I participated in a French Alumni “Cafe virtuel“, organized by the French Alumni association and talking about my professional journey and my research.
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I was reading the latest report from the @nationalacademies.org on global talents, and the need for a strategy to recruit and train talents. One sentence in the preface about the “missing millions” really caught my attention:
The Latin American and Caribbean Open Science Forum (CILAC – Foro Abierto de Ciencias de Latinoamérica y el Caribe), an event organized by UNESCO had a satellite even on GCLS/LAMISTAD Symposium: Synchrotrons in the Greater Caribbean and Beyond (website) to which I participated (and help organize)
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quick note: I’m experiencing issues with WordPress and I couldn’t publish new posts lately.It’s likely I’ll have to do a complete overhaul, so it may take a little while to get back on track.I hate python.
I’ve worked with many coding languages over the years, starting from C, going into C# and Matlab, and I really loathe python when it comes to scientific computing.My contention with it is that it hampers the kind of rapid iteration needed for exploration – and I struggle teaching its basics to many of my students, who get more confused about the many library imports, the lack of proper IDE or really good REPL that would let them focus on the essential of the code.Here’s a take from LeCun, which I wholly agree with:A strange take on the Gadsden flag – the true meaning of the snek
Last week I hosted Leo Violini, the founder of the Centro Internacional de Física in Bogotà (Columbia), and a proponent of the the Greater Caribbean Light Source
Big science in Latin America: accelerate particles and progress – Nature (March 2024)
Here is a video of his talk on the proposal for Greater Caribbean Light Source:
And a video of his second talk on science diplomacy:The various steps of making a new material (from Szymanski et al.)
Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future– Niels Bohr
The issue of Synchrotron Radiation News I had the honor to co-edit with my colleagues Lucia Alianelli from Diamond Light Source is out – hot off the press!
Table of Content – Synchrotron Radiation News 36-5 issue on New Developments in Beamline Design Tools (2024)Guest Editorial – Antoine Wojdyla and Lucia Alianelli
https://doi.org/10.1080/08940886.2023.2274751
This last month, I received two awards related to mentorship from Berkeley Lab. They both came as a surprise, since I consider myself more a student of mentorship than someone who has something to show for.
Berkeley Lab Outstanding Mentorship AwardDirector’s award for For building the critical foundations of a complex mentoring ecosystemIt’s been a few months since the ChatGPT craze started, and we’re finally seeing some interesting courses and guidelines, particularly for coding, where I found the whole thing quite impressive.
Ad hoc use of LLaMa
Here’s a few that can be of interest, potentially growing over time (this is mostly a notes to self.)
Plus – things are getting really crazy: Large language models encode clinical knowledge (Nature, Google Research.)