Cătălina Cangea, PhD
@catalinacangea.bsky.social
ex-GenMusic co-lead @ DeepMind 👩🏻💻
🎸🎹, prog/metal/alt/classic rock, jazz, poetry, 🚣🏻♀️🚴🏻♀️🧘🏻♀️, traveling, festivals. Sometimes ❤️s AI/ML/data 📊 Attends too many concerts 🎫 King's/Darwin/Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge 🎓
🎸🎹, prog/metal/alt/classic rock, jazz, poetry, 🚣🏻♀️🚴🏻♀️🧘🏻♀️, traveling, festivals. Sometimes ❤️s AI/ML/data 📊 Attends too many concerts 🎫 King's/Darwin/Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge 🎓
RIP and thank you for the art 🖤
Film Director David Lynch has passed away at the age of 78.
Some of his most notable works include ‘Mulholland Drive’, ‘Twin Peaks’, ‘The Elephant Man’, ‘Blue Velvet’ & more.
Some of his most notable works include ‘Mulholland Drive’, ‘Twin Peaks’, ‘The Elephant Man’, ‘Blue Velvet’ & more.
January 16, 2025 at 6:30 PM
RIP and thank you for the art 🖤
Those were the days
January 15, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Those were the days
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Emmanuel Macron denounces Elon Musk's "unacceptable interference" in European democracies by supporting "a new reactionary international".
Macron is the 4th European leader in the last 24 hours to speak against Musk, following Olaf Scholz, Keir Starmer & Jonas Gahr Støre.
Action must follow words.
Macron is the 4th European leader in the last 24 hours to speak against Musk, following Olaf Scholz, Keir Starmer & Jonas Gahr Støre.
Action must follow words.
January 6, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Emmanuel Macron denounces Elon Musk's "unacceptable interference" in European democracies by supporting "a new reactionary international".
Macron is the 4th European leader in the last 24 hours to speak against Musk, following Olaf Scholz, Keir Starmer & Jonas Gahr Støre.
Action must follow words.
Macron is the 4th European leader in the last 24 hours to speak against Musk, following Olaf Scholz, Keir Starmer & Jonas Gahr Støre.
Action must follow words.
on.soundcloud.com/54n5andsEf52...
trying to make one piece of music per day this year, started in @Ableton Note and it's really fun :)
trying to make one piece of music per day this year, started in @Ableton Note and it's really fun :)
1/1/25
Made with Ableton Note - first set :)
on.soundcloud.com
January 1, 2025 at 9:20 PM
on.soundcloud.com/54n5andsEf52...
trying to make one piece of music per day this year, started in @Ableton Note and it's really fun :)
trying to make one piece of music per day this year, started in @Ableton Note and it's really fun :)
😓
US billionaire Elon Musk, set to join President-elect Donald Trump's administration, waded into Germany's election campaign, calling the far-right Alternative for Germany the country's savior reut.rs/3P9k5TD
Elon Musk gives nod to German far-right party as election looms
U.S. billionaire Elon Musk, set to join President-elect Donald Trump's administration as an outside adviser, waded into Germany's election campaign on Friday, calling the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) the country's saviour.
reut.rs
December 20, 2024 at 12:56 PM
😓
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Here's Veo 2, the latest version of our video generation model, as well as a substantial upgrade for Imagen 3 🧑🍳🚢
(Did I mention we are hiring on the Generative Media team, btw 👀)
blog.google/technology/g...
(Did I mention we are hiring on the Generative Media team, btw 👀)
blog.google/technology/g...
State-of-the-art video and image generation with Veo 2 and Imagen 3
We’re rolling out a new, state-of-the-art video model, Veo 2, and updates to Imagen 3. Plus, check out our new experiment, Whisk.
blog.google
December 16, 2024 at 5:35 PM
Here's Veo 2, the latest version of our video generation model, as well as a substantial upgrade for Imagen 3 🧑🍳🚢
(Did I mention we are hiring on the Generative Media team, btw 👀)
blog.google/technology/g...
(Did I mention we are hiring on the Generative Media team, btw 👀)
blog.google/technology/g...
