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"a symptom of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important"--bertrand russell
ML, music, generative models, robustness, ML & health
curr & prev affils:
Dalhousie University (CS), Vector Institute, Google Research
there's construction outside my house so i've started recording myself improvising music along with the construction machines--- how they look and how they sound--- and it's so fun

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construction bachShuffle1
YouTube video by Sageev Oore
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September 19, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Sharpn🔪ss predicts ✅generalz'n xcept when it doesn't,eg ✖️formers

But what's🔪?Which point is🔪er?
Find out
*why it's a tricky Q(hint: #symmetry)
*why our answer does let🔪predict generalz'n, even in ✅formers!
@ our #ICML2025 #spotlight E-2001 on Wed 11AM
by MF da Silva and F Dangel
@vectorinstitute.ai
July 15, 2025 at 6:04 PM
I've been finding a way to get chatGPT to talk in a tone I haven't seen/read it take on before... interesting...
Just a few examples here. Note that the use of 'bold' was chatGPT's own choice, and I had not mentioned anything about safety nets in my interactions in this session.
June 22, 2025 at 8:48 PM
i am so superduper excited to show a little glimpse of this system we're developing for an improvising #music system with #AI! i can't explain how *actually* fun it is to play with this.

15sec teaser vid: youtu.be/onPetq4gJ18

blog: osageev.github.io/introducing-...
Smart Looper DK demo 2025-05-15 T4 montuno - Part 2 teaser
YouTube video by Sageev Oore
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June 17, 2025 at 3:25 PM
🧵 ✨ Hide & Seek: Transformer Symmetries Obscure Sharpness & Riemannian Geometry Finds It ✨

Excited to announce our paper on factoring out param symmetries to better predict generalization in transformers ( #ICML25 spotlight! 🎉)

Amazing work by @marvinfsilva.bsky.social and Felix Dangel.
👇
May 9, 2025 at 12:46 PM
April 12, 2025 at 2:54 AM
What happens if I put an insta link here www.instagram.com/reel/DINNlMc...
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April 9, 2025 at 1:11 AM
i love when in the middle of a familiar tune suddenly a groove presents itself... with a slow, natural build that takes its time
March 28, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Friday night is tango night… I love how mysterious that e minor chord at the end of the video sounds… it always has, and I don’t have a lot of things that sounds that way to me. I love that song.
March 22, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Practising Rachmaninoff which turned into a kind of focused improv exercise— a bit noodling but with a specific technical intention…
March 17, 2025 at 12:52 AM
a little bit of fiddling around making fun twinkly shit up on a sat night
February 16, 2025 at 1:18 AM
We had an ice storm and people can literally skate on the streets here

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February 15, 2025 at 5:50 PM
today i came across this book that a cousin of mine (3x removed) wrote. i've seen some of his other stuff, but this little elementary introduction to variational problems is new to me🙂. my grandmother knew him in her childhood and he used to show her math stuff for fun.

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February 14, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Will keep updating this. Might be interesting to compare what I’m posting in about a month or so from now to what I’m posting these days. exciting and fun for me to do this #human #learning
Next day. Another section. Played through this ~50x, in different rhythms, hands separate, together,different articulations. All at 68 beats/min. Tmrw: same at 72 bpm. Can feel myself finally learning parts of this I never properly learned before. Would already be able to play much faster if I tried
February 9, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Next day. Another section. Played through this ~50x, in different rhythms, hands separate, together,different articulations. All at 68 beats/min. Tmrw: same at 72 bpm. Can feel myself finally learning parts of this I never properly learned before. Would already be able to play much faster if I tried
February 9, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Practise 101: super slow metronome (it will go about 3 times faster than this, which is quite fast), and playing in rhythms (allows finding micro-moments to relax, among other benefits). At the beginning you might not hear metronome well because the notes overlap exactly with it, Ie accurate.
February 8, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Fun pro tip: when practising this Rachmaninoff prelude, put the metronome on 2 and 4. Some of the stuff got a little messhy here but it was worth it this way…
February 6, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Previous video was practising. This one is just playing a little, just following wherever it feels nice to go.
February 3, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Gonna post practise videos: carefully structured #exercises I make up, to teach myself new stuff. Here’s a tricky passage from #Rachmaninoff. I set metronome to a 2-3 clave rhythm, then i snap on 1 & 3, then i #syncopate & add bass as a tumbao, and syncopate RH & add as #Afro-Cuban montuno. #fun
February 2, 2025 at 7:58 PM
#happy new year!

here's a little thing i recorded earlier this evening... i first recorded the bass groove & the piano plays it back for me so i can play over it!!! no #AI here.

just me and the piano! i love it

(*but how do i fix the new iphone audio so it records better?)
January 1, 2025 at 1:32 AM
What's happening in the gen space right now is WILD.
****Unleash your CREATIVITY, right NOW!!****

No time to build your prompting skills? No problem!

Just insert *any* of the discs into the machine and then press the "PLAY" button. You won't believe the music that will come out!!!!
December 19, 2024 at 6:31 PM
When can we use generator G, trained on a dataset X, to produce new data X', s.t. training S on X' outperforms training S on X? (see great discussion & articulation of this Q: x.com/phillip_isol... ).
@cssastry.bsky.social will present work on this on Thurs 11am-2pm, Poster 1804 #NeurIPS2024 :

1/n
December 12, 2024 at 7:44 AM
Fun chatgpt use case: I generate code to make figs for ML exams. Here's a figure for intro ML where the Q is to match optimizer path with parameters/description (e.g. step size, etc). Contours are from a GMM, so it's easy for me to control the shapes. Red line shows actual GD path. It took minutes.
November 20, 2024 at 5:51 PM