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Patrick Mineault
@patrickmineault
NeuroAI researcher @ Amaranth Foundation, safety, open science. Previously engineer @ Google, Meta, Mila.
New York City
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    Patrick Mineault
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    Dec 2, 2024
    Excited to release what we’ve been working on at Amaranth Foundation, our latest whitepaper, NeuroAI for AI safety! A detailed, ambitious roadmap for how neuroscience research can help build safer AI systems while accelerating both virtual neuroscience and neurotech. 1/N
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    Patrick Mineault
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    Dec 17, 2021
    Super excited to finally release this handbook on writing good research code. Based on my experiences going from research to industry and research again.
    goodresearch.dev
    The Good Research Code Handbook
    This handbook is for grad students, postdocs and PIs who do a lot of programming as part of their research. It will teach you, in a practical manner, how to organize your code so that it is easy to...
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    Patrick Mineault
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    Aug 16, 2021
    A map of control theory from Brian Douglas engineeringmedia.com
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    Patrick Mineault
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    Nov 16, 2022
    Galactica is basically GPT-3 for science. It can write whitepapers, reviews, wikipedia pages and code. It knows how to cite and how to write equations. It's kind of big deal 1/ 🧵
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    Papers with Code
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    Nov 15, 2022
    🪐 Introducing Galactica. A large language model for science. Can summarize academic literature, solve math problems, generate Wiki articles, write scientific code, annotate molecules and proteins, and more. Explore and get weights: galactica.org
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    Patrick Mineault
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    May 19, 2022
    PaLM can answer questions that will make an average human's head explode
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    Patrick Mineault
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    Apr 10, 2022
    It takes two minutes to integrate torch.nn.Transformer into a model. So why did I spend my Friday evening coding a visual transformer (ViT) from scratch? Sometimes you have to go slow to go fast 🧵1/
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    Patrick Mineault
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    Aug 25, 2022
    There's a lot of bad vibes about academia, but if you're a big nerd, you enjoy thinking deeply about things for hours on end, and you're thinking about doing a PhD, by all means, do a PhD. Find a good lab with a supportive and respectful mentor, you'll cherish those 4+ years.
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    Patrick Mineault
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    Dec 15, 2020
    I'm writing research code very differently than I used to in grad school - from anxiety-inducing brittle academic code to test-driven development. Would others be interested in learning how to write research code that won't bite back?
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    Patrick Mineault
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    May 20, 2021
    Trying to place figures in LaTeX
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    Patrick Mineault
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    Oct 14, 2021
    A student writes: "I know python fairly well, but I want to improve my coding skills and learn to think in a mathematical and computational way". Some free resources to get started 📚🤔 1/
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    Patrick Mineault
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    Apr 7, 2022
    Dall-E 2 has a bit of trouble understanding text. Here's an image unCLIP generated for the prompt, “A sign that says deep learning.”
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    Patrick Mineault
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    Sep 1, 2021
    I've written a booklet on creating good research code. Based on my experiences going from research to industry and research again. Releasing this semester. Looking for test readers. DM me!
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    Patrick Mineault
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    Jan 1, 2022
    There's been tremendous advancements in understanding the brain with deep unsupervised models. Here's my end-of-year write-up.
    Unsupervised models of the brain
    From xcorr.net
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    Patrick Mineault
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    Jun 8, 2022
    I searched "how to make an academic website" on a popular search engine, and boy, some of the advice in the top 10 results is outdated! Here's how you make an academic website👇 1/