🚨 BREAKING: Andy Burnham says he will limit non-compete clauses in employment contracts
"Non-compete clauses will no longer be a barrier to hiring for our most promising start-ups"
Ben Affleck reveals he writes Python, understands convolutional neural networks, worked extensively with GPUs, and used his celebrity status to get private looks at Google and OpenAI’s video models
“I’ve always been kind of into computers since I was young. Then, when film started to move from analog film to digital, I became more interested in that aspect of it. The visual-effects workflow for many years has included machine learning, so I can write pretty shitty Python scripts and stuff like that.
“With convolutional neural networks, which were the precursors to what the transformer can do, which is much more computation simultaneously, you would do things like look at what’s called a tensor. That’s the numerical translation of a visual image in numbers, like the batch number, the frame number and the red, green and blue values of each pixel in each frame. It’s just that simple. That numeric is called a tensor.
“You’d use a convolutional neural network to identify patterns that reveal what’s called edge detection or feature extraction, which is identifying patterns well enough to know, this is where the window ledge is, so we can more easily take the green-screen image out and replace it with something.
“That was familiar to me early on because, prior to Artists Equity, I had a small visual-effects company. I’ve worked with GPUs a lot too. The visual-effects guys said, ‘Hey, you should see. There are a couple: Google and this other company, OpenAI, are doing really interesting stuff with transformers in video.’
“I’ve learned that I can actually just call up and go, ‘Hey, it’s Ben Affleck. Can I come see what you’re doing?’ Sometimes people say yes, to my astonishment.”
I never realised how much of my adult life would be spent thinking about protein
so on my first day at Fuse this was a sight for sore eyes. Four brands of protein bar, protein crisps, protein PORRIDGE!
(there's also an ice cream machine downstairs but still)
protein —> human performance
We just hired a Staff engineer in 3 days
I Interviewed him Tuesday. Obviously exceptional, but sitting on an offer from a startup that just raised $1B, and they'd been interviewing him for weeks
So we didn't put him in the queue. Booked every interview over the next 3 days, CTO and CEO included. He aced all of them. We beat the offer and he signed on Friday
Speed is by far the most underrated tool when it comes to hiring exceptional engineers
Energy is the input to everything, including AI.
Most AI companies rent their power. We generate ours. So we're hiring for both sides:
> Applied AI Engineering
> AI Product Owner
> AI Inference Engineer
> AI Ops
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