Antoine Sachet

VP of building cool stuff at @hestiia_fr

[John Coene @jdatap]

🌬️ Vapour, a typed superset of the R programming Language #rstats

https://t.co/pBHyigT1gZ

[Paul Graham @paulg]

Brexit may yet turn out to have been a good idea, if it means the UK can be the Switzerland of AI.

[TimDarcet @TimDarcet]

Vision transformers need registers!
Or at least, it seems they 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 some…
ViTs have artifacts in attention maps. It’s due to the model using these patches as “registers”.
Just add new tokens (“[reg]”):
- no artifacts
- interpretable attention maps 🦖
- improved performances!

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

🚨 Airbnb just eliminated its traditional product management function.

This is one of the boldest experiments in product management we have seen in quite some time.

→ Who’s going to own the roadmap?
→ Who will cross-functional teams collaborate with?
→ Who will be responsible for writing the team’s charter, focus problems, and metrics?

Brian has been posting Twitter threads of each of Airbnb’s two most recent product releases. So it sounds like the executives are re-taking over the roadmap.

And, presumably, engineering managers and designers will split the other tasks. It will be an interesting experiment to watch.

The crowd erupted in applause. Is there something broken with today’s product management? What do you think of the change?

[Kareem Carr, Ph.D. @kareem_carr]

I'm very convinced that much of the existential risk of AI is caused by design preferences within the AI community.

[Karandeep Singh @kdpsinghlab]

If statisticians wrote papers like computer scientists:

“By leveraging logistic regression, we exploited linear algebra to capture a latent log-odds representation of the data, uncovering coefficients with SOTA p-values.”

[LLM Security @llm_sec]

* People ask LLMs to write code
* LLMs recommend imports that don't actually exist
* Attackers work out what these imports' names are, and create & upload them with malicious payloads
* People using LLM-written code then auto-add malware themselves

https://t.co/Va9w18RpWu

[Lawrence Jones @lawrjones]

In 2020 Figma started hitting growing pains with their single managed Postgres database.

That means they managed to grow to a $2B company on a single mged instance.

I bet at they hired engineers around this time who grumbled about not picking a more ‘scalable’ tech.

[Jim Fan @DrJimFan]

AI Twitter is flooded with low-quality stuff recently. No, GPT is not “dethroned”. And thin wrapper apps are not “insane”. At all.

I feel obligated to surface some quality posts I bookmarked. Every one of them should've been promoted 10x, but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

In no particular order:

[Hadley Wickham @hadleywickham]

Slides at https://t.co/LbDyPycfzs — I'll also tweet when the video recording is available

[Colin 🤘🌱🏃‍♀️ @_ColinFay]

Don't be that person

[Barret Schloerke @schloerke]

{plumber} v1.1.0 is now on CRAN! 🎉
👀 Cheat sheet - https://t.co/bp7xPvb8pw

Featured Updates:
- Opt in to redirect requests to include trailing slash
- Provide a file for OpenAPI Spec

Blog: https://t.co/oTr2WczRsz
Changelog: https://t.co/dik1nFChhl

#rstats #api

[Antoine Sachet @SachetAntoine]

This is going to be so useful!

[Kirill Müller 🇺🇦 @[email protected] @krlmlr]

to daff (v) -- (1) run @fitzyfitzyfitzy's daff tool on a pair of CSV files. Not to be confused with "to diff (v)" which usually gives garbled output; (2) run @edwindjonge's daff::diff_data() on a pair of data frames.

https://t.co/YfGV8RL8q8

[Antoine Sachet @SachetAntoine]

@thomasp85 This is wonderful! My favourite since I started following you 👏👏👏

[Antoine Sachet @SachetAntoine]

@johannabobbio Looks great!

[Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85]

Do remember some days ago when we had a major release of ragg?

Well, we’re not done with major device releases this week...

Say hello to svglite 2.0.0 #rstats

https://t.co/uAD5JTUlN2

[Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85]

I am beyond excited to finally share what I've spend most of last year working on. Read all about the huge step forward in font rendering and font support in #rstats https://t.co/rcBebUSvXB

[David Smith @revodavid]

New R #rstats package for interaction with OneDrive, SharePoint and the Microsoft Graph API. "Microsoft365R" is available on CRAN now. https://t.co/AD339LpTxR

[Ed Hagen @ed_hagen]

If you use #rstats {tidyverse} and {MASS}, this will save you a lot of grief. h/t @thomas_neitmann

[Thomas J. Fan @thomasjpfan]

Come to a Python near you! (Now that PEP 634 is accepted)