Damon Civin

Data scientist, AI @ meta. Coffee enthusiast, lousy surfer, noise rock enjoyer. Cambridge alum. opinions my own.

[Manohar Paluri @manohar_paluri]

Llama 4 has arrived! Multimodal intelligence that is best in class for each size. Hope the world enjoys them as much as the entire team did in building them.

Check out the blog for more details: https://t.co/uUSN5T0mIy

[Ahmad Al-Dahle @Ahmad_Al_Dahle]

As of today, Llama 4 Maverick offers a best-in-class performance to cost ratio with an experimental chat version scoring ELO of 1417 on LMArena.

It's wild to think Llama was a research project a couple of years ago & amazing to see how much progress we've made in the last two years 🚀 And this is just the first taste of the Llama 4 collection – get ready for a herd like you’ve never seen before.

Very proud of the GenAI team.

[Arena.ai @arena]

BREAKING: Meta's Llama 4 Maverick just hit #2 overall - becoming the 4th org to break 1400+ on Arena!🔥

Highlights:
- #1 open model, surpassing DeepSeek
- Tied #1 in Hard Prompts, Coding, Math, Creative Writing
- Huge leap over Llama 3 405B: 1268 → 1417
- #5 under style control

Huge congrats to @AIatMeta — and another big win for open-source! 👏 More analysis below⬇️

[Damon Civin @DCivin]

@asanarebel please add controls for volume from Spotify. It doesn’t seem possible to balance the volume of music from Spotify with the trainers voice. Or maybe I’m doing it wrong?

[Damon Civin @DCivin]

I just learned about the existence of the phylum “Vermes” for worms and I can’t I hear it in my head as mad Austrian scientist yelling “Wormies!!!”

[Meline Joaris @MelineJoaris]

Another fail from @FlySWISS. Yesterday we were told our dog is too small for cargo and there’s no more space for days for us to reschedule. Last night they sent a DM that it was sorted and our dog was confirmed. This morning I get another message that there’s now no more space.

[Damon Civin @DCivin]

@MelineJoaris @FlySWISS @swissair @swissairlines @FlySWISS @lufthansa this is totally unacceptable. Please make it right.

[Damon Civin @DCivin]

Hey @vfsglobalcare @VFSGlobal please help - I can't book an appointment.

[Damon Civin @DCivin]

@JonKrohnLearns It’s only data science if it’s from the Bay Area otherwise it’s just sparkling analytics :p more seriously, it’s clearly portraying what the data DOESNT tell us, and how to work with other methods to get to the right answer

[Damon Civin @DCivin]

@mipsytipsy "everything about management is easy to say and impossible to do" - sheryl sandberg maybe

[Damon Civin @DCivin]

If no one can make money doing x, the solution will fail.

[Damon Civin @DCivin]

@WendyVerwey @JustineJoyIt @robleathern Dm me pls

[Damon Civin @DCivin]

@zacharylipton @acmi_lab @lawrennd Yeah I heard it all happened after some particularly questionable performance art involving sea otters in the surf line up

[Damon Civin @DCivin]

@GoogleStadia Nope just bg3. Key bindings are not saved when exiting game.

[Damon Civin @DCivin]

New pet peeve: @GoogleStadia not remembering my key bindings for @baldursgate3

[Damon Civin @DCivin]

@julius_adebayo @nvidia I'm happy for all involved, though it's a bittersweet moment. NVIDIA's growth has been INSANE over the last few years so I hope that some of the more adventurous Arm ideas continue to be pursued post-acquisition & the plans to build an AI centre in Cambridge turn out well.

[Shel 🇰🇪 🇮🇪 @Shel_Kariuki]

Today I got invited to speak at:

"Women in Data Science Executive Conference (East Africa) 2020"
😭😭😭😭🙌🙌🙌

[Damon Civin @DCivin]

@Shel_Kariuki Go Shel!!!!!!

[Damon Civin @DCivin]

@elonmusk call it a Bakkie. #modelb

[Dominic Pajak @DominicPajak]

I'm liking the fresh new look of the @TensorFlow blog! https://t.co/N7dMChv0Ab