Pacific swallow #birds

Wouaw un nouveau livre de Jake Adelstein arrive en avril: "Code bleu"! 🤗 www.editions-marchialy.fr/livre/code-b...

Lu ces derniers temps: deux romans de Park Min-Kyu. "Ping Pong", sur le harcèlement scolaire, m'a semblé très original tant sur la forme que sur le fond. "Celle que j'aimais" est moins original, très influencé par les premiers romans de Haruki Murakami, mais reste une très belle histoire.

Intermediate egret aka medium heron // median egret // 0.5-quantile egret @ lower Seletar reservoir #birds

I'll give a short course at the Machine Learning Summer School 2027 in Okinawa. In really enjoyed this event in 2024, I'm looking forward to this new edition! oist.github.io/mlss2027okin...

Important OpEd by 2 Nobel laureates @umasschan.bsky.social Drs. Ambros and Mello www.bizjournals.com/boston/news/...

Common sandpiper #birds

Fun times: a paper of ours is finally "properly published" in AAP: 'Weak Poincaré inequalities for Markov chains: Theory and applications' - Christophe Andrieu, Anthony Lee, Sam Power, Andi Q. Wang This was the final part of a trilogy of joint works during Andi's and my postdoc.

"Road signs were just the beginning. In the 1920s a far more ambitious idea began to take shape: what if symbols could be used in the communication of information other than just the rules of the road? What if they could become a language in their own right?" engelsbergideas.com/essays/the-d...

Je n'avais jamais lu Jean Echenoz avant le weekend dernier : j'ai bien ri 🤗

Happy to announce a new special issue of 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘋𝘢𝘵𝘢 𝘚𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘐𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘨 (a journal of the 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘈𝘴𝘴𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯) on 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐈𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠. 📅 Submission deadline: 𝟑𝟏 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔 💡 𝐍𝐨 𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐥𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐬 More details: think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...

Collared kingfisher #birds

🌴📊📈 - AISTATS 2026 workshops For the first time, AISTATS (May 2-5 in Tangier, Morocco) will have a day of workshops! Please submit your best work by Feb. 27th: - calibration-workshop.github.io - optimal-workshop26.github.io - causcale.github.io virtual.aistats.org/virtual/2026... 👇

The Australasian Applied Statistics Conference 2026 website is now live! aasc2026.netlify.app #AASC2026 #rstats #statsky

Join the global R community in Warsaw! We welcome submissions from all experience levels. We are looking for: 🎤 Talks (Standard & Lightning) 🧑‍🏫 Tutorials 📊 Posters 👥 Panels Topics range from AI, Positron IDE & Production to Bio/Social Sciences & Community building. 👉️ user2026.r-project.org/call/

Yesterday evening at the Filmhouse. Simply beautiful.

To all convex analysis freaks: here's new perspective of flow matching🔭 The denoising operator from the corrupted to the target data is indeed a proximal operator of the Brenier potential! This viewpoint leads to Lyapunov analysis: FM identifies target support. arxiv.org/abs/2602.12683

This year I'm teaching a new course on generative models for visual content (images, video, 3D, etc). It's mostly me rambling about recent papers, design choices I like/hate. The slides of the first lectures are here: davidpicard.github.io/teaching/ Use right arrow to navigate past the blank page.

✏️ 🎓 Check out the Machine Learning Summer School on Reliability & Safety! Co-organised by ELLIS Unit Warsaw, @jagiellonskiuni.bsky.social, GMUM, ML in PL and IDEAS Research Institute. Open to PhD students, postdocs, & industry scientists. 📍 Kraków 🇵🇱 📅 Jun 29-Jul 3 🔗 https://mlss2026.mlinpl.org

Registration for the upcoming BNP Networking Workshop in Seoul, South Korea, is now open. You can register for the meeting at the following link: bayesian.org/civicrm/even... ISBA members save $100 (or $50 for students). To receive your discount, please sign in to your account before registering.

Common iora #birds

🚨 🔬 PhD positions at Google DeepMind in France 🇫🇷 We are advertising Master Level Intern positions at Google DeepMind within our Frontier AI Unit. These could lead to co-advised PhD positions with Google DeepMind and French academic institutions. job-boards.greenhouse.io/deepmind/job...

Sending us back to the Dark Ages www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/h...

Happy new year!

Yesterday morning, on the way to work, just in front of the train station, I met this beautiful hornbill 😍 #birds Very approachable: I was able to take this photo with my phone...

