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Lee Zamparo

@lzamparo.bsky.social

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Interested in ML, comp bio, immunology, and just about anything one hop away from either.

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Lee Zamparo @lzamparo.bsky.social · 2h

PTA is the man

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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 11h

Pres. Kornbluth articulates such moral clarity in this rejection of the proposed “compact”:

“the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone”

orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...

Regarding the Compact | MIT Organization Chart

orgchart.mit.edu

Lee Zamparo @lzamparo.bsky.social · 8h

was my first thought

Lee Zamparo @lzamparo.bsky.social · 1d

definitely lower key

Lee Zamparo @lzamparo.bsky.social · 1d

This is bonkers.

Lee Zamparo @lzamparo.bsky.social · 1d

The Qwen team isn't playing around; they scaling around. #COLM2025

The program for what the Qwen team plans to scale in their models. They want to scale:
- context length
- model size
- training tokens
- test compute time
- RL compute
- synthetic data
- environments

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Jacob Schreiber @jmschreiber91.bsky.social · 3d

Now that I'm settled in at @umasschan.bsky.social, I'm hiring at all levels: grad students, post-docs, and software engineers/bioinformaticians!

The goal of my lab is to understand the regulatory role of every nucleotide in our genomes and how this changes across every cell in our bodies.

Lee Zamparo @lzamparo.bsky.social · 1d

Some multi-human agent AV collaboration just prior to Jacob Eisenstein's talk about multi-agent collaboration 😁 #COLM2025

Lee Zamparo @lzamparo.bsky.social · 1d

I really liked this talk; questions should be good

Lee Zamparo @lzamparo.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah that's not a compliment

Lee Zamparo @lzamparo.bsky.social · 3d

I can still hear this track clear as day in my head. Truly a gem.

Lee Zamparo @lzamparo.bsky.social · 3d

PSA for folks at #COLM2025 this morning. As of 8:25, Registration is moving smoothly, not a massive lineup. So take your time & roll on in 😁

Lee Zamparo @lzamparo.bsky.social · 4d

I'm also en route to #COLM2025, and would be glad to meet up with people and chat about building small LMs for enterprise uses, as well as data engineering and data synthesis

Lee Zamparo @lzamparo.bsky.social · 4d

Are you a big automaker who might be thinking about building EVs or batteries? Government will roll out the subsidies, no questions asked.

Are you an Ontarian who might want to buy and drive an EV? Tough luck bud; no subsidies, and your power is going to get more expensive (and dirty) every year

Lee Zamparo @lzamparo.bsky.social · 4d

Organized labour in this province is kidding themselves, these guys have one master, and labour ain't it.

Lee Zamparo @lzamparo.bsky.social · 4d

"So why don't they?" you might ask?

Because they're entirely captured by lobbying interests. In case you didn't know, this government doesn't represent Ontarians. It represents Ontarian big business interests, full stop.

Lee Zamparo @lzamparo.bsky.social · 4d

This doesn't seem like the most consequential abdication of responsibility by the Ford government, but it's the simplest one to have avoided: just buy solar generation, coupled with battery storage. Cheapest, fastest twin solution to Ontario's energy and GHG reduction. www.tvo.org/article/anal...

Lee Zamparo @lzamparo.bsky.social · 5d

Egrets? I've had a few, ...

Lee Zamparo @lzamparo.bsky.social · 7d

Per the Atlantic article, FIFA is taking a cut of both sides of resale transactions, squeezing both sides:

"FIFA will charge both sellers and buyers a 15 per cent fee"

It's utterly insane that people of the world tolerate FIFA.

www.nytimes.com/athletic/668...

World Cup ticket resale madness begins as FIFA takes two 15% fees on each sale

FIFA looks set to profit heavily from the World Cup resale ticket market

www.nytimes.com

Lee Zamparo @lzamparo.bsky.social · 7d

Well, this Friday has been well and truly brought low

Lee Zamparo @lzamparo.bsky.social · 7d

Is it an argument if one party can unilaterally decide?

Lee Zamparo @lzamparo.bsky.social · 8d

The one at University & Queen seems even larger, as it's alone on that corner

Lee Zamparo @lzamparo.bsky.social · 8d

Would love to meet at COLM & chat about this if you've got a minute

Lee Zamparo @lzamparo.bsky.social · 8d

How did you do the data synthesis for training?

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Naomi Saphra @nsaphra.bsky.social · 9d

really neat clear explainer for the new on “centralizing flows” to theoretically model learning dynamics

Understanding Optimization in Deep Learning with Central Flows

centralflows.github.io