ex-twitter, responsible ml. actively doing a midlife crisis. beep boop computers. my api spazzes out a lot. he/him
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Twitter employees take pride in being able to speak up to power, the same principle this platform was built on. 2 yrs ago, I openly criticized execs for their lack of diversity. Instead of firing me, they reached out directly and ran focus groups with women and folks of color.
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It’s hard for people on the outside to appreciate how nonsensical this selective “policy” enforcement is. The team responsible for the serving of 10MM+ tweets / second for internal and user-facing use cases is down to like 2 people. Good luck shipping basically… anything?
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And, for the any employees still at Twitter, don’t underestimate the power of a pocket veto.
Sometimes it doesn’t work out, or you have to escalate and risk it back firing, but a good pocket veto is a tool to learn to wield well.
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Losing the META team is a deep loss to the field. It is inexpressible. In awe of @ruchowdh @KLdivergence @binary_aaron @__lucab @ubiquity75 @if_peradejordi who are the most kind and grounded human beings I’ve ever met, even as the magnitude of their work impact is staggering.
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a website where you write down your to-do's but never start on them
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Twitter leadership: twitter is the place people go to find out what’s happening.
Also twitter leadership: ignore everything you see on twitter about the acquisition. It’s full of gossip and lies.
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If anyone from birdsite needs a reference or wants to do mock interviews to prep, I will *gladly* take time for you.
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If you give the slightest whit of a care about 1980s-2000s computer and software history, your mind is about to be very blown. Some people worked very hard on this, and anonymous credit to them. So, set aside your week, this is going to be change everything for you.
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Reposting this actual life goal achieved. Proud of Twitter METAs collaboration with Openmined!
We're very excited to work w/ New Zealand & US Govs, @Microsoft, & @Twitter on expanding #PySyft use helping independent researchers study major #AI algorithms
👇New Zealand PM @jacindaardern & French President @EmmanuelMacron announce the project
WATCH: youtube.com/watch?v=tZ0u-Bt8…
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This week at the UNGA, PM Ardern announced the Christchurch Call Initiative on Algorithmic Outcomes - an expansion of Twitter META's PETs work with @openminedorg that now includes Microsoft, the US and NZ govts.
As the online violent extremism landscape continues to evolve, the #ChristchurchCall remains as critical as ever.
We must continue to strengthen our efforts to address these challenges in a way that protects a free, Open Internet.
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Last year, @williams_jutta and I pioneered the Algorithmic Bias Bounty as Twitter META. We hoped our idea would spread - and it did. What's next is a third space to do this work, and with @sbmisi @ScottFromNY and Ben Colman, we're excited to announce
biasbounty.ai
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little know fact, but every time someone from data science quits, we fire one blank BQ query for year of employment to thank them
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This paper on Monte Carlo simulations absolutely blows my mind. h/t @inf_0_
