Blake Shaw

Senior Engineering Director @Reddit prev @Instagram, @Facebook, @Foursquare. Interests: machine learning, visualization, computational photography, snowboarding

[Blake Shaw @metablake]

@KasaObake878 @mateosfo Fair, but from a real estate POV you could easily see 3-5x the amount of charging spots on a traditional gas station lot and it’s not unreasonable to think that over the next decade we could double charging speed based on the rate of supercharger improvements, e.g V3, V4, etc

[Blake Shaw @metablake]

Built a Tide clock app inspired by how the moon's gravity pulls on the oceans. Check it out if you spend any time by the water! This pet project was either super late for last summer or super early for next 🤣 https://t.co/xb7tBbPV7l

[Blake Shaw @metablake]

@bdotdub If you sign up for Apple One you can get to 4TB https://t.co/PiTgfDFHG9

[Blake Shaw @metablake]

@dens My son really fell in love with Mario bowsers fury at ~4.5 (giant bowser part = awesome), but you should really reconsider odyssey (so good!), galaxy, and 3d world which he also liked and played a lot of. BOTW and links awakening were good but needed to sit and read with him.

[Blake Shaw @metablake]

New changes to IG Search coming! So proud of this team. https://t.co/wx1BtBo8IR

[Blake Shaw @metablake]

@benedictevans No doubt that text + async will stay way bigger, but would bet that it’s likely that VR base will be closer to video chat than gaming, once it gets great at that job.

[Blake Shaw @metablake]

@benedictevans Don’t you think that once the graphics + sensors improve to the point where VR telepresence feels like you’re in a room with someone else that the base will go from the like 200m for gaming to the 3bn+ that use messaging / video chat?

[Blake Shaw @metablake]

Really inspiring to see how sophisticated the vision and learning systems on the Skydio drones have become. Great talk @adampbry and @hmartiros! https://t.co/QaW9j8meJt

[Blake Shaw @metablake]

@OvercastFM huge fan of the app! but since the latest update Siri requires me to unlock the phone to use Overcast and all of my HomePod shortcuts don’t work anymore. Any tips? Fix coming soon? Thanks @marcoarment!

[Blake Shaw @metablake]

@bdotdub Haha totally, been in countless meetings where we all go to check some app behavior and the meeting just pauses

[Blake Shaw @metablake]

Such a special time for language and vision models. Love these!

[Travis Hoppe @metasemantic]

This is big ... semantic search is here. Let me show you with poetry. Yes poetry! I coupled @OpenAI's new CLIP model with 25K landscape photos from @unsplash. With it, you get a glimpse into how the AI *visualizes* poetry. A thread 🧵:

[Blake Shaw @metablake]

@dens Enjoying my Custom X 2020! Always come back to buying these after demoing other models, but curious what you research and discover!

[Blake Shaw @metablake]

This tweet that links to itself is so meta and clever. Here’s how it was done (without an edit button!): https://t.co/7nA5OP0g9g

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https://t.co/MAbIwtoonW

[Blake Shaw @metablake]

@jwegener Haha I’m tempted to do the same but torn on it. Let me know what you decide!

[Blake Shaw @metablake]

Excited to share a bit of what our team has been up to this last year! It's been amazing seeing IG Search grow up from mostly a people directory into a new kind of Visual Search utility.

[The Verge @verge]

Keyword search is coming to Instagram https://t.co/4KJrl8z0tM

[Blake Shaw @metablake]

@dens Nope, and also play that houses turn into cash after used to pay another player (crazy how underspecified the rules are but great game!)

[Blake Shaw @metablake]

@dens @beninato For what it’s worth when WFH started, I installed 4 eero pros, two of which are hardwired in an old Brooklyn brownstone and now it’s great (> 200 Mbps everywhere). Would recommend.

[Blake Shaw @metablake]

@adamlaiacano ... also note for writing longer form stuff with the Magic Keyboard, I use Bear, and for todo capture: Things, neither have great pencil support but I expect that to change a bit in the fall with Scribble

[Blake Shaw @metablake]

@adamlaiacano Also best pro-tip that is totally non-obvious, drag up from bottom corner with Apple Pencil to take a screenshot and immediately go into Markup mode, it’s an amazing shortcut that I use all the time