries for every day machine learning work:
• Tensorflow
• NumPy
• Pandas
• Matplotlib
• Scikit-Learn
• XGBoost
• OpenCV
• Pillow
Non-machine learning specific libraries:
• Requests
• Flask
• SQLAlchemy
• PyTest
• Black
(credit: @svpino)
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