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Gael Varoquaux
28  octobre     23h00
Maïc, you lived 100 years, what changed?
   At Maïc’s 100th birthday, I asked her you lived 100 years, what was the most important change for you? . She mentioned Internet . I asked, why was the Internet important to her eyes? Because this is how she kept close contact with her loved ones, sharing travels or discussing everyday ...
09  octobre     22h00
A national recognition; but science and open source are bitter victories
   I have recently been awarded France’s national order of merit, for my career, in science, in open source, and around AI. The speech that I gave carries messages important to me (French below; it flows better). Contents Speech translated to English Le texte d’origine, en Français .content p ...
08  juillet     22h00
TabICL: Pretraining the best tabular learner
   Note TabICL is a state-of-the-art tabular learner [Qu et al 2025]. The key is its very rich prior, that is baked in a pre-trained architecture -a table foundation model-, and leveraged by in-context-learning. Thanks to clever choices, it is fast and scalable, efficient even without a GPU. Contents...
03  juillet     22h00
AI agents that use tools
   Modern AIs acquire new capabilities by combining tools to perform a complex task, controlling them like an agent. Unlike traditional programming, they define the sequences of actions themselves. Note This post was originally published in French as part of my scientific chronicle in Les Echos....
19  juin     22h00
AIs that break down questions reason better
   The key to the most powerful conversational AIs is to reason by breaking down a complex task into simpler subproblems. Why is this crucial, and how does it work? Note This post was originally published in French as part of my scientific chronicle in Les Echos. The recent release of ...