Dan Roy
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ML / AI researcher. Research Director and Canada CIFAR AI Chair, @VectorInst. Professor, @UofT (Statistics/CS).
University of Toronto
Joined June 2009
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In Alberta for this, was fun, thank you for the invite!
That orange sky is delivering. Thank you Alberta! Till we meet again.
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Wow this tweet has taken on a life of its own, with many quote tweets saying “look, academia is broken”. But this was ChatGPT vibing. It’s likely itself an echo of popular conceptions of academia! And so what we are just seeing is confirmation bias. “See! Academia is as bad as
Too close to home? Junior researcher: I’m publishing papers at NeurIPS, my students are happy, but my chair says I’m “not impactful enough.” I don’t know what that means. Senior researcher: What did you tell them you accomplished last year? Junior: 3 top-tier papers, a new
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Too close to home? Junior researcher: I’m publishing papers at NeurIPS, my students are happy, but my chair says I’m “not impactful enough.” I don’t know what that means. Senior researcher: What did you tell them you accomplished last year? Junior: 3 top-tier papers, a new
Junior PM: I'm shipping everything on time, team loves me, but my manager says I'm "not strategic enough." I'm exhausted trying to figure out what that means. Senior PM: What did you tell him you accomplished last quarter? Junior PM: Delivered 5 features, reduced tech debt,
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As a motivating example, imagine a drug trial where it takes time for the effect to appear and only a limited number of nurses are available to check how participants fared. We're actively working on expanding the work further.
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This past COLT, @IdanAttias and I collaborated with a phenomenal undergrad (Alexander Ryabchenko). He's highlighted here. Congrats, Alexander. https://t.co/RXMlPsujMr Here's the paper he wrote: "Capacity-Constrained Online Learning with Delays: Scheduling Frameworks and Regret
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From the climate crisis to AI and civil engineering, this year's rising stars are working to solve some of humanity's biggest problems
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Congratulations to Dr. Ekansh Sharma (@EkanshSh), my ninth PhD student, who worked on many topics with me (including random graphs, probabilistic programming theory, and then wrote a thesis on linear mode connectivity). Ekansh is heading out west to work at Google. Best of luck,
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Excited to start this new chapter at @JHUCompSci as part of this fantastic cohort!
10 new CS professors! 🥳 @anand_bhattad @uthsavc @krisgligoric @murat_kocaoglu_ @_ziyang_ @_krishna_murthy @tizianopiccardi @yaxingyao @zakynthinou
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Statistician Nancy Reid @UofTStatSci to deliver the prestigious Distinguished Lecture Series in Statistical Sciences (DLSS) in person in Toronto. Sep 29 & 30, 2025 | 3:30-4:30 pm ET | Register ➡️ https://t.co/x3BBdvcDoj
#Statistics #DataScience
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In-memory attention: Accelerating LLMs with analog hardware Large language models (like GPT) generate text one word at a time. To decide the next word, they compare the new input with many past words stored in a short-term “cache.” On today’s GPUs, that cache has to be
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Sounds like an awesome conceptual basis for a research program in AI safety.
Von Neumann on existential risk: Progress is chaotic so investments in planning are much less useful than investments in better control systems. Don't build Maginot lines, develop better command structures. Shorten your OODA loop. Response speed is everything.
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Von Neumann on existential risk: Progress is chaotic so investments in planning are much less useful than investments in better control systems. Don't build Maginot lines, develop better command structures. Shorten your OODA loop. Response speed is everything.
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Toronto ranks #3 for tech talent across North America, behind only SF and NY. https://t.co/ggQnS2qZUj
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Waterloo Region soared 11 spots to #7 in the ranking, while Vancouver moved to #10 and Ottawa to #11. Edmonton and Quebec City also had significant gains.
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Excited about our new research blog!
Today Thinking Machines Lab is launching our research blog, Connectionism. Our first blog post is “Defeating Nondeterminism in LLM Inference” We believe that science is better when shared. Connectionism will cover topics as varied as our research is: from kernel numerics to
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With all due respect, there is Nothing The Fed can do to overcome the Healthcare Insurance Tax every individual and company paying for insurance faces. A Family of 5, making 125k per yr pays an effective federal income tax of 3.3%. Their insurance $9600 per yr WITH taxpayer
The Federal Reserve is among the foremost drivers of inequality in America. By failing to deliver on its inflation mandate, the Fed allowed class and generational disparities to grow worse, expanding the divide between asset-owners and lower-income Americans. The Fed must
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Join leading thinkers across psychology, philosophy, comp sci & cognitive science: Michael Inzlicht | Anastasia Kuzminykh | Jocelyn Maclure | Jelena Markovic | Karina Vold 🥤 Food, drinks & big questions await. 🔗 Register:
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Join us this September for a soiree on technophilosophy.
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Congrats @HaghifamMahdi
TTIC is pleased to welcome four new Research Assistant Professors (RAPs) to its faculty this fall: Mahdi Haghifam, Siddharth Prasad, Kaylene Stocking, and Jeff Xu. Learn more about our new RAPs and their research: https://t.co/434yGhHMCJ
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