Hugh Christensen

R&D professional interested in automating computational statistics on data at scale. Driving business outcomes. Cambridge PhD in ML.

[Hugh Christensen @ChristensenWork]

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[Jon Erlichman @JonErlichman]

Amazon’s R&D spending each year:

2019: $35.9 billion
2018: $28.8 billion
2017: $22.6 billion
2016: $16.1 billion
2015: $12.5 billion
2014:  $9.3 billion
2013:  $6.6 billion
2012:  $4.6 billion
2011:  $2.9 billion
2010:  $1.7 billion
2009: $1.2 billion

[Jon Richens @jonathanrichens]

Turns out you can invert the Bellman equation to recover an agent's world model from its value function. Excited by the potential applications of this work, lead by @_aletcher. My fave bit - RL agents implicitly model latent variables they were never trained to optimize for..🧵

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

Underrated trend

[nature @Nature]

AlphaFoldhas determined the structures of proteins from almost every known organism on Earth. https://t.co/BFPJ4DLKrn

[Jon Erlichman @JonErlichman]

When Steve Jobs returned to Apple
in 1997, he spoke at WWDC.

An audience member insulted him.

Here’s how he responded:

[Demis Hassabis @demishassabis]

This is a day I’ve dreamed of my whole life, this is the reason @DeepMind was founded, to build AI and use it accomplish extraordinary scientific breakthroughs like #AlphaFold 2, to advance science and benefit humanity. I could not be more proud of the incredible team!

[Zoubin Ghahramani @ZoubinGhahrama1]

I completely agree with the arguments in this article and it’s something I’ve said in many of my talks: we need to move the narrative away from AI as imitating humans and focus on Useful Machine Intelligence that complements humans and provides value to society.

[Hugh Christensen @ChristensenWork]

Excited to be at the @kxsystems cloud analytics evening

[Hugh Christensen @ChristensenWork]

Learn how AWS is changing financial data access, management, and analysis at our webinar on September 21. Register today. https://t.co/b58Ir7sDDV

[WatersTechnology @WatersTech]

.@Josiebgallagher examines how @Microsoft is becoming a more credible threat to @Bloomberg’s business lines compared to previous rivals.

https://t.co/MRfCZ3r3oD

[Jeff Barr ☁️ @jeffbarr]

MLOps with MLFlow and Amazon SageMaker Pipelines - https://t.co/rHyHKLBtJN

"In this post, we both used SageMaker MLOps project and an MLflow model registry to automate an end-to-end ML lifecycle."

#AWS #ML

[Taha Kass-Hout @kasshout]

Today we are announcing Amazon Genomics CLI (Preview), that simplifies and automates the deployment of cloud resources, providing you with an easy-to-use command line to quickly setup and run #genomics workflows on ⁦@awscloud⁩ ⁦@wleepang⁩ https://t.co/CAnJ7FkwyI

[Adam Selipsky @aselipsky]

Amazon Aurora processed 233 billion transactions, stored 1,595 terabytes of data, and transferred 615 terabytes of data on #PrimeDay2021 – talk about operating at scale. More intriguing stats in @JeffBarr’s post about #AWS supporting Prime Day:

[Hugh Christensen @ChristensenWork]

@aselipsky @jeffbarr Love these stats @aselipsky !!!

[Jeff Bezos @JeffBezos]

Nice! Amazon ranked #1 best managed company. Definitely the result of strong teamwork from people who care deeply and passionately about customers, their fellow employees, and the environment. Huge thank you and kudos to all Amazonians.

[The Register @TheRegister]

20,000 proteins expressed by human genome predicted by DeepMind's AlphaFold now available to download https://t.co/lebFpPbuj6

[Amazon Web Services @awscloud]

AWS Ground Station is a fully managed Ground Station as a Service to easily control satellites, downlink & process satellite data on-demand, and innovate rapidly using other AWS services. #reInvent https://t.co/Wdma9PL69R

[AWS API Changes @AWSAPIChanges]

[AWS API Change] Amazon Redshift - 1 new 16 updated methods | https://t.co/JH4rHxdehG | Added support to enable AQUA in Amazon Redshift clusters.

[Thomas Wiecki @twiecki]

Slides for my talk on Bayesian Portfolio Construction at @thalesians. Thanks everyone for tuning in and all the questions, I had a great time. https://t.co/bFNMYCmwbr https://t.co/pmhPynBgcd https://t.co/F12CQ6pEeT

[Rob Carver @investingidiocy]

https://t.co/oeVm1xOOXb

Disclosure: I live in Essex

[Rachel Dines @RachelDines]

Zoom was adding 5,000-6,000 servers (on AWS) a night as they scaled in the early days of the pandemic 😲 #reInvent