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I've been getting a lot of questions about autoregression vs diffusion at #NeurIPS2024 this week! I'm speaking at the adaptive foundation models workshop at 9AM tomorrow (West Hall A), about what happens when we combine modalities and modelling paradigms.
adaptive-foundation-models.org
adaptive-foundation-models.org
NeurIPS 2024 Workshop on Adaptive Foundation Models
adaptive-foundation-models.org
December 14, 2024 at 4:02 AM
I've been getting a lot of questions about autoregression vs diffusion at #NeurIPS2024 this week! I'm speaking at the adaptive foundation models workshop at 9AM tomorrow (West Hall A), about what happens when we combine modalities and modelling paradigms.
adaptive-foundation-models.org
adaptive-foundation-models.org
11 😌 one of them is my favourite city in the world, another one (also) took my breath away, and it's been 24 years since I last saw yet another one
Surprisingly, I have only been to 28 of these cities.
The average American has only been to 5 of these places, how about you?
The average American has only been to 5 of these places, how about you?
December 10, 2024 at 10:27 PM
11 😌 one of them is my favourite city in the world, another one (also) took my breath away, and it's been 24 years since I last saw yet another one
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Omg. Incredible.
Breaking: The Romanian Constitutional Court has annulled the first round of the presidential elections. This means the elections will have to be redone from scratch, including the re-registration of the candidates, validation by the BEC and will be repeated once the government sets a new date.
So as expected, the Constitutional Court has postponed its decision on whether to validate the elections to 17:00 on Monday (Dec 2). In the meantime, voter recounts are underway across the country, despite criticism of the move from even anti-Georgescu voices such as Lasconi’s USR party.
December 6, 2024 at 1:54 PM
Omg. Incredible.
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Bluesky is truly having an incredible run as Threads' head of product
Meta’s Threads is developing its own take on Bluesky’s ‘Starter Packs’ techcrunch.com/2024/...
Meta's Threads is developing its own take on Bluesky's 'Starter Packs' | TechCrunch
Hoping to quell some of the momentum behind social network Bluesky, a competitor to X and Meta's Threads, Meta is developing a feature that takes
techcrunch.com
November 27, 2024 at 6:12 PM
Bluesky is truly having an incredible run as Threads' head of product
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Social media has weirdly conditioned a huge number of people to feel like they're Doing Something by posting, and Doing Nothing if they don't post about a particular thing, and in general neither of those things are true.
February 12, 2024 at 3:42 PM
Social media has weirdly conditioned a huge number of people to feel like they're Doing Something by posting, and Doing Nothing if they don't post about a particular thing, and in general neither of those things are true.
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The most amazing news. Hannah Fry is coming to @cambridge-uni.bsky.social!
Award-winning broadcaster Hannah Fry joins Cambridge as Professor of the Public Understanding of Mathematics
Professor Hannah Fry, mathematician, best-selling author, award-winning science presenter and host of popular podcasts and television shows, will join the
www.cam.ac.uk
November 22, 2024 at 3:46 PM
The most amazing news. Hannah Fry is coming to @cambridge-uni.bsky.social!
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some little bluesky tips 🦋
your blocks, likes, lists, and just about everything except chats are PUBLIC
you can pin custom feeds; i like quiet posters, best of follows, mutuals, mentions
if your chronological feed is overwhelming, you can make and pin make a personal list of "unmissable" people
your blocks, likes, lists, and just about everything except chats are PUBLIC
you can pin custom feeds; i like quiet posters, best of follows, mutuals, mentions
if your chronological feed is overwhelming, you can make and pin make a personal list of "unmissable" people
November 20, 2024 at 11:56 AM
some little bluesky tips 🦋
your blocks, likes, lists, and just about everything except chats are PUBLIC
you can pin custom feeds; i like quiet posters, best of follows, mutuals, mentions
if your chronological feed is overwhelming, you can make and pin make a personal list of "unmissable" people
your blocks, likes, lists, and just about everything except chats are PUBLIC
you can pin custom feeds; i like quiet posters, best of follows, mutuals, mentions
if your chronological feed is overwhelming, you can make and pin make a personal list of "unmissable" people
bsky.app/profile/tool... - the migration is starting!(?) 🙏🤘
bsky.app
November 21, 2024 at 6:17 PM
bsky.app/profile/tool... - the migration is starting!(?) 🙏🤘
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As many more users are flocking to BlueSky from social media platforms like X/Twitter, so are threat actors. BleepingComputer has spotted cryptocurrency scams popping up on BlueSky just as the service surpassed 20 million users this week. www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit...
