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Chris Dyer

@redpony

i live in Angel, London. I am a researcher at DeepMind. I play the cello.

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You are looking at the oldest plant ever to be regenerated, grown from 32,000-year-old seeds! A Russian team discovered a seed cache of Silene stenophylla, native to Siberia buried by an Ice Age squirrel, successfully germinated it

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You are looking at the oldest plant ever to be regenerated, grown from 32,000-year-old seeds! A Russian team discovered a seed cache of Silene stenophylla, native to Siberia buried by an Ice Age squirrel, successfully germinated it nationalgeographic.com/science/articl…
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The Gemini era is here. Thrilled to launch Gemini 1.0, our most capable & general AI model. Built to be natively multimodal, it can understand many types of info. Efficient & flexible, it comes in 3 sizes each best-in-class & optimized for different uses blog.google/technology/ai/…

The Gemini era is here. Thrilled to launch Gemini 1.0, our most capable & general AI model. Built to be natively multimodal, it can understand many types of info. Efficient & flexible, it comes in 3 sizes each best-in-class & optimized for different uses blog.google/technology/ai/…
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Introducing COLM (colmweb.org) the Conference on Language Modeling. A new research venue dedicated to the theory, practice, and applications of language models.

Submissions: March 15 (it's pronounced 'collum' 🕊️)

Introducing COLM (colmweb.org) the Conference on Language Modeling. A new research venue dedicated to the theory, practice, and applications of language models. Submissions: March 15 (it's pronounced 'collum' 🕊️)
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Today we are announcing a major breakthrough in the Vesuvius Challenge: we have read the first word from an unopened Herculaneum scroll.
The word is 'πορφυρας' which means 'purple dye' or 'cloths of purple.'

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Congratulations to 21yo computer science…

Today we are announcing a major breakthrough in the Vesuvius Challenge: we have read the first word from an unopened Herculaneum scroll. The word is 'πορφυρας' which means 'purple dye' or 'cloths of purple.' scrollprize.org/firstletters Congratulations to 21yo computer science…
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Best part of having spent time in academia: seeing your former students (and their students) doing great things. Congrats tsvetshop on the best paper award at . Brilliant careful and important work!

Best part of having spent time in academia: seeing your former students (and their students) doing great things. Congrats @tsvetshop on the best paper award at #ACL2023NLP. Brilliant careful and important work!
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Not long to wait until LCO's next event! Hear Bach’s St John Passion @stgabrielspimlico at 19.00 on Saturday 15 April, featuring Hesperos, Eliza Lucyna Masewicz, Katie Macdonald, Hector Bloggs and Twm Tegid Brunton.
Book your tickets here: bit.ly/3n2vs54

Not long to wait until LCO's next event! Hear Bach’s St John Passion @stgabrielspimlico at 19.00 on Saturday 15 April, featuring @hesperoschoir, Eliza Lucyna Masewicz, Katie Macdonald, @HecBloggs and Twm Tegid Brunton. Book your tickets here: bit.ly/3n2vs54
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viewing the Chinese McDonald's menu through Google Translate produces some of the best fast food names i've ever seen

viewing the Chinese McDonald's menu through Google Translate produces some of the best fast food names i've ever seen
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The @DeepMind language team is hiring London-based research scientists! The application is open till 7 Nov: boards.greenhouse.io/deepmind/jobs/… Apply to join our exciting, friendly, and diverse team!

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BREAKING NEWS:
The 2022 in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Svante Pääbo “for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution.”

BREAKING NEWS: The 2022 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Svante Pääbo “for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution.”
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Interested in interning with DeepMind next year? Apply today deepmind.com/careers/intern… to join our wonderful team and do great research!

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Thoughtful summary of Domenic et al's paper on RL for MT from ♻️ Leshem Choshen ♻️, whose previous work identified empirical, methodological, and theoretical flaws in previous attempts at reward-driven learning for MT (and which we tried to address in this work)

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