Asian openbill: portrait @ lower Seletar reservoir #birds

France hammer Wales to keep Grand Slam dream alive https://www.bbc.com/sport/rugby-union/articles/cddn92m8nd5o?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss

New YouTube video posted “The Joy of Coupling” Happy Valentine’s Day! youtu.be/rpW2ZYtXn6o?...

Was saddened today to hear the passing of Joseph Halpern. I knew him from my undergraduate days at Cornell, for part of which he was the department chair. www.bangsfuneralhome.com/obituaries/j...

There has been some online discussion of prompt watermarks in ICML submissions. tl;dr: - Yes, this is one of the *conference*'s (several) scientific integrity measures - Yes, it's not infalliable (but it still helps) - No, your paper won't be desk rejected as a result 1/4

Asian brown flycatcher #birds

It feels like coming back home after a few months 😊 #filmhouse

Intermediate egret @ lower Seletar reservoir #birds

2025 was a blockbuster year for TMLR -- big growth from 2024, but also cementing our J2C partnership with NeurICMLR, and launching Beyond PDF. Also, cutting the cord: with the founding EiCs completing their tenure, I am now the old guy 👴 Check out the annual report for more!

🎉 Announcing TabICLv2: State-of-the art Table Foundation Model, fast and open source A breakthrough for tabular ML: better prediction and faster runtime than alternatives, work by Jingang Qu, David Holzmüller @dholzmueller.bsky.social , Marine Le Morvan, and myself 👇

C'est le moment de rejoindre l'équipe IPP ! 👇

New preprint 📢 arxiv.org/abs/2602.09161 Lead by Sherman Khoo (PhD student at Compass CDT), with Song Liu and Mark Beaumont. We adjust SBI summaries at test time to improve robustness.

Quick math question (@ccanonne.github.io?): let's say I sample n points iid from a gaussian in dimension d. What is the ratio of the volume of the biggest cone without samples, intersected with the smallest encompassing hypersphere, and that hypersphere. i.e., the relative volume without sample

In February's Environmental and Resource Economics: sovereign debt risk poses challenges and sets constraints even for high income countries. Caterina Seghini examines how climate change complicates the picture. #Econsky #EAERE

I have a stupid question. I don't know if I should ask it given how polarised are the opinions on AI...

++ Major News ++ AABI is now ProbML: the Symposium on Probabilistic Machine Learning! Very excited about this! ProbML will be co-located with ICML in Seoul! Check out our new website: probml.cc!

ProbML 2026 (formerly AABI) invites submissions on probabilistic ML (both Bayesian and otherwise!), July 5 in Seoul (co-located with ICML). Website: probml.cc. Tracks: proceedings (PMLR), workshop, fast track. New focus includes applications in healthcare and climate! Submit by: 20 March 2026.

If you are interested working with me as a postdoc on probabilistic machine learning, please consider reaching out and applying for the postdoc call by digital futures (link below). 🔗 www.digitalfutures.kth.se/call/up-to-t...

"Catastrophes naturelles, catastrophes évitables ou imprévisibles ?" freakonometrics.hypotheses.org/88359

DYNSTOCH 2026 will be in Gothenburg, Sweden. DYNSTOCH is a yearly conference to advance statistical inference and simulation for stochastic processes via modern probability tools and computationally intensive methods dynstoch2026.pages.dev Submit an abstract until April 15. Register until May 15

I'll give a talk at the Information Theory in Modern Science workshop (July 6-10, OIST, Japan). Looking forward to this event 😊 www.oist.jp/conference/i...

La librairie scientifique Jacques Gabay rue Saint-Jacques c'est fini. Il avait trouvé un créneau intéressant cet ancien ingénieur en bâtiment. Les livres étaient chers, mais utiles pour les bibliothèques universitaires.

We are recruiting four positions connected to Machine Learning, Statistical Learning, and AI for Science in the Applied Mathematics department at École polytechnique. Join our vibrant community at IP Paris and Hi! Paris IA center. List below🧵 tinyurl.com/3jpw9t26

Large flock of Asian openbills flying tonight, seen on my way to the groceries. A few months ago, a few hundreds of these birds arrived in Singapore for the first time in more than ten years. I wonder if they are now gathering before leaving? Or if it's yet a new group coming here...

A few days ago, Tash Aw was on French TV talking about his latest novel. I didn't know about him then but I liked what he said and I found his story interesting, so I bought the novel, and read it today. It's really nice.