Now BlueSky hit with crypto scams as it crosses 20 million users
As users are flocking to BlueSky from social media platforms like X/Twitter, so are threat actors. BleepingComputer has spotted cryptocurrency scams popping up on BlueSky just as the decentralized mic...
www.bleepingcomputer.com
November 21, 2024 at 10:29 AM
As many more users are flocking to BlueSky from social media platforms like X/Twitter, so are threat actors. BleepingComputer has spotted cryptocurrency scams popping up on BlueSky just as the service surpassed 20 million users this week. www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit...
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Part 2: Why do boosted trees outperform deep learning on tabular data??
@alanjeffares.bsky.social & I suspected that answers to this are obfuscated by the 2 being considered very different algs🤔
Instead we show they are more similar than you’d think — making their diffs smaller but predictive!🧵1/n
@alanjeffares.bsky.social & I suspected that answers to this are obfuscated by the 2 being considered very different algs🤔
Instead we show they are more similar than you’d think — making their diffs smaller but predictive!🧵1/n
November 20, 2024 at 5:02 PM
Part 2: Why do boosted trees outperform deep learning on tabular data??
@alanjeffares.bsky.social & I suspected that answers to this are obfuscated by the 2 being considered very different algs🤔
Instead we show they are more similar than you’d think — making their diffs smaller but predictive!🧵1/n
@alanjeffares.bsky.social & I suspected that answers to this are obfuscated by the 2 being considered very different algs🤔
Instead we show they are more similar than you’d think — making their diffs smaller but predictive!🧵1/n
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Can deep learning finally compete with boosted trees on tabular data? 🌲
In our NeurIPS 2024 paper, we introduce RealMLP, a NN with improvements in all areas and meta-learned default parameters.
Some insights about RealMLP and other models on large benchmarks (>200 datasets): 🧵
In our NeurIPS 2024 paper, we introduce RealMLP, a NN with improvements in all areas and meta-learned default parameters.
Some insights about RealMLP and other models on large benchmarks (>200 datasets): 🧵
November 18, 2024 at 2:15 PM
Can deep learning finally compete with boosted trees on tabular data? 🌲
In our NeurIPS 2024 paper, we introduce RealMLP, a NN with improvements in all areas and meta-learned default parameters.
Some insights about RealMLP and other models on large benchmarks (>200 datasets): 🧵
In our NeurIPS 2024 paper, we introduce RealMLP, a NN with improvements in all areas and meta-learned default parameters.
Some insights about RealMLP and other models on large benchmarks (>200 datasets): 🧵
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November 9, 2024 at 9:13 AM
New here? Interested in AI/ML? Check out these great starter packs!
AI: go.bsky.app/SipA7it
RL: go.bsky.app/3WPHcHg
Women in AI: go.bsky.app/LaGDpqg
NLP: go.bsky.app/SngwGeS
AI and news: go.bsky.app/5sFqVNS
You can also search all starter packs here: blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...
AI: go.bsky.app/SipA7it
RL: go.bsky.app/3WPHcHg
Women in AI: go.bsky.app/LaGDpqg
NLP: go.bsky.app/SngwGeS
AI and news: go.bsky.app/5sFqVNS
You can also search all starter packs here: blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...
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Excited to share our #NeurIPS 2024 Oral, Convolutional Differentiable Logic Gate Networks, leading to a range of inference efficiency records, including inference in only 4 nanoseconds 🏎️. We reduce model sizes by factors of 29x-61x over the SOTA. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2411.04732
November 17, 2024 at 4:34 PM
Excited to share our #NeurIPS 2024 Oral, Convolutional Differentiable Logic Gate Networks, leading to a range of inference efficiency records, including inference in only 4 nanoseconds 🏎️. We reduce model sizes by factors of 29x-61x over the SOTA. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2411.04732
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November 17, 2024 at 9:19 PM
go.bsky.app/gPKeHz 👇🦋😌 ML/AI researchers
📱 iPhone users: which 🦋 client do you prefer?
November 16, 2024 at 8:29 PM
📱 iPhone users: which 🦋 client do you prefer?
Guess his AI isn't so bad after all :)
November 16, 2024 at 6:47 PM
Guess his AI isn't so bad after all :)
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November 15, 2024 at 10:39 PM
ICYMI a starter pack to fill your feed with awesome women in AI go.bsky.app/LaGDpqg