Engineering Director at @GoogleCloud, herder of cats (literal and figurative) and occasional sci fi author; tweets are my own. he/him
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Andrew B. retweeted
This would essentially make it illegal for a foreigner to do a postdoc in the UK.
🚨 BREAKING: Rishi Sunak will increase the salary threshold so that EVERY migrant has to earn over £38k before coming to Britain in a major plan to slash migration
He will also announce new limits on them bringing family
[@JackElsom]
Andrew B. retweeted
A billionaire minimum tax of just 25% would raise $440 billion over the next 10 years.
Imagine what we could do if we just made billionaires pay their taxes like everyone else.
Andrew B. retweeted
Yesterday, temporarily, planet Earth took its first step over the 2.0 degrees Celsius barrier.
Andrew B. retweeted
Today @WilliamJRipple et al released the 2023 report on the terrifying state of our #climate.
It should be read by every policymaker, decisionmaker, and journalist on the planet.
Here is a thread of some key takeaways.
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Very cool process (and useful for visualizing things like cluster centroids!) but headline is kind of odd. Was someone expecting embeddings to be unreversible and using that for security purposes? It's like saying a *database* is not safe because the data is readable...
Andrew B. retweeted
finally published our latest research on text embeddings!
TLDR: Vector databases are NOT safe. 😳 Text embeddings can be inverted. We can do this exactly for sentence-length inputs and get very close with paragraphs...
Andrew B. retweeted
📨 Firestore updates for Firebase 🔥
🧑💻 SUM/AVG functions for datastore mode
☁️ View and list multiple databases in the Google Cloud console
🗓️ Scheduled backups (preview)
Watch @coelho_dev break it down → goo.gle/3the27P
ALT Screenshot of Firebase documentation on aggregation queries
Andrew B. retweeted
Massive wildfire outbreak has broken out in the Northwest Territories of Canada, burning hundreds of thousands of acres in just a few hours.
Thousands have been evacuated across various small communities, but just like Lahaina serious telecommunications failure is ongoing.
Andrew B. retweeted
I am the greatest Prompt Engineer in the world.
ALT Me cyberbullying ChatGPT into ranking the US presidents by absorbency.
Very excited about launching #pgvector on #AlloyDB. First of many exciting launches supporting #GenerativeAI for application developers! cloud.google.com/blog/produc…
Andrew B. retweeted
This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in many American cities.
Another great case of customers benefitting from #Firestore! cloud.google.com/blog/produc…
Andrew B. retweeted
For those who are paying attention, at 4.19σ (1-in-71,000) , this is now the 68th consecutive day that global sea surface temperatures have been 4σ (or more) above the 1982-2011 baseline.
Data: climatereanalyzer.org/clim/s…
Andrew B. retweeted
🧵Bloomberg's Matt Levine writes today about the bank deposit franchise, and how the traditional bank model assumes deposits can be treated as long duration liabilities because customers are loyal and deposits sticky...
Andrew B. retweeted
Nearly a billion dollars a year is flowing into the organized climate change counter-movement, preventing climate policies.
It’s what we’re up against.
Not just us climate scientists - all of us caring about the future, about our children. smithsonianmag.com/smart-new…
