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rlacombe.bsky.social
AI/ML⚡️& ChemE 🧪 @ Stanford. Past: founder Plume Labs (acquired by AccuWeather). Don’t be fooled by the tweets that I’ve got I’m still I’m still @rlacombe on X (and here). -> https://romainlacombe.com
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Excited to speak at the @stanforddata.bsky.social Sustainability Data Science conference today! I’ll be presenting ClimateX, our work on LLM confidence calibration in the climate science domain. 📄 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2311.17107 💻 Code: github.com/rlacombe/Cli...

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Poster time! Fantastic workshop on experimental design in AI for Science today. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2503.17368 Workshop: edai4science.github.io

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Nobel laureate talk time! With David Baker at the Stanford experimental design in AI for Science today.

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🔔🔔 New bioML paper alert! 🔔🔔 We evaluate evolutionary protein structure prediction models using the geometric structure of non-canonical crosslinks from a rare class of post-translationally modified peptides. A thread. 🧵

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"But you're so much more handsome than that!" – my beloved wife, when shown a Ghiblified selfie of ourselves. Right answer!! I'm swooning! 🥰🥰🥰

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This is much deeper than it sounds at first. Absolute nugget of wisdom.

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This is an excellent talk by @francesarnold.bsky.social at ACS this week. Worth a read! cen.acs.org/people/award...

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LLMs are Farenheit 451 for digitized human knowledge. There’s something comforting knowing that the ghost of every written word will live on, for as long as we can preserve open weights, and the GPUs to bring them to life.

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Chemical engineering rules everything around us. ⚗️ AI 🤖, bio 🧬, chips 💻, energy 🔋, fertilizers 🚜, materials ⛏️, space 🛰️ ... All the technologies shaping the world sit downstream from chemistry fundamentals. 👩‍🔬 Hold on to your periodic table and let's go! 🚀

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Few things are more heart wrenching than a walk by a wild, pristine, remote beach at the confines of civilization… …only to find billions of tiny speckles of microplastics all over the sand, which we *know* will end up in our bodies by way of the food chain. Very sad.

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1 failure per 1000 GPU•days is the going hardware MTF rate for large training runs these days. #NeurIPS2024

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Craziest talk of the day so far: you can recognize which room someone stands in with embeddings of firing rate maps of their place cells neurons! #NeurIPS2024

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Deep learning is chemical engineering for information: layers are process units, diffusion is transport, entropy is the loss function… Don’t believe me? Then why is the NeurIPS opening talk literally starting with the Haber Bosch process!?

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Made it to #NeurIPS2024! Here until Sunday, ping me for coffee, a walk and talk, or some Tim Hortons maple glazed donuts! 🇨🇦

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I used to add little incandescent light bulbs in my notes, for highlights.💡 But it’s time to decarbonize. 🔋 So now I add little LEDs! ⚡️

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We can just fix things.

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Air pollution makes you dumb. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

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Engineering is the ultimate LEGO set. Piece some unit processes together, add sensors and a PCB to control them, break a few molecular bonds and train a neural net to run the whole thing, and don’t forget your economics so you can keep going. Is anything more fun than this!? 😀

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Kim Stanley Robinson's "Ministry for the Future" is looking more prescient every day. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/28/c...

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Causality is correlation with a story. Change my mind.

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This feels likes it pulled right of the Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson #climatechange #greenhousegas

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Yesterday's heavy fog lifted through the night, and it's a beautiful sunny morning in California. 🌴🇺🇸 Happy Thanksgiving everyone! 🦃🍠🥧🙏❤️

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Happy Chompsgiving!

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"- Please generate a beautiful picture of a strange attractor. - Here's the visual representation of a strange attractor, blending intricate and dynamic patterns with a cosmic aesthetic. Let me know if you'd like any adjustments!" What do y'all think about ChatGPT's chaos theory art skills?

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Aw that’s incredibly nice of you to say! 🥹🙏 I return the compliment, follow Ben and get a front row seat to the latest in AI for science! ⤵️

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