todd underwood

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todd underwood

@tmu

Reliable Machine Learning/AI at Google. Pittsburgh. A veces Puerto Rico. Views sometimes not even my own; definitely not employer's. He/Him/Él

Beigetreten Mayıs 2007

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todd underwood@tmu·29 Ağu

An update on the research reliability (SRE) team and tmu at OpenAI: linkedin.com/feed/update/ur… (yes, that kind of update). :-) I don't often use twitter but it is something of a habit/fetish of some people so thought it would be useful to post here as well.

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todd underwood@tmu·25 Eyl

@ShriramKMurthi It's not happy. Wishing someon "easy fast" is ok. Certainly not happy. It's not supposed to be.

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Shriram Krishnamurthi (primary: Bluesky)@ShriramKMurthi·23 Eyl

Isn't it a day of atonement? Is it appropriate to wish someone a Happy Yom Kippur? (Asking for a school district.)

Providence Public Schools@pvdschools

Please remember there is NO SCHOOL ON MONDAY 9/25 in celebration of Yom Kippur. We'll see all of our students on Tuesday. Recordatorio: No hay clases el lunes 25 de septiembre en conmemoración de Yom Kippur. Los esperamos el martes.

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todd underwood@tmu·25 Eyl

@McJeff (obligatory: Surprised this site is still on. Came here to check one specific thing and here this was). I was there recently. It's all weird, anti-city hype. SF is fine. I was in Union Square, the mission and even walked through Civic Center at night. Fine. No poop. Few drugs.

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todd underwood@tmu·17 Şub

Now I want all my favorite shows in lots of languages. In particular, I want all my Latin American news/commentary in English/Spanish both! I used to do translation so I know how hard it is, but I don't care. I want it. @LatinoUSA : ¿que creen ustedes? @Maria_Hinojosa @julito77

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todd underwood@tmu·17 Şub

He estado escuchando la 2nda temporada de L Brega de @AlanaLlama . Coño, quánto me encata. Para Boricuas y les demás. Escúchanlo: wnycstudios.org/podcasts/la-br… (Amazing podcast about Puerto Rico that's also in English for the rest of you).

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todd underwood@tmu·17 Şub

@brettabecker @ShriramKMurthi @gohar94 @Joel_Emer @vivsze I'll be honest: I've seen careful analysts publishing extremely detailed estimates of the "cost per query" for stuff I know relatively well many times. The most recent one I saw was off by a factor of 10. It doesn't matter in which direction, just that it was that far off. YMMV

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Brett A. Becker@brettabecker·15 Şub

@ShriramKMurthi @tmu @gohar94 @Joel_Emer @vivsze That article attributes $0.0142 to a ChatGPT "cost per query". I think that until OpenAI opens its mouth (which due to its structure may be unlikely) we're going to be left with rough-ish estimates. But that figure roughly aligns with other estimates I've seen.

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Shriram Krishnamurthi (primary: Bluesky)@ShriramKMurthi·12 Şub

Something I've been trying to find out about fixed- vs variable-costs of LLMs: I've seen descriptions of the energy cost to TRAIN an LLM, but that's a one-time thing (as currently constituted). But how much energy does a "query" take? (Expert answers only please.)

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todd underwood@tmu·12 Şub

@ShriramKMurthi @gohar94 @Joel_Emer @vivsze Also on the specific question: most of us who could tell you can't tell you. :)

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todd underwood@tmu·12 Şub

@ShriramKMurthi @gohar94 @Joel_Emer @vivsze Also depends on where the energy comes from. Google as a whole has been carbon neutral including all datacenter power since 2007. Microsoft has pledges to become carbon negative (not sure progress). In general, power analyses here ignore this.

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todd underwood@tmu·30 Ara

(not really using twitter much anymore, as i've noticed most of you are not either) but i spotted this over here. wow. really honored. thanks to the community and congrats to all of the other winners! @mlopscommunity @Dpbrinkm @niallm @KrantiParisa

MLOps Community@mlopscommunity

I am honored to present such prestigious awards. Huge thanks to everyone in the MLOps Community who voted for the MLOp awards Check out all the MLOps award winners here: mlops.community/the-coveted-ml…

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todd underwood@tmu·12 Kas

@woodyatpch @jtodd How many containers do they have? Front loaders? I'm just not sure how they'll keep him interested.

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@[email protected] - Bill Woodcock@woodyatpch·11 Kas

Congratulations, @jtodd on being elected to the board of directors of NWAX, the Northwest Internet Exchange, in Portland!

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todd underwood@tmu·10 Kas

@espiers nyti.ms/3tlbylI

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todd underwood@tmu·10 Kas

@anxiousears @geekitarian @EricYager3 No. No no. No. Also no.

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Turkey Tob (Parody)@anxiousears·10 Kas

@geekitarian @EricYager3 @tmu - can't we just, like, 'borgcfg tacotown.borg up' or something? It'd be like resurrecting Yo, but better.

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Tim geekitarian.bsky.social@geekitarian·10 Kas

I'm genuinely sad at what Twitter has so abruptly become, but I'm even sadder on how much worse it's about to get.

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todd underwood@tmu·10 Kas

@funkwit Are you claiming some second law nonsense about momentum?

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Paul Cowan@funkwit·9 Kas

The terrible-take icing on this multi-layer terrible-take gâteau is that this person seems to believe that "*directly* over the target" is the right point at which a plane should release a bomb.

Bret Weinstein@BretWeinstein

The amount of flak that @elonmusk is taking as he frees Twitter from entanglements suggests he’s *directly* over the target. As someone who has taken a lotta flak from the same quadrants, I say: Bombs away, Captain! Godspeed! 🎯

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todd underwood@tmu·8 Kas

@samdavidson @profgalloway This is just the multi-decade trend of Bowling Alone, right? bowlingalone.com Nothing really new here.

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samdavidson@samdavidson·7 Kas

From @profgalloway’s new book “Adrift”, the decline in membership is worth paying attention to. We used to join things. We also used to build things worth joining.

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todd underwood@tmu·7 Kas

@chwolfson Even more important: disabled voters can designate someone to cure the ballot for them! There's a form at the same website.

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Charlie Wolfson@chwolfson·7 Kas

Important: If a voter can't make it Downtown to cure their ballot, they can also vote a provisional ballot at their regular polling place on Tuesday.

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Charlie Wolfson@chwolfson·7 Kas

Allegheny County voters: 1,005 of you returned a mail-in ballot with no date or a wrong date. These ballots will not count. BUT YOU CAN FIX IT! At this link, see if your ballot is among them, and you can go Downtown to make sure your vote will count! alleghenycounty.us/elections/inco…

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todd underwood@tmu·7 Kas

@JanePitt We used to have Yo. We can revive it as Yoy.

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Virginia Montanez@JanePitt·5 Kas

If Twitter dies, I’m launching Yinzer.

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todd underwood@tmu·5 Kas

@funkwit @isosteph Anyone want to revive Yo for realz?

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@funkwit @isosteph Yo.

todd underwood@tmu·3 Kas

@Dr_Tammy_Landau not me! :-)

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todd underwood@tmu·2 Kas

It's incredible and humbling that people are reading the book that we wrote. I sincerely hope it is useful and that when we fall short that we are able to learn from that. We're super happy to support book clubs reading it. Thanks, @sophiamyang !

Sophia Yang, Ph.D.@sophiamyang

Happy November! This month Our DS/ML #bookclub is reading @OReillyMedia Reliable Machine by Cathy Chen, @niallm, @KrantiParisa, D. Sculley, and @tmu. Join us for book discussions and reading motivation: discord.com/invite/6BremEf…

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