Yousef

Research Scientist @ JP Morgan AI Research. He/Him 🏳️‍🌈. Travel/Food/Gaming Enthusiast.

[Yousef @yousefhellaham]

I wrote a blog post about my experience at MLSS. Truly, one of the highlights of graduate student career.
https://t.co/9OJuWW3hVS

[Yousef @yousefhellaham]

@ccanonne_ @Mr8ND

[Russell Kaplan @russelljkaplan]

What I’ve learned about making synthetic data work for training ML models:

[Adam Elmachtoub @Adam235711]

Me: I'm lebanese
Them: mom or dad?
-both
-but you have blue eyes and you don't look lebanese (i.e., light skin)
-yes
-but do you speak Arabic?
-yes
-are you Muslim?
-no, I'm Druze
-you're Jewish/Druid?
-no
-I love shawarma

I've had this conversation soooo many times. Cheers :)

[Yousef @yousefhellaham]

@realDonaldTrump you're fired #pleaseexit

[Bored Yann LeCun @boredyannlecun]

Trump has less chance to win than an SVM in a computer vision competition. #torched

[Yousef @yousefhellaham]

@shane_coffield same

[Yousef @yousefhellaham]

I just submitted my first NSF proposal. Wow that was hard.😅

[I.Share @IAMNERDIShare]

I didn't go to work because a cat fell on my head and then a dog with shoes tried to do me justice.

[Yousef @yousefhellaham]

Everyone: Wow, the figures in your document look so clean! Are you using Adobe Illustrator? Isn't it so tedious to use? Did it take several hours?

Me:

[Yousef @yousefhellaham]

Please vote. He needs to go.

[Bob Wachter @Bob_Wachter]

"Don't be afraid of Covid." Are you kidding me? After 210,000 deaths in the U.S. & 1 million deaths worldwide? This either shows a breathtakingly callous, inhumane & counterproductive attitude, or he has altered mental status – in which case the 25th Amendment should be invoked.

[Peyman Milanfar @docmilanfar]

1/Stein's '72 characterization of the Gaussian is beautiful. Take a scalar random variable x with mean=m and variance = s^2. Consider class of f(x) w/ E[f'(x)]< ∞. Then x is Gaussian *if and only if* for all such f we have the identity below. Wild that it needs just expectation!

[Yousef @yousefhellaham]

@MariaMedin26 Congrats again, my friend :-)

[Yousef @yousefhellaham]

I encourage all eligible applicants to apply! IACS is a fantastic institute. The fellowships provide good compensation, great benefits, and opportunities for interdisciplinary collaborations!

[Yousef @yousefhellaham]

Exciting fellowship opportunities at the Institute for Advanced Computational Sciences (@IACSComputes) at Stony Brook University:

Graduate fellowship: https://t.co/9GR23BhDw2 (Deadline: 12/01/2020)
Postdoctoral fellowship: https://t.co/4fUcVZyTvw (Deadline: 11/01/2020)

[Yousef @yousefhellaham]

Differential entropy...

[Probability Fact @ProbFact]

The entropy of a random variable is the integral of -f(x) log( f(x) ) where f(x) is the PDF of X.

[Yousef @yousefhellaham]

🤣🤣🤣

[Kareem Carr, Ph.D. @kareem_carr]

“The Banach–Tarski paradox is a theorem which shows a ball can be split into a finite number of pieces and put back together in a different way to yield two identical copies of the original ball.”

Go home math you’re drunk.

[Yousef @yousefhellaham]

Relatable. It’s important to remind ourselves of this every now and then.

[Nancy Lubalo @FutureDrLubalo]

But why??????

[Yousef @yousefhellaham]

Wow. I have to say that https://t.co/Al8Wi2qmc5 has got to be the most iconic way to hold a virtual poster session. I will be presenting some preliminary work today at the Joint Affinity Group poster session - Find me at poster 1.40 #ICML2020

[Yousef @yousefhellaham]

"THE EMPIRICAL DUALITY GAP OF CONSTRAINED STATISTICAL LEARNING"

Paper: https://t.co/9994KLHdBT

Presentation: https://t.co/xxGlbzJd2e

The authors introduce a framework for constrained statistical learning. An interesting paper and a very well executed presentation.

[Yousef @yousefhellaham]

I had a great time attending #ICASSP2020 virtually. Kudos to the organizers on putting this together! Here are some talks that I really enjoyed:

"LOOKAHEAD CONVERGES TO STATIONARY POINTS OF SMOOTH NON-CONVEX FUNCTIONS"

Paper: https://t.co/ev6cBgO90F

[Yousef @yousefhellaham]

"BETTER SAFE THAN SORRY: RISK-AWARE NONLINEAR BAYESIAN ESTIMATION"

Paper: https://t.co/3bwYpm6H5i

Presentation: https://t.co/1xYTRWQfD4

A very nice paper that highlights the disadvantage of using MMSE estimators and derives an alternative that is more robust.