Romy Macasieb

2x founding PM→acquisition.🇵🇭

[Romy Macasieb @romy]

i don’t know how people expect 3rd party apps to be perfectly optimized for new screens but also lock and key to avoid leaks.

side note. iphone shipped copy and paste two years after it launched. (ty iphone 3GS!)

i think things turned out alright.

[Romy Macasieb @romy]

@vbahkk @jangro hahaha i can hear you saying this irl

[Romy Macasieb @romy]

“Did you finish your homework?”

My middle schooler:

[Fireside Alpha @firesidealpha]

Ben Affleck reveals he writes Python, understands convolutional neural networks, worked extensively with GPUs, and used his celebrity status to get private looks at Google and OpenAI’s video models

“I’ve always been kind of into computers since I was young. Then, when film started to move from analog film to digital, I became more interested in that aspect of it. The visual-effects workflow for many years has included machine learning, so I can write pretty shitty Python scripts and stuff like that.

“With convolutional neural networks, which were the precursors to what the transformer can do, which is much more computation simultaneously, you would do things like look at what’s called a tensor. That’s the numerical translation of a visual image in numbers, like the batch number, the frame number and the red, green and blue values of each pixel in each frame. It’s just that simple. That numeric is called a tensor.

“You’d use a convolutional neural network to identify patterns that reveal what’s called edge detection or feature extraction, which is identifying patterns well enough to know, this is where the window ledge is, so we can more easily take the green-screen image out and replace it with something.

“That was familiar to me early on because, prior to Artists Equity, I had a small visual-effects company. I’ve worked with GPUs a lot too. The visual-effects guys said, ‘Hey, you should see. There are a couple: Google and this other company, OpenAI, are doing really interesting stuff with transformers in video.’

“I’ve learned that I can actually just call up and go, ‘Hey, it’s Ben Affleck. Can I come see what you’re doing?’ Sometimes people say yes, to my astonishment.”

[Romy Macasieb @romy]

@HermesWatcher Hindsight locally no cloud

[Romy Macasieb @romy]

@vbahkk @itsdpark Love this. To the moon!!!

[Romy Macasieb @romy]

@Deshair @KevOnStage This. Is. The one. 😂😂😂

[Romy Macasieb @romy]

@tiny_achiever @talltbh 💕

[Romy Macasieb @romy]

@gusverdun Gus!!! I love this message. Not just for the huge news (yay!) but that you haven’t changed. I’ve always looked up to how great of a human you are. And still do. Please take these 3 weeks and enjoy life! ❤️

[Romy Macasieb @romy]

@leonephraim Always 💅🏽❤️💖

[Romy Macasieb @romy]

@leonephraim CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!