The why of AI: Uncovering cause and effect in observational data
Modern machine learning excels at identifying correlations. However, to make a real impact, we must understand causality, the “why” behind the data, and
💬The upcoming AI for Good Webinar Series - with @marfig.bsky.social ( @istecnico.bsky.social) and Arnout Devos (@ellis.eu, @eth-ai-center.bsky.social) on "The why of AI: Uncovering cause and effect in observational data"
📅 Wed, Feb 18th
🕓 16:00-17:00 CET
🔗Register: aiforgood.itu.int/event/the-wh...
11.02.2026 18:28
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An open mindset
The commitments required for fully open source machine learning
Fully open machine learning requires not only GPU access but a community commitment to openness. (Some nostalgic lessons from the ImageNet decade.)
10.07.2025 14:28
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“Simple portable quantum key distribution for science outreach”, authored by Técnico researchers, features on the front cover of the 1st edition of the 2025 American Journal of Physics.
🔗 Full article: tinyurl.com/y73spxhk
#TécnicoLisboa #ULisboa
10.03.2025 09:15
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Our upcoming #AISTATS2025 paper is out: “Sparse Activations as Conformal Predictors” with Margarida Campos, João Calém, Sophia Sklaviadis, and
@marfig.bsky.social:
arxiv.org/abs/2502.14773.
This paper puts together two lines of research, dynamic sparsity and conformal prediction. 🧵
09.03.2025 21:31
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📢 Applications to the 15th Lisbon Machine Learning School 2025 are open!
Covering #ML topics such as neural networks, transformers, causality, vision & language.
📅 Dates: 19th - 25th of July
🔗 more info: lxmls.it.pt/2025/index.h...
🔗 apply by 28th April here: tinyurl.com/mre5as8f
26.02.2025 10:59
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@andre-t-martins.bsky.social talking about multilingual LLMs at the @priberam.bsky.social Machine Learning Lunch Seminar in @istecnico.bsky.social,
@ellisunitlisbon.bsky.social
26.02.2025 09:08
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check out our new paper in ISME! if you're a microbe, is it about who you are or how you get along with others? Find out! 👇
13.02.2025 08:20
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Agradável conversa sobre IA, com o Carlos Fiolhais e o Gonçalo M. Tavares, a quem agradeço o convite, no programa Astrolábio do canal Now.
www.nowcanal.pt/programas/as...
27.01.2025 21:05
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The bigotry and white supremacy is right out there in the open, impossible to ignore for anyone paying attention. A lot of people are revealing a lot about themselves by supporting this.
25.01.2025 15:02
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When?
29.12.2024 15:52
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Yes!
28.12.2024 11:50
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Prompt "engineering" is sort of what we do when we talk to other people.
26.12.2024 20:11
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My beautiful cat thinking about some big idea that she learned from @seanmcarroll.bsky.social's excellent book.
20.12.2024 09:17
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"...the cognitive equivalent of high-fructose corn syrup."
Excellent piece by Neil Lawrence.
18.12.2024 08:42
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Excellent!
"... the cognitive equivalent of high-fructose corn syrup" is an excellent analogy.
18.12.2024 08:41
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There are no artificial neural networks! It's just a conceptual/formal tool to think about a certain type of programs that actually run on CPUs and GPUs.
It just happens that the tool was originally inspired by an extremely simplistic model of biological neurons.
17.12.2024 07:35
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From Exorbitant Privilege to Invincible Ignorance
Arithmetic has a well-known globalist bias
Having nonsense views about the dollar and the trade balance: easy.
Having nonsense views that are mutually contradictory: that takes talent
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/from-exorb...
13.12.2024 13:43
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And again at NeurIPS 2024:
bsky.app/profile/nolo...
13.12.2024 12:40
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Excellent talk by @alisongopnik.bsky.social
at CogSci 2024, after receiving the Rumelhat prize.
underline.io/events/465/s...
13.12.2024 12:37
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"all use of technology is the exercise of power"
Hans Jonas
07.12.2024 00:21
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