Ubadah Sabbagh
@neubadah
chief of staff to cso @arcadiascience • syrian immigrant • former @mit @virginia_tech • الأمل موهبة
prudent reminder for scientists today, from a thousand years ago
"All Syrians – at home and abroad – should be engaged in shaping this future. The constitution must reflect the collective will of the people... " We're so lucky to have people like @HindKabawat in leadership at this crucial time for Syria.
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The Democratic Party establishment that spent over $30 million clinging to spineless old politics and coalescing around a corrupt sexual predator should be taking notes. Zohran Mamdani made history today. I can’t believe it.
Cuomo called Mamdani to congratulate him. It’s over. It’s over.
.@paulg in a recent essay wrote "an essay is something you write to figure something out". I've found it to be especially true as of late, as I began to write to navigate my own internal tensions. The piece I shared earlier this week is an example.
This does a very good job of cataloguing the chaos (ht @stuartbuck1). Some highlights - NIH: 2,100+ grants cancelled, ~$9B - NSF: 1,600+ grants cancelled, ~$1.5B; new awards halted since April 30 - NSF GRFP: halved - NIH+NSF: 1800+ grant renewals overdue, not to mention…
Good overview from @stuartbuck1 on the chaos in science funding right now asteriskmag.com/issues/11/the-…
Great essay on the importance of interpretability. We def need a lot more of it in the science/bio space. Big difference between a model that can predict biology and one that understands it.
Just wrote a piece on why I believe interpretability is AI’s most important frontier - we're building the most powerful technology in history, but still can't reliably engineer or understand our models. With rapidly improving model capabilities, interpretability is more urgent,…
very cool paper and very relevant to bio/ML/AI folks. foundation models built on transformers can nail predictions but have poor world models. this is why mechanistic interpretability work is important! if we're going to claim our models capture generalizable biological rules,…
Can an AI model predict perfectly and still have a terrible world model? What would that even mean? Our new ICML paper formalizes these questions One result tells the story: A transformer trained on 10M solar systems nails planetary orbits. But it botches gravitational laws 🧵
Lots of this also in SF/VC/tech twitter where outright racism is seen as “based” or “edgy”
Pretty bad how normalized bigotry against Muslims and Indians has gotten on this site
debate at lunch today, which of these are sauces? a) pico de gallo b) mustard c) chimichurri d) queso e) hummus there are wrong answers
This campaign’s been incredible to follow. And to see a candidate walk his city and be embraced in this way two days after getting credible threats is really quite something.
On Friday night, we walked the length of Manhattan, from Inwood Hill to Battery Park. New Yorkers deserve a Mayor they can see, hear, even yell at. The city is in the streets.
ISIS member opened fire in Mar Elias church in Damascus then detonated himself while they were having Sunday mass. Heartbreaking. Too many don’t want to see Syria or the region prosper. We deserve better.
أقدم انتحاري يتبع لتنظيم داعش الإرهابي على الدخول إلى كنيسة القديس مار إلياس في حي الدويلعة بالعاصمة دمشق، حيث أطلق النار، ثم فجّر نفسه بواسطة سترة ناسفة.