Author Archives: theone
This event is an excellent opportunity to refresh my memory about the wonderful time -just over a decade- I spent in Ioannina, while studying at the University. I am looking forward to seeing again friends and familiar faces, and above all chat with the other colleagues and the young students of the department. Many thanks […]
The Foundation FMJH has announced the call for post-doc funding 2023. Check our subject proposal entitled Graph operator pursuit for efficient graph machine learning. Applications are due to the 1st of December. Contact me for more details on that. Check also the other subject coming from the MLMDA group, which is related to Physics informed […]
Is Big Tech the new Tobacco Industry, when it comes to policymaking around AI and techno-ethics?
By theone | November 6, 2022
In the paper The Grey Hoodie Project: Big Tobacco, Big Tech, and the Threat on Academic Integrity, the authors investigate the very important issue of how the AI scientific agenda and policymaking around AI can be (and evidence imply they actually are) manipulated by Big Tech. The abstract states: “…Big Tech can actively distort […]
The Franco-Bavarian AI Cup is now open for participation, for students and junior researchers from Europe interested in AI and Data Science. Trophy: up to €95.000 for financing the launch of a start-up. Procedure: Successful participation in one of the announced challenging use-cases, linked with sustainable development, which are out in collaboration with our partners […]
It is with great excitement that I share this piece of news. Machine Learning on Graphs is soon to have what deserves: the first major event of its own. And shall the name of it be: Learning on Graphs Conference (LoG) Below the announcement posted by Michael Bronstein (member of the Advisory Board): Graph Machine […]
Evidence of increasing sentimentalism and individualism in written language
By theone | December 27, 2021
The recent paper “The rise and fall of rationality in language” (PNAS, Dec 2021), by Marten Scheffera, Ingrid van de Leemputa, Els Weinansa, and Johan Bollenc, brings some quantification over the way we use language to communicate, express ideas, argue, etc, in the course of time.
Here are some of the subjects that the ML group (MLMDA) of Center Borelli offers for (but not limited to) MVA Masters program internships:
It’s been about two years since the appearance of the COVID-19 virus, and the pandemic is still a horrific roller coaster for most countries, and their citizens individually. From the beginning, and especially at the beginning, it was natural for doctors and researchers of various fields to put as top priority helping out with the […]
* The title paraphrases a Greek proverb that literally says: “pretty villages burn pretty”, while implying that the ugly ones remain ugly even in flames. The proverb is most common in Balkan countries.
This short article of Kyle R. Myers et al. about the effects of the COVID19 pandemic on scientists is worth sharing. The survey study, although indicative and probably not statistically unbiased, is still analyzing a good amount of people in academia and research.
