Ben Heil @autobencoder

Staff ML Scientist at Visa; Penn Comp Bio Ph.D. Also @autobencoder.bsky.social autobencoder.com Joined May 2018

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Shweta @shramdas

8 months ago

Our mentor Casey Brown, apart from being an extraordinary scientist, was a brilliant teacher who loved everything genetics. In his honor, some of the world's leading experts came together to create the 'Casey Brown Lecture Series' on human genetics 1/ shorturl.at/eCm7S

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Bartłomiej Cupiał @CupiaBart

a year ago

So here's a story of, by far, the weirdest bug I've encountered in my CS career. Along with @maciejwolczyk we've been training a neural network that learns how to play NetHack, an old roguelike game, that looks like in the screenshot. Recenlty, something unexpected happened.

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Stephen Turner 🦋 @stephenturner.us @strnr

a year ago

Edgy stuff in this record, especially the track about UMAP/tSNE in scRNA-seq

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Jascha Sohl-Dickstein @jaschasd

2 years ago

Have you ever done a dense grid search over neural network hyperparameters? Like a *really dense* grid search? It looks like this (!!). Blueish colors correspond to hyperparameters for which training converges, redish colors to hyperparameters for which training diverges.

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Ben Heil @autobencoder

2 years ago

As someone raised by salespeople, I have a firm belief that Sales is a subdiscipline of every career

Jennifer Polk, PhD (she, her) @FromPhDtoLife

2 years ago

As someone raised by salespeople, I have a firm belief that Sales is a subdiscipline of every career

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Stella Biderman @BlancheMinerva

2 years ago

In this spreadsheet I document a wide variety of h params on a per-model basis as well as provide my current recommendations for how to go about setting up a LLM architecture. Make sure to check out the notes tab for important caveats and warnings! docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

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Chris Albon @chrisalbon

2 years ago

That coordinated quote retweet by OpenAI staff was the most impressive employee flex I’ve seen in tech.

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Milton Pividori @miltondp

2 years ago

Very glad that our work with @GreeneScientist and others in integrating genetic studies with gene co-expression patterns is published in @NatureComms! Take a look at nature.com/articles/s4146…

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Bored Yann LeCun @boredyannlecun

2 years ago

Found a kindred spirit at #icml2023 #feelthelearn

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👩‍💻 Paige Bailey @DynamicWebPaige

2 years ago

Our architectures get stolen by lesser AI teams, So we better sign these rhymes with PGP; But we'll keep on generatin' cash and tokens like a CFG 'Cause there's so much drama in the GPTs. What's wrong, SaaS teams, am I making you nervous? Even green VC teams are giving you…

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UPenn GCB @UPennGCB

2 years ago

It's time to celebrate Dr. Benjamin Heil! Ben was a member of the Casey Greene (@GreeneScientist) and John Holmes (@Johnhh429H) Labs, and now works as a machine learning scientist at Visa Research. 1/4

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Kevin K. Yang 楊凱筌 @KevinKaichuang

3 years ago

Every day I see a thread about leaving academia to be happy and a subtweet saying that academia is great. For computational students, this video by @rishiyer is great because it talks about different types of industry jobs and then compares in 12 axes youtu.be/H6wSxSXkr1w

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Ben Heil @autobencoder

3 years ago

TIL the last digit of a credit card number is actually a checksum that can detect whether the rest of the number was mistyped en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luhn_algo…