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PhD in machine learning | conformal prediction | time-series | author of bestselling Practical Guide to Applied Conformal-Prediction https://a.co/d/iHRag4i
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Kevin Sheppard “Financial Econometrics Notes” (600 pages!) from University of Oxford. #econometrics #machinelearning #finance #university

What comes after Black Belt in Machine Learning? It's when your tweet gets cited in a top-tier ML paper and featured on the ICLR 2024 blog.

LeCun is right, when enrolling into PhD program don’t work on what is a hype topic of today. It was true in 2015 for reinforcement learning, it is true in 2025 for LLMs. The topic of tomorrow won’t be the hype topic of today, find a promising niche tech and work on it instead.

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 in the latest large scale study XGBoost comes … last in the top 10. As shown by all recent large scale studies CatBoost rules the roost. 🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀

🚨 The secrets of good forecasting are well hidden. Too often, the internet serves up fluff—tool demos, flashy models, and zero depth. But real forecasting? It’s only 5% about spinning up a model. The real mastery comes from knowing many well hidden things including ... what not to do.

With the black belt comes people citing your posts in scientific papers! 'What exactly has TabPFN learned to do?' 'When it comes to tabpfn f stands for “frankenstein.” would you trust an opaque monstrosity trained on “millions of synthetic” (real unreal and dubious) datasets to make predictions

New paper just dropped—and with it, the bar for serious time series research.

🚀 Hidden Gem Alert: The Matrix Bible Behind Modern AI! 🔥 Deep in the shadows of the internet lies a rare masterpiece—F.R. Gantmacher’s "Theory of Matrices". This isn’t just math; it’s the secret sauce behind AI, machine learning, and neural networks! 🤯

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Just saw a post from an unemployed coder in the UK who lost his job after spending five years in a sheltered role at his previous company. It was a harsh reality check—suddenly out on the street, still grinding LeetCode every day, and still not getting it.

🧠💥 Feliks Gantmacher: The Warrior Mathematician Behind Missiles, Matrices, and Mechanics