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When tech companies do an open-ended health project that means they have run out of good ideas
16 Feb 2025
Apply to work on Health AI at OpenAI, whether you want to do ML research or software engineering. Real potential to positively transform healthcare for everyone:
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If you believe this one I got some oceanfront property on Mars to sell you
The Martians will decide how they are ruled. I recommend direct, rather than representative, democracy.
Uncrewed Starships landing on Mars in ~2 years, perhaps with crewed versions passing near Mars, and crewed Starships heading there in ~4 years are all possible.
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cooper b retweeted
3 Sep 2024
Kevin OāLeary being against this legislation is precisely the reason this legislation needs to exist in the first place
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My friend was in a meeting with Eric Schmidt and he could see over his shoulder and Eric spent the whole meeting buying RAM for his home computer on Amazon
In a Stanford talk posted today, Eric Schmidt says the reason why Google is losing to @OpenAI and other startups is because Google only has people coming in 1 day per week š
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cooper b retweeted
31 Aug 2023
Really enjoyed this writeup about the motivation for and transition to a #cellular #architecture by @SlackEng ... good details about the tech and the implementation. Looking forward to the next post in the series!
slack.engineering/slacks-migā¦
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cooper b retweeted
23 Aug 2023
Slack's Migration to a Cellular Architecture - Slack Engineering (kudos to ā¦ā¦ā¦@cooperbā© ) slack.engineering/slacks-migā¦
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cooper b retweeted
10 Mar 2023
every thought leader in the valley is a libertarian until they need a government bailout of their startup bank
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Look at this lie they made up about his views!
Long day at Twitter HQ with eng team
Two significant problems mostly addressed:
1. Fanout service for Following feed was getting overloaded when I tweeted, resulting in up to 95% of my tweets not getting delivered at all. Following is now pulling from search (aka Earlybird). When Fanout crashed, it would also destroy anyone elseās tweets in queue.
2. Recommendation algorithm was using absolute block count, rather than percentile block count, causing accounts with many followers to be dumped, even if blocks were only 0.1% of followers. Also, itās trivial to bot spam accounts with blocks.
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You guys I finally got my first Roman statue guy reply!!!
25 Jan 2023
But surely you can see that by defining a metric much more narrowly than what normal people would expect that metric to represent, youāre misleading customers?
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0% chance Elon pulls off decommissioning both SMF and ATL by end of Q1. PDX doesnāt even have a hadoop cluster right now. It also means they have to break all their leases. It also means PDX will be a single point of failure. But what do I know, Iām just a guy who turned up PDX.
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As an SRE: Ooooooh boy šæšæšæ
23 Dec 2022
NEW: Twitter is shutting down its data center in Sacramento and downsizing another in Atlanta by early Jan, likely as a cost saving measure. This means a huge amount of traffic will be shifted to its remaining data centers, which could result in increased instability.
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cooper b retweeted
22 Dec 2022
BT Live Act of the year 2022 š„
@LoJamMusic
16 Dec 2022
Lol 6 nominations, 6 losses. I am Bjork
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cooper b retweeted
21 Dec 2022
The parameters of the debate were: feature freeze to totally refactor the entire codebase which will only take 6 months & 20 devs
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I need to launch Blue and live tweetview counters which will save the imperiled business after which I will seamlessly rewrite the whole stack.
21 Dec 2022
I shanāt listen to the āspaceā, it it was pretty much ātell me youāve never worked on a large scale internet application without telling me youāve never worked on a large scale internet applicationā, right?
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