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Chris Albon

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Director of Machine Learning at the Wikimedia Foundation. We host Wikipedia.

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Someone at work has a “I deployed Wikipedia” shirt

And I was like “Damn, how do I get that shirt”

So basically I need to convince the team to let me be the one that runs a deploy

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Another reason why we might see less junior SWE hires is that having fewer managers means managers are managing larger teams.

This causes managers to have less time per IC, which is fine for senior+ SWEs but difficult for junior ICs who need more support, direction, & mentoring

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Lots of anxiety about SB 1047 in CA, and a lot of swirl. The broad contours will be familiar to folks following the US Executive Order and EU AI Act. There's a line in the sand, and if you cross the line, you have to do and disclose a bunch of things before training and releasing

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The only AI regulation I fully support is that when robots turn evil their eyes must turn red. Add it to the UN charter.

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Greg Kamradt I don't see LLMs as systems that can to create new knowledge, I see them as a tool I can use to help ME create new knowledge

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Boeing’s factory is in Seattle. In 2001 Boeing moved its HQ away from the factory. The c-suite became 1000s of miles removed the product they build.

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