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by axg11 4y ago
If they're fraternal and supportive with the entrepreneurs they've invested in then maybe they deserve to be high up in the rankings! /s?
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Disclaimer: I know brain != deep learning neural nets. We do have a lot of evidence that the brain is _some_ type of network with analogue qualities. Does it even make sense to say that a memory is stored somewhere in a specific region, if
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by axg11 4y ago
Ballpark answer: ~5 years until this is running on local hardware owned by the average person. Hardware is always improving and the algorithms will get more efficient. Until then, you'll likely be able to use an API to generate images
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Very common.
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They always have been. Meta has made a number of open contributions for the ML/AI community, one of which is PyTorch.
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Let's look at a few of the most impressive applications of machine learning: - Classification in computer vision - Protein folding (AlphaFold) - Image generation (Dall-E 2) - Answering general language queries (GPT-3) It's unclear
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by axg11 4y ago
Annual reviews are a safety net. In large, mature organizations there is pressure to enforce a minimum standard of management. That’s where I see annual reviews coming in. If you’re working in a well functioning team, you should be getting
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by axg11 4y ago
You make a a great argument, without any evidence. I think there is a real case to made for saying that Facebook/Meta's products have brought people much closer together. Between Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp I am _far_ more f
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by axg11 4y ago
Not a complete answer to your question but you may find this discussion interesting: https://github.com/lucidrains/DALLE2-pytorch/discussions/10 Inference cost and scale seems to be much more favourable than
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Music
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Adding a counterpoint here. I work at Amazon and am very happy. It’s a big company. Team matters. Feel free to AMA if you are considering joining.
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What would the first week of a Ukraine invasion [by Russia] look like?(old.reddit.com)
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19% of zero is still zero.
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How Twitter and FAANG develop and launch recommendation systems(arsham.substack.com)
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I sense that we ultimately want the same thing: higher quality of life for workers. Unfortunately for these workers, technology has devalued their role. It's untenable to force the company to continue to employ these people despite hav
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How long is normal? The deal likely won't close for 6 months. Will all those engineers be sitting idle until then?
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Next six months will be really interesting to watch. Twitter leadership will be paralyzed until Musk arrives. There's no point executing a roadmap that could be abandoned so soon. Leadership is also the most likely to be pushed out fir
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Are you under some illusion that Freshii, a publicly traded company, should have a different goal?
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I don't think Elon will take an active role in running Twitter. In fact, he will probably spend just as much time thinking about Twitter as he already does today. He will install a CEO willing to follow his directions/philosophy.
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by axg11 4y ago
What do the people who fight these developments expect? Forcing Freshii to employ Canadian workers? I don't see how this is different to any other form of remote work that employs out-of-country workers. I'm not commenting on whet
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by axg11 4y ago
My point isn't that it's impossible to analyze. It _is_ impossible to analyze without the context of all of Twitter's other services though. Twitter are not going to open source all of their services.
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Twitter PMs would argue they've already communicated the objective function: relevance and engagement. My point is that the devil is in the details and implementation. These details are likely something that no one person understands a
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I've worked on very large scale recommendation systems at a FAANG. If Twitter's system resembles anything like ours, the concept of publishing or open sourcing "the algorithm" doesn't make sense. Even if we were to
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One person's weird vibes is another person's great vibes.
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OP is probably in the best situation to judge this since they likely had competing offers or at the very least know peers with competing offers at FAANG+ staff level.
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Doesn't the author's sentence mean: hospitals and insurance companies have coopted regulators for the benefits of their own businesses, at the detriment of medical device companies (developing AI)? I think the author's point
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by axg11 4y ago
This describes 95% of machine learning at FAANG+, unfortunately nobody likes to talk about. Context: I work at a FAANG.
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by axg11 4y ago
Don't despair. I work for a FAANG and have previously worked at startups. Title inflation at startups is a huge factor. In fact, titles are not equivalent between any two companies. I have seen startup CTOs (even series A) transition t
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The poison pill provision and Elon's takeover are not mutually exclusive. It's in the board's best interest to gain maximum leverage over Elon. A poison pill puts the board in a better negotiating position in discussions with
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The poison pill is irrelevant if Elon and the Board come to an agreement. Any deal would involve a workaround or nullifying of the poison pill. Elon is a smart guy but the real impact of this takeover will come from his ability to act unila

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