Riccardo Cappuzzo

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🪄 Text in. Features out. Turn information rich strings into meaningful encodings via your favorite pretrained language models from Hugging Face 🤗 Encode text columns for machine learning with skrub.LLMEncoder. pip install skrub[transformers]

Ever tried to run a scikit-learn pipeline on a dataframe with mixed types? You need one encoder for categorical columns, another for text, a third for dates... it gets verbose fast! skrub.TableVectorizer is the "fit once, vectorize any table" transformer. skrub-data.org/stable/refer...

details leaked. this vulnerability is a full unauthenticated unconditional remote code execution exploit against any service running on a PHP version from 5.4 until latest yeah if anything deserves CVSS 11, this is it. this is CATACLYSMICALLY bad.

TIL about pairdrop.net Extremely convenient for sharing files from my Android phone to my Macbook, given that the phone can't use Airdrop yet 🙄

🐞 Bug fix release incoming 🐛 Version 0.10.1 of skrub is now live! In this release, we fixed a Cloudpickle import error that could be triggered by some updated dependencies, along with some other improvements. Release post: github.com/skrub-data/s... 1/4

Release day 🎉

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✨ skrub version 0.8.0 has been released ✨ This version includes several new features, including multiple improvements to the functionality and performance of the Data Ops, along with a few bug fixes and improvements to the docs. Changelog: skrub-data.org/stable/CHANG... Highlights below ⤵️

For context, $375M is about two days worth of profit for Meta in 2025

This is such a specifically disheartening piece of news to see openai.com/index/openai...

good pr

The more I hear about Clawbot the more I'm convinced it's some kind of social experiment trying to figure out how many people are willing to put their entire private and professional lives in the hands of an overeager child open to the unlimited influence of the world wide web

That's me! It was a fun presentation and we got a lot of interesting questions Also people laughed at the memes which is the most important thing, obviously

"ok the test run is done, let's see" ... "this will be hard to debug"

What a banger is skrub @skrub-data.bsky.social ! Big thumbs up for the sklearn team & the maintainer of this package

My first actual talk in front of a ton of people 🙃

TIL about lava lamp encryption www.cloudflare.com/learning/ssl...

Do you have to deal with numerical features that involve large outliers, and need to train linear models or neural networks? Then you might want to try the skrub SquashingScaler. The SquashingScaler behaves like scikit-learn RobustScaler, but smoothly clips outliers to predefined boundaries.

Today at #EuroScipy2025, @glemaitre58.bsky.social and I presented a tutorial on pitfalls of machine learning for imbalanced classification problems. We discussed what (not) to do when fitting a classifier and obtaining degenerate precision or recall values. probabl-ai.github.io/calibration-...

📢 Talk Announcement "Skrub: machine learning for dataframes", by Guillaume Lemaitre, Jérôme Dockès and @riccardocappuzzo.com. @skrub-data.bsky.social 📜 Talk info: pretalx.com/pydata-paris-2025/talk/T9KTPU 📅 Schedule: pydata.org/paris2025/schedule 🎟 Tickets: pydata.org/paris2025/tickets

Attending the @skrub-data.bsky.social tutorial by @riccardocappuzzo.com and @glemaitre58.bsky.social at #EuroScipy2025. They introduce the new DataOps feature released in skrub 0.6. Here is the repo with the material for the tutorial: github.com/skrub-data/E...

Heads Up, #Python Developers! There is an active phishing attack targeting PyPI users. • Threat: Emails from noreply@pypj.org (with a 'j') link to a fake login page. • Action: Do not click any links. If you already did, change your PyPI password ASAP. • Note: PyPI itself has not been breached.

Huge release, and the first one where I felt like I actually contributed a lot to the final result. I really think DataOps are a game changer, and I can't wait to see what people come up with with them. I also ended up rewriting most of the user guide, hopefully improving it along on the way 😂

David R. Hagen just solved a small mystery that I mentioned 13 years ago in the mouseover text of a comic drhagen.com/blog/the-mis...

Really cool graffiti I spotted while walking around in the town where I live

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Out of all the features in the expressions, this may be my personal favorite. I always end up adding too many configurations just because the syntax is so convenient.

📝 The skrub TextEncoder brings the power of HuggingFace language models to embed text features in tabular machine learning, for all those use cases that involve text-based columns.

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