Dan Roy
Research Director, Founding Faculty, Canada CIFAR AI Chair @VectorInst.
Full Prof @UofT - Statistics and Computer Sci. (x-appt) danroy.org
I study assumption-free prediction and decision making under uncertainty, with inference emerging from optimality.
- Tian and Karolina and team are at ICLR. Come say hi.
- So who’s read the 2027 article? What do you think?
- Someone has suggested I check out bsky again. So I'm back looking around here. Notification list is kinda boring. So any good conversations going on? Perhaps about LLM/AI reasoning?
- Anyone else have the worry that a lot of LLM research is .... just bad psychology?
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- I got to ski Revelstoke this winter break. Couple observations: the price of receiving 600 cm of snow by Jan 8 is that it is constantly snowing. Saw almost no sun the whole time and the peak was often in whiteout conditions (though North Bowl was always clear…). See image for more.
- Multiple friends have likely lost their homes in Los Angeles. Can’t imagine how disorienting this would be. They had only minutes to flee and grab belongings.
- OK. Practical question times. How are you adjusting your research given progress in reasoning style models? Also how are you adjusting the way you work?
- Pretraining is not done. It's just that theorists haven't told the hackers how to do it better.
- Now that I've had a taste of X without post length limitations, I've got to say that it is quite annoying have to fit tweets into 256 characters here on bsky. On X, when they get to long, they go below the fold, and so you're still incentivized to make it short. Can't we have that here?
- I've now read this paper carefully if anyone wants to discuss it.
- I've never understood people who block people on Twitter, outside of cases of harassment. Such weak sauce.
- Has anyone out there compared the GPU/memory specs for the new Macbook Pro M4 Pro/Max computers to the requirements to run inference in the more interesting open source LLM models, especially those aimed at reasoning? [1/2]
- Has anyone read the new Shalev-Shwartz paper on PAC reasoning yet and want to discuss?
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- Huge community response to this. Much appreciated.
- My 9 yo has finished all the Harry Potters. Any suggestion on where to go from here? Maybe age appropriate sci fi?
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