Melissa Verrilli

Human • Lawyer • Outdoor Enthusiast • GenAI Counsel @Meta • Early @Uber Ops • Former @US9thCircuit Law Clerk • @Harvard_Law @Georgetown ✌🏼

[Melissa Verrilli @melrose]

@jess @aunder On point for @Adverbvc color scheme ✅

[Melissa Verrilli @melrose]

@aunder @jess Ha share the fact! 👀

[Melissa Verrilli @melrose]

@NickSattele interesting! what website shows that info?

[Paul Waxer @paulwaxer73]

@retraC__ Once you have a group of 4 that understand euchre it’s undoubtedly the greatest card game

[Adam Grant @AdamMGrant]

The best place to relax is near water.

After just 2 minutes of viewing water outdoors, blood pressure and heart rate drop. It's more calming to look at a lake, pool, or stream than trees or grass.

Beaches are popular for a reason. Wider bodies of water bring more tranquility.

[Melissa Verrilli @melrose]

@jess @aragon_ai 🤩

[Alex Heath @alexeheath]

Meta is pushing harder to compete with ChatGPT by putting its AI assistant everywhere. You're going to start seeing it in the search boxes of Instagram and Facebook. There's now a standalone web app. Google Search has been integrated.

And the first two Llama 3 models are being released ahead of a 400 billion parameter, multimodal version that's being trained.

"At this point, our goal is not to compete with the open source models,” Mark Zuckerberg told me. “It’s to compete with everything out there and to be the leading AI in the world."
https://t.co/hUQkoHOxn1

[stevemur @stevemur]

Why is enrollment declining in Seattle Public Schools?

Reasons pondered in this Seattle Times piece:
- low birthrates
- migration
- "just fewer kids in Seattle"
- high housing costs in Seattle

NOT mentioned in this Seattle Times piece:
- closing the district to in-person learning longer than any district in the world except SF, which "beat" SPS by a couple weeks
- decision to tear down advanced/accelerated cohorts
- a focus on "equity" over helping each child become their very best
- pedagogy gone crazy, with a proposed woke math curriculum so bizarre it made national news
- a school board so dysfunctional its director sued the district
- a five-year strategic plan in 2019 whose goals focused pretty much exclusively on black males (I'm not joking, look at the SPS's "Strategic Plan" website)
- safety concerns, with shootings in recent years near school grounds
- ignoring repeated calls by Broadview-Thompson parents to intervene in an encampment near school grounds
- a teachers union so intransigent that 70%+ of members voted NOT to return to work during the pandemic even after given vaccination prioritization in February of 2021, and one which went on strike in September 2022

[Cass Sunstein @CassSunstein]

Worth reading or rereading: The Undoing Project, about Danny Kahneman and Amos Tversky, by the amazing Michael Lewis. It's astonishingly good, and hilarious, and quite moving.
https://t.co/hKoBIKdUDX

[Melissa Verrilli @melrose]

@jess 👏🏻👏🏻 Start with basic annual exams: physical, derm, eyes, dental, and all related lab tests from PCP (e.g. CBC, A1c, comprehensive metabolic panel, Iron, Vitamins B, D, Lipid profile, etc.)

[Melissa Verrilli @melrose]

Happy New Year! And day 1 in a new job as in-house counsel on Meta's Legal AI team, focusing on Privacy and AI Regulations, in the Seattle office. Super excited to take on this role!

[Melissa Verrilli @melrose]

@eladgil Euchre ♠️

[Melissa Verrilli @melrose]

@thesamparr @ShaanVP Made possible by: @raechellambert @getriver_io 🙌🏼

[PBS News @NewsHour]

Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman to serve as a justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, has died at the age of 93.

@JudyWoodruff looks back on her life and legacy.

[Melissa Verrilli @melrose]

@thesamparr I’m in! @getriver_io

[Melissa Verrilli @melrose]

@tdrobbo That was quick! 🦃

[Satya Nadella @satyanadella]

We remain committed to our partnership with OpenAI and have confidence in our product roadmap, our ability to continue to innovate with everything we announced at Microsoft Ignite, and in continuing to support our customers and partners. We look forward to getting to know Emmett Shear and OAI's new leadership team and working with them. And we’re extremely excited to share the news that Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, together with colleagues, will be joining Microsoft to lead a new advanced AI research team. We look forward to moving quickly to provide them with the resources needed for their success.

[Melissa Verrilli @melrose]

@raechellambert @nickgraynews I just joined F45! Needed winter motivation, and upbeat music 💪🏼

[Melissa Verrilli @melrose]

@JennyVANCAN @Uber Same 😏

[Melissa Verrilli @melrose]

@SecretaryPete @FAANews No one but the authorized on duty pilots should be allowed in the cockpit