Dillon Cower

I feed big models @Waymo. ex @Google: WebRTC/Duo/Meet, spatial audio/ambisonics/VR media my own.

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[Dillon Cower @dcower]

@suchenzang an unc swarm, if you will

[Dillon Cower @dcower]

@SamuelAlbanie @Miles_Brundage https://t.co/iV6dg6Rg5j

[Waymo @Waymo]

220M+ fully autonomous miles driven, and Waymo's safety performance remains remarkably consistent.

Even as we scaled into increasingly complex environments like airports and new cities, the safety benefits kept compounding.

Check out the full analysis on our Safety Data Hub: https://t.co/uaEuye05SO

[“paula” @paularambles]

guy called mark pulling up in the new waymo

[Dillon Cower @dcower]

@MikeIsaac rated E for Everyone

[Susan Zhang @suchenzang]

there is no better time in tech than now to be a jack of all trades, master of a few.

just make sure to keep adding to the few year over year, such that the cumulative breadth of expertise you collect becomes an increasingly rare combo. remember, if you're top 10% in 3 different areas, that already makes you top 0.1%. keep switching it up until you get to "your best", and then switch it up again (great for a particular flavor of people who don't enjoy resting on laurels, maybe not so great for others).

question all institutional value and pedigrees, all traditional career paths or corporate ladders: the college industrial complex is getting shaken up, alongside a disappearing managerial class, so if you're pursuing either make sure you are fully internally aligned with why. social/political capital in a particular institution can feel incredible, but if you're spending all your energy on complex political people games, you're not a technologist anymore, you're an unelected politician. if you're ok with that, then all's well.

critical thinking is more important than ever: take nothing at face-value, question everything and everyone. the equivalent of ai slop can be found in humans operating under misaligned incentives and interests. the sooner you're clued into disambiguating the talkers/larpers from the doers, the better off you'll be figuring out where and who to invest your time in.

the anxiety of job displacement is very real, since a surprising amount of white collar work/prestige is built on a performative house of cards, significantly lacking in correlation with technical breadth, depth, and skill. as long as you keep learning, keep building, keep producing receipts, you will be fine.

if all that sounds ok to you, welcome to the world of technology! it's truly one of the few places you can experience child-like wonder every few years, and be constantly humbled & excited by new adventures, as scary as they may seem at first.

don't give up, drink your water, get your sunlight, and take breaks as needed. tech careers are notoriously nonlinear, so you might as well embrace it and enjoy the ride!

[Dillon Cower @dcower]

@Miles_Brundage 💚💙

[Dillon Cower @dcower]

@Thom_Wolf 0x90 all the way

[Dillon Cower @dcower]

@suchenzang morning existential nanodread and evening microburnouts are the way to go. keeps you vigilant.

[Dillon Cower @dcower]

@dai_jiajing @Meta @Waymo 🫡

[Daylen Yang @daylenyang]

Waymo's Perception system, which uses lidar, radar, and camera, sees even in extreme lighting conditions. If the headlights on this car were to go out, we would still detect all the people. Check out this side by side of a camera image and our detections overlaid on top.

[Dillon Cower @dcower]

@ethanmckanna this is awesome! nice work.

[Dillon Cower @dcower]

@MikeIsaac the original Dean Browning, if you will

https://t.co/iVIXRi3iV3

[Dillon Cower @dcower]

@chandler5554 @reed @Waymo https://t.co/Ixc6TQprRy (but like... car, not face)

[Dillon Cower @dcower]

@MikeIsaac in a word: ''woke''

[Dillon Cower @dcower]

@jackclarkSF Link for the lazy: https://t.co/SK6A0MNBea

[Ethan Teicher @ethanteicher]

This simultaneous launch of 4 fully autonomous cities (a @Waymo & industry first) brings us to 10 metro areas: SF Bay Area, LA, PHX, ATX, ATL, MIA, DAL, HOU, SAT, and ORL.

And more to come.

[Waymo @Waymo]

Meet Ojai, equipped with our 6th-gen Waymo Driver now driving fully autonomously. 🚙 We’re excited to begin welcoming riders this summer.

[Dillon Cower @dcower]

@JibroniSandwich @emollick https://t.co/E1WuFt7y6Y