If you want an effective color palette then don't try to get cute: just use one from colorbrewer2.org where all of the subtle work has already been done of you. If you're still tempted then read through all of kennethmoreland.com/color-advice/, and then still use ColorBrewer.

Some exciting PolymathicAI news... We're expanding!! New Research Software Engineer positions opening in Cambridge UK, NYC, and remote. Come build generalist foundation models for science with us! Please indicate your interest on the form here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

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How does it fare against SciGen? pdos.csail.mit.edu/archive/scigen/

Very impressive growth for Lean 🚀

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It has been a while since the last Github downtime, hasn't it? githubstatus.com

Burnout isn’t just from overwork, it can be from lack of agency to affect outcomes. I think people often blame the former when the problem is the latter

We have recently made major improvements to our chemical diagram recognition, including preserving the orientation rendered molecules--a significant enhancement over the previous version that sometimes provided SMILES in a different orientation.

Some say that language models cannot reason or generalize beyond their training data.

Me: diagnozing a detail in \textbf conversion to HTML. Wife, passing by: "Are you texting your best friend?" #TeXLaTeX

Prompted by recent US court rulings, Igalia's bkardell 🐦 and @[email protected] chat about court cases worldwide that could radically change how the web ecosystem is funded. igalia.com/chats/adpocaly…

LLM2Vec is getting some serious traction. Reminded me that its songified abstract is still a fun listen: suno.com/song/08a0b836-…

Pretty much every worthwhile endeavor not only involves tedium, but is in fact *mostly* made of tedium. To get anywhere, have to be comfortable with that, and stay excited about your goal while working through the tedium.

News! I have started a new role as Software Engineer at arXiv, the world's largest preprint server. You can now find me at their Cornell Tech space, focused on creating better HTML papers. I am honored and look forward to what we can build for the scientific community.

🗓️ The August 2024 arXiv articles are now in ar5iv.