Nick Pentreath

ML Engineer @tumblr. Apache Spark PMC. Author Machine Learning with Spark ( Formerly Principal Engineer @codait_org, cofounder Graphflow.

[Nick Pentreath @MLnick]

@sidyadav Can’t wait for everyone else to see what we’ve all been working towards these past few months!

[Nick Pentreath @MLnick]

Never been so excited for a launch - can’t wait!

[Circle @circleapp]

Something is shifting.

Join us for Circle Eclipse · June 16 · 1pm ET

[Nick Pentreath @MLnick]

@adxtyahq Did you try just telling Claude “don’t hallucinate”?

[Sid Yadav @sidyadav]

You can now run fully public webinars on Circle!

https://t.co/ICELgAAir2

[Sid Yadav @sidyadav]

Excited to host @rubenhassid on Circle 💥

Ruben writes 'How to AI', the most popular AI newsletter in the world

[Nick Pentreath @MLnick]

@baldursgate3 Any chance this patch will improve Mac performance issues especially with cutscenes?

[Nick Pentreath @MLnick]

@baldursgate3 Is the bug on Mac with skipping/out of sync dialogue being fixed in Patch 7? Previous patches fixed the big performance issues on Mac but this is an annoying glitch that remains (that wasn't there previously before the update that originally broke Mac performance)!

[Nick Pentreath @MLnick]

@Shyberiia @larianstudios lol more like 170 hours and I am still not in the actual city just at Wyrms crossing

[Nick Pentreath @MLnick]

@baldursgate3 Any imminent fixes for the extreme Mac performance degradation issues that came with earlier Hotfix #21?

[Nick Pentreath @MLnick]

It’s so perfect it feels orchestrated. Can’t wait for the Michael Lewis book and Aaron Sorkin film on this!

[David @dzhng]

Microsoft essentially acquired the best parts of OpenAI for $0

- 2 of the original founders (Sam & Greg), now unshackled & probably with a lot more skin in the game.
- A significant amount of OpenAI staff will follow Sam & Greg to the new org, some of the best people in the world.
- Access to OpenAI’s existing IP due to current agreement, making it easy for this org to instantly catch up to OpenAI.
- The only people left at OpenAI are decel safetyists, whom msft don’t want anyways.

Sam & Greg will basically get a blank check to shoot for the moon. Microsoft is already planning >$50B of infra spend over the next few years.

Somehow, Satya managed to extract an outcome that actually leaves Microsoft in a BETTER position vs last week. I’m more bullish on Microsoft than ever. What a legendary run.

[Nick Pentreath @MLnick]

@vboykis 🤯

[Nick Pentreath @MLnick]

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[Nick Pentreath @MLnick]

@owisixseven Now do Tarantino!

[Nick Pentreath @MLnick]

@vboykis I love the smell of JVM in the mornin’

[Nick Pentreath @MLnick]

@pmarca I’m so old I remember (and used) Netscape Navigator!

[Nick Pentreath @MLnick]

Been on Twitter a while now! #MyTwitterAnniversary

[Nick Pentreath @MLnick]

Come check out Tumblr! See if your Twitter username is available! https://t.co/PhFsUNTyyf

[Matt Mullenweg @photomatt]

A checkmark isn't cool, you know what's cool? Two checkmarks. https://t.co/orGIoHFMYZ

[Nick Pentreath @MLnick]

@chrisalbon Come on over to Tumblr, Chris, pay for ad-free. Build the ML community there and I can help (I’m sure @vboykis will too!) :)

[Nick Pentreath @MLnick]

@karlhigley @gsingers They are still, ultimately, based on some form of “pre compute everything offline” (though truncated to some type of top-k most “important” in this example). So this is another drawback/trade off.

[Nick Pentreath @MLnick]

@karlhigley @gsingers I’m sure there are other examples. They’re perhaps not most SOTA approach but do have plenty of upsides in terms of ease of use and speed, and actually also flexibility. But definitely they lack rich content feature modelling we have with modern embeddings approaches