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MIT's Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). Media Inquiries: rachelg @csail .mit.edu

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MIT CSAIL brings programming behind bars: a first of its kind web programming course for incarcerated individuals. w/ @MIT & @UMassLowell
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Left: MIT computer scientist Katie Bouman w/stacks of hard drives of black hole image data. Right: MIT computer scientist Margaret Hamilton w/the code she wrote that helped put a man on the moon. (image credit @floragraham ) #EHTblackhole #BlackHoleDay #BlackHole
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3 years ago MIT grad student Katie Bouman led the creation of a new algorithm to produce the first-ever image of a black hole. Today, that image was released. More info: 2016 story: #EHTblackhole #EventHorizonTelescope
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An IBM slide from 1979.
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Here's the moment when the first black hole image was processed, from the eyes of researcher Katie Bouman. #EHTBlackHole #BlackHoleDay #BlackHole (v/ @dfbarajas )
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You can now Rick roll in 4K, thanks to machine learning.
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This robotic mouth chants algorithmically generated prayers:
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Watch Katie Bouman speak about the significance of today's black hole breakthrough: (v/ @nature ) #KatieBouman #BlackHole #EHTBlackHole
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A demo from 1993 of 32-year-old Yann LeCun showing off the world's first convolutional network for text recognition. #tbt #ML #neuralnetworks #CNNs #MachineLearning
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9 Distance Measures in data science with algorithms. via: @gp_pulipaka
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800 free computer science classes you can take online right now:
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800 free computer science classes you can take online right now:
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All major neural networks, in one chart: v/The Asimov Institute
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An IBM slide from 1979.
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#otd in 1977 Bill Gates was arrested in NM for a traffic violation. He used the silhouette of his mugshot as the default profile pic for Microsoft Outlook 2010.
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MIT offers free video lectures and online materials from more than 2,400 courses, including intro classes in computer science, AI and algorithms. Browse our open CS courses here: (v/ @MITOCW )
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Happy birthday Joseph Fourier, whose 1822 equation allows us to listen to mp3s today:
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800 free computer science classes you can take online right now:
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25 years ago today the first major web browser was released: Mosaic 1.0. #otd #todayintech (via @NCSAatIllinois )
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Left: MIT computer scientist Katie Bouman with the stacks of hard drives containing data of the first image of a black hole. Right: MIT computer scientist Margaret Hamilton with the code her team wrote that put a man on the moon. #BlackHoleWeek #BlackHole #WomenInSTEM
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9 Distance Measures in data science with algorithms. via: @gp_pulipaka
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Happy birthday Joseph Fourier, whose 1822 equation allows us to listen to mp3s today:
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When Google's new translate feature is a game-changer. (credit: )
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This robotic mouth chants algorithmically generated prayers:
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How to confuse your machine learning model. (credit: @teenybiscuit )
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Happy birthday to Bjarne Stroustrup, inventor of C++:
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All major neural networks, in one chart: v/The Asimov Institute
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MIT’s “Introduction to Algorithms,” published #otd in 1990, is the world’s most cited CS text, with 9K citations & half a million copies sold. ( @mitpress )
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Basic Linux commands:
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Merry Christmas Eve to all our fellow mathematicians! (v/ @DiegoKuonen )
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9 Distance Measures in data science with algorithms. via: @gp_pulipaka
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9 Distance Measures in data science with algorithms. via: @gp_pulipaka
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"The Computer Girls," was a 1967 Cosmopolitan piece about a strange new field dominated by women. It was called programming:
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2014: MIT professor Regina Barzilay is diagnosed with breast cancer. 2017: she develops an ML model that could have diagnosed her cancer years in advance. Today: she is announced as the first winner of a $1m award for her work. More:
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25 years ago today the first major web browser was released: Mosaic 1.0. #otd #todayintech
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Happy birthday to Bjarne Stroustrup, inventor of C++:
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An IBM slide from 1979.
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Free MIT videos & online materials from more than 2,400 courses, including intro classes in computer science, AI and algorithms. Browse our open CS courses here: (v/ @MITOCW )
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A kid on Reddit says he uses OpenAI to get A's on his homework. When asked on ethics, the same AI responds below. @OpenAI
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Happy birthday to Margaret Hamilton, the MIT scientist whose code put a man on the moon:
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Happy birthday to Linus Torvalds, the father of #Linux :
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This MIT CS class teaches you things that all the other classes don't teach you, like... 🖥️ Shell tools and scripting 🖥️ Vim 🖥️ Data wrangling 🖥️ Command-line environment 🖥️ Version control Watch all 11 lectures for free here:
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Programming languages ranked by how much electricity they use: (v/ @DavidCasselTNS @thenewstack )
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MIT’s “Introduction to Algorithms,” published #otd in 1990, is the world’s most cited CS text, with 67K citations & over a million copies sold. @mitpress
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Expectations vs. reality. #FridayFeels
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Robotic mouth chants algorithmically generated prayers. ("The Prayer," v/ @DiemutStrebe )
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Happy birthday to Linus Torvalds, the father of #Linux :
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How to confuse your machine learning model. (credit: @ProductHunt )
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Springer just made 400+ textbooks free to download, including CS books on Python, deep learning, data science & AI. Full list: #MondayMotivation #ML #DeepLearning #AI #CS #BigData #Python #Scala #TensorFlow #Programming #Coding
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All major neural networks, in one chart: (article v/ @TDataSciencechart v/ @asimovinstitute )
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Happy birthday to professor Katie Bouman! As a PhD student at MIT she was part of the team that helped create the first-ever image of a black hole. #WomenInScience
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A Python cheat sheet. v/ @QCompounding
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When programming languages were created: 1957: Fortran 1958: LISP 1964: BASIC 1972: C 1978: SQL 1980: C++ 1991: Python 1993: R 1995: PHP, Java & JS 2001: C# 2009: Go 2014: Swift
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Happy birthday to Bjarne Stroustrup, inventor of C++:
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Happy 87th bday Margaret Hamilton, the MIT scientist whose code put a man on the moon:
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Happy birthday to Linus Torvalds, the father of #Linux :
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Happy birthday to Python creator Guido van Rossum. The open source language was named after comedy troupe Monty Python:
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Merry Christmas Eve to all our fellow mathematicians! (v/ @DiegoKuonen )
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Stay at 127.0.0.1 Wear a 255.0.0.0 #HappyThanksgiving
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Why it's important to teach math. (credit @SMBCComics )
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MIT researchers found that massive neural nets (e.g. large language models) are capable of storing and simulating other neural networks inside their hidden layers, which enables LLM to adapt to a new task without external training:
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Programmer morale, in one graph.
