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François Fleuret

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François Fleuret

@francoisfleuret

Research Scientist @meta (FAIR), Prof. @Unige_en, co-founder @neural_concept_. I like reality.

Switzerland

Joined December 2009

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François Fleuret
@francoisfleuret
Oct 10, 2023
My deep learning course @unige_en is available on-line. 1000+ slides, ~20h of screen-casts. Full of examples in @PyTorch. fleuret.org/dlc/ And my "Little Book of Deep Learning" is available as a phone-formatted pdf (400k downloads!) fleuret.org/lbdl/
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François Fleuret
@francoisfleuret
Mar 30, 2025
This brilliant analysis begs the question: why not 310% tariff? We could make $10T. According to my own research, a mere 1e21% tariff would provide enough money to build a Dyson sphere.
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François Fleuret
@francoisfleuret
Jul 23, 2025
High quality meme.
meowbooks
@meowbooksj
Jul 23, 2025
in case you are wondering this is academia now
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François Fleuret
@francoisfleuret
Mar 20, 2025
Hot take: Anybody should have the possibility to knock at a University door saying "I did this cool thing working at home the last three years, can you give me a phd title" Three experts would review the request, we would have a three-day "defence" to avoid cheats. 1/2
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François Fleuret
@francoisfleuret
Sep 7, 2024
Once I was teaching C++ to undergrads. I got this vibe that the full room has "lost connection". Like ~200 students. I stopped and asked "okay, who is totally lost". ~190 raised their hand. Went one slide back "who was already lost?" not one hand goes down, went one slide back,
François Fleuret
@francoisfleuret
Sep 7, 2024
BTW, when something is bad in a course, and you have reasonable evidences that it's not "just you" and that the lecturer/prof is not a totally bad person, please let them know. You students overestimate by two orders of magnitude how aware we are that we do something poorly.
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François Fleuret
@francoisfleuret
Aug 20, 2022
Reminder that my deep learning course @unige_en is entirely available on-line. 1000+ slides, ~20h of screen-casts. Full of examples in @PyTorch fleuret.org/dlc/
François Fleuret
@francoisfleuret
Oct 1, 2025
"the human brain doesn't need tons of training data to do stuff"
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François Fleuret
@francoisfleuret
May 24, 2024
I encourage everyone to pause for a second and realize how far in the future we are.
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François Fleuret
@francoisfleuret
Mar 20, 2024
2h of debugging. Whatever you say, that's counter intuitive.
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François Fleuret
@francoisfleuret
Apr 21, 2023
"The Little Book of Deep Learning" Consider this as a beta version rough on the edges. Comments are welcome. fleuret.org/public/lbdl.pdf @unige_en @sciences_UNIGE
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François Fleuret
@francoisfleuret
Nov 3, 2025
Rarely a sentence combined so much pretentious intellectualism and abyssal stupidity at the same time.
Boaz Barak
@boazbaraktcs
Nov 3, 2025
Replying to @boazbaraktcs @emollick and @EpochAIResearch
The article also slanders non-commutative algebra.
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François Fleuret
@francoisfleuret
Dec 2, 2023
Mathematics will fall first. Then, a torrent of results will impact everything in theoretical science.
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François Fleuret
@francoisfleuret
Nov 23, 2023
As a researcher, I have two kinds of ideas: the bad ones, and those that other people had 5y ago.
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François Fleuret
@francoisfleuret
Jun 30, 2024
What I find slightly depressing is that none of what is written here is *complicated* and many 7yo could grasp this. There is a strange cultural systemic issue that leads us as a society to expose most of the kids to 10% of what they could actually understand in math.
Paul Graham
@paulg
Jun 29, 2024
Report of a conversation with Terence Tao when he was seven. (via @cremieuxrecueil)
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