Thomas Carette

Co-organizer of @DSBrussels. Passionate about Data and modelling reality. I have yet to find a topic that is not fundamentally interesting.

[Thomas Carette @TCaretteB]

@proximus I don't really care for myself, I care for the vulnerable. Proof is you quickly reacted shared this useful link. Why isn't this info part of the script if somebody says he is not interested before hearing the pitch? As I said, #predatory.

[Thomas Carette @TCaretteB]

When you get a commercial call and say you're not interested? The operator turns pushy and says you can't possibly not be interested in something you don't know about? I just realized (stupid me), like the rest of the call, somebody scripted it in cold blood. @proximus #predatory

[HendrikD'Oosterlinck @DDoosterlinck]

🇧🇪 Data Science Belgium is now on clubhouse! @DSGhent @dsleuven @DSBrussels wanna hang out? 🍻

[Karim Douïeb @karim_douieb]

I might have reached the pinnacle of my career 🤩

[Thomas Carette @TCaretteB]

Nicely phrased nugget of wisdom by @BandeenKaren "we learn primarily by specifying how simple models fail to fit, not by observing that complex models happen to fit".

[Imperial College London @imperialcollege]

Test and trace apps can open up the world. But how do we maintain privacy with our location and health data constantly being collected?

Researchers from our Computational Privacy Group will be taking your questions next week as part of #ImperialLates
https://t.co/GkKzRTDtpk

[Thomas Carette @TCaretteB]

@citizen_garden @AchilleColignon If you park your open trailer there, and it happens that you have a garden in it, do you think it would still be a problem?

[Luc Rocher @cynddl]

Privacy researchers, govts, and tech companies work on contact tracing apps, hoping to curb down the pandemic. We often hear that 56, 60, or 70% of the population would need to install these apps. These are likely incorrect reads of a paper published by Ferretti et al. Thread ⤵️

[Thomas Carette @TCaretteB]

Guess the animal... Stumbled on a stupid joke which highlight pretty well the risk of applying out-of-the-box anonymisation techniques indiscriminately. Going through the moves doesn't equate to doing the thing #anonymisation #privacy #minorities #giraffes

[Yves-A. de Montjoye @yvesalexandre]

These aren't normal times but calling this data anonymous is just misleading: "The controls include removing identifiers such as name and address and replacing these with a pseudonym." This is the literal definition of pseudonymous data art. 4(5) GDPR. 1/2

[Yves-A. de Montjoye @yvesalexandre]

Can we fight #Covid_19 without resorting to mass surveillance? We think we can: https://t.co/fA83FYekOs

[Data Science Leuven @dsleuven]

Second speaker on #DSLeuven is Vincent Claes from @AXA with "Building a document classification model on #AWS"

[Thomas Carette @TCaretteB]

"These statistics are derived for each Belgian municipality and provided in the form of graphs and tables in a pdf document." Really? How much harder would it be to just dump the data in a csv? #OpenData @meteobenl @meteobefr @OpenKnowledgeBE
https://t.co/lt8TNapYFm

[Thomas Carette @TCaretteB]

Read that in @FukuyamaFrancis's "Political order and political decay" today. It's always shocking when you discover uncannily modern concerns in old ideas... #partisanPolitics #history

[Data Science Brussels @DSBrussels]

6 years already. 6 years only. Time for some retrospective on what the @DataScienceBe has achieved and how the world of data science in #Belgium has evolved. Be welcome at the @digityser on the 19th of march for a unique event! https://t.co/izYC8IhNvX

[Peter Vandenabeele 🇺🇦 @peter_v]

The stand-up of the Data Lab this morning was kind of funny, _everyone_ was fighting with a different aspect of getting her/his @awscloud #lambda function working (CloudWatch monitoring, Resource Based Policy, Python library versions). #Serverless for the win :-) #MachineLearning

[DataBeers Brussels @DataBeersBru]

💡 Tickets for the next #databeers #brussels go live in less than 5 minutes! Don’t miss out 👉 https://t.co/xfza3fG6Lk

[Thomas Carette @TCaretteB]

@peter_v This always makes me think of the invention of the bubble chamber. Neat.

[Thomas Carette @TCaretteB]

I got the same one and it definitely made my day. I think it's the first time I read a marketing email... several times... and showed it to friends. Mission accomplished!

[Emre Sevinç @EmreSevinc]

Dear Amazon Web Services marketing team: you managed to send one of the most hilarious email messages of all times. 👏 🧐🤫😂
#AWS #Marketing

[Thomas Carette @TCaretteB]

As a teenager, I didn't feel alive until end of afternoon. Grown up, I maim my efficiency cycle by offsetting it 3-6 hours to match the society cycle... Now I have to push that thing to my 4yo (who doesn't like sleeping). I feel bad to force this arbitrary schedule on her.