Pattern Singularites

@lak_gcp 2 days per week, is remote ;o)

Companies will start to separate into two camps: all-remote (wider access to talent, lower cost, no offices) or all-in-person (faster/more innovation, destination offices). In-person might be 2-3 days/wk. People will choose which type of company to work for.

This age's biggest technology flub. When the flubber fails to meet the road fortunes will be unmade, jobs will lost, and investors will be hopping mad. Wishing for something to be true, even for a long time, doesn't make it so. arstechnica.com/cars/2021/04/w…

Interesting.

Hello, world! Similar to @timnitGebru, I abruptly lost access to my professional calendar. Any upcoming talks, deadlines, and entities involved, are no longer accessible to me. I am sending this broad, mass message, asking anyone expecting something from me to please let me know!

~8yrs ago (Dec’12) I got a job @Google. Those were still early days of cloud. I joined GCP @<150M ARR & left @~4B (excld GSuite). Learned from some of the smartest ppl in tech. But we also got a LOT wrong that took yrs to fix. Much of it now public, but here’s my ring-side view👇

@WeProov how do you compare to @tractable_ai ? (and many others in that market)

Les jaloux diront que c’est truqué. zcu.io/rG6e #AI #Damages #Chiffrage

Seriously @GoogleAI using @PyTorch from @huggingface . Nothing to say .

What tools do you use for Kubernetes CI/CD?

Suppose you wanted to train a world-class GPT model, just like OpenAI. How? You have no data. Now you do. Now everyone does. Presenting "books3", aka "all of bibliotik" - 196,640 books - in plain .txt - reliable, direct download, for years: the-eye.eu/public/AI/pile… thread 👇

@DynamicWebPaige @Facebook @Google how would "fair" compare to google brain?o)

"The way I would put it is that @Facebook is more of an undergraduate culture, and @Google is more of a graduate student culture." - Terry Winograd, Valley of Genius

Congrats to these scientists. Great that it’s coming from India and not the US. bbc.com/news/world-asi…

An Image is Worth 16x16 Words: Transformers for Image Recognition at Scale When pre-trained and transferred to CV tasks, Vision Transformer attains excellent results compared to SOTA CNNs while requiring much fewer computational resources to train. openreview.net/forum?id=YicbF…

Shock of shocks! Donald Trump, the self-proclaimed billionaire, received a $72.9 million tax refund from the IRS while not paying a nickel in federal income taxes in 10 out of 15 years. Yep. Trump l-o-v-e-s corporate socialism for himself, rugged capitalism for everyone else.

Federal taxes paid, first year in office Ronald Reagan: $165,202 George H.W. Bush: $101,382 Bill Clinton: $62,670 George W. Bush: $250,221 Barack Obama: $1,792,414 Donald Trump: $750

1/ Look at the shape of these curves. New York and Madrid had similar epidemics until they spectacularly diverged. In March, both cities were caught by surprise and shut down because of #COVID19. In September, the situation is under control in NY and alarming in Madrid. Why?

A Google engineer on Google's location tracking settings:" Speaking as a user, WTF? More specifically I **thought** I had location tracking turned off on my phone." businessinsider.com/google-enginee…

Je vois beaucoup de monde, un peu partout, a la télé ou à la radio, oublier ce que la covid a engendré pendant ce qu'on a appelé la vague. Alors j'aimerais parler de ce qu'on a pu voir en service. Quand la vague est arrivée, je bossais comme IDE en réanimation.

Today was supposed to by my beer + JAX exploration day. It got off to a good start, flax, haiku... looking familiar. GPU working (eventually). Then I found out all the examples I was hoping to fiddle with used TensorFlow datasets and I wept. Sigh.

@twominutepapers #Whatatimetobealive

Unpopular view: Data scientists should be more end-to-end. While this is frowned upon (too generalist!), I've seen it lead to more context, faster iteration, greater innovation—more value, faster. More details and Stitch Fix & Netflix's experience 👇 eugeneyan.com/writing/end-to…