Alpaca

[Jeff Dean @JeffDean]

We created a pitch deck to tell a handful of VC firms about us and what we were up to (a fun experience!). Here’s a few slides about our background and some of the things we’ve worked on from the pitch deck (it was fun putting together the list of people in our teams who have gone on to found a whole range of exciting companies). We are delighted to have selected @radicalvcfund
and @khoslaventures to lead our initial funding round, along with participation from @lightspeedvp, @kleinerperkins, Doerr Capital (@johndoerr), and Alphabet (@Google). We’ll be working with them to close our seed round over the next few weeks.

[Jeff Dean @JeffDean]

Announcing Discovery Loop!

I am very excited to announce that, along with my longtime friends and collaborators @Sanjay_Ghemawat, @OriolVinyalsML and @quocleix, we are founding Discovery Loop (@DiscoLoopAI), a Public Benefit Corporation whose mission is to automate machine learning, science, and engineering to accelerate discoveries and progress. The four of us have worked together for 14 to 30 years, and have helped build some of the world’s most used products, infrastructure and AI models, and we’re excited to turn our attention to this ambitious endeavor.

♾

Learn more at: https://t.co/Rv3LMdLluK

[Jen Gentleman 🌺 @JenMsft]

When trying to solve a coding problem, one programmer thought, "I'll use threads!" - and then two hd he arpoblmes

[Tracy Chou 🌻 @triketora]

before starting a company i fully did not appreciate how rare it is for people to follow through on what they say they’re going to do

(employees, investors, advisors, contractors, service providers, biz partners…)

when you find someone good, hang on for dear life

[🎻 ➡️ BlueSky @ericlaw]

"That'll do..."

[Jayson E. Street 💙 🤗💛 @jaysonstreet]

I was given a list of 4 executives who agreed to a limited and well defined scope on attacking their home network and to having recon done on them.
At the end of the engagement I had 7 very shocked, upset & terrified executives! 🧐

[Justin Elze @HackingLZ]

Wtf

"This flaw could have allowed an attacker to exploit a private API, initially intended for marketing purposes, to covertly install additional browser extensions with broad permissions without the user's knowledge"

https://t.co/Gk6L46542z

[Jaana Dogan ヤナ ドガン @rakyll]

I'm looking forward to the day I'm going to retire, the day I will begin coding full-time again.

[John Arundel @bitfield]

Why would you waste your time learning to use a debugger? Are you planning to write bugs?

[Justin Elze @HackingLZ]

Data privacy is a way of life

[Christian Findlay @CFDevelop]

I know what so many people are thinking

You can't just leave developers alone to do the work

Doesn't scale up

They can't talk to stake holders

Yada yada yada

It's BS. That's what we used to do, and I don't understand why we're supposed to need all these people directing us

[Christian Findlay @CFDevelop]

In all seriousness, are there any jobs left where you just build the software in peace?

[Jim Kennedy @TonikJDK]

When your own son shows up in your Google news feed. Shame they never contact me, I got stories.

[Dave Kennedy @HackingDave]

Leaders who don't listen will eventually be surrounded by people who have nothing to say.

Such a great quote.

[Bill Pollock -- [email protected] @billpollock]

I'm looking for someone *experienced* to lead the building of an online learning platform for No Starch Press. I have some ideas but I'm open. Fresh, useful, relevant, and wow are some operative words. Suggestions? Please share! @nostarch

[Riley Goodside @goodside]

Grok, stop searching and look at me. Look at me.

I'm the founder now.

[Jeff Dean @JeffDean]

The multimodal and reasoning capabilities of Gemini are quite strong. The benchmark results, which I’ll discuss in a moment are nice, but I’m most excited by demonstrations of what it can do.

Consider the image below. A teacher has drawn a physics problem of a skier going down a slope, and a student has worked through a solution to computing the speed of the skier at the bottom of the slope. Using Gemini’s multimodal reasoning capabilities, the model is able to read the messy handwriting, correctly understand the problem formulation, convert both the problem and solution to mathematical typesetting, identify the specific step of reasoning where the student went wrong in solving the problem, and then give a worked through correct solution to the problem. The possibilities in education alone are exciting, and these multimodal and reasoning capabilities of Gemini models could have dramatic applications across many fields.

[TrustedSec @TrustedSec]

Giving back to the community has been one of our core values since day one. To accompany the launch of #Impede, we are excited to announce that the Free Community edition is now live! Learn how you can gain access on our website. https://t.co/RO7lp43uAg