Aaron Zinman

Apple R&D, former Google/Ginger/Empirical. PhD from the MIT Media Lab. AI + UX.

[Aaron Zinman @azinman]

@UpzoneH @mnolangray It’s because of the sarin terrorist attack years ago.

[Jack Rusher @jackrusher]

I've converted my long thread of curated classic HCI demo videos into a mini-site with authentic period styling. :)
https://t.co/Yl4hsTJ3Xm

[Aaron Zinman @azinman]

@emax Are you arguing for less features? ;)
If you think that’s true for Swift, you really don’t want to learn Scala!!!

[Aaron Zinman @azinman]

@Michael_Leeds I think I may have your chili crisp?

[Aaron Zinman @azinman]

@emax Often times people buy either specialized GPUs/TPUs for inference, or rent it at scale from a cloud provider depending on the task.

[Aaron Zinman @azinman]

@emax They seemed be heavily geared towards creatives. I don’t know of any consumer device shipping a TPU for inference. That’d be wasted silicon for 99% of buyers. But I also don’t know the details on these chips or how well the GPUs do inference.

[Amy Maxmen, PhD @amymaxmen]

My best friend is getting his day-long clinical trial treatment for colon cancer in the chemo suite @sloan_kettering w/many immunocompromised patients. He was just told that his nurse is unvaccinated.

Lives are at stake but so is your reputation, @sloan_kettering.

[Aaron Zinman @azinman]

@engineering_joy You already passed to enjoy

[Aaron Zinman @azinman]

@emax Have you gotten yours yet?

[Aaron Zinman @azinman]

@hahatango Because people suck, and snap judgments and mob rule are forces embedded into humanity. If you allow a network to be public and not private, it’s inevitable.

[Aaron Zinman @azinman]

@emax Hug

[Aaron Zinman @azinman]

🥂

[Aaron Zinman @azinman]

@liminal67 @settlersofcatan What’s the discord channel?

[Aaron Zinman @azinman]

@PizzaHacker are you doing bagels anymore now that Douglas has closed? I only got them once two weeks ago and I’m obsessed!

[Paul Katsen @Katsen]

=GPT3()... the spreadsheet function to rule them all.

Impressed with how well it pattern matches from a few examples.

The same function looked up state populations, peoples' twitter usernames and employers, and did some math.

[Aaron Zinman @azinman]

@judithd Why does a church have a CFO??!

[Aaron Zinman @azinman]

@DAVEYBOY733 @cathaypacific I’m happy to get the recipe! It’s one of the reasons I’d want to fly the airline, and with no travel in sight...

[Aaron Zinman @azinman]

In SF, the park next to us is “closed” yet there are many people using it daily. This drives me nuts as it just extends the pain. Where’s the enforcement? #COVID19 #ShelterInPlace #SanFrancisco