this semester (spring 2024), i created and taught a new introductory course on causal inference in machine learning, aimed at msc and phd students in cs and ds. the whole material was created from scratch, including the lecture note and lab materials;
now that the course is finally over, i've put all the lab materials, prepared by amazing @taromakino, @Daniel_J_Im and @dmadaan_, into one @LightningAI studio, so that you can try them out yourselves without any hassle;
as i tweeted last week, Prescient Design Team at gRED within @genentech is hiring awesome people. in particular, we have the following positions already open and ready:
[Engineering Lead] we want you to work with us to build a team for creating an ML infrastructure that seamlessly integrate between ML and bio: gene.com/careers/detail…
[Machine Learning Scientist] we have a ton of challenging problems inspired & motivated by biology, chemistry & medicine that are waiting for your creativity, knowledge and ingenuity in ML/AI: gene.com/careers/detail…
denoising in a discrete input has always fascinated me ever since i read jmlr.org/papers/volume1… by Vincent & @hugo_larochelle et al., and yoshua has always motivated me to look into denoising for sequence modeling ever since 2013.
just watched the Social Dilemma netflix.com/title/81254224. to anyone who's been thinking about and following various stories about social media and other "attention-grabbing" services, this documentary won't have too much new stuffs, ...
although it works as a great reminder that these services that are effectively surveilling us 24/7 and profiting by selling who we are are embedded in every aspect of our lives. ...
it's an interesting watch after reading Steven Levy's Facebook: The Inside Story (amazon.com/dp/B07V8CL7RH/).
Two ironies:
1. i'm obviously writing about this documentary immediately after watching it on "Facebook" and "Twitter"
another @zoom_us tip/bug i learned friday: do not "Enable join before host" if you are not going to join immediately at the beginning. a random participant who first joins it becomes the host and stays so even when alternative hosts join the meeting. 😱
according to @zoom_us, one of the alternative hosts can claim the host role manually from a random host, but this should be automatic not manual. an alternative host (designed in the meeting setting) shows up, and they must be the host rather than a random participant.