If you want to become a better software engineer, read these posts about open source from top companies (Meta, Uber, Stripe, Instagram, Netflix) I spent hours curating the best so you don't have to:

Looking for a post-doc position focused on software? Our team's hiring: careers-fhcrc.icims.com/jobs/26847/pos…

Announcing 𝐕𝐨𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐂𝐫𝐚𝐟𝐭🪄 SotA for both speech editing and zero-shot text-to-speech, Outperforming VALL-E, XTTS-v2, etc. VoiceCraft works on in-the-wild data such as movies, random videos and podcasts We fully open source it at tinyurl.com/3r8fvyzk

We're looking for a post-doc specializing in software development for educational tools to join our team! Let us know if you have any questions. Details here: careers-fhcrc.icims.com/jobs/26847/pos…

Cool new paper uses LLMs to correct misinformation by Tim Althoff, Amy Zhang, and others: arxiv.org/pdf/2403.11169…

Video of my talk at MIT on LLMs. I go through the development of how they work step by step from first principles and explain a lot of empirical observations - do not talk about attention/transformers at all and is a fresh perspective on how/why LLMs work youtube.com/watch?v=sLodky…

We're hosting 3 workshops at Fred Hutch on April 29th! If you're interested in Data Management & Sharing Plans for NIH Proposals, AI Research Considerations, or Writing Smarter with LaTeX & Overleaf, find more information here: forms.gle/XDSrcmv4aDcGwp…

Workshop: Data Management & Sharing Plans for NIH Proposals When: Morning of April 29th Where: Fred Hutch in Seattle Topics: Tips and templates to frame your proposals and budgets within the NIH guidelines... For more info: forms.gle/XDSrcmv4aDcGwp…

Workshop: AI Research Considerations When: Early afternoon of April 29th Where: Fred Hutch in Seattle Topics: What is AI and how does it work? Day-to-day task possibilities. How to avoid harm with AI... For more info: forms.gle/XDSrcmv4aDcGwp…

Workshop: Write Smarter with LaTeX & Overleaf When: Late afternoon of April 29th Where: Fred Hutch in Seattle Topics: What are LaTeX and Overleaf? How to collaborate with Overleaf. How to find templates... For more info: forms.gle/XDSrcmv4aDcGwp…

We're partnering with our Train the Trainer Citizen Science colleagues for a workshop on May 3 in Seattle, WA. If you are interested in research careers, evidence-based practice, or partnering with academia, CBOs, and public health departments, Join us! redcap.ihrp.uic.edu/surveys/?s=LKH…

These events bring people together from different backgrounds to discuss how cancer research is done, helping train community members on how to engage & advocate in discussions & what to consider to ensure that the research is ethical & in their best interest.

#rstats R version 4.4.0 "Puppy Cup" (source version) has been released. (You can find it in cran.r-project.org/src/base/R-4/, or wait for CRAN to be updated.)

We are launching a platform to connect researchers who are open to collaborate with others... (1/3)

I wanted to learn Rust for a long time, and finally, it's time to open source what I've been up to these last 2 weekends. Presenting picograd, inspired by Andrej Karpathy (Andrej Karpathy)'s good old micrograd : github.com/shivance/picog… Here are my 7 takeaways from this project: 1.

Friends! I need some assistance with a BIG release of gtsummary! 🙏 I would be super appreciative if you could take the new version for a spin before we send it off to CRAN. Release details here: bit.ly/gtsummary-v2 #rstats #datascience #gtsummary

⚡️ Excited to share that I am starting an AI+Education company called Eureka Labs. The announcement: --- We are Eureka Labs and we are building a new kind of school that is AI native. How can we approach an ideal experience for learning something new? For example, in the case

20min talk I gave at the Berkeley AI hackathon a few weeks ago, on how hacking around makes its way to real-world impact in my experience. While True: build and publish projects. Accumulate 10,000 hours. Snowball your work. youtube.com/watch?v=tsTeEk…

Strong evidence showing that getting a PhD is extremely bad for your mental health. A new paper uses Swedish medical records and matches them to the full population of PhD students for which the authors could get gender and birth year data from 2006 to 2017. After some exclusion

New Blog Post: My Notes on "How Tracking Data is Used in Football and What are the Future Challenges", a presentation by William Spearman, Laurie Shaw, Javier Fernández, Suds G, and David Sumpter: howardbaik.com/posts/how-trac…