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.
i'm quite embarrassed and wanted to sweep it under a rug, but let me share what happened behind this, largely for my own record/reminder and for a small hope this might raise awareness.
1st&foremost, it was totally my oversight to miss that the keynote speaker lineup was entirely composed of male speakers, including myself, which would've reinforced the lack of diversity and also potentially sent out a wrong sign to many participants and others, in our fields.
i've been calling out similar cases myself earlier pretty both publicly & privately (see e.g. slide 80 in drive.google.com/drive/u/0/fold…), but i've apparently fallen into the trap of seeing others' faults while failing to see my own. how embarrassing and eye-opening!