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Come on, sit down, take a cookie, and learn about *scAbsolute: measuring single-cell ploidy and replication status* led by Michael Schneider genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

I'm in LA for CLeaR-Conference on Causal Learning and Reasoning presenting work I did at Amazon on Root Cause Analysis (arxiv.org/abs/2311.04806)! I loved CLeaR last year and am super excited to be attending again this year. If anyone wants to chat all things RCA, come find me! 🥚🔄🐔

For those who don't subscribe to the New Yorker, I've taken the trouble of screenshotting the entire article. (Sorry, New Yorker! As many people as possible need to read this.) 1/25

Here's the thing: what current AI (e.g. LLMs) is really doing is memorizing millions of patterns seen in human-generated data, and reapplying them on new inputs. That works great when you're dealing with a well-known problem – until you introduce any amount of novelty.

Identifying the true structure of the latent data generating process (causal world model) by learning from passive observation alone is impossible without reasonable priors, which transformers don’t have. This is why LLMs are brittle and can’t reliably do counter factual

Due to the high visa cost related to my future PhD, I feel a bit embarrassed to let you know that I've started a gofundme if anyone, no matter sum, would feel comfortable contributing. Would mean the world.💕 gofundme.com/f/eleonoras-dr…

👏Congrats to Valeriya Malysheva for receiving an Alzheimer's Association New to the Field Research Grant to study the role of 3D chromatin in alternative isoform choice in health and dementia!

when guys say they'd like to have a beer with a candidate everyone claps respectfully but when a woman says she'd like a margarita twenty thousand chuds come out to say women shouldn't vote

Monthly I host "data science lunch" in my dept. Today we discussed (among other things) limits on historical inference. This quote from Lewontin came up so I had to track it down (p130 "The evolution of cognition: Questions we will never answer"). Link to PDF in next >

iran is announcing a GPT wrapper????

We will organize a "Causality for LLMs" Tutorial #NeurIPS2024 NeurIPS Conference. Happy to contribute to our community an intro of meaningful topics in Causal LLMs. And super excited for our panel w/ Yoshua, Bernhard Schölkopf Luke Zettlemoyer Jason Wei Swaroop Mishra Tom Everitt. Stay tuned!

This is excellent and well worth reading for an informed opinion on the genetics of intelligence. Other kinds of opinion being abundant on this site.

Small clip from of me talking about some work I did at Amazon Science on Root Cause Analysis! I was really happy to have a chance to briefly chat to @AleksanderMolak about this! (and mercifully he's edited out my terrible rambling - so do please check it out!)

We are giving away a signed (!) copy of Peng Ding's wonderful book on #causal #inference. Re-post this and follow me by October 27 for a chance to win. More details on the book here: routledge.com/A-First-Course… #Statistics CRC Press Data Science, Stats, and Math Books not affiliated with X.

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Featured today by MSK Library: A Dirichlet-multinomial mixed model for determining differential abundance of mutational signatures dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12859…

Long shot but does anyone still need Airbnb for #ICML2025 ? I have booked everything to go but just got diagnosed with an acute disease that now I can't go 😭😭 since not going, the funding body might not reimburse the costs. high appreciate retweeting or contacting re Airbnb 🙏🏻

In case anyone forgot: Russia went to war in 2014 to prevent Ukraine from signing a Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement with the EU.