It's been about two months since I started working as a part-time ski instructor at Okemo Mountain Resort. I've been casually teaching my friends skiing and snowboarding here and there but this is the first time for me to officially become an instructor. The interview process was not as intense as I expected-maybe I was biased by the interviews I had gone through in the past for tech companies a little too much. I was so thrilled when I got an offer that I couldn't really fo

(after seeing the post by Yann LeCun) Integrating causality into AI, so that increasing interpretability, is not easy and even thought to be impossible. The "how" has been questioned by many people, but the discussions of "why" were so controversial between fields that the conversations didn't make it to the "how" most of the time. I remember when this topic started getting more traction, and that was at NIPS 2017. I enjoyed the panel discussion at the Interpretable ML Sympos

(Full Text) Ginhoux F1, Prinz M2. Abstract Microglia are the resident macrophages of the central nervous system (CNS), which sit in close proximity to neural structures and are intimately involved in brain homeostasis. The microglial population also plays fundamental roles during neuronal expansion and differentiation, as well as in the perinatal establishment of synaptic circuits. Any change in the normal brain environment results in microglial activation, which can be detri