Data Scientist @ BNP

Brussels, Belgium
Joined June 2014
Maxime De Bruyn retweeted
The 16th Belgium NLP Meetup (bit.ly/3CgGPdw) will be organized in Leuven on November 17 2022. Among others, Maxime De Bruyn (@_maxime_db) from CLiPS will talk about whether language models know what they don't know.
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To me, huge ML models are to machine learning what formula 1 is to the car industry!
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Best paper talks happening now! Congrats to the best paper authors, @maxime_de_bruyn et. al., on "MFAQ: a Multilingual FAQ Dataset" (mrqa.github.io/assets/papers…)
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Maxime De Bruyn retweeted
Replying to @EmmanuelMacron
Nous y travaillons @EmmanuelMacron ! Début 2021, il sera possible de connaître l’impact environnemental des produits alimentaires dans l’application 🌱
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I'm really excited about the ongoing research in conversational AI. Today Amazon released the largest topic-based conversational dataset to date: 10.7k conversations, 235k utterances, 4.7M words. All convos are linked to particular knowledge sources. developer.amazon.com/blogs/a…
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It's really strange to see a world where YC Demo Day exists, bursting with ideas and optimism and technology, and yet at the same time Europe chooses to invest in negative interest rate bonds. Europe is doomed. Demo Day is magical. Two ends of the pessimism/optimism spectrum.
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Here's why the circle has 360 degrees: around 2400 B.C., the ancient Sumerians noticed the Sun's annual path across the sky was ~ 360 days. In order to track the Sun's motion, they decided to divide the circle in 360 degrees.
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Interesting to see the spread of some of these. “Serious possibility” and “real possibility” are weasel words flowingdata.com/2018/07/06/h…
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The fifth hyperfactorial: 5⁵ × 4⁴ × 3³ × 2² × 1¹ = 86400000 milliseconds is exactly 1 day!
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Uber, if you can't master stats and ML well enough to predict that a meal not yet picked up from a restaurant 10 minutes away will take longer than 6 more minutes to get to me, I'm not getting into one of your self-driving cars.
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*Analyst asks Musk a question* 15 seconds of silence... Elon Musk: "We're going to YouTube! Sorry. These questions are so dry. They're killing me." Meanwhile, $TSLA: stocktwits.com/camr43554/mes…
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Experiment about honesty in 15 countries: online participants asked to flip a coin, report the result & receive $3-5 if it's "head". Who resisted temptation? Every country reports more than 50% heads. British were the most honest, reporting 52%. sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Here's what Mark Zuckerberg had to say about Facebook the very first time we interviewed him.
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"All the math you need in the stock market you get in the fourth grade."- Peter Lynch
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In 1999, I asked David Gerrold to write a "future of computing" prediction for the magazine where I was Technology Editor. Here's what he wrote.
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On the use of science bonds to fund risky, expensive pieces of science: mitsloan.mit.edu/newsroom/ar…
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“ Code is like humor. When you have to explain it, it’s bad.” – Cory House
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Decided to write up something a little different from my usual posts: Introduction to Learning to Trade with Reinforcement Learning wildml.com/2018/02/introduct…
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Maxime De Bruyn retweeted
.@Nouriel tells Bloomberg's @tomkeene he believes Bitcoin is the “mother of all bubbles” ▶️
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