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What is physical AI? MIT CSAIL explores how it's already helping robots understand the real world — & where it's heading next: tinyurl.com/fa9mdx6j
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The 25 most important mathematical definitions in data science, v/@DailyDoseOfDS_.
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Did you know the original Claude — the chatbot’s namesake, according to Anthropic lore — was a renowned MIT professor? Claude Shannon SM ’40, PhD ’40, who taught at MIT from 1956 until his retirement in 1978, was known to many as the father of information theory and of modern digital communications.
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A list explaining key ML concepts and papers: github.com/dair-ai/ML-Papers… v/@omarsar0
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U.S. News and World Report has named MIT the top university in the US. The Institute was ranked No. 1 in undergraduate engineering, computer science, & economics programs: bit.ly/4rt2tVd
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A handy guide to Git commands, from Git: bit.ly/4x42mBe
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#otd 24 years ago, Tor was launched by MIT students for anonymous communications: bit.ly/4e4maef
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What was your first handheld device (iPod, Walkman, etc)?
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Notable AI models by country, top 3: 1. USA: 59 🇺🇸 2. China: 35 🇨🇳 3. South Korea: 8 🇰🇷 v/Stanford's AI Index 2026 Annual Report
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Today @Google, we published work led by @m_codreanu on AI in Science, drawing on 15 million Gemini interactions, 2,600 specialised AI models & a 600-scientist survey. What did we find about how AI is changing science? Read on...
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AI is already reshaping scientific research, according to an MIT & Google study. Scientists use LLMs & specialized AI models for different tasks, save ~7 hours a week, & reinvest much of that time in research — but new bottlenecks are emerging: bit.ly/3UT2G7Q
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Research credit: @MIT @Google
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What does scientific work actually look like? MIT's "Science Task Taxonomy" maps tasks across research subfields & sectors, showing how scientific work differs from the wider economy — w/important implications for the impact of AI on science: bit.ly/4cG0V40
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Research credit: @MIT @Google
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Throwback: MIT prof. Peter Shor gives advice to aspiring computer scientists. Full video: bit.ly/3Myh123
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A guide to statistics for beginners: tinyurl.com/y258cupb v/@OACerebro
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Read here, for those who had 403 errors: tinyurl.com/3dyd9up9
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Beginner-friendly LLM course exploring foundations, architectures, training, deployment, and current trends: tinyurl.com/vp844fsm v/@Hesamation
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Time capsule: What a late-'90s high school computer lab looked like, featuring students "surfing the Web." v/@timecaptales
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Today would have been the 85th birthday of Dennis Ritchie (left), inventor of C and co-creator of Unix. (Image v/Ritchie family archives)
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