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César A. Hidalgo
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Director, Center for Collective Learning (
@learningCCL
), ANITI, TSE, IAST, IRIT, University of Toulouse 🇫🇷. Founder
@Datawheel
.
Toulouse, Francecenterforcollectivelearning.orgJoined March 2009
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Nikhil Naik
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Excited to have our paper on using large language models like ChatGPT for protein design come out in
@NatureBiotech
! You can tell a language model which type of protein to design, and it can generate one from scratch!
nature.com
Large language models generate functional protein sequences across diverse families
Nature Biotechnology - A generative deep-learning model designs artificial proteins with desired enzymatic activities.
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How to make ChatGPT 100x better at solving math, science, and engineering problems for real? Teach it to use the Wolfram language. ChatGPT: the best neural reasoning engine. Mathematica: the best symbolic reasoning engine. I can’t think of a happier marriage. 🧵 with example:
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#CollectiveIntelligence: Foundations + Radical Ideas Join us June 19-23 for a first-ever event open to both academics and professionals, with sessions on adaptive matter, animal groups, brains, AI, teams, and more: santafe.edu/news-center/ne Apps close 1 Feb 23. Space is limited!
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Only time will tell us where this effort will lead. I am only starting to understand the complexity of this ecosystem. For the time being, I just wanted to share the story of this large, potentially powerful, but still relatively unknown part of the academic universe.
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Of course, the project has faced some controversy. After all, unifying a university system with a student population that is almost as large as that of all IVY league schools combined, & that has been split for decades into 20+ institutions, is challenging, to say the least.
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The Toulouse Initiative for Research Impact on Society (or TIRIS) is an approved multimillion Euro project hoping to contribute to the emergence of a Great Research University. This is not the first time Toulouse tries to unify its universities, but it is an active opportunity.
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That gets us to today, a time when the University of Toulouse is composed of 20+ Universities, Ecoles, & Institutes, totaling 100k+ students and 145 research laboratories. But, there is now an effort to put "Humpty-dumpty back together again."
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But in 1969, the University split again into three universities: UT1: Law, Econ, Management, UT2: Arts & Humanities, UT3: Science, Tech, Medicine, plus numerous other organizations. (this year was also the first flight of the Concorde, in the Toulouse-Blagnac airport)
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In 1793 it was suppressed during the French revolution. Its assets were confiscated and sold as national goods. It was then refounded in 1896, during the third republic, following the Wallon law establishing freedom of higher education in France.
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This unfortunate history makes the university of Toulouse one of the oldest universities in France (following Paris (1150) & Montpellier (1220)). But unlike Paris and Montpellier, the University of Toulouse has not been running continuously since then.
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The Albigensian crusade was an effort initiated by Pope Innocent III to eliminate Catharism. The military portion of the crusade ended with the treaty of Paris of 1229 (followed by the inquisition). Among other things, the treaty established a university in Toulouse.
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But it didn't start this way. The University of Toulouse was created in 1229, at the end of the Albigensian Crusade, a religious war against the Cathars, a dualist form of Christianity that rejected ideas such as Jesus' resurrection or the Trinity.
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Will the University of Toulouse unify? Today, the University of Toulouse is a federation involving 100k+ students spread across 20+ organizations (Universities, Engineering Schools, etc.) It is potentially a large & powerful research hub, but it is also, deeply fragmented...🧵/1
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ancient Greece in the 9th millennia, and the birth of Jesus in the year 10,000. The Holocene calendar puts our current times in the 12th millennia, unifying ancient and modern times. May you have a great year 12023!!
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Emiliani was an Italian-American micropaleontologist and geologist. He was one of the first ones to study the cyclicality of ice ages. The Holocene calendar represents a more “natural” scale for our civilization. With ancient Egypt around the year 7000, …
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Happy New Year 12023!! The Holocene calendar is a calendar that starts with the origin of sedentary life, with the Neolithic revolution (first agricultural revolution). It is easy to use, as it simply adds 10,000 to our current calendar. It was proposed by Cesare Emiliani/1
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We understand 2023 will be a complex year. But I feel confident that with the teams we have at both, the CCL & Datawheel, we should be able to face these challenges head-on. I am extremely thankful for everyone working with us & look forward to new team members. /END
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