Staff SWE / Eng Manager @Google and @GeorgiaTech alum
Bay Area, CA
Joined November 2012
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Ryan McDermott retweeted
After 7 months of building, excited to launch @with_multi!
Why? Hack Weeks were the highlights of my time @ Dropbox. We described them as “getting back to our roots.” A remembrance of early days when we were singly focused on building
What if every week felt like Hack Week?
@with_multi launches today!
Multi: Multiplayer Collaboration for macOS
- Shared control for any app or display
- Drawing & deep links for faster communication
- Native app; crafted to feel like part of macOS
Get early access: multi.app
GPT models make it even harder for new programming languages to gain traction. Having limited to no use of Copilot/ChatGPT while coding in a new language will be a nonstarter for many programmers.
It's an absolute honor that a person reached out to me based on a ChatGPT hallucination about my work
In ChatGPT's hallucinated Linux VM, you can:
- "Install" a human_simulator Python package.
- Set properties on this human_simulator such as a personal name.
- Almost escape the OpenAI filters and get it to say it sort of has consciousness.
Ryan McDermott retweeted
Really excited to share some of our new work on scientific NLP:
We demonstrate that LLMs like #GPT3 can easily be trained to complete challenging scientific information extraction tasks with just a few hundred examples.
arxiv.org/abs/2212.05238
Demo: matscholar.com/info-extracti…
It’s important to emphasize that ChatGPT is not actually running code in any meaningful sense of the word “run”.
It’s likely developing a representation of the structure of computer programs and approximating results, much like a human programmer would.
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