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Narges Razavian

22 Dec, 7 tweets, 7 min read

Winter holidays = Time to catch up on missed talks/papers! 🎉🎄☕️❄️

Some recommendations:

1) #SMILE4H 2021 talks: Top leaders who utilize SoTA of AI/ML in REAL clinical settings share what it takes: youtube.com/playlist?list=…

Useful to all DS/AI/ML folks who want to make *impact*

2) NeurIPS 2021!

I'm still midway through poster session #1 on the first day.. So many good talks, papers, workshops.

Papers:neurips.cc/Conferences/20…

Workshops:neurips.cc/Conferences/20…

Talks are not public yet but some accessible w/ (free) registration:
neurips.cc/virtual/2021/c…

3) ICLR 2021! I missed it this year so catching up on the amazing papers, talks and workshops

Papers: openreview.net/group?id=ICLR.…

Talk recordings (all public & free): slideslive.com/iclr-2021

Workshops: iclr.cc/Conferences/20…

@ylecun

4) Some cool podcasts/panels I've already watched & loved:

Daniel Kahneman & @ylecun: pod.link/1522960417

Bernhard Schölkopf, Michael I. Jordan & Michael Kearns:

There is SO MUCH more and I'd suggest to start a random walk on YouTube after these...

@huggingface

5) @huggingface #bigScience events

bigscience.notion.site/Live-events-18…

1st episode: bigscience.notion.site/Episode-1-July…

2nd episode: bigscience.notion.site/Episode-2-Sept…

3rd episode bigscience.notion.site/Episode-3-Dec-…

Huggingface ecosystem is full of amazing resources BTW huggingface.co

@NYUDataScience

6) If you're a student:

@NYUDataScience Deep Learning course (completely free w/ lecture recordings, notebooks, etc.) by @ylecun and @alfcnz
cds.nyu.edu/deep-learning/

@huggingface Courses (on Transformers):
huggingface.co/course/chapter…

@PyTorchLightnin: pytorchlightning.ai

There are a lot more but I stop here for now. Happy winter solstice, and enjoy your upcoming winter break!
❄️ 🫕 🔥🎄❤️

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I had my BioNTech-Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine today!

mRNA vaccines are amazing feats, with many potential uses including cancer immunotherapy.

I couldn't find info on CDC/FDA about which cells the mRNAs interact with, once inside the body. Found a helpful paper on the topic...

@PhilipJSantang1

In 2019, @PhilipJSantang1 et al. studied how the mRNAs (in this case, yellow-fever vaccine mRNA) spreads in the body up to 28 hours post injection.

They used monkeys in the study and used PET-CT imaging to track location of the mRNAs over time.
nature.com/articles/s4155…

I learned that:

1) mRNAs seem to be primarily localized in the injection site and lymph nodes by 28hr.

2) Dendritic immune cells have strong uptake of the mRNAs, and get activated and migrate to lymph nodes & interact with T- & B-Cells there, forcing them to make antibodies.