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Quick reminder that I’m recruiting PhD students @UMNComputerSci for Fall 2024, and the deadline for early applications is Dec 15. Join us!

Twitter has open sourced their #recsys code. They have also published a summary of the main components. My conclusion: nothing surprising, groundbreaking, or that you wouldn't expect if you work in this area. Nothing really SOTA either blog.twitter.com/engineering/en…

@MIT_CSAIL An equalizer in an unequal world.

Describe coding in exactly six words. We’ll RT all the best ones. #CodingIn6Words

@md_carly Thank you for sharing this Carly. Sending you the strength and love for you and your family. I feel bad that I did not reach out early. I can't share the pain but I do share your motivation to "reduce information asymmetry".

As some of you know, 2022 threw me a curveball: I was diagnosed with breast cancer. It was a turbulent time for my family. I’ve had a chance to reflect on the year that was, and I’ve shared my thoughts here. I hope these musings resonate with you! Peace. @carly.m.eckert/clarity-with-retrospection-8da951088c70" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@carly.m.ecker…

@rohanpdsouza @suchisaria @AdvataInc @md_carly @TGregMcK @ryanbrush @kelhog @ankurt @healthcora It was/is always a pleasure and thrill to be working with you Rohan and everyone on this list. I would love to collaborate again.

@suchisaria My entire previous team at @AdvataInc 🤗. @md_carly @TGregMcK @vikasnitr @ryanbrush @kelhog @ankurt @healthcora and others were/are the absolute best in the business

Who are your favorite people working in Health AI? I mean those who understand ML and, more importantly, how to bring these approaches to the REAL WORLD at scale? Please RT if you’re connected with real-world AI and deployment focused groups.

@healthcora @mraganhart @pk_koduri @NDHendrix @healthbjk @jdwhitlock @nikillinit it is rather more guaranteed (and arguably simple) for an AI system to know if the patient is different to the cohort of patients used for training. No, this is not about explanations but simple user-friendly disclaimers. 3/

@healthcora @mraganhart @pk_koduri @NDHendrix @healthbjk @jdwhitlock @nikillinit a simple yet powerful strategy that I have encountered is to use personalized #disclaimers for each personalized #prediction. While a designer of an AI system can make their best effort to know and mitigate the potential biases in the data and model, .. 2/

😱 severe limitations in clinical AI model generalizability = harmful to patients if models even make it to production 🙋‍♀️ if you receive care in a place outside of Mass, NY, & CA?

Check out our @aaclmeeting paper “Re-contextualizing Fairness in NLP: The Case of India”. We analyze India-specific biases in #NLProc and propose a research agenda for meaningful fairness interventions. arxiv.org/abs/2209.12226 w/ @sunipadev @partha_p_t @shachi_dave @vinodkpg 🧵

My alma mater Sharif University is under attack right now. The students are being shot and arrested. They're not even safe in the dorms. #SharifUniversity #MahsaAmini twitter.com/AfsoonAB/statu…

Stay safe #Florida

I'm on the job market! I design, build, and evaluate human-AI systems with a focus on human-centered criteria such as understandability, effectiveness, & reliability. I'm interested in both industry and academic positions. Please reach out if you know of relevant opportunities!

It is always a pleasure to meet @grouplens members and @jkonstan wherever they are in the world. This time, the occasion was #RecSys2022 and location is #Seattle. Impact of #movielens dataset was seen across all sessions of #RecSys2022.

#Singapore it is. This city has been my favorite place. Looking forward to #RecSys2023 in Singapore. Great choice, well done @ACMRecSys and well done #RecSys2022 committee for great success in #Seattle. Thank you @maxharp3r @jengolbeck Vanessa Murdock.

#food #RecSys2022 fond of pizza? Like variety of toppings on your pizza? Go for this #Seattle favorite #ModPizza, a block away from the venue. MOD Pizza maps.app.goo.gl/Gm2pCsHxXCWi35…

#reception #RecSys2022 the aquarium space is much larger than it might look. Don't forget to explore different areas and exhibitions around the aquarium.

Looking forward to meet and learn at #RecSys2022 this week. As a #Seattle local, happy to help attendees find interesting places to explore. Few suggestions on food/drinks as well as sightseeing in thread below 👇🏽

New amazing repos discovered at #RecSys2022 ⭐️ google-research/recsim ⭐️ anyscale/academy ⭐️ NVIDIA-Merlin/publications ⭐️ GoogleCloudPlatform/nvidia-merlin-on-vertex-ai ⭐️ explainablerecsys/recsys2022 If you know of another great repo and want to share it, just drop it here 👇

It is great and proud to see Indian companies like @sharechatapp joining and sponsoring mainstream research conferences #RecSys2022 #Seattle. #Kudos to the design team on appreciation of colors in every part of the company's artifacts. Love it!

More on the #SIIM framework of Scope, Identify, Implement, and Mitigate: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/35… Great work. FYI @vonaurum @healthcora

Great to see researchers from @Spotify (hello @hsmcramer!) looking at these challenges in large RecSys systems. #RecSys2022. Choosing fairness metrics becomes even more complicated in #healthcare. Learn more here: advata.com/blog/advata-re… from our work @AdvataInc

Great vibes across the #RecSys2022 #reception party at Seattle Aquarium. Thanks to the @SeattleAquarium team and staff for great arrangements which allowed guests to have food and drink across indoor/outdoor settings while learning about sea animals and fishes.