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born 1986 Hungary

Chris von Csefalvay (born 15 July 1986) is a Hungarian-British AI researcher and computational epidemiologist specialising in post-training for language models, reinforcement learning from verifiable rewards (RLVR), and agentic AI systems. He is currently a Principal for Clinical Intelligence and AI at HCLTech.

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Some pathogens live exciting double lives, with entirely separate life cycles and be- haviors in different animals.

Computational Modeling of Infectious Disease (2023)

This is what coding agents are actually good for: not replacing programmers, but replacing the programmer-as-bureaucrat.

Today, the efforts waged to curb the COVID-19 pandemic may be the first example of a large-scale, global data-driven response to a worldwide crisis, and as such perhaps the first war of data science.

Somewhere — perhaps in a tropical rainforest, perhaps in the thawing permafrost soil or maybe in one of our own cities — the next pathogen to try humanity’s resilience and resourcefulness is slowly emerging.

The term 'natural immunity' has been often used to express post-infectious immunity and differentiate it from vaccine-induced immunity. In practice, this is not necessarily helpful. There is nothing fundamentally "unnatural" in vaccine-induced immunity, and while the minutiae of natural infection and vaccine-induced immunity might differ, this is a quintessentially unhelpful notion.

Computational Modeling of Infectious Disease (2023)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Chris von Csefalvay (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.