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Albert Buchard
@albert-buchard.bsky.social
Psychiatrist | Psychedelic & AI Research @unige_en | @QuotiDoc. No vibes... just credentials.
The Banana effect
January 7, 2026 at 11:37 AM
Not true, researching and training frontier models cost millions if not billions. If Meta did not release the LLAMA weights we would have had a chance to regulate.
Open sourcing small narrow models is overall a very good idea, open sourcing frontier models was not.
January 6, 2026 at 6:59 PM
Now I'll never get those nice medals..
January 4, 2026 at 7:35 PM
Hard disagree. I really don’t understand how people think open source frontier models should not be regulated. The world has gone completely mad.
January 4, 2026 at 6:15 AM
Same same
January 1, 2026 at 2:30 AM
That was my New Year’s Eve
January 1, 2026 at 1:30 AM
Favour either becoming a theory god, a builder of useful stuff, or an expert experimenter who designs solid interventions. If you really must, a data-crunching modeler, but with a relentless focus on predictive modelling.
September 21, 2025 at 6:22 PM
It may also be because the project you’re trying to install causal-pipe into has other constraints for the dependencies, newer or older versions of numpy for example. Then it could be a bit complex to find the right version that works for all dependencies, you need to look at the pip error trace.
September 20, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Depending on your machine, some pip packages may need to be compiled from source. That may be what you’re seeing.
What is the full pip error? What’s your machine/operating system?
You also need R if you want to use all the capabilities of the library.
September 20, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Wrong link indeed ! ;) thank you for pointing this out

pypi.org/project/caus...
causal-pipe
A Python package streamlining the causal discovery pipeline for easy use.
pypi.org
September 14, 2025 at 7:26 PM
September 13, 2025 at 8:00 AM
- Cyclic SCM solver for simulation/fit checks
- Model selection via pseudolikelihood + MMD^2

Causal discovery has loads of trade-offs, but the workflow feels powerful.

Next up: faster PySR hillclimb, longitudinal data, MSM with automated nuisance/weight models for IPTW, IPCW, AIPW.
Client Challenge
https://pypi.org/project/causal…
September 13, 2025 at 7:14 AM
- PySR integration (amazing library by @MilesCranmer) with chainable hill climbing: SEM → best graph → PySR, or run PySR directly.q
- FAS bootstrap edge inclusion probabilities for edge stability quantification and filtering
- With FAS/KCI → PySR works nicely for nonlinearities
Client Challenge
https://pypi.org/project/causal…
September 13, 2025 at 7:14 AM