Matthias Shapiro

dev with Disney Streaming, playing around with UWP, Alexa, Python, genetics, data visualization, and cakes. needs fewer hobbies.

[Matthias Shapiro @matthiasshap]

I've been watching the past few weeks as pretty much everyone I worked with at Microsoft is taking the voluntary retirement deal

Reminds me how much I miss all my friends from MSFT. If we haven't talked in a while, DM me. We should catch up.

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What I did this week:

Used OpenCV, Pillow, and Tesseract to process a folder with images of an out-of-print book and extract the text

https://t.co/KmCTdnYqvd

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Thing I learned today: using python and tesseract to OCR a folder of images

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@lee_stott @paladique yay! Ed is the best.

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@ryanszrama I appreciate it. Just means it's time to find something new. Lots of cool stuff out there.

[Matthias Shapiro @matthiasshap]

Suddenly and unexpectedly looking for a new job

I've got 10+ years experience as a software developer mainly in the .NET stack, but I've been working with Azure Cog Services and building generative AI solutions on the side the last few months

Hit me up! I'd love to chat.

[Matthias Shapiro @matthiasshap]

You can check out my LinkedIn or my website / blog / portfolio

I'm a relentless tinker and a tenacious builder. I love solving problems, helping customers, and training people in new tech

https://t.co/7l305UXFHQ

https://t.co/nuczmRfTfk

[Matthias Shapiro @matthiasshap]

I like this framing

[Chubby♨️ @kimmonismus]

„We don’t program neural networks, we grow them“

[Windows Central Gaming @WinC_Gaming]

Black Friday has definitely come early, as the regular 1TB Xbox Series X complete with a disc drive is now the same price as the new all-digital version!

DEAL:
https://t.co/8xoygjqttv

#BlackFriday #Xbox #Deals

[Sebastian Raschka @rasbt]

If you are looking for something to read/study this weekend, I added lots of LLM-related bonus from-scratch coding resources over the last few months (from implementing Llama 3.2 to preference tuning with DPO): https://t.co/jMi3McHWJD

I hope you find them useful!

[Matthias Shapiro @matthiasshap]

Her (2013)

[Microsoft Design @MicrosoftDesign]

Steadily emerging is a ‘system of systems’ that is intelligent & interactive, with a rich, layered understanding. It goes beyond surface aesthetics into something that changes + grows as you do, operating not just through commands, but through ongoing and evolving conversations.

[Matthias Shapiro @matthiasshap]

fascinating data map of stories on hackernews
https://t.co/ZAE01EbckD

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need to dig into the details of these use cases

[Anthony Goldbloom @antgoldbloom]

The overlooked GenAI use case: cleaning, processing, and analyzing data.
https://t.co/j9hFXWJvvF

Job post data tell us what companies plan to do with GenAI. The most common use case is data analytics projects. Examples:

- AstraZeneca: using LLMs on freeform documents to structure results from their Extractables & Leachables testing (https://t.co/wbamJnQEEN)

- Trafigura: The Document AI team is using LLMs to extract data from a corpus of commodity trading documents to generate credit reports
(https://t.co/mujn0ksa90)

The startup ecosystem is overlooking this use case, instead focusing on other areas such as customer support, sales & marketing and code gen.

[Matthias Shapiro @matthiasshap]

@ryanszrama I keep waiting for AMD to make their move

[Matthias Shapiro @matthiasshap]

The case for buying AMD stock is that maybe they will somehow get their stuff together and build products that can effectively compete with NVidia
https://t.co/aKAQhR5yiq

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@N1car I'm astonished how low the "Employee salaries" is compared to... almost anything! They spend almost as much on data as on salaries.

I don't think a lot of companies are really prepared for the scale of costs in building custom solutions.

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note for myself

[Windows Developer @windowsdev]

Developing a Windows app but not sure which UI framework to choose? 🤔

Watch @alvinashcraft's session from Visual Studio Live! He breaks down each framework to help you choose the right one for your project!👇
https://t.co/SX2E0Lizqb

[Matthias Shapiro @matthiasshap]

I need to keep this chart in my back pocket for when I'm talking about what it will take to bring custom LLMs in-house

[Matthias Shapiro @matthiasshap]

Just knowing the problem space well enough to know who has already solved the problem is a big win

[Kevin Naughton Jr. @KevinNaughtonJr]

how software actually works for 99% of engineers: someone way smarter than you solved a really hard problem and now you build on top of their solution like adult legos and think you're a genius

[Zac Bowden @zacbowden]

The loss of Windows Phone