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NeurIPS 2025 Tutorial Announcement
I’m excited to share that I will be presenting a 3-hour tutorial at NeurIPS 2025 on how to move from empirical tuning to statistically guaranteed hyperparameter selection.
Modern ML pipelines often rely on grid search, random search, or Bayesian ...
Post · December 19, 2025
Saint Cecilia's Society Punch
To my mind, winter is about brandy, and there's no brandy like Cognac. Its also about tropical flavors and fruits. Remember, our comrades in the southern hemisphere are in the midst of summer at the moment. Speaking of south...
This cocktail is f...
Post · December 16, 2025
Contested Conflicts: Diverse Perspectives on Gaza, Sudan, Ukraine, and Beyond
Post · December 16, 2025
Conference Junk Journal #5
From October 6th to 12th, I travelled to Ciudad de México to participate in the 25th Annual International Congress hosted by the Curriculum & Pedagogy Group and CORYMI (Red para la Promoción de la Salud, Educación y Bienestar Psicosocial en Comuni...
Post · December 15, 2025
Lab day out Autumn 2025: adventure in Egypt! 🐪
This Autumn we managed to find some time away from the computers and the lab to do our second official team building: an escape room all together. It was fun having to work together in a different environment – one covered in desert sand and very ...
Post · December 15, 2025
First official lab day out: fighting zombies! 🧟
We do our best to build a good working environment in the lab every day, but it was time for some serious team building away from pipettes and meeting rooms! So we embarked on a 3D virtual reality game to save humanity from a zombie viral infectio...
Post · December 15, 2025
Life Extension, Immortality and Ted Chiang
I’ve been thinking a lot about cryopreservation lately—like the kind Alcor does—and whether it’s actually science or more like a very sophisticated form of hope. People often say it’s not pseudoscience because it “doesn’t violate known physics.” A...
Post · December 15, 2025