I try to make computers see. I often tweet about other stuff. 🌹🍉 Former job: PhD/Post-doc at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics.
Amsterdam, NL
Joined June 2010
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I am presenting a poster at these three #ICML2022 workshops (Fri. & Sat.) titled “Are We Viewing the Problem of Robust Generalisation through the Appropriate Lens?”
If you’re attending and that sounds interesting, please drop by!
The workshops are:
- Spurious Correlations, Invariance, and Stability (sites.google.com/view/scis-w…)
- Principles of Distribution Shift (sites.google.com/view/icml-2…)
- Shift Happens: Crowdsourcing metrics and test datasets beyond ImageNet (shift-happens-benchmark.gith…)
Mohamed Omran retweeted
My issue with the “never make a kid hug if they don’t want to” discourse is that as well as bodily autonomy, kids need to learn about social obligations & the importance of being kind even when you don’t feel like it. Being taught that your feelings are what’s most important just leads to self-centred kids.
Yes, parents should be perceptive about whether the kid feels unsafe somehow, as opposed to say “no I don’t wanna go hug grandma because I’m watching TV”. And yes, relatives wanting a hug need to chill out a bit & understand that kids will be kids. But when a child says “no, I don’t want to” about almost anything else, we don’t simply accept that they should have no obligations to others & know what’s best for themselves. There’s gotta be some sensible middle ground in all this.
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Studenten mögen eine naive Sicht auf die Welt haben, sich hölzern ausdrücken, unstrategische, verbalradikale Forderungen aufstellen – all das gehört zu der Lebensphase dazu. Entsetzlich sind nicht die Proteste selbst, sondern die Kriegsverbrechen, wogegen protestiert wird.
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Natürlich ist der Feldzug in Gaza nicht das einzige Kriegsverbrechen auf der Welt, aber es ist das Einzige, das USA und BRD mit millionenschweren Waffenlieferungen fördern. Bürger dieser Länder protestieren dagegen, weil sie eine Mitverantwortung sehen — das ist ihr gutes Recht.
Whoa github created a powerful suite of NN libraries in one-shot 🤯
And it was a dead simple prompt. 👇
github.com/search?q=pytorch+…
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In addition to Israel's systematic campaign of mass murder, torture, forced expulsion, its forces always take time out from their gratuitous violence toward humans to remind the world of their petty brutality against the smallest symbols of humanity and normalcy in Gaza.
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Mitt Romney says support for a nationwide ban on TikTok is connected to the "overwhelming" volume of "mentions of Palestinians" on the popular platform.
trib.al/El8Si4J
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المناطق التي يُطالبنا الاحتلال بالإخلاء والتوجه إليها، هي مناطق قاحلة، مدمرة، لا يوجد فيها تمديدات مياه ولا أسس للحياة، الناس ستعيش في مأساة كبيرة. #رفح
Mohamed Omran retweeted
My family in Rafah are receiving threatening phone calls to evacuate. They already evacuated nine times and they live in a tent!
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All Hamas has to do is release the hostages and this war could continue as usual
BREAKING: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected ceasefire proposals because he says Hamas's call for a withdrawal of all troops from Gaza and an end to the war is unacceptable
⬇️ Read more
news.sky.com/story/israels-b…
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German police standing on a “Stolperstein” memorial to murdered Jews outside the Humboldt Uni. Confronted by Jewish student, but refuses to get off.
Mohamed Omran retweeted
Woher eigentlich diese komische antideutsche Psychose ständig eine globale Solidaritätsbewegung die in Deutschland überproportional aus Migranten besteht zu diffamieren indem man ihren deutsche Namen gibt, vor allem wenn die selbst die kleinbürgerlichsten deutschen Namen tragen
Mohamed Omran retweeted
to be clear scolding random voters for not falling in line rather than using one’s platform to pressure the most powerful person on earth to do The Obvious Right Thing is 100% anti-politics, it’s saying people can’t change anything. THIS—make no mistake—is the height of nihilism
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Just stopped @AnthropicAI's Claudebot from completely ddos'ing a site with a large phpbb forum.
Seriously uncool to be that aggressive with data-collection for your LLM.
Mohamed Omran retweeted
this is super valid and great to come to as an epiphany in a blog post if you're a college kid or a random schmuck and kinda weird to do if you've held a high prestige AI job for a full year.
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Shoutout to the last time Coca Cola did stuff with generative systems, can’t wait for the new project.
amp.theguardian.com/business…
Today, @CocaColaCo and @Microsoft announced an expanded partnership, including a $1.1B commitment from Coca-Cola to the Microsoft Cloud and its generative AI capabilities to help “quench their thirst” for innovation. Learn more: msft.it/6019YH1QR
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The girl behind the photo. A reminder that Palestinians killed by Israel are not just numbers or white shrouds. They were once smiling 5 year olds who once hoped for peace. ✌🏽 💔😞
Reuters photographer wins World Press Photo of the Year with poignant shot from Gaza apnews.com/article/world-pre…
