Pierre-Alexandre Balland
@pa_balland
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Chief Data Scientist @CEPS_thinktank. Previously: Utrecht Uni, MIT Media Lab, UCLA
Brussels
Joined September 2018
Have you heard about Economic Complexity?. Check out our new paper for a brief introduction to this powerful new paradigm: Thanks for the great collaboration @TBroekel, @dario_diodato, @elisagiulianitw, @ricardo_hausman, @NeaveOClery & D. Rigby!
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RT @hiro_yams: OpenArm 1 launches within two weeks ๐.Fully open-source. For physical AI research in contact-rich, human-safe spaces. https:โฆ.
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RT @Thom_Wolf: Thrilled to finally share what we've been working on for months at @huggingface ๐ค@pollenrobotics. Our first robot: Reachy Miโฆ.
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RT @JacklouisP: Actuators eat up 30-50% of a humanoid robot's BOM cost. Mass adoption? Not at these prices. This is one of the most persisโฆ.
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RT @cheztontontlse: Bon @UBBrugby, on a quelque chose ร te dire. On rigole, on chambre, on charrie. Mais tu es magnifique. Une confrontaโฆ.
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RT @chris_j_paxton: Why improving data collection infrastructure is probably the most important thing you can do for robotics https://t.co/โฆ.
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RT @fietsprofessor: 'We cannot change; we are not #Amsterdam!!1!'. Anne Hidalgo, mayor of #Paris: 'Hold my๐ท+๐ฅ!'.๐ฒ +180km new bike paths. ๐ณโฆ.
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RT @CEPS_thinktank: ๐๏ธ What happens when the war ends?. With almost 10% of Ukrainianโs population now living in the EU, Europe must prepareโฆ.
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Bravo etโฆenfin.
In a 'sea-change policy shift', Berlin signalled to Paris it will not oppose French efforts to ensure nuclear power is treated on par with renewable energy under EU law, French and German officials said.
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RT @aiworld_eu: ๐๐ ๐๐ง๐ฏ๐๐ฌ๐ญ๐ฆ๐๐ง๐ญ๐ฌ ๐จ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐๐๐ค ๐ ๐๐๐๐ค #๐๐. This week, AI startups and companies raised about ~$1.3 billion of funding to driveโฆ.
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RT @adcock_brett: Another huge week of AI and robotics news. So, I summarized everything from OpenAI, Google, Meta, Microsoft, FutureHouseโฆ.
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If you are around Boston on June 3, you don't want to miss the @HarvardGrwthLab's Workshop on Economic Complexity ๐.
Join us for the Economic Complexity, Geography, and Innovation Workshop 2025!. Weโre thrilled to announce the second edition of our workshop, bringing together leading scholars to explore the intersections of economic complexity, geography, and innovation. We will explore.
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The power of network science :).
The elected Pope scored first in our metrics of Status (eigenvector centrality). While we weren't try to "guess", our aim was to show that a robust methodology, grounded in sound theory, can illuminate even the most obscure corners of human behavior and organizational dynamics.
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RT @tegmark: This Singapore conference was an amazing AI safety comeback after the Paris flop: great consensus between a who's who from thโฆ.
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RT @GoogleAI: Today, in collaboration w/ colleagues at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA), we report the first-ever metโฆ.
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RT @CEPS_thinktank: Struggling to keep up with the torrent of policy documents, declarations, strategies, laws and regulations, and court cโฆ.
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RT @EnricoLetta: Keeping our system fragmented in 27 small national markets we will only make happy the giants,๐บ๐ธ๐จ๐ณ and the BRICS. In Warsaโฆ.
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RT @huggingface: Super happy to announce that we are acquiring @pollenrobotics to bring open-source robots to the world! ๐ค. Since @RemiCadeโฆ.
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RT @aiworld_eu: What did you miss last week?. Here are AI World's 10 notable research papers:. ๐๐๐ป๐๐ต๐ฟ๐ผ๐ฝ๐ถ๐ฐ ๐๐ฑ๐๐ฐ๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป ๐ฅ๐ฒ๐ฝ๐ผ๐ฟ๐: ๐๐ผ๐ ๐จ๐ป๐ถ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐๐ถ๐๐โฆ.
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