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> or that Zuck knows more than a surface level of how FB's tech works How about in 2016 where he built an home control AI and iPhone app with voice recognition
by jodrellblank 4y ago
> or that Zuck knows more than a surface level of how FB's tech works
How about in 2016 where he built an home control AI and iPhone app with voice recognition for it using Facebook tech?
"I had to reverse engineer APIs for some of these to even get to the point where I could issue a command from my computer to turn the lights on or get a song to play."
"As the CEO of Facebook, I don't get much time to write code in our internal environment. I've never stopped coding, but these days I mostly build personal projects like Jarvis. I expected I'd learn a lot about the state of AI this year, but I didn't realize I would also learn so much about what it's like to be an engineer at Facebook. And it's impressive.
My experience of ramping up in the Facebook codebase is probably pretty similar to what most new engineers here go through. I was consistently impressed by how well organized our code is, and how easy it was to find what you're looking for -- whether it's related to face recognition, speech recognition, the Messenger Bot Framework or iOS development. The open source Nuclide packages we've built to work with GitHub's Atom make development much easier. The Buck build system we've developed to build large projects quickly also saved me a lot of time. Our open source FastText AI text classification tool is also a good one to check out, and if you're interested in AI development, the whole Facebook Research GitHub repo is worth taking a look at."
https://m.facebook.com/notes/mark-zuckerberg/building-jarvis/10154361492931634/ https://m.facebook.com/notes/mark-zuckerberg/building-jarvis...
(You can argue that's still "surface level because he didn't build those things" but it won't be a very interesting argument)