Recsys 2020 challenge is now concluded! We had 1000+ teams registered and top 3 teams are Nvidia, learner and Wantedly. This is probably first time in a few years that the top performance teams are not even close! Check out the results under recsys-twitter.com/final_leaderbo….

Thought everyone would be traveling during a pandemic like this. Turned out it's just me. Okay, going to be awkward later when I hop into a Uber in this outfit telling the driver I came from the US.

De-syncing from GMT-7, and entering YDT timezone (Yi Daylight-wasting Time): nighttime is whenever I feel like sleeping and daytime is whenever I want to wake up; each day is of random length and every meal is called brunch! Bye bye humans who follow 24 hour schedules. #Freedom

Here is a free course on Machine Learning thought by Tom Mitchel and Miria-Florina Balcan. ▫️You get all the notes. ▫️You get all the videos. ▫️Tom and Maria are amazing. Course: cs.cmu.edu/~ninamf/course… Just like attending Carnegie Mellon University. For free! From home!

Wife mailed me my ML study notes from the US, and she declared them as "Notebook". Custom took away my package and sent me a tax bill, thinking it was a laptop. Too complex to deal with government agencies, I tell myself I am paying taxes for importing knowledge. 😂

Quarantine daydreaming: so DNA encodes information about how to interpret & replicate itself, like how to assemble proteins (e.g. helicase, primase) required for replication. This is like a writing a C compiler in C. How did the "first DNA sequence" bootstrap?

After a long wait, we are finally announcing the #Recsys2021 challenge! This year we are releasing around 1 billion samples, largest social network dataset by far, with an added focus on fair recommendations. Please checkout our website recsys-twitter.com for more details.

The pandemic will end. 🌞

If you can buy happiness, buy it.

What attackers don't want you to know

We’re changing our company name so we can give the full Square brand to our Seller business. So now we need a name to tie Square, Cash App, TIDAL, and TBD together into one. That name is “Block.” Why?

Bought a guitar with a touch screen and apps. Given that it has Wi-Fi, speakers, and a microphone, let's see if future software updates will bring a phone app. Can't wait to call my mom from a guitar. 🤔

Would you hire an engineer who could build beautiful frontend React apps but tries to "sudo cd Desktop"? 😂

Staking & relaxing with stakefish

.f2pool 🐟 and stakefish team heading to #Consensus2022.

Ghost town Pyramiden: once a busy USSR mining town in the arctic with a library, theatre, canteen, and swimming pool; now abandoned, with a Lenin statue watching over the glaciers in solitude.

Introducing StarCoder ⭐️ a 15B open-source Code-LLM created by Hugging Face and ServiceNow through BigCode 🔡 8192 token context window 📊 trained on 1 trillion token 💭 80+ Programming languages 🔐 only permissive licensed data ✅ commercial use huggingface.co/bigcode/starco…

We’re open-sourcing a multimodal model: Fuyu-8B! Building useful AI agents requires fast foundation models that can see the visual world. Fuyu-8B performs well at standard image understanding benchmarks, but it also can do a bunch of new stuff (below) adept.ai/blog/fuyu-8b

Let’s be clear: DeepSeek r1 isn’t about who “races faster”—it’s about the inherent flaw in closed models. The future of AI isn’t owned by those who hide code or stockpile chips. It’s built on trust, and trust requires transparency. When models are black boxes, you surrender

My 14-years old cat passed away on my birthday, after battling lymphoma for 8 month.