Pierre Alquier
@pierrealquier.bsky.social
Professor of Statistics @ ESSEC Business School, APAC campus Singapore 🇸🇬 https://pierrealquier.github.io/ Previously: RIKEN AIP 🇯🇵 ENSAE Paris 🇫🇷 🇪🇺 UCD Dublin 🇮🇪 🇪🇺 Université Paris Cité 🇫🇷 🇪🇺 Random posts about stats/maths/ML/AI, poor jokes & birds photo 🌈
I'm one of the 5 Singapore eBirders of the month (June 2026, based on tthe quality of the data submited to eBird) 😊 singaporebirds.com/blog/ebirder...
eBirders of the Month for June 2026 – Winners Announced!
Our first ever eBird challenge in Singapore was a success! Do look out for the next challenge soon!
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Counterexamples are important in proving and education. Recently, artificial intelligence produced counterexamples, disproving long-standing conjectures. Update: "Examples of counterexamples: a book conspectus in mathematics, computer science, philosophy" doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
Dr. Anthony Fauci urges Americans not to accept "Normalization of Untruths".
From Prediction to Understanding: Causal Discovery for Data Science and AI Applications EcoSta2026 speakerdeck.com/sshimizu2006... #speakerdeck
From Prediction to Understanding: Causal Discovery for Data Science and AI Applications
EcoSta2026
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I'm attending EcoSta in Kyoto this week. First plenary talk by Elvezio Ronchetti.
A nice tutorial on modern gradient-based MCMC samplers highlighting the link between continuous time theoretical analysis and issues that matter to practitioners. This would have been ideal background for understanding modern developments in MCMC I saw at math.ethz.ch/fim/activiti...
From Continuous Dynamics to Practical Gradient-Based Samplers
Gradient-based Markov chain Monte Carlo methods are often introduced as a catalog of algorithms: Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (HMC), the Metropolis-adjusted Langevin algorithm (MALA), the No-U-Turn Sampler...
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Two year Teaching Fellow post at Warwick Stats. CLOSING DEADLINE: Monday 17 August 2026 at 11:55pm (UK Time). warwick-careers.tal....
(presque) tout est là: "Une partie du problème est lié à la culture administrative française, qui considère (i) qu’il est extrêmement grave de payer à tort une somme, fût-elle modique (ii) qu’en revanche le temps de travail nécessaire aux procédures, n’étant pas comptabilisé, est gratuit."
David Monniaux@monniauxd.bsky.social · 2w agoJe ne me fais pas d'illusion : les vrais problèmes de simplification administrative de la recherche sont très techniques (par exemple la documentation) et/ou des questions d'attitude, pas le genre de choses où un ministre ou un député peut se faire valoir. blogs.mediapart.fr/david-monnia...
Affected are many senior / prominent faculty. I have been worried about this sort of thing for universities for quite some time, but it's still surprising to see from a university as old as IIT this early (one could explain away Hampshire college, or New School etc to mismanagement, but not here).
Illinois Institute of Technology cuts over 100 faculty and staff positions, quietly declares financial crisis
Mass layoffs at Illinois Institute of Technology are in part to “ensure fiscal stability” at the university, which has its main campus in Bronzeville.
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In July last year Sam Altman, OpenAI’s boss, declared that customer-support jobs would soon be “totally, totally gone” because of AI. Yet in the Philippines the offshoring business is growing
The Philippines’ big offshoring industry is growing despite AI
How long will that last?
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Random meeting near ESSEC: white-crested laughingthrushes. Not a native bird from Singapore, but often escapes from cages...
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SS13853 CEREBRIS Research Associate (Biomechanical Motion Analysis & Machine Vision) - Jobs at Bath
CEREBRIS Research Associate (Biomechanical Motion Analysis & Machine Vision)
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tenuretracker.info@tenuretracker.bsky.social · 7d agoUniversity of Bath (@uniofbath.bsky.social) is hiring: CEREBRIS Research Associate (Biomechanical Motion Analysis & Machine Vision) #postdoc #biomechanics #computervision
📢 The Department of Computer Science at The University of Manchester is hiring a Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in AI/Machine Learning ✨ Further details in the LinkedIn job advert: www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/44...
The University of Manchester hiring Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning in Manchester, England, United Kingdom | LinkedIn
Posted 4:49:38 PM. The Department of Computer Science seeks to strengthen and expand its research in AI & Machine…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.
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Recently published, a paper on mortality modelling with Pedro Menezes de Araújo and Claire Gormley. doi.org/10.1093/jrss...
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This is an excellent read on the (possible) future of mathematics in the age of AI.
Clément Canonne@ccanonne.github.io · last wk.FWIW, here are Terence Tao’s slides at the ICM on maths and AI: teorth.github.io/tao-web/slid... @teorth.bsky.social (I am not endorsing nor criticizing the content, but this is a useful and thoughtful set of points and views in the discussion, from someone who has deeply engaged with the matter)
Jose Cribeiro-Ramallo, Florian Kalinke, Zolt\'an Szab\'o: Minimax Lower Bounds of Kernel Discrepancy Estimation: MMD, HSIC, KSD https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.24235 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.24235 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.24235
arXiv now hosts OVER 3 million scientific articles! 🤯 arXiv reached the 2 million article mark back in 2022 - it's only taken 4 years to add another million. Read more on the blog about this milestone and our record-bre... https://blog.arxiv.org/2026/07/09/arxiv-now-hosts-over-3-million-articles/
There are still a few weeks left to submit to EARL. We welcome your submissions!
Guillaume Salha-Galvan@guillaumesalhagalvan.com · 3w agoInterested in LLMs and recommender systems? The EARL workshop is back for its 3rd edition, this time co-located with #CIKM2026 in Rome, Italy! 🇮🇹 🥳 The call for papers is now available. We welcome your submissions! Website: earl-workshop.github.io #RecSys #LLMs #LargeLanguageModels #CIKM
Sad news: sponge Bob passed away last week. (German newspaper found Saturday in Oberwolfach. I can't read German but I can't see any other possible explanation for this photo).
I appreciate Clément's modesty ("What I'm suggesting below may not work everywhere, but here's my own advice"). However, this is one of the most reasonable advices I read on the topic ⬇️
Clément Canonne@ccanonne.github.io · last wk."We're all worried," as what it means to do research (in my field, Theoretical CS) seems to be shifting, and shifting fast. What to do? Senior researchers must lead by example, knowing that not everything will pan out. What I'm suggesting below may not work everywhere, but here's my own advice: 1/
The mathematical world is shook at AI's advances. The great Terry Tao's talk at #ICM2026 Working Hypothesis: AI will reasonably soon become capable of a reasonable fraction of research level math. Given this hypothesis, what are the consequences? Livetweeted slides here: x.com/AlexKontorov...
Are you on academic job market for #Postdoc or #TT Assistant/Assoc. Prof/Lecturer/ #AP /Research Scholar/ #fellowship jobs for 2026-2027 in #CS/ #SocSci/ #InfoSci/ Management Science/ #Psych & similar? Like last year, I am maintaining a list (so far ~200 positions) docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
2026-2027 Postdoc/TT/Research Scientist Positions in Information/CS/Social Science + Related Fields
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ICLR 2027 has authorship quotas: - No more than 20 submissions per author - No more than 1 submission where no author has a paper previously accepted to a major ML conference From iclr.cc/Conferences/...
