Ali Abid

Working on Robotics Annotations at @shotwellst

Projects at founded @Gradio, eng at @huggingface and google

[Ali Abid @anotheraliabid]

Just wrapped up my time at @huggingface building @Gradio a couple months ago. Still chasing the high of building ML tools - now in robotics! If you've got robotics data and need annotations, reach out and see how we can help!

[Farhan Khan @farhunky]

Today, we're introducing @shotwellst.

We're solving the hardest problem in robotics: understanding your data

There’s no point collecting robotics data if you don't understand whats happening in it, but your options are limited. If you need dense, accurate labels with precise subtask boundaries, VLMs don't cut it, an in-house annotation army is a huge operational sink, and today's vendors charge an arm and a leg for low quality work

Shotwell combines the best of both worlds by training our own annotation models and letting humans deal with the ugly edge cases.

Its the ONLY way to consistently guarantee 100% quality in a scalable way. Humans are inconsistent, and models are inaccurate.

[Ali Abid @anotheraliabid]

Game link here: https://t.co/SM0v9UYqwE

[Ali Abid @anotheraliabid]

I built a rhyming puzzle game, with clues generated by Qwen! Try it out - link in the next post.

[Ali Abid @anotheraliabid]

@paulg @ViewChester I think you've got a bias that successful founders are mostly good people (as you wrote before), but the ones you interact with obviously are nice twoards you. The same incentives encourage them not to speak out now, there's nothing in it for them.

[Ali Abid @anotheraliabid]

@Noahpinion Nothing to do with the fact Momdani has expressed sympathy for Palestine, I'm sure. Just Noah doing silly contrarian behaviour! 🤪

[Ali Abid @anotheraliabid]

@ArmandDoma @Noahpinion "I'm doing it to just to be contrarian" = I'm doing to because Momdani doesn't love Israel.

[Ali Abid @anotheraliabid]

@lhfang @WhitneyTilson This is the guy who kept attacking Momdani as antisemetic for not making visiting Israel his priority as mayor

[Ali Abid @anotheraliabid]

@lhfang If you read through @Noahpinion's timeline on this stuff, he clearly just has a deep ethnic hatred for the Palestinian cause and will smear them without any care of facts.

[Yuval Abraham יובל אברהם @yuval_abraham]

A group of settlers just lynched Hamdan Ballal, co director of our film no other land. They beat him and he has injuries in his head and stomach, bleeding. Soldiers invaded the ambulance he called, and took him. No sign of him since.

[Chris Hedges @ChrisLynnHedges]

https://t.co/4HO13OgTun