Scientist @ Amazon
Barcelona, Spain
Joined January 2013
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WHAT A YEAR for tech.
Everything feels like one step from burning to the ground, but I'm more excited about the future than ever before.
The 10 most important tech events and breakthroughs of 2022:
Roi Blanco retweeted
Upcoming AACL 2022 paper "Performance-Efficiency Trade-Offs in Adapting Language Models to Text Classification Tasks" with @nickvosk and @roiblanco arxiv.org/abs/2210.12022 @AmazonScience 1/3
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#FriquiFund Barcelona colabora con IRES a través de las #BequesClick motivando a los y las jóvenes para que puedan acceder a formaciones que los motiven sin que su situación sea un impedimento. Gracias por vuestro compromiso! @PolarBearby @hugo_zara
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Hey, my team in Barcelona is looking for interns for 2021!
If you'd like to work with us on hard/fun NLP problems, please apply.
amazon.jobs/en/jobs/1328680/…
We are hiring interns for 2021 at Amazon labs! If you'd like to work with us on fun and hard NLP/ML/IR problems please apply or reach out to me directly. amazon.jobs/de/jobs/1328680/…
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#Bioactivity Profile Similarities to Expand the Repertoire of COVID-19 #Drugs
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@mduranfrigola @roiblanco @EPauls78 @ptck72
#current_issue #Application_Notes #COVID19
Roi Blanco retweeted
Bioactivity Profile Similarities to Expand the Repertoire of #COVID-19 #Drugs
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@mduranfrigola @roiblanco @EPauls78 @ptck72
#ASAP
Last week, we worked with @IRBBarcelona researchers to create a tool that automatically reviews scientific literature to identify compounds that are potentially active against COVID-19. irbbarcelona.org/en/news/irb… (1/4)
This site shows (and updates) the portfolio of molecules sbnb.irbbarcelona.org/covid1…. It was really cool to be a part of this project! With @hugo_zara @mduranfrigola @ptck72 @victormmorant Eduard Pauls (3/4)
Some press (in Spanish) lavanguardia.com/ciencia/202… expansion.com/economia-digit… (4/4)
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Introducing Reformer, an efficiency optimized #ML architecture, based on the Transformer model for language understanding, that can handle context windows of up to 1 million words, all on a single accelerator with only 16GB of memory. Read all about it ↓ goo.gle/2treP7r
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Several open positions for experienced applied scientists in Computer Vision at the Amazon TechHub in Madrid!
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To count an animal population if you can't catch them all: capture some, mark them, release, and capture again. The ratio of new vs already seen tells you something about the total number. Shown here is iterated mark-and-recapture with a Bayesian updates to belief about pop size
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You think block-max WAND is not for you since you never sort by relevance? Well, the same infrastructure that we added to support block-max WAND is now driving great speedups for queries sorted by field. See sorting tasks at elasticsearch-benchmarks.ela…. Courtesy of @mrs617