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Python is ranked the #1 programming language by IEEE Spectrum for 2021:
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Happy birthday to Linus Torvalds, the father of #Linux :
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The 10 most helpful *free* online machine learning courses, via @chipro Full thread: #MondayMotivation
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With #BTS trending globally, we thought we'd clarify what the term means. A base transceiver station (BTS) is a piece of equipment that enables wireless comms between computers & networks (i.e. #WiFi , #LTE , etc.) Here's the full #FilmOut of @telcoma :
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RT if you were part of that tiny 1993 bar. (via @markrendle )
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Happy holidays!
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This MIT CS class teaches you things that all the other classes don't teach you, like... 🖥️ Shell tools and scripting 🖥️ Vim 🖥️ Data wrangling 🖥️ Command-line environment 🖥️ Version control Watch all 11 lectures for free here:
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800 free computer science classes you can take online right now: #MondayMotivation
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Happy birthday to the late Sister Mary Keller, who helped develop #Basic & in 1965 was the first woman to earn a computer science PhD in the US: ( @mental_floss )
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BREAKING: MIT and Harvard just filed suit against ICE and the DHS seeking to reverse their ban on international students being able to stay in the US while taking classes remotely. Full complaint:
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How you know you're old: the "dragon book" turned 36 this year.
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Tech birthdays in 2022: Lyft: 10 years Snapchat: 11 years Uber: 13 years Twitter: 16 years Facebook: 18 years Tesla: 19 years Google: 24 years Mozilla: 24 years Netflix: 26 years Amazon: 28 years Apple: 46 years Microsoft: 47 years Intel: 54 years HP: 83 years IBM: 111 years
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Minecraft launched #otd in 2009. What started as “just” a game has become a platform that over 85M students have used to learn coding: @codeorg
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Basic Linux commands:
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Happy birthday to Joseph Fourier, whose 1822 equation allows us to listen to mp3s today:
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2014: MIT professor Regina Barzilay is diagnosed w/ #breastcancer . 2017: she develops a ML model that could have diagnosed her cancer years earlier. 2020: she wins AAAI's $1m award for her work. More: #BreastCancerAwarenessMonth #BreastCancerSurvivor
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#otd in 2019 scientists released the first-ever photo of a black hole. Here’s the moment that Prof. Katie Bouman and colleagues first processed the image.
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Python libraries for every day machine learning work: • Tensorflow • NumPy • Pandas • Matplotlib • Scikit-Learn • XGBoost • OpenCV • Pillow Non-machine learning specific libraries: • Requests • Flask • SQLAlchemy • PyTest • Black (credit: @svpino )
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In German the word "Verschlimmbessern" means "to make something worse while repairing it." In English we call that "software development."
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"Students shouldn't go out into life without the ability to communicate. Your success in life will be determined largely by... -your ability to speak, -your ability to write, & -the quality of your ideas, **in that order**." -Late MIT Prof. Patrick Winston
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100+ free data science books: credit: @marcusborba
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The list of accounts hacked so far have >300 million followers -Barack Obama (120m) -Bill Gates (51m) -Elon Musk (37m) -Wiz Khalifa (36m) -Kanye West (30m) -Joe Biden (7m) -YouTube's MrBeast (6m) -Apple (5m) -Mike Bloomberg (3m) -Jeff Bezos (1.5m) -Uber (1m) -Bitcoin (1m)
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160 years of MIT, today.
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Machine learning systems, explained. comic v/ @xkcd
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Machine learning algorithms cheat sheet: Credit: Himani Bansal
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MIT researchers taught a robot dog to perceive a 3D world using Neural Volumetric Memory (NVM). This technique lets the bot climb stairs, step over gaps & run autonomously w/a single neural network. Paper: Video: w/ @UCSanDiego
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RIP to computing pioneer Larry Tesler, the inventor of copy-paste. RIP to computing pioneer Larry Tesler, the inventor of copy-paste. RIP to computing pioneer Larry Tesler, the inventor of copy-paste. (v/ @aliszewski @Gizmodo )
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Ready for the Olympics, via @BostonDynamics .
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“The most effective debugging tool is still careful thought, coupled with judiciously placed print statements.” — Brian Kernighan, co-creator of Unix
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READ: 130-page cheat sheet outlining key #MachineLearning concepts: ——— #ML #BigData #AI #DeepLearning #Algorithms
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9 key computer science topics - and the best book and video for learning each of them: (credit @BradfieldCS )
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Happy birthday to Geoffrey Hinton, whose work in neural networks has led many to call him the “Godfather of AI”: credit @Telegraph
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#SteveJobs would have been 63 today:
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This repository on ML operations has free talks, books, papers and more: Developed by @visenger
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Google was launched on this day, in 1998.
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Happy birthday to professor Katie Bouman, the scientist that helped create the first black hole image:
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