Head of Data Science & Analytics @buzzfeed
Joined April 2007
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11 Feb 2025
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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11 Feb 2025
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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11 Feb 2025
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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17 Jun 2024
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.
31 May 2024
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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14 Jul 2023
New blog post up, and it's about The Problem With LangChain minimaxir.com/2023/07/langch…
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11 May 2023
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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3 May 2023
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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6 Dec 2021
It's our ✨public ✨ debut! ;) 🎉 BZFD 🎉
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27 Oct 2021
Great to see a lot of new, explosive reporting around Facebook's behavior. Let's revisit some of our classics🧵
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30 Sep 2021
I introduced BuzzFeed CEO Jonah @peretti to the magic of AI art generation using VQGAN CLIP.
He had a *lot* of fun with it! buzzfeed.com/jonah/only-an-a…
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18 Aug 2021
This blog post has me fully convinced that @minimaxir is truly an AI generated person
18 Aug 2021
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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4 Aug 2021
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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11 Jun 2021
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.
11 Jun 2021
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14 May 2021
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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Gilad Lotan retweeted
21 Feb 2021
Thank you @CraigSilverman and @RMac18 for exposing role of Mark Zuckerberg and Joel Kaplan in bending, suspending FB rules to favor right wing voices. Damage to public health and democracy has been catastrophic. buzzfeednews.com/article/rya…
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16 Feb 2021
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
16 Feb 2021
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12 Feb 2021
TY to @BuzzFeed and advances in AI image generation, I just met Rylee, my perfect quarantine AI soulmate buzzfeed.com/buzzfeedlabs/cr…
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3 Dec 2020
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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