# inria (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover inria. Page: Feed: --- ## [Stepping up as probabl’s CSO to supercharge scikit-learn and its ecosystem](https://gael-varoquaux.info/programming/stepping-up-as-probabls-cso-to-supercharge-scikit-learn-and-its-ecosystem.html) _2026-01-13 · Gaël Varoquaux · Gaël Varoquaux_ Note Probabl’s get together, in falls 2025 I’m thrilled to announce that I’m stepping up as Probabl ’s CSO (Chief Science Officer) to supercharge scikit-learn and its ecosystem, pursuing my dreams of tools that help go from data to impact. Scikit-learn, a central tool Scikit-learn is central … ## [Maïc, you lived 100 years, what changed?](https://gael-varoquaux.info/personnal/maic-you-lived-100-years-what-changed.html) _2025-10-28 · Gaël Varoquaux · Gaël Varoquaux_ 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 … ## [A national recognition; but science and open source are bitter victories](https://gael-varoquaux.info/personnal/a-national-recognition-but-science-and-open-source-are-bitter-victories.html) _2025-10-09 · Gaël Varoquaux · Gaël Varoquaux_ 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 ## [TabICL: Pretraining the best tabular learner](https://gael-varoquaux.info/science/tabicl-pretraining-the-best-tabular-learner.html) _2025-07-08 · Gaël Varoquaux · Gaël Varoquaux_ 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 Recent progress … ## [2024 highlights: of computer science and society](https://gael-varoquaux.info/science/2024-highlights-of-computer-science-and-society.html) _2024-12-31 · Gaël Varoquaux · Gaël Varoquaux_ Note For me, 2024 was full of back and forth between research, software, and connecting these to society. Here, I lay out some highlights on AI and society, as well as research and software, around tabular AI and language models. As 2025 starts, I’m looking back on 2024. It …