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QMSS at @columbia

[OLS Engineer @xynx]

@drlrst For me it was surreal. It was much later that I realized the "real" part is pronounced similarly to "real" 😅

[Jia-Bin Huang @jbhuang0604]

A great example that medium shapes impact.

A research paper on arXiv 11 months ago:
👉 2 citations so far

An accessible blog post one day ago:
👉 12 M views, instant community adoption

[OLS Engineer @xynx]

Today’s tennis lesson for playing in an intermediate-level game session is to stay composed, relax, and be aware of your surroundings

[Zephyr @zephyr_z9]

> be Google in 2017
> small team drops “Attention Is All You Need” on arXiv
> execs nod politely, go back to selling ads for socks
> let Transformer gather dust for 5 yrs like a vintage Beanie Baby
> be Noam Shazeer, OG wizard
> quits, builds AI-boyfriend app “https://t.co/KRAcLptABl”
> millions of lonely hearts pay $9.99 to e-date 2B from Nier
> Google HR: “any chance you wanna come back?”
> Shazeer: “busy, my e-gf is calling”

> 2022, OpenAI drops ChatGPT
> world loses its mind, Google stock does bungee jump
> Sundar holds all-hands: “guys, we need a response by Q2”
> team ships Bard in 3 weeks using 12 interns, 2000 TPUv4s, and pure panic
> Bard hallucinates that the earth is flat
> Wall Street: “sell sell sell”
> Sergey hears the screams from his yacht
> flies back on a carbon-negative jet, reclaims unofficial crown
> merges GoogleBrain + DeepMind like Dragon Ball fusion
> axes Bard, slaps Gemini sticker on everything
> Gemini launches, immediately generate a black Abraham Lincoln
> Twitter dubs them “Bing’s woke cousin”

> Shazeer finally answers HR’s 47th email
>“fine, but I want my own parking spot and unlimited LaCroix”
> returns, waves wand, Gemini 2 & 2.5 drop
> context window so big it can summarise the Bible + your group chat
> Google processing 980T tokens/month, equal to 40 % of human SMS traffic

> someone sneezes “Nano Banana” into the Play Store
> overnight it’s #1 app, turns ur selfie into big-tiddy anime waifu

[OLS Engineer @xynx]

Inspired by a recent Kieran Healy post, I recreated a similar data visualization that compares Indonesia’s most populous regency to other provinces. I always thought that the most populous regency would be somewhere in DKI Jakarta. but boy, I was mistaken.

[OLS Engineer @xynx]

@pekerjalab Selamat mbak!

[OLS Engineer @xynx]

@goldydharmawan Good luck Goldy!

[OLS Engineer @xynx]

@hsoekiswo Happy birthday Jun!

[OLS Engineer @xynx]

@hsoekiswo Thank you Jun, sepertinya memang begitu sih :(

[OLS Engineer @xynx]

I've been applying for jobs using LinkedIn for the past few months, however the success rate for securing first interviews is quite low. Not to mention that the job postings lack variety. What other channels are professionals using nowadays to apply for jobs?

[OLS Engineer @xynx]

Well, the low interview success rate could also be attributed to my resume quality 🤷

[OLS Engineer @xynx]

@tibudiyanto That's so smooth...

[OLS Engineer @xynx]

Lesson learned from fitting a Stan model to a large dataset

https://t.co/rIKkeAWAnv

[OLS Engineer @xynx]

This is interesting. So you ask the interviewee to walk you through the existing code instead? I guess this would provide a more relaxed environment given no pressure of figuring out the code on the spot.

[Erik Bernhardsson @bernhardsson]

I have been arguing for code _reading_ interviews over code _writing _ interviews for many years now. LLMs have further solidified my conviction.

[OLS Engineer @xynx]

Now that I am actively looking for a new opportunity, I wrote a blog post reflecting on my regret of not starting a brag document sooner.

https://t.co/8IpGF7cmJt

[Bushra Shaikh @Bushra1Shaikh]

I've never seen English being translated to English 🥴

[OLS Engineer @xynx]

I just noticed that Apple Maps projection is somehow “adaptive”? When you zoom out, the map seems to be a non-mercator projection.

[OLS Engineer @xynx]

@tibudiyanto Congrats mas The!