Product executive. Partner to @s_nargis_s Passions: connected cities, mobility, education & health. Bike rider, climber, painter.
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Patrick T. Hoffman retweeted
Q: How do I get started as a developer building on top of the API? What should I know?
A: Keep in mind while building (especially startups), how to build a differentiated experience. Reality is everyone has access to the models, so how is what you're doing different?
Patrick T. Hoffman retweeted
Q: What use cases have been unlocked with this new paradigm?
A: The focus on human conversation makes it useful in a lot of contexts:
* email
* notes
* repetitive writing tasks
* focus on creative tasks
Basic fact is conversational layer is super-intuitive. It's the UI for life.
Patrick T. Hoffman retweeted
Q: Is @OpenAI building anything Open Source?
A: Can't talk about future, but we will be opening more things.
Very excited about whisper - open source transcription model. Super robust and even works with accents.
Also: CLIP, openai-cookbook, gpt-discord-bot
Patrick T. Hoffman retweeted
Extracting value from LLMs is much more a product / interface question than a tech question. You have to find tasks where LLMs are applicable, and find a user interface for that task that achieves a good UX despite the low hit rate (e.g. Copilot is a great example).
Patrick T. Hoffman retweeted
The gap between generating words and generating meaning will prove hard to close. Generating meaning requires *a model of the things being talked about* (language as communication), while generating words only requires a model of the structure of text (language as statistics)
Patrick T. Hoffman retweeted
Digital artist Luke Penry creates pristine textures and believable structures of fungi, florals and alien-looking plants that are completely made up, suspended between scientific documentation and his own imagination
[Instagram: buff.ly/3kUmKEG]
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Patrick T. Hoffman retweeted
When my grandfather attained citizenship, his papers read "Abraham William Doctorow." He went by "Abe," "Billy," "Bill," "William," "Abraham" and "Avrom."
Practically, it didn't matter that variations on all of these appeared on various forms of ID, contracts, and paperwork. 28/
Patrick T. Hoffman retweeted
It's such a common misstep that there's a whole *genre* called "Falsehoods Programmers Believe About ______":
github.com/kdeldycke/awesome… 21/
Patrick T. Hoffman retweeted
The biggest problem with saying that Execution is more important than Ideas is that it demonstrates a gross misunderstanding of how you get outstanding Execution: you get it through 100s of excellent (and usually correct) Ideas about what to do & how to do it, day in and day out.
Patrick T. Hoffman retweeted
Good read, hardware, hacking, transit data, APIs, code quality, marketing, etc blog.kchung.co/taking-over-a…
Patrick T. Hoffman retweeted
Thank you @mozilla, @datasociety @MannyMoss & @undersequoias (for the Social Life of Alg Harms workshop where we evolved these ideas)! @Jenny_L_Davis, @AprylW, @Abebab, @ana_valdi, @nickmvincent, @AnnaCLenhart excited to share this work with you foundation.mozilla.org/en/bl… 3/3
Patrick T. Hoffman retweeted
👋🍕 @normconf main talk recordings are live here! We’ll link them on site too soon, just wanted to get these out. Enjoy!
youtube.com/playlist?list=PL…
Patrick T. Hoffman retweeted
One of the most important pieces of feedback you can get from your manager is *how you are perceived* by folks in a position of power within your org. It plays such an important role in how you are reviewed, promoted, compensated and yet a candid discussion of this topic is rare.
Patrick T. Hoffman retweeted
In other words, your 51st hour worked may not be as productive as your 38th hour on average from a sample of a couple hundred people.
Spin through a pop science newsroom and you're told that it doesn't make sense to work more than 50 hours, though that's clearly not true.
Patrick T. Hoffman retweeted
BREAKING: California’s Legislative Analyst Office estimates CA could face a $25 Billion budget deficit.
In newly released fiscal outlook for 23-24, LAO says with threat of recession, revenue estimates represent weakest performance CA has experienced since the Great Recession.
Patrick T. Hoffman retweeted
.@POTUS we must extend the 60-day grace period for laid-off H1B visa holders to find another job during this economic downturn
I suggest 6 months
These hard-working, high-tax-paying individuals are critical to the economy & it's the right thing to do
cc @SteveCase @glennkelman
Patrick T. Hoffman retweeted
I like this trend of painting"unauthorized" crosswalks.
Cities almost always rush to erase them. That shows local agencies *can* move quickly to change streetscapes -- they just choose not to when residents request safety improvements. People should know that!
Patrick T. Hoffman retweeted
Portugal's infrastructure minister gets it:
“If we simply replace all combustion cars with electric cars, we will end up with the same kind of congestion... same unsustainable levels of road accidents, and the same struggle for public space.”
euractiv.com/section/electri…
Patrick T. Hoffman retweeted
Places that have historically been low rise don't have to build skyscrapers, or even large structures, to provide the amount of homes they're so desperately in need of. The density can be gentle & lovely!
58 new homes in Toronto where only 3 single family homes existed before
Patrick T. Hoffman retweeted
I especially love the fact that people keep talking about “Twitter’s huge debt,” as if it was a pre-existing thing. It’s a direct result of him purchasing the company!
No, the thing he tweeted about Twitter losing $4 million per day was super misleading. That debt burden is a result of the loans he used to purchase the company. The company has that debt *directly because* he bought the company. Source: reuters.com/markets/deals/tw…
