Pascal Lamblin

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Machine Learning, Open Source software.
PhD drop out from Mila, now at Google Brain, opinions my own.
GitHubhttps://github.com/lamblin
Scholarhttps://scholar.google.com/citations?user=bn4xHHIAAAAJ
LocationTiohtià:ke / Montréal
Pronounshe/him, il/lui

Well, its official. I have now signed up to write a WHOLE BOOK 😲

I am equal parts excited and terrified. But I couldn't ask for a better team than my agents Sarah, Katherine, and Anna, and editors Alessandra and Leo.

I guess I better get to work now!

Magnus Rattray and I finalized transferring the presidency of the Machine Learning in Computational and Systems Biology ISCB COSI to Anshul Kundaje and Öznur Taştan.

http://cosi.iscb.org/wiki/MLCSB:Home

It's been great fun but also quite a challenge at times, especially to Magnus due to my health (he's been managing mostly solo for the last two years), with pandemic uncertainty and the explosion of the interest of the ISCB community for ML/AI.

MLCSB:Home - COSI

today in git zine writing: we spent an hour talking about how to explain HEAD and came up with 30 words that i’m almost happy with as an introduction

(previously: a 2000 word blog post, many mastodon threads, more hours of discussion, several zine pages we’re probably going to rewrite, and several beta reader comments)

basically everything is going great and we’re going to get there

(please do not tell me how you think I should explain HEAD)

Ready for his quest✨✨
that saying "getting all your ducks in a row" makes no sense I mean how would that even h-

Phone drops from 16,000 feet? Not a scratch!

Phone drops from your hand? Shattered!

🙂🙃

https://www.tiktok.com/@seansafyre/video/7321567678014016798

Only use your phone over grass. This is it's natural habitat.

TikTok - Make Your Day

Je vous l'ai pas dit la semaine dernière parce que c'étaient les vacances, mais je suis dans le journal ! (C'est bien sûr plein d'approximations, le prix de l'exercice.) https://www.la-croix.com/france/intelligence-artificielle-chloe-agathe-azencott-veut-demystifier-l-ia-par-la-recherche-et-lenseignement-20240104
Intelligence artificielle : Chloé-Agathe Azencott veut démystifier l’IA par la recherche et l’enseignement

Lauréate en 2021 du prix de la jeune ingénieure en intelligence artificielle, cette chercheuse de 38 ans s’emploie à combattre les fantasmes que suscitent ces technologies auprès d’un large public, autant qu’à promouvoir les femmes dans ce domaine des plus masculins.

La Croix

👈 This is what a full professor looks like!

I'm very happy that at Mines Paris – PSL it's possible to get promoted locally, because my health would not have allowed me to apply for professor positions in other places, even if I had wanted to leave a lab where I've been happy to work and grow for the last ten years.

Here's a very simplistic overview of the research project I defended (yes, it's made entirely in tikz, which made it very quick to translate from French).

What I learned from Functional Programming as applied to Python, in 4 bullet points:
* forget about map, filter and reduce. use listcomps for the first two and something readable for the last.
* immutability is great. use it as much as possible.
* strict typing can add a lot of value in core domain code.
* push side-effects to the edges, keep your business logic in pure functions.

Finally watched Adam Conover's interview of @timnitGebru and @emilymbender and this was such a delight to watch! Funny, and a lot of information.

Took so much notes for a presentation I'm giving in September and I will be recommending this video to everyone, alongside the stochastic parrot day recording !

Thank you for the work you're doing, for speaking out and being a voice of reason in the ambient madness.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAHRbFetqII&t=266s

#llm #AIEthics

A.I. and Stochastic Parrots | FACTUALLY with Emily Bender and Timnit Gebru

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