Sai Chintala

What it took to get tenure in the Batman Studies Department in the 1960s, and what it takes to get tenure in Batman Studies today...

The shuttle bus

I once wrote to a full professor in Econ for the code - "code was available on request". The professor asked me to code it myself after reading the paper. Lol.

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LLMs are probably trained on a lot of pirated data. This working paper provides interesting evidence.

www.nber.org/papers/w33598

New blog: Why DuckDB is my first choice for data processing:
www.robinlinacre.com/recommend_du...

DuckDB for processing, Parquet for publishing. Simple and powerful!

www.robinlinacre.com/parquet_api/

DuckDB got a local UI. Thanks to our friends at MotherDuck, you can now interact with your DuckDB database through an interactive notebook, running on localhost. Read the announcement blog post at duckdb.org/2025/03/12/d...

Mutated DNA Restored to Normal in Gene Therapy Advance The small study in patients with a rare disorder that causes liver and lung damage showed the potential for precisely targeted infusions.

Researchers have corrected a disease-causing gene mutation with a single infusion carrying a treatment that precisely targeted the errant gene. The condition affects 100,000 Americans. These genetic treatments were fantasies 30 years ago, but they are now here.

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/h...

lol ... Good one!!

Evidently AI - ML and LLM system design: 500 case studies How do top companies apply AI? A database of 500 case studies from 100+ companies with practical ML use cases, LLM applications, and learnings from designing ML and LLM systems.

This is a pretty cool resource for applied ML: a list of "case studies" sourced from different companies describing problems they face and the methods they've tried to solve them.

Anyone know of something like this specific to geospatial/remote sensing data problems? #MLsky #CCAI #GISchat

Another health breakthrough.

Unbelievable news.

Pancreatic is one of the deadliest cancers.

New paper shows personalized mRNA vaccines can induce durable T cells that attack pancreatic cancer, with 75% of patients cancer free at three years—far, far better than standard of care.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

An image of Aaron Swartz with the following text: "Meta illegally downloaded 80+ TB of books from LibGen, Anna's Archive, and Z-library to train their AI models. In 2010, Aaron Swartz downloaded only 70 GBs of articles from JSTOR (0.0875% of Meta). Faced $1 million in fine and 35 years in jail. Took his own life in 2013.

My heart ached when I was reminded that Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for trying to make academic knowledge more accessible to the public. Meta, meanwhile, is doing it for their own bottom line. I'm going to guess that no one at Meta will be looking at spending 35 years in jail for this.

A *2011* grant from NSERC Research Tools and Instruments, for 60000 CAD, to Geoff Hinton (@geoffreyhinton.bsky.social)

For "Large scale machine learning using GPUs"

Everything you're seeing now started from a pittance of cash given by the Canadian government for fundamental research

Can't agree more. (BTW, republicans spending ~ $200 million on anti transgender ads might have had an effect on the narrative)

From my conversations, most seem to have a fear that their kids might get affected and change their gender/sexual orientation.

Change in Paris air quality between 2007 and 2023 using visuals

Air pollution has dropped significantly in #Paris in the last 15 years. Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social’s leadership has traded car space for green space, safe bike space, kid space.. and traded pollution for people.

Good trade.

Here are the first five sets of slides:

01 Introduction: psantanna.com/DiD/01_Intro...

02 Classical 2x2 setup: psantanna.com/DiD/02_two_b...

03 Clustering issues: psantanna.com/DiD/03_Clust...

04 Functional form: psantanna.com/DiD/04_Funct...

05 Covariates: psantanna.com/DiD/05_Covar...

When he was in the Navy, Jimmy Carter’s submarine was once docked in Bermuda. Some British officers invited only the white crew members to a cocktail party or something like that, and Carter said that if the crewmen of color weren’t invited then nobody was going. This was in the 1950s.

Jimmy Carter was the only US President to have lived in public housing.

He lived a life of service and consequence. May he rest in peace.

We’ve lost a great man. The economic reforms led by Manmohan Singh lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty, and gave them livelihoods, dignity— and hope. And by all accounts, he remained empathetic, humble, thoughtful, and gentle to the very end.

That looks like George's pose in Seinfeld ;)

This workshop was a game-changer !!

I'm proud of MIT for eliminating tuition for people whose families make less than $200,000 per year.

Stanford already charges no tuition for families below $150,000.

The top universities in America are much more affordable than most people realize.

Indian context - www.moneycontrol.com/technology/z...