AI researcher who likes self-supervised, unsupervised and gen models. Was at @I_Hert_Space and @AspiaSpace, now at @astro_ai_cfa and @universe_tbd.
Joined November 2021
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Today is the day you (🫵!) get access to 80TB plus of data from over 30 astronomical surveys in one place. 4GB amount of RAM is enough even at Gaia Scale. Check it out here: huggingface.co/blog/hugging-…
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So… we just have AGI now right? Like OpenAI’s internal model is smart enough to solve the vast majority of problems someone might care about, given recent results. It’s just a matter of connecting it up right, data collection, etc. The intelligence part is solved.
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I found a weird star with Argon's help. Gaia DR3 4582145718700356096.
It's normal in visible light, stable and similar to our sun. In March 2010 it appeared ~60x brighter than expected in deep infrared heat (22 microns).
As if something around Mars-distance is catching 1.3% of the star's light and radiating it as heat.
Probably a huge cloud of debris from a major planetary collision. Or a radio-silent galaxy hiding behind it. But also the tiniest chance it's a technosignature.
Captured by NASA's WISE telescope, no observations at that wavelength since. Needs more data.
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Today we’re releasing two decision models, elephant-1 (9B) and mammoth-1 (27B), trained by the @baselabs team, available for free for one week on our Model APIs.
mammoth-1 is #1 on the Jev Decision Index and elephant-1 is tied for #1 on the Artificial Analysis Decision Index.
It’s a new model, but more importantly, this is an open-source model you can access, deploy, and post-train on Baseten (or wherever you do your best work).
The free week ends 10/27/26 at 11:59 PM PT. Try it and let us know what you think.
Try mammoth-1 here: baseten.co/library/mammoth-1…
Try elephant-1 here:
baseten.co/library/elephant-…
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People are getting into ML absurdly early now.
Dun Li applied to us for a research internship. Three papers at NeurIPS, a medal at the International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics.
Said he’d have to work remote though. He’s still in his last year of high school in Gelugor, Malaysia...
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People often ask me for my advice before taking industry AI jobs. For over a year my immediate response has been “I don’t think that working at OpenAI is moral.”
Nobody has ever gone broke betting on OpenAI to do the immoral thing.
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We’re building AGI from this train station
ML4 was trained on 3,800 NVIDIA Grace Blackwell GPUs in our European datacenters -- our cluster in Bruyères-le-Châtel built using our Series B fundraise.
We are investing heavily in infrastructure, with our Series C and D clusters coming online soon. This additional compute will let us train longer, pursue more ambitious post-training, and iterate faster.
We expect large and rapid improvements in the weeks and months ahead.
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Want to train astro-foundation models on 80TB+ of multimodal survey data without downloading any of it? 🔭
We are announcing a new open project to make on-the-fly xmatched streaming from @huggingface a reality, with the goal of understanding _how_ these models learn
Join us 👇
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Our paper "Do Tabular Foundation Models Know Physics?" was just accepted at the RPS workshop @NeurIPSConf 2026 ! 🎉
If you know my work you might wonder how I went from symbolic regression to tabular foundation models. They're much closer than they look. 🧵
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This is something I’m quite worried about and have been talking with researchers about recently. We really don’t know what labs are doing and therefore can’t study it.
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Physics also goes into the transformer hole.
Wow, I just found out that our team has been scooped by @AnthropicAI
anthropic.com/research/yes-c…
See the addendum of the post “How does it feel to be scooped by a machine?” written by my collaborator Lance Dixon (who was under NDA while checking the result)
I’m still processing, but not entirely surprised. I do I wish we had the time in the resources to commit to it.
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Human mental bandwidth remains the bottleneck preventing us from truly "augmented" intelligence/ 'symbiosis" with AI tools. Idk how to solve this problem (talking from personal painful experience :)
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“Lackin(ing) and publication record or credentials in the research area” as a barrier to contributing to science is the worst kind of medieval guild BS. Academia is not coping well with the AI age.
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I wonder what the reaction would have been if a billionaire had hired 10000 human mathematicians just to finish a major proof faster than a small group of people that were working on it
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AI should be controlled by the workers who build and use it, not by parasitic billionaires.
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Why doesn’t OpenAI use an equal amount of the money they spend to prove interesting conjectures in funding PhDs in the mathematical sciences?
That way we will have a next generation of researchers that can understand these results and formulate the next wave of conjectures.
