Head of Data Science & Analytics @buzzfeed

NYC
Joined April 2007
We're building something bold and refreshing to take on the internet's SNARF-fueled chaos. While many blame "The Media," it is the Tech giants that fully control content distribution -- shaping the entire media ecosystem while pretending they have nothing to do with it.
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These platforms cash in on the attention economy while sidestepping any accountability for the polarization, outrage, and misinformation they've fueled. The public is waking up. People know the system is broken and are hungry for something better. It's time for a change.
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The Anti-SNARF Manifesto SNARF content is breaking the internet and frying our brains, here is how we are fighting back buzzfeed.com/jonah/the-anti-…
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Applications to the next @betaworks camp (beta.works/nativeapplication…) officially closed on Friday but we left the link on (and got a TON of applications) ... also got a couple dozen emails asking for an extension. SOOOO... we're extending the deadline by another week.
Every VC I know is talking about AI agents ... @betaworks has written ad nauseum about how we define agents, what it means for the future of software, and more ... but you're probably more interested in the early stage companies killing it in the space
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While everyone is worried about the AI apocalypse, we at BuzzFeed are helping readers unlock AI's true potential: designing and naming a sandwich after each and every reader. Take the quiz - a collaboration between our writers and @OpenAI @StableDiffusion buzzfeed.com/sarahaspler/ai-…
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nice! using @tasty's ChatGPT plugin to get side dishes for this weekend - still may do dauphinoise though but have always wanted to do fondant...
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It's our ✨public ✨ debut! ;) 🎉 BZFD 🎉
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Great to see a lot of new, explosive reporting around Facebook's behavior. Let's revisit some of our classics🧵
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This blog post has me fully convinced that @minimaxir is truly an AI generated person
New blog post up: here's my tutorial on how to create high quality, customized AI art using VQGAN + CLIP, with a focus on demos and reproducible examples! minimaxir.com/2021/08/vqgan-…
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Sobering piece by @caitochs on the implications of using faulty data as foundational inputs for allocation purposes. Colorado River water basin rights were calculated based on an abnormally wet historical period. Promised water that is no longer available buzzfeednews.com/article/cai…
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BuzzFeed News has just won a Pulitzer for an investigation exposing China's vast infrastructure for detaining hundreds of thousands of Muslims in Xinjiang camps. What an honor to work alongside this talented crew.
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We're bullish on finding ways to integrate AI capabilities into BuzzFeed's creative processes. @minimaxir has a great writeup on how we recently used @nvidia's StyleGAN2 implementation to build a generative quiz taken by millions of our users tech.buzzfeed.com/how-we-mad…
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if you ever find yourself and your work pals being like “what would be a nice way to welcome in our new colleagues after our company acquired theirs and also it’s a pandemic so we can’t do a happy hour or anything normal?” the answer is Fiona Cameo
Our new @BuzzFeed colleagues welcomed @HuffPost in the best way possible today 😭💕🦛
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HUGE NEWS coming on heels of the massive @BuzzFeedNews & @ICIJorg global #FinCENFiles investigation: the anti-money laundering legislation has bipartisan support and was just included in the annual defense spending bill.
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