The Illustrated DeepSeek-R1

Spent the weekend reading the paper and sorting through the intuitions. Here's a visual guide and the main intuitions to understand the model and the process that created it.

newsletter.languagemodels.co/p/the-illust...

At NeurIPS, IMHO:
- openreview.net/forum?id=LN5...
- openreview.net/forum?id=WH5...
- openreview.net/forum?id=Vbm...
- openreview.net/forum?id=FmN...
Before (self-plug):
- arxiv.org/abs/2402.16785
- arxiv.org/abs/2207.01848
Beyond:
- arxiv.org/abs/2410.18164
- table-representation-learning.github.io

Recently, a dataset of 1M Bluesky posts unexpectedly sparked backlash on Bluesky, including accusations of theft, calls for legal action, and death threats. It also uncovered strong anti-AI sentiment on the platform. This write-up reflects on what happened and why.

eugeneyan.com/writing/anti/

Improved TableReport:
◼ tighter layout
◼ support any script (any alphabet حب माया) in the plots
◼ robust to outliers

It works without dependencies, in any html-based environment (Jupyter notebooks, @vscode.dev, a simple web page...)

Check it out on skrub-data.org
4/5

I recently shared some of my reflections on how to use probabilistic classifiers for optimal decision-making under uncertainty at @pydataparis.bsky.social 2024.

Here is the recording of the presentation:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gYn...

We're always updating the pydata & scipy project starter pack:
go.bsky.app/6HkrMcp

Hello @scikit-learn.bsky.social , @networkx.bsky.social , @scipyconf.bsky.social

Me: writes a paper (with @sashamtl.bsky.social and @meredithmeredith.bsky.social) on how hype and choice of goals and benchmarks leads to an arm race in AI arxiv.org/abs/2409.14160

Them: here's my proposal to solve the problem by a better AI algorithm.

🤨 The problem is social: it's norm setting..

Will be going live in a bit to talk about Optuna. Feel free to join live at lunch if you have any questions you'd like me to answer live.

Probably not the upbeat, diverting story most of us are looking for these days, but an interesting read nevertheless.
And hey, what’s another future cataclysm among friends?

“The next massive volcano eruption will cause climate chaos — and we are unprepared”
⚒️🧪🌋
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

boom