Yolande Ngueabou

Mathematician || STEM Advocate || Data Science || Machine Learning || Co-organizer @WiMLDS_Yaounde

[Kevin Patrick Murphy @sirbayes]

I am pleased to announce that I have updated the online versions of my 2 textbooks (see https://t.co/se6sLMqALR): I fixed all issues listed on github, added some new references (esp on LLMs), and made a few other small tweaks.

[Fuknsmile @Fuknsmile]

The earth actually takes about 365 days and 6 hrs to complete a trip round the sun, but for convenience, we ignore the 6 hrs. And over 4 years, the ignored extra 6 hrs yearly accumulate to a full day (24 hrs) which we then add as Feb 29th, creating a leap year

[The Abel Prize @abel_prize]

The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has decided to award the Abel Prize 2025 to professor Masaki Kashiwara. Kashiwara-san is the first Japanese mathematician to receive the Abel Prize.

#Abelprize #Abelprize2025 #mathematics #science

[Sarath Chandar @apsarathchandar]

In my lab, we have not one but four open postdoc positions! These positions cover developing foundation models for text, proteins, small molecules, genomic data, time series data, and astrophysics data! If you have strong research expertise and a PhD in LLMs and Foundation Models, and you are willing to learn about domain-specific problems and collaborate with domain experts, this is an ideal position for you! Actual links in the next tweet! 1/2

[Graham Neubig @gneubig]

I created a Python project starter repo for students that helps maintain good code quality while doing research projects: https://t.co/HRFdxAucsI

I was opinionated and made only one choice for each tool, but there are other options too!

[Hadas Weiss @weiss_hadas]

the problematic age gap between my submitted manuscript and the one that got published

[Clare Lyle @clarelyle]

📣📣 My team at Google DeepMind is hiring a student researcher for summer/fall 2025 in Seattle! If you're a PhD student interested in getting deep RL to (finally) work reliably in interesting domains, apply at the link below and reach out to me via email so I know you aplied👇

[Jay Alto @theJayAlto]

this guy is one of the world's best 'competitive programmers' and has a video explaining exactly how to learn hard things

[Peyman Milanfar @docmilanfar]

Google's global PhD Fellowship Program will open for applications on April 10, 2025.

This program supports exceptional PhD students in computer science and related fields, providing a Google Research Mentor.

We welcome applications in areas including Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Machine Perception, and Quantum Computing, among others. Applications close on May 15th, 2025.

Learn more and apply at https://t.co/jwJT7mKvKH

[ksa 🏴‍☠️ @kosa12m]

Most rigorous ML paper

[Association for Computing Machinery @TheOfficialACM]

Meet the recipients of the 2024 ACM A.M. Turing Award, Andrew G. Barto and Richard S. Sutton! They are recognized for developing the conceptual and algorithmic foundations of reinforcement learning. Please join us in congratulating the two recipients! https://t.co/GrDfgzW1fL

[Sebastian Raschka @rasbt]

Maybe a hot take, but what about the following advice to the next gen:
Don't get an AI degree; the curriculum will be outdated before you graduate. Instead, study math, stats, or physics as your foundation, and stay current with AI through code-focused books, blogs, and papers.

[culture @notgwendalupe]

it's 17 years since Phineas, Ferb & Candance released 'Gitchie Gitchie Goo'

[Tom Yeh @ProfTomYeh]

DeepSeek lecture is edited and uploaded 👉 https://t.co/AdOqD4T4J1 ~ Thank you all 🙏 for attending my public lecture yesterday. In one hour, I managed to build a simplified DeepSeek model in Excel in front of a live audience of 3000+ people.

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

Chinese New Year celebrations

display from Jiangsu Province

https://t.co/55dKtI33ka

[emini tic @TicTocTick]

DeepSeek is like buying the most expensive house in the neighborhood for 10 million and a guy next month buys similar house next door for 200K.

Very few understand this means but they will soon feel it.

[Max Kleiman-Weiner @maxhkw]

I’m recruiting PhD students to join the Computational Minds and Machines Lab at the University of Washington in Seattle! Join us to work at the intersection of computational cognitive science and AI with a broad focus on social intelligence. (Please reshare!)

[Chris H. Hill @chillzaa]

Are you:
1. Looking for a fully-funded PhD
2. Interested in virus genome replication
3. Excited about RNA-protein interactions
4. Keen to master techniques in structural biology and single molecule, fluorescence-based imaging (TIRF, FRET)

Then get in touch! And please RT

[Oded Rechavi @OdedRechavi]

For a PhD student, choosing a good lab is 10 times more important than choosing a particular topic to study

[Sebastian Raschka @rasbt]

If you are looking for something to read/study this weekend, I added lots of LLM-related bonus from-scratch coding resources over the last few months (from implementing Llama 3.2 to preference tuning with DPO): https://t.co/jMi3McHWJD

I hope you find them useful!