Ed Pizzi

Computer vision (copy detection, image retrieval, and visual search) and software engineering.

[Ed Pizzi @edpizzi]

@MeAnIntellectu6 @slainbyelf I know schools sometimes teach this, but it's simply not true.

This way of thinking waters down "slavery is bad" to just one opinion, no better or worse than "slavery is good". A philosophy that fails the slavery test should be rejected outright.

https://t.co/6tReceWoiR

[Ed Pizzi @edpizzi]

@pulyus @novaruu_ @ItsKingSlime It really isn't. Most of these animals are artificially inseminated. Many breeds are incapable of reproducing naturally. Children are removed from parents in infancy. Defend it if you want but there's nothing natural about it. Other animals do not create suffering at this scale.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Today’s Supreme Court decision effectively guts a key pillar of the Voting Rights Act, freeing state legislatures to gerrymander legislative districts to systematically dilute and weaken the voting power of racial minorities - so long as they do it under the guise of “partisanship” rather than explicit “racial bias.” And it serves as just one more example of how a majority of the current Court seems intent on abandoning its vital role in ensuring equal participation in our democracy and protecting the rights of minority groups against majority overreach.

The good news is that such setbacks can be overcome. But that will only happen if citizens across the country who cherish our democratic ideals continue to mobilize and vote in record numbers - not just in the upcoming midterms or in high profile races, but in every election and every level.

[Ed Pizzi @edpizzi]

This is a thoughtful take on software engineering in the age of LLMs.

[Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill]

The peril of laziness lost
https://t.co/ahSIflm9va

ht: @Gregorein (and @garrytan, I guess?)

[Ed Pizzi @edpizzi]

@ducha_aiki A modern koan

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.

[Cory Booker @CoryBooker]

Today, many leaders will rightly condemn President Donald Trump’s unlawful and unjust actions in Venezuela, and I join them.

But just as glaring, and far more damning, is Congress’ ongoing abdication of its constitutional duty. For almost a year now, the legislative branch has failed to check a president who repeatedly violates his oath, disregards the law, and endangers American interests at home and abroad.

Time and again, Congress, now led by Republicans, has chosen spineless complicity over its sworn responsibilities. From the reckless leaking of classified information that put American troops at risk, to the illegal use of military force destroying vessels and killing people in the Caribbean and the Pacific without congressional authorization, there has been a stunning absence of accountability.

No hearings.
No serious investigations.
No enforcement of checks and balances.
No accountability.

Again and again, the president has exceeded his authority, defied congressional intent, trampled the separation of powers, and broken the law - while Congress looked away in cowardice and submission.

Republicans in Congress own this corrosive collapse of our constitutional order. With only a handful of honorable exceptions, they have bent themselves to the will of Donald Trump, afraid to state in public the feelings they often communicate privately. That submission, this abandonment of independent judgment and constitutional courage, now stands as one of the greatest dangers to our nation and to the global order America claims to defend.

Nicolás Maduro is a brutal dictator who has committed grave abuses. The United States military remains the most capable fighting force on Earth, and our praiseworthy service members carry out their orders with professionalism and excellence.

But none of that suspends the Constitution.

The Constitution is unambiguous: Congress has the power and responsibility to authorize the use of military force and declare war. Congress has a duty of oversight. Congress must serve as a check, not a rubber stamp, to the President. On this count, Congress has failed.

We face an authoritarian-minded president who acts with dangerous growing impunity. He has shown a willingness to defy court orders, violate the law, ignore congressional intent, and shred basic norms of decency and democracy. This pattern will continue unless the Article I branch of government, especially Republican congressional leadership, finds the courage to act.

They must stop behaving as partisan puppets and start acting as patriotic constitutional stewards.

What happened today is wrong. Congressional Republicans would say so immediately if a Democratic president had done the same. Their silence is surrender. And in that surrender lie the seeds of our democratic unraveling.

There are still three years left in this administration. From the pardoning of individuals who violently attacked police officers while attempting to overturn our election to this latest extrajudicial assault on another nation’s sovereignty, the damage will continue unless it is confronted.

Enough is enough.

[Ed Pizzi @edpizzi]

@AcerFur I don't want to pile on to the kind of toxic replies to his recent posts, but I'm interested to see where the lean prof is at just for curiosity's sake.

[Ed Pizzi @edpizzi]

@EDsetMefree @PinkNews ❤️ I apologize for the obnoxious comments any trans supporting post gets on here.

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[Ed Pizzi @edpizzi]

@gowthami_s Oh man I’ve always wanted this exact feature.

[Ed Pizzi @edpizzi]

Happy Silksong release day to all who celebrate!

[Ed Pizzi @edpizzi]

@michael_kove @chilly99705 @pearlplat202 Grazing animals require vastly more arable land, including cultuvatable land (fields with rain water that could grow human food directly). Alternative sources of water face logistical challenges for irrigating crops.

[Ed Pizzi @edpizzi]

@michael_kove @chilly99705 @pearlplat202 I’d urge you to read some some of the scholarship here: https://t.co/KcHDT2gEqQ

Humanity’s main use of water is for agriculture, not drinking. The more fields with available rainwater we use for livestock feed crops (much less efficient), the fewer are available for human food.

[Ed Pizzi @edpizzi]

@eigendecay Incredible thread. Imagine a world where an mp4 of qr codes was an optimal retrieval structure for text.

[Ed Pizzi @edpizzi]

@wilbertolau @illyism @karololszacki @tonyotonio No shade to anyone, but I struggle to understand how this seemed plausible. The idea that mp4(png(qr-code(text))) is an efficient text compression strategy, or would improve retrieval performance, seems extraordinarily unlikely.

[Ed Pizzi @edpizzi]

1000xResist is an incredible narrative experience. Highly recommended. Gameplay is simple, but the story is so artfully presented.

[Robert Vinluan @RobertVinluan]

1000XResist is so good please play it

[Ed Pizzi @edpizzi]

Link to article: https://t.co/zc8tGNGbud

[Ed Pizzi @edpizzi]

This is disappointing. A lot of my work at Facebook/Meta was used to identify misinformation. (link below)

[Ed Pizzi @edpizzi]

Opinion: “Multiverse” interpretations of quantum physics are an analogy that escaped containment.

Like popular use of Schrodinger’s cat, or how people say “equal and opposite reaction” to refer to things like retaliation.

[john @JohnBcde]

it’s a bold statement on their part

wave function does describe different “universes” i.e. system states and gives probabilities for an observer to see one of them

quantum computers work by manipulating an isolated system and “cooking” such a wave function so that the value we look for would be the most probable outcome when the result is measured (repeating the same procedure many times to get outcomes distribution), we kind of end up in the “right universe” where we know the answer

but we don’t know if all the other states/universes exist, or it’s a pure abstraction, or maybe we ask wrong questions