Under Trump, NOAA ran the most recent competition for their highly prestigious postdoc program in climate and global change — but funded no one, wasting huge amounts of applicant and reviewer time.
It gets a lot worse. Now current postdocs in the program are going unpaid.
Led by @stanford.edu's @suryaganguli.bsky.social, our Simons Collaboration on the Physics of Learning & Neural Computation will study AI's fundamental scientific principles: www.simonsfoundation.org/simons-foundation-launches-collaboration-on-the-physics-of-learning-and-neural-computation/ #science
New Year’s resolution: more personal coding projects this year. Just finished pretraining and instruction fine tuning my own GPT2 scale LLM from scratch in PyTorch. Was so much fun!
Our new paper "High-capacity associative memory in a quantum-optical spin glass." Achieves 7-fold increased capacity thru a quantum optical analog of short term plasticity from neuroscience. Atoms (neurons) couple to motion and photons (synapses)!
arxiv.org/abs/2509.12202
In this Stanford news article, @stanfordhai.bsky.social Senior Fellow @suryaganguli.bsky.social argues that universities are essential for understanding how AI works. Here, he outlines three reasons why: news.stanford.edu/stories/2025...
www.amacad.org/publication/... my new article in the American academy of arts and sciences journal Daedalus. Part of a special issue in AI+Science lead by James Manyika.
A nice starter pack of researchers in the @simonsfoundation.org Collaboration on the Global Brain
go.bsky.app/66dLpPs
Carl T. Bergstrom
Simons Foundation
Very excited to lead this new @simonsfoundation.org collaboration on the physics of learning and neural computation to develop powerful tools from physics, math, CS, stats, neuro and more to elucidate the scientific principles underlying AI. See our website for more: www.physicsoflearning.org
Surya Ganguli
Open faculty position!
We're seeking applicants for a tenure-track faculty position at the junior level (Assistant or untenured Associate Professor) with research programs that exist at the interface between molecular science and computation. Apply here: stanford.io/45MF3Qa
A great @quantamagazine.bsky.social article on our theory of creativity in convolutional diffusion models lead by @masonkamb.bsky.social See also our paper with new results in version 2: arxiv.org/abs/2412.20292 to be presented as an oral at @icmlconf.bsky.social #icml25
