Jon Orwant

Engineering Director, Google AI

[Jon Orwant @orwant]

Google Translate announced support for 110 new languages. I'd heard of...5 of them. https://t.co/o2Ls0iiSM9

[Jon Orwant @orwant]

The people least worried about extinction risk from LLMs: actual programmers.

[Jon Orwant @orwant]

@flantz You can pre-order it on Google Play Books https://t.co/aePZRPnFBX

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

One year is exactly 365.2422 days long.

More than two thousand years ago a Greek astronomer called Hipparchus calculated the length of a year to within 0.005 of that figure.

And he didn't even have a telescope...

[Jon Orwant @orwant]

Guess the year from the photo. Tough and educational!

https://t.co/uwOskIVkEL

[Jon Orwant @orwant]

@Arian_Khorasani @DeepMind @MetaAI @GoogleAI @Apple @GoogleAI is hiring interns. I approved an Operations Research proposal this week.

[Mike Lewis @ml_perception]

New paper in Science today on playing the classic negotiation game "Diplomacy" at a human level, by connecting language models with strategic reasoning! Our agent engages in intense and lengthy dialogues to persuade other players to follow its plans. This was really hard! 1/5

[Jon Orwant @orwant]

@briandfoy_perl chomp()

[Jon Orwant @orwant]

@REMARKSIST Differently intelligenced.

[Nyx @TheMushiestPea]

@NoName_xx_ahf Sea urchins like to put rocks and shells on their heads, to protect them from predators and the sun. So an aquarium 3D-printed hats for them, and they love to wear them!

[Vala Afshar @ValaAfshar]

This is how we should teach physics and engineering principles in high school

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The Cistercian numerals are a forgotten number system, developed by the Cistercian monastic order in the early thirteenth century, much more compact than Arabic or Roman numerals: with a single character you could write any integer from 1 to 9999 [more: https://t.co/8TS1FZkGko]

[Jon Orwant @orwant]

Excellent thread that applies to computer science writing as well.

[Jon Orwant @orwant]

Will any entity (government or corporation) ever employ 0.1% of Earth? That would be 8 million people. US Dept of Defense has 3 million; Walmart & McDonald's each have about 2 million.

[James Surowiecki @JamesSurowiecki]

The evolution in the words kids are asked to spell today vs when I did Spelling Bee is remarkable. Most of the words we were asked to spell were, with some exceptions, words that a literate person might well know. Now it's a bunch of words that no one has ever used in a sentence.

[Jon Orwant @orwant]

@daphnehk That bothered us too! Everything else checked out with what I know of Caltech, but not that.

[Jon Orwant @orwant]

Bad dad or worst dad? To prepare Miss 16 for her Caltech campus visit, we watched Real Genius.

[Albert Xu @albertxu__]

We built an AI system for solving crossword puzzles that outperforms the world’s best humans.

It works by combining deep learning with traditional probabilistic search and inference methods.

ACL ‘22 Paper: https://t.co/RR8MTjOn4f
Demo: https://t.co/zYkQir3fx5

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[Jon Orwant @orwant]

@KealanBurke @CFPage_Writer Hooray! Bought with fervor.

[Alex Cagan @ATJCagan]

As a scientist and an illustrator having our article featured on the cover of @Nature is a dream come true
I've done an illustrated tweetorial, so this is the illustrators' tweetorial.