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Lee Zamparo @lzamparo.bsky.social · 23h

He must truly understand the nature of suffering

Lee Zamparo @lzamparo.bsky.social · 1d

100% agree

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Amir-massoud Farahmand @sologen.bsky.social · 1d

Apply to join one of the top AI research 🤖 institutes in the world in the wonderful city of Montréal!
I will be recruiting 1-2 students this year. Just mention my name in your application.

Mila - Institut québécois d'IA @mila-quebec.bsky.social · 1d

Mila's annual supervision request process is now open to receive MSc and PhD applications for Fall 2026 admission! For more information, visit mila.quebec/en/prospecti...

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Mike-ghoul Half-man @michaelhoffman.bsky.social · 1d

FC: Diagnose, prevent, treat, and cure disease. It is a noble calling. It is your calling. #ASHG25

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Transactions on Machine Learning Research @tmlrorg.bsky.social · 2d

As Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR) grows in number of submissions, we are looking for more reviewers and action editors. Please sign up!

Only one paper to review at a time and <= 6 per year, reviewers report greater satisfaction than reviewing for conferences!

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Lee Zamparo @lzamparo.bsky.social · 2d

it's almost like consistent investment in both people and infrastructure over several decades has paid off

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Lee Zamparo @lzamparo.bsky.social · 2d

yeah we're suffering here up North 😭

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Rob Patro @robp.bsky.social · 5d

For the weekend crowd. I'm hiring a postdoc! If you're interested in algorithms, data structures and high-dimensional inference, and if you want to invent new methods for genomics and implement them in high-performance, robust and easy-to-use software, do I have a lab for you; ours!

Rob Patro @robp.bsky.social · 6d

Hi bioinformatics, genomics and CS friends! Please help me spread the word. I'm hiring a postdoc! Come work on cutting edge method development in algorithmic genomics with me and my group at @umdscience.bsky.social! 🖥️🧬

Rob Patro @robp.bsky.social · 8d

And it's posted! If you're interested and eligible, please consider applying through the UMD portal: umd.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UMCP/j....

If you're a PI working in algorithmic genomics (& you can recommend my lab to your top graduating students ;P), please let them know!

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Lee Zamparo @lzamparo.bsky.social · 5d

PTA is the man

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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 5d

Pres. Kornbluth articulates such moral clarity in this rejection of the proposed “compact”:

“the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone”

orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...

Regarding the Compact | MIT Organization Chart

orgchart.mit.edu

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Lee Zamparo @lzamparo.bsky.social · 5d

was my first thought

Lee Zamparo @lzamparo.bsky.social · 6d

definitely lower key

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Lee Zamparo @lzamparo.bsky.social · 6d

This is bonkers.

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Lee Zamparo @lzamparo.bsky.social · 6d

The Qwen team isn't playing around; they scaling around. #COLM2025

The program for what the Qwen team plans to scale in their models. They want to scale:
- context length
- model size
- training tokens
- test compute time
- RL compute
- synthetic data
- environments

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Jacob Schreiber @jmschreiber91.bsky.social · 9d

Now that I'm settled in at @umasschan.bsky.social, I'm hiring at all levels: grad students, post-docs, and software engineers/bioinformaticians!

The goal of my lab is to understand the regulatory role of every nucleotide in our genomes and how this changes across every cell in our bodies.

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Lee Zamparo @lzamparo.bsky.social · 7d

Some multi-human agent AV collaboration just prior to Jacob Eisenstein's talk about multi-agent collaboration 😁 #COLM2025

Lee Zamparo @lzamparo.bsky.social · 7d

I really liked this talk; questions should be good

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Lee Zamparo @lzamparo.bsky.social · 8d

Yeah that's not a compliment

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Lee Zamparo @lzamparo.bsky.social · 9d

I can still hear this track clear as day in my head. Truly a gem.

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Lee Zamparo @lzamparo.bsky.social · 9d

PSA for folks at #COLM2025 this morning. As of 8:25, Registration is moving smoothly, not a massive lineup. So take your time & roll on in 😁

Lee Zamparo @lzamparo.bsky.social · 9d

I'm also en route to #COLM2025, and would be glad to meet up with people and chat about building small LMs for enterprise uses, as well as data engineering and data synthesis

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Lee Zamparo @lzamparo.bsky.social · 10d

Are you a big automaker who might be thinking about building EVs or batteries? Government will roll out the subsidies, no questions asked.

Are you an Ontarian who might want to buy and drive an EV? Tough luck bud; no subsidies, and your power is going to get more expensive (and dirty) every year

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Lee Zamparo @lzamparo.bsky.social · 10d

Organized labour in this province is kidding themselves, these guys have one master, and labour ain't it.

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Lee Zamparo @lzamparo.bsky.social · 10d

"So why don't they?" you might ask?

Because they're entirely captured by lobbying interests. In case you didn't know, this government doesn't represent Ontarians. It represents Ontarian big business interests, full stop.

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Lee Zamparo @lzamparo.bsky.social · 10d

This doesn't seem like the most consequential abdication of responsibility by the Ford government, but it's the simplest one to have avoided: just buy solar generation, coupled with battery storage. Cheapest, fastest twin solution to Ontario's energy and GHG reduction. www.tvo.org/article/anal...

www.tvo.org

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