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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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Jacob Schreiber @jmschreiber91.bsky.social · 2d
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.
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Lee Zamparo @lzamparo.bsky.social · 1h
Some multi-human agent AV collaboration just prior to Jacob Eisenstein's talk about multi-agent collaboration 😁 #COLM2025
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Lee Zamparo @lzamparo.bsky.social · 1h
I really liked this talk; questions should be good
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Lee Zamparo @lzamparo.bsky.social · 1d
Yeah that's not a compliment
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Lee Zamparo @lzamparo.bsky.social · 2d
I can still hear this track clear as day in my head. Truly a gem.
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Lee Zamparo @lzamparo.bsky.social · 2d
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 😁
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Lee Zamparo @lzamparo.bsky.social · 2d
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
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Lee Zamparo @lzamparo.bsky.social · 3d
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
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Lee Zamparo @lzamparo.bsky.social · 3d
Organized labour in this province is kidding themselves, these guys have one master, and labour ain't it.
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Lee Zamparo @lzamparo.bsky.social · 3d
"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.
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Lee Zamparo @lzamparo.bsky.social · 3d
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...
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Lee Zamparo @lzamparo.bsky.social · 3d
Egrets? I've had a few, ...
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Lee Zamparo @lzamparo.bsky.social · 5d
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
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Lee Zamparo @lzamparo.bsky.social · 6d
Well, this Friday has been well and truly brought low
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Lee Zamparo @lzamparo.bsky.social · 6d
Is it an argument if one party can unilaterally decide?
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Lee Zamparo @lzamparo.bsky.social · 6d
The one at University & Queen seems even larger, as it's alone on that corner
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Lee Zamparo @lzamparo.bsky.social · 6d
Would love to meet at COLM & chat about this if you've got a minute
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Lee Zamparo @lzamparo.bsky.social · 6d
How did you do the data synthesis for training?
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Naomi Saphra @nsaphra.bsky.social · 8d
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
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Lee Zamparo @lzamparo.bsky.social · 7d
Plausible. The question then is why the "has plant scandal" had such longevity? That was a Mississauga problem, who else cared? Also the Walkerton scandal, that was a narrow problem, why did it get traction?
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Lee Zamparo @lzamparo.bsky.social · 7d
It would really cut into BBQ time
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Lee Zamparo @lzamparo.bsky.social · 7d
I continue to be confused by this. The
bungled Ontario Place deal is the most similar (I think). Yet that's the least of the four big unresolved scandals of this government, and yet there's so little traction in the public discourse here. Why?
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Lee Zamparo @lzamparo.bsky.social · 7d
Ontario will continue to enable graft like this until more Ontarians get sufficiently upset about it. Apparently
- the corrupt Greenbelt deal
- the corrupt Ontario Place deal
- the abuse of rights via the notwithstanding clause
- this corruption

aren't enough to sour people on this government 🤷‍♂️
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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 8d
Some high-ranked proposals got passed over for lower-ranked proposals that came with lobbyists.

"The auditor also identified 64 low- and medium-ranked applications that had hired registered lobbyists to lobby the minister or ministry before they were selected by the minister’s office."
Many of those groups hired lobbyists, auditor general Shelley Spence highlighted in a scathing report on the province’s $2.5-billion Skills Development Fund, which her office released Wednesday. Less than half — 46 per cent — of Skills Development Fund recipients that got funding from the Ministry of Labour were given “high” scores on their proposals by non-partisan civil servants tasked with evaluating them, the auditor found.
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Pete Shaw @ptshaw.bsky.social · 8d
Excited to share a new paper that aims to narrow the conceptual gap between the idealized notion of Kolmogorov complexity and practical complexity measures for neural networks.
Bridging Kolmogorov Complexity and Deep Learning: Asymptotically Optimal Description Length Objectives for Transformers
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TVO Today | The Agenda @tvotoday.bsky.social · 8d
"The grocery giants in this province would really, really like to keep making all the profit from alcohol sales without even the slightest bit of environmental or social reciprocity." — @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social
ANALYSIS: Ontario’s grocery oligarchs are betting Ford will chicken out. He shouldn't | TVO Today
The province says grocery stores must process bottle returns if they want to sell beer and wine. So why aren’t they?
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