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Welcome to my blog

Below you can find a list of all my blog posts. I mostly blog about my research and open source projects.

Migration to www.taija.org

Some of the blog posts listed below have been migrated to www.taija.org. They are clearly marked through the Taija logo.

Posts

Sidequest

Fighting for Mental Health Europe

A post about a personal matter for once: in December, 2024, I’m stepping into the ring to raise funds for Mental Health Europe and raise awareness about mental health issues.

Patrick Altmeyer

TrillionDollarWords.jl

The Trillion Dollar Words dataset and model in Julia

A short post introducing a small new Julia package that facilitates working with the Trillion Dollar Words dataset and model published in a recent ACL 2023 paper.

Patrick Altmeyer

ECCCos from the Black Box

Faithful Model Explanations through Energy-Constrained Conformal Counterfactuals

ECCCo is a new way to generate faithful model explanations through counterfactuals that are as plausible as the underlying model permits. Companion post to our AAAI 2024 paper.

Patrick Altmeyer

Spurious Sparks of AGI

On the Unsurprising Finding of Patterns in Latent Spaces

This post questions the idea that finding patterns in latent embeddings of models is indicative of AGI or even surprising. I illustrate this using examples from Economics, a discipline that does not typically anthropomorphize the models it produces.

Patrick Altmeyer

Stuck in the Past

Why we should treat research like software and how Quarto can help

An opinionated post on outdated publication and peer review practices, as well as modern solutions. It introduces a Quarto extension for JuliaCon Proceedings that I have been working on.

Patrick Altmeyer

Building a Conformal Chatbot in Julia

HuggingFace, Transformers, and Conformal Prediction - Part 1

For this year’s edition of the ING Analytics Experiment Week, we put ConformalPrediction.jl to work and built a chatbot that can be used for Conformal Intent Recognition.

Patrick Altmeyer

Paving the Way Towards Low-Overhead Uncertainty Calibration

An Accessible Intro to Laplace Approximations in Julia for Bayesian Deep Learning

A guest blog post by a team of students from TU Delft, who have contributed multiple improvements to LaplaceRedux.jl.

Severin Bratus, Mark Ardman, Adelina Cazacu, Andrei Ionescu, Ivan Makarov, Patrick Altmeyer

A Leap of Faith into Julia’s Metaverse

Getting started with metaprogramming in Julia

In this slightly different post, I talk about my first experience with metaprogramming in Julia.

Patrick Altmeyer

Quarto on Steroids: Advanced Customization through Quarto Extensions

Using and Contributing Quarto Extensions for Custom Formats.

A short introduction to using, building and contributing Quarto Extensions.

Patrick Altmeyer

Prediction Intervals for any Regression Model

Conformal Prediction in Julia — Part 3

This third post introduces conformal regression by going through a standard machine learning workflow using MLJ.jl and ConformalPrediction.jl.

Patrick Altmeyer

How to Conformalize a Deep Image Classifier

Conformal Prediction in Julia — Part 2

A guide demonstrating how to use ConformalPrediction.jl to conformalize a deep image classifier in a few lines of code.

Patrick Altmeyer

A year of using Quarto with Julia

Tips and tricks for Julia practitioners

A short companion post to my presentation on using Quarto with Julia at the 2nd JuliaLang Eindhoven meetup in November, 2022.

Patrick Altmeyer

Conformal Prediction in Julia 🟣🔴🟢

Conformal Prediction in Julia — Part 1

A (very) gentle introduction to Conformal Prediction in Julia using my new package ConformalPrediction.jl.

Patrick Altmeyer

A new tool for explainable AI

Counterfactual Explanations in Julia — Part I

This post introduces a new Julia package for generating counterfactual explanations. The package can be used to explain machine learning algorithms developed and trained in Julia as well as other popular programming languages like Python and R.

Patrick Altmeyer

Julia and Quarto: a match made in heaven? 🌤

A new way to publish science

An opinionated, practical review celebrating the open-source community. I discuss why Quarto is nothing short of revolutionary and how I’ve been using it with Julia.

Patrick Altmeyer

Go deep, but also … go Bayesian!

Effortless Bayesian Deep Learning in Julia — Part I

An introduction to effortless Bayesian deep learning through Laplace approximation coded from scratch in Julia.

Patrick Altmeyer

Bayesian Logistic Regression

From scratch in Julia Language

An introduction to Bayesian Logistic Regression from the bottom up with examples in Julia language.

Patrick Altmeyer

Individual recourse for Black Box Models

Explained through a tale of 🐱’s and 🐶’s

An introduction to algorithmic recourse and an implementation of a simplified version of REVISE (Joshi et al., 2019). This post was prepared as part of my PhD application.

Patrick Altmeyer

A peek inside the ‘Black Box’ - interpreting neural networks

Research on explainable AI has recently gained considerable momentum. In this post I explore a Bayesian approach to ex-post explainability of Deep Neural Networks.a

Patrick Altmeyer

How I’m building this website in R

A small post on how I (used to!) build this website using blogdown.

Patrick Altmeyer

Welcome

The obligatory welcome post and a shout-out to Yihui Xie and the folks behind quarto.

Patrick Altmeyer