# call for papers

ATE - Association of Teacher Educators » The Association of Teacher Educators (ATE) was founded in 1920 and is devoted solely to the improvement of teacher education. Ate1.org

Plant Specimen Collecting & Pressing Bibliography » General Plant Collecting and Pressing Guides : Web sites Fairchild Tropical Garden Collecting Guide: http://www.virtualherbarium.org/collecting.htm Field Techniques Used by Missouri Botanical Garden: http://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/molib/fieldtechbook/welcome.shtml. Herbaria and Specimens: Wha Floridamuseum.ufl.edu

Announcing the ‘Parliament Buildings’ Conference: Call for Papers » Submissions are open for this November’s conference, supported by UCL European Institute, examining the architecture of power, accountability and democracy in Europe. Ucl.ac.uk

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics » The IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics publishes papers relatingquantum electronics of a device, subsystem, or system-oriented nature. Ieeephotonics.org

Fun matrix math example: the Transformer's attention mechanism » I read the Transformer/Attention Is All You Need paper recently, and I thought their “scaled dot-product attention” mechanism was a really nice, memorable example of some of the different ways to think about matrix multiplication, and that it might be useful to walk through: (I’m going to ignore the \sqrt{d_k} scaling part since it’s not so interesting from a matrix-algebra perspective.) For a little background, the general idea of attention is to crunch n things down to 1 thing by taking a… Forums.fast.ai

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The Electrochemical Society » The Electrochemical Society is creating uninhibited availability of the science through open access and accelerating scientific discovery and innovation. Electrochem.org