@LeifSimmatis

Postdoctoral fellow at UHN. Neuroscience + machine learning.

Joined October 2019
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At long last, weather that is not-bad enough to allow working on the balcony 🌞
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The top laptop here has served as my reliable backup since 2015 (got new in 2012) and will now once again step in as a replacement for yet another dead successor (bottom). This thing has filled in for 6 dead laptops of mine and others' over the years. Insane
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Calling for applications for Carpentries Instructor Training Workshop organized by UofT. An immersive 2-day virtual workshop focusing on the pedagogy of teaching Coding & Data Science skills to novice learners. 🧑‍🏫🧑‍💻 Apply by tomorrow! See more in the link: forms.office.com/pages/respo…
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When you read a job description from a Big Tech company requiring production experience in deep learning and transformers...🙄🙄 I guess they are hoping BERT's authors will apply 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️
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Super excited to have just been accepted for a Mitacs Elevate award!! This is a really great opportunity and I'm looking forward to it
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First big in-lab data collection day in over 2 years; I forgot how tiring but rewarding it is to gather your own data in a lab setting #research #AcademicTwitter
Reminder to my ML colleagues. @arxiv is not @github. Don't submit drafts to arXiv; you are wasting your colleagues' time. Submit when you have a final version ready for the research community to read and cite. Please enforce this rule on your students, too.
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Happy to be a part of this exciting new initiative at #UHN!
UHN Postdoc Association (UHNPA)@UHNPostdocs28 Oct 2021
We are extremely excited to introduce our 2021–2022 UHNPA Leadership Committee! Welcome aboard!🎉🎉 We will do our best to create a better community for our postdocs at UHN. Please stay tuned for our future events and opportunities! #TeamUHNPA #postdoc #UHN
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Frustrating that Ontario pays lip service to "being green", and then proposes projects like this that both encourage low-density transportation in the long term (of people and of goods), and will also produce substantial near-term carbon emissions #onpoli thestar.com/business/2021/10…

The hugely controversial Highway 413 will cost taxpayers billions. But just how much the province...

Fight for province to disclose costs to build Highway 413, which would pave over farmland, waterways and a portion of protected Greenbelt land, hits a roadblock as current estimates remain sealed in...

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Day 1 of learning about coding #iOS apps using #SwiftLang was a success! Of course this is just a publicly available demo 😅 but a start is a start! #congratslikeim5
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Me thinking about a programming project in Python on Windows: No problems, everything's fine here Me thinking about a programming project in Swift on MacOS:
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Explaining programming to a 6-year-old: 1. You have something you want to do. 2. You write code to do it. 3. The code doesn't work. 4. You fix the mistakes. 5. When the program works, you realize your idea was wrong. 6. You fix the idea. 7. Goto 2.
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Very cute! Except the goal of the robot here is to generalize, whereas the goal of the human here is (most likely) to personalize 😜
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It’s well known that neural networks model correlation and not causation. Recently, I’ve found it helpful to think about NN blocks as literal correlations of correlations of correlations … (incl. dense, norm, nonlin, conv, softmax, transformer, LMs, GANs, …) 🧵 1/20
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Really interesting intersection of #DeepLearning and #Neuroscience. We still obviously have a very incomplete picture of the complexity of the squishy bits in our heads, but this is still a really neat thought-provoking line of work sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Amen! We need to tackle this through comprehensive, collective action ASAP nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NE…

Call for Emergency Action to Limit Global Temperature Increases, Restore Biodiversity, and Protect...

A joint editorial published simultaneously in biomedical journals across the globe calls for swift and decisive action, noting that only fundamental and equitable changes to societies worldwide wil...

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How to write a paper
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Check out our recent pub investigating motor and cognitive change over time after transient ischemic attack using #Robotics! nature.com/articles/s41598-0…
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Presenting some new #DeepLearning motor speech research at BostonU, but from Toronto! Ahh, the weird world of virtual conferences...
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Looks like a really exciting way to learn more about #NLP with 🤗!
Hugging Face
@huggingface15 Jun 2021
We're hosting live sessions for all four chapters in the coming weeks! Come join us, learn about NLP and the 🤗 Ecosystem, and get your questions answered! Register for the live sessions on the forum: discuss.huggingface.co/t/liv…
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