The relationship between sleep duration and some chronic conditions in ~7,000 AllofUsResearch participants Nature Medicine nature.com/articles/s4159…

New method for VI (Variational Inference) and a new optimization trick! Let me tell you about our new (spotlight) paper at ICML (Thu 11:30am Hall C 4-9 #1307). arxiv.org/pdf/2402.14758 The story involves a new divergence and a (potentially) new proximal point update. 1/n

Amazing achievement: Our AI system at Google DeepMind just achieved the equivalent of a silver medal at the International Mathematical Olympiad (#IMO2024). This is a major milestone for AI in mathematics. Very proud to have been a part of it!

Cardiometabolic diseases are the first cause of death in Latin America. We reviewed the social context, trends and innovative approaches to address our region’s challenges. Nature Reviews Cardiology, with Tom Ribeiro J. Jaime Miranda Rodrigo M. Carrillo Larco nature.com/articles/s4156…

AI-enhanced ECGs can predict BMI, and the difference between AI-predicted BMI and actual BMI is a predictor of cardiometabolic disease risk🫀 Read more: imperial.ac.uk/news/255213/an…

Great coverage of our paper (led by Giuseppe (Peppe) Russo) by EPFL Computer and Communication Sciences! This paper was awarded Best Paper at ICWSM earlier this year! actu.epfl.ch/news/stranger-…

I am hiring for a student assistant (BSc/MSc student) to perform research & implementation tasks. The project is about data structures for data science algorithms. See the job ad below & please contact me if you have any questions. Deadline: August 29 jobs.tuwien.ac.at/Job/237423

Huge congratulations to Daniel on the outstanding PhD defense 🥳🎉🎊 Being involved in your supervision has been a pleasure and privilege. And I’m eager to witness your many future successes!

#SonyAI’s paper "A Super-human Vision-based RL Agent for Autonomous Racing in Gran Turismo" wins Outstanding Paper Award at the 2024 RL Conference! bit.ly/3YGrb8c 🏆 #ReinforcementLearning #GranTurismo

By multiple molecular marker (omic) assessments, aging is a non-linear process with key transition points around 40 and 60 years of age nature.com/articles/s4358… Nature Aging

Our paper "Evaluating Regression and Probabilistic Methods for ECG-Based Electrolyte Prediction" has been published in Scientific Reports. Paper: nature.com/articles/s4159… Code: github.com/philippvb/ecg-… Work done together with Daniel Gedon, Antônio Horta Ribeiro and Uppsala collaborators.

Randomized rudeness

New EPFL research by Manoel et al has found the exchange of comments btwn members & non-members of fringe communities on mainstream online platforms attracts new members to these groups. It has also suggested potential ways to curtail this growth. actu.epfl.ch/news/stranger-…

Brad Efron's 13 rules for giving a really bad talk (from efron.ckirby.su.domains/other/2013Thir…) Thanks to Robert Grant for finding this gem

Come learn how to read papers that use machine learning methods. Standing room only but still some space. Tutorial 8 at #ESC2024 European Society of Cardiology

Antônio is one of the kindest and smartest people I’ve ever had the pleasure to work with. If you are interested in working in machine learning and medicine having him as your supervisor should be your top choice! Please help spread the news!

Humbled to have received the “Best PhD Thesis Award in AI in 2023”, awarded by the Portuguese Association for AI. This award is also dedicated to my amazing supervisors Ana Paiva and Francisco S. Melo , whose support and advice I cherished throughout my PhD (and still do today!).