Majid Valipour

Software engineer with a soft spot for web platform.

International Expansion at Hopper, previously Verily, Google.

[Majid Valipour @majido]

Killing a civilization!!! WTH 🤬 What does he even mean by that. Is this a threat to use nuclear weapon?

[Fox News @FoxNews]

🚨 BREAKING: Trump warns 'whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again' if Iran doesn't agree to deal to end war

[Vaibhav (VB) Srivastav @reach_vb]

holy shitt, somebody at OpenAI leaked the entire codex codebase..

https://t.co/VDU5UqvC4N

[Majid Valipour @majido]

This massacre is Khamenei desperate bid to cling to power. The world must act now. Non-intervention will unleash a human catastrophe worse than Syria’s nightmare. For years Iranians have paid a heavy price under the evil regime. They need tangible support to prevail. @MarkJCarney

[Majid Valipour @majido]

Khamenei & IRGC terrorists slaughtered tens of thousands of innocent Iranians in a brutal rampage on January 8-9. I know people firsthand who got shot. Internet is shutdown but few leaked videos show bodies pilled in morgue. Watch to grasp #IranMassacre:

https://t.co/eed91sJG0s

[Majid Valipour @majido]

This totalitarian theocracy has zero legitimacy among the vast majority of Iranians. They’ve held the population hostage, used and wasted the countries resources to sow regional chaos and fuel global terrorism. No more!

[Majid Valipour @majido]

This is horrific but true! The terrorist regime of Iran has once again committed crimes against humanity. Targeting its own population. This regime has to fall and these murderers brought to justice.

[Daily Mail @DailyMail]

Iran 'killed 16,500 protesters and injured more than 300,000' in brutal crackdown, report claims - as regime accused of 'genocide under cover of digital darkness' https://t.co/x5P0kUiuTe

[Majid Valipour @majido]

Insightful post on how to avoid the traps of debating everything and just implementing.

https://t.co/exHen8BMpm

[Majid Valipour @majido]

It is Myo armband revived. Myo’s creator Thalmic Labs (aka North) was acqui-hired by Google. I met a few of their engineers when at Google Waterloo. But Myo's tech IP went to CTRL-labs which was eventually bought by Meta.

Big tech acquiring Canadian innovation in 2x speed.

[Meta @Meta]

Imagine controlling your devices with a subtle hand or finger gesture. Our cutting-edge research turns intent and muscle signals into seamless computer control. This breakthrough wrist technology is redefining how we interact with computers—intuitive, precise, and ready for the future.

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

The first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize, the first individual to be awarded two Nobel Prizes and still today the only individual with two Nobel Prizes in two different scientific categories: Marie Skłodowska Curie.

Happy international women’s day

[Majid Valipour @majido]

@Sanjeevirajmani Mainly a unique id for source string which is the used to fetch all sort of information like delivery date, last update, Translation method (human or machine), translation notes and context etc.

[Majid Valipour @majido]

There are 16 invisible variation selectors which enables efficient encoding of any arbitrary data. We (ab)use them to encode metadata appended to all translated strings with no UI impact. A simple plugin then decodes these to surface very useful info to our localization QA.

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

UTF-8 🤦‍♂️

I already knew about the "confusables", e.g.: e vs. е. Which look ~same but are different.

But you can also smuggle arbitrary byte streams in any character via "variation selectors". So this emoji: 😀󠅧󠅕󠄐󠅑󠅢󠅕󠄐󠅓󠅟󠅟󠅛󠅕󠅔 is 53 tokens. Yay

https://t.co/A7JdQeJ5pU

[Majid Valipour @majido]

Read this quote which resonated strongly this morning:

We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean waves, the universe peoples. Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe.

[Majid Valipour @majido]

Finished Revelation Space just a hour before the loan was due. The pacing and character build up was a bit lacking. Some interesting ideas. I liked the different aliens depiction and plot twists. Not yet sure if I want to commit to the whole series though.

[Majid Valipour @majido]

Using traffic cameras as a selfie cams is a brilliant idea out of left field. And his response to legal threats was 😁👌🏻

https://t.co/nFBmivNfdw

[Majid Valipour @majido]

@_Behrouz Very keen observation. Just finished the series.

“People will support an entertainment product and not care about moral fibre of the guy running the product. They want entertainment.”

[Majid Valipour @majido]

Also I just found out that the author James S. A. Corey is actually two authors working together. Two author is clearly better than just one 😅

[Majid Valipour @majido]

Reading memory’s legion. It is a short story collection that is set in the Expanse universe. This reminded me how good the writing of that book series was. 👌🏻

#scifibooks

[non aesthetic things @PicturesFoIder]

This is the type of stuff that makes me love AI

[Raven Kwok @RavenKwok]

Weighted, color-inverted, then finetuned the dragon curve tiles piece created earlier this year. It will be exhibited at Foundry, Dubai this coming September.

[Majid Valipour @majido]

“The definition of state of the art is that when it is broke no one knows how to fix it”

— some engineer at Atari