Valentin Iovene
choucavalier.bsky.social
Valentin Iovene
@choucavalier.bsky.social
CTO ∮ @physight.com
Previously, PhD at Inria & ML Researcher at Heetch and CFM
Reposted by Valentin Iovene
We’re building a new static type checker for Python, from scratch, in Rust.

From a technical perspective, it’s probably our most ambitious project yet. We’re about 800 PRs deep!
January 29, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Reposted by Valentin Iovene
With the market & AI mythos reeling post-DeepSeek, it seems like a good time to reup this year-old paper, on the perils of the "bigger is better" approach to AI, coauthored with @sashamtl.bsky.social + @gaelvaroquaux.bsky.social

arxiv.org/abs/2409.14160
Hype, Sustainability, and the Price of the Bigger-is-Better Paradigm in AI
With the growing attention and investment in recent AI approaches such as large language models, the narrative that the larger the AI system the more valuable, powerful and interesting it is is increa...
arxiv.org
January 28, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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January 17, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Reposted by Valentin Iovene
"A Bird Flu Pandemic Would Be One of the Most Foreseeable Catastrophes in History" www.nytimes.com/2024/11/29/o... "5 years after Covid blew into our lives, the main thing standing between us and the next global pandemic is luck. And with the advent of flu season, that luck may well be running out"
Opinion | A Bird Flu Pandemic Would Be One of the Most Foreseeable Catastrophes in History
It’s not too late for President Biden to give the U.S. a life-changing gift.
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2024 at 12:56 AM
the more i listen to Robert Sapolsky's Stanford lectures on YouTube, the more i get the intuition that he was a big inspiration for Matthew McConaughey's character Rust in True Detective
November 19, 2024 at 9:45 PM