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ELLIS @ellis.eu · Jul 21

From July 19–25, ~140 international Master’s and PhD students join the @ellisunitlisbon.bsky.social 🇵🇹 Machine Learning Summer School for a week of NLP-focused lectures, posters, and hands-on sessions, led by top international speakers.

Held at @istecnico.bsky.social

🔗 lxmls.it.pt/2025/index.h...

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Ben Recht @beenwrekt.bsky.social · Jul 10

Fully open machine learning requires not only GPU access but a community commitment to openness. (Some nostalgic lessons from the ImageNet decade.)

An open mindset

The commitments required for fully open source machine learning

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Johan Larsson @jolars.co · Mar 18

Excited to be part of the Cramér Society’s virtual mini-conference next Monday (13:00–16:00), alongside @marfig.bsky.social, @mathurinmassias.bsky.social, @mansmag.bsky.social, and Ulrike Schneider! Hope you’ll join us!

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#statsky #statistics

Mini-conference on "Optimization and algorithms in sparse regression" | Statistikfrämjandet

This years winner of the Cramér prize for best doctoral thesis in statistics/mathematical statistics is Johan Larsson (LU), with his thesis Optimizatio ...

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Instituto Superior Técnico @istecnico.bsky.social · Mar 10

“Simple portable quantum key distribution for science outreach”, authored by Técnico researchers, features on the front cover of the 1st edition of the 2025 American Journal of Physics.

🔗 Full article: tinyurl.com/y73spxhk

#TécnicoLisboa #ULisboa

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André Martins @andre-t-martins.bsky.social · Mar 9

Our upcoming #AISTATS2025 paper is out: “Sparse Activations as Conformal Predictors” with Margarida Campos, João Calém, Sophia Sklaviadis, and
@marfig.bsky.social:

arxiv.org/abs/2502.14773.

This paper puts together two lines of research, dynamic sparsity and conformal prediction. 🧵

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ELLIS Unit Lisbon @ellisunitlisbon.bsky.social · Feb 26

📢 Applications to the 15th Lisbon Machine Learning School 2025 are open!

Covering #ML topics such as neural networks, transformers, causality, vision & language.

📅 Dates: 19th - 25th of July

🔗 more info: lxmls.it.pt/2025/index.h...

🔗 apply by 28th April here: tinyurl.com/mre5as8f

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Mário Figueiredo @marfig.bsky.social · Feb 26

@andre-t-martins.bsky.social talking about multilingual LLMs at the @priberam.bsky.social Machine Learning Lunch Seminar in @istecnico.bsky.social,
@ellisunitlisbon.bsky.social

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Alex Figueiredo @alexfig.bsky.social · Feb 13

check out our new paper in ISME! if you're a microbe, is it about who you are or how you get along with others? Find out! 👇

Rolf Kümmerli @rkmicrobes.bsky.social · Feb 12

New paper out in ISME Journal. Social interactions between strains shape bacterial communities. However, their impact on community functioning is lower compared to basic strain identity features. @joskramer.bsky.social @alexfig.bsky.social @simonmarech.bsky.social
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Strain identity effects contribute more to Pseudomonas community functioning than strain interactions

Abstract. Microbial communities can shape key ecological services, but the determinants of their functioning often remain little understood. While traditio

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Mário Figueiredo @marfig.bsky.social · Feb 12

I am honored (and thankful for the invitation) to be a keynote speaker at GSI'25.

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Frédéric Barbaresco on LinkedIn: SEE GSI'25 "Geometric Science of Information" Keynote speakers Mario…

SEE GSI'25 "Geometric Science of Information" Keynote speakers Mario Figueiredo Instituto de Telecomunicações and Instituto Superior Técnico Universidade de…

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Mário Figueiredo @marfig.bsky.social · Jan 27

Agradável conversa sobre IA, com o Carlos Fiolhais e o Gonçalo M. Tavares, a quem agradeço o convite, no programa Astrolábio do canal Now.

www.nowcanal.pt/programas/as...

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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · Jan 25

The bigotry and white supremacy is right out there in the open, impossible to ignore for anyone paying attention. A lot of people are revealing a lot about themselves by supporting this.

Nicole Carr @nicolefcarr.bsky.social · Jan 25

The Air Force is stripping Tuskegee Airmen lessons from basic training curriculum because of our White supremacist government.
Put that in a headline.

www.expressnews.com/news/article...

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Mário Figueiredo @marfig.bsky.social · Dec 29

When?

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Mário Figueiredo @marfig.bsky.social · Dec 28

Yes!

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Mário Figueiredo @marfig.bsky.social · Dec 26

Prompt "engineering" is sort of what we do when we talk to other people.

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Mário Figueiredo @marfig.bsky.social · Dec 20

My beautiful cat thinking about some big idea that she learned from @seanmcarroll.bsky.social's excellent book.

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Mário Figueiredo @marfig.bsky.social · Dec 18

"...the cognitive equivalent of high-fructose corn syrup."
Excellent piece by Neil Lawrence.

Neil Lawrence @lawrennd.bsky.social · Dec 18

18/25 A Retrospective on System Zero.

Today we look at Dan Andrew's image from Chapter 8, System Zero and also take a look back at my original blog post from 9 years ago and see how its predictions bore out.

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Mário Figueiredo @marfig.bsky.social · Dec 18

Excellent!
"... the cognitive equivalent of high-fructose corn syrup" is an excellent analogy.

Mário Figueiredo @marfig.bsky.social · Dec 17

There are no artificial neural networks! It's just a conceptual/formal tool to think about a certain type of programs that actually run on CPUs and GPUs.
It just happens that the tool was originally inspired by an extremely simplistic model of biological neurons.

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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · Dec 13

Having nonsense views about the dollar and the trade balance: easy.

Having nonsense views that are mutually contradictory: that takes talent

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