Cătălina Cangea, PhD

RIP and thank you for the art 🖤

Those were the days

catalinacangea Listen to catalinacangea | SoundCloud is an audio platform that lets you listen to what you love and share the sounds you create.

The daily music bite-making continues, check out my SC if you wish! on.soundcloud.com/zpQdwrpCgYEY...

8/1/25 Made on the DLR in the evening 🚊🌃✨

on.soundcloud.com/rmFhcZ1LDPr3...

Made it past one week!

7/1/25 Drunk blues 🥃🎹

on.soundcloud.com/tBsCyGjiGDTE...

Lots of fun, ran out of space 🤣

6/1/25 Hopeful Monday 🌤️

on.soundcloud.com/A6RVPT3CVrYK...

Monday 🤞

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.

5/1/25 Less inspiring Sunday!

on.soundcloud.com/8SjK1U2DfXsT...

Sunday (lack of) inspiration

4/1/25 Listen to 4/1/25 by catalinacangea #np on #SoundCloud

on.soundcloud.com/EfPyPQEKhQjg...

❄️

3/1/25 No percussion this time, didn't feel like it was needed :)

on.soundcloud.com/prGq5vSjzbkB...

Still discovering new sounds 🎶

2/1/25 Second day of the year, second mix - discovering Ableton Note kits 😵‍💫

on.soundcloud.com/5x4cqPouAGt6...

Day 2!

1/1/25 Made with Ableton Note - first set :)

on.soundcloud.com/54n5andsEf52...

trying to make one piece of music per day this year, started in @Ableton Note and it's really fun :)

A Monet Christmas Eve to All! - Kate Bush It’s been really exciting to see the wonderfully positive feedback to the Little Shrew animation. Thank you so much to all of you who made a donation to War

www.katebush.com/news_article...

😓

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.

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...

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

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

Omg. Incredible.

Bluesky is truly having an incredible run as Threads' head of product

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.

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

The most amazing news. Hannah Fry is coming to @cambridge-uni.bsky.social!

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

bsky.app/profile/tool... - the migration is starting!(?) 🙏🤘

Anytime, Dr. Curth

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...

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...

However, you did the hard work and took the time to explain why. And here we actually care about the details - why bother writing 8-page papers otherwise? 😉

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

Hi! This is awesome :) thanks for curating. Pls add me too if there is still space 👩🏻‍💻

Paper screenshot and Figure 1 (c) with cumulative ablations for components of RealMLP-TD.

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): 🧵