@dondini

Don M Dini. Research scientist at Apple. Working on Search, LLMs, NLP.

 Menlo Park, CA
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Joined April 2008
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Farsi in ChatGPT has gotten worse. Audio recognition has degraded significantly, in my recent experience. Or my Farsi is getting worse, possibly?
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Not to sound like a shill but BBC Proms concerts on Apple Vision Pro is *amazing*.
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What the Artemis II astronauts did over the last 10 days was a testament to their bravery. And the fact that they traveled farther from Earth than anyone ever has, re-entered our atmosphere at more than 24,000 mph, and splashed down safely was a testament to human ingenuity. Thanks to everyone at @NASA for making this mission possible, and for taking us along for the ride.
"NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, commander; left, Christina Koch, mission specialist; CSA astronaut Jeremy Hansen, mission specialist; and NASA astronaut Victor Glover, Artemis II pilot, right, pose for a group photo after viewing the Orion spacecraft in the well deck of USS John P. Murtha on Saturday, April 11, 2026. Photo Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls"

ALT "NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, commander; left, Christina Koch, mission specialist; CSA astronaut Jeremy Hansen, mission specialist; and NASA astronaut Victor Glover, Artemis II pilot, right, pose for a group photo after viewing the Orion spacecraft in the well deck of USS John P. Murtha on Saturday, April 11, 2026. Photo Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls"

"Earth sets over the Moon’s curved limb in this photo captured by the Artemis II crew during their journey around the far side of the Moon. Photo Credit: NASA"

ALT "Earth sets over the Moon’s curved limb in this photo captured by the Artemis II crew during their journey around the far side of the Moon. Photo Credit: NASA"

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Rnj-1 aces telco benchmarks. Congratulations to Farbod Tavakkoli, @GregoryDiamos , @tensorwave , @AMD , and the @essential_ai team!
Essential AI
@essential_aiMar 7
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Rnj-1’s performance is especially good in correctness and abstention in its weight class, which are the two most important metrics for this work.
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reddit.com/r/Presidents/comm…

From the Presidents community on Reddit: Could the 43 presidents beat one gorilla?

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@yoheinakajimaJan 14
i fear not the man who has vibe coded 10,000 different projects i fear the man who has vibe coded the same project 10,000 times
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That essential noir feeling of "....and he never saw her again"
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Reading Can't Hurt Me by @davidgoggins - his (inspiring) story reminds me of the plot of 36th chamber of Shaolin, a "love story of the human spirit," perhaps one of the best Kung Fu films of all time.
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All the more so.
Sun@BillySun2819 Jun 2025
Replying to @RichardSSutton
Dear Prof.Sutton, I recently bought one of your classic reinforcement learning book. But I would like to ask you, in the current era when deep reinforcement learning and large language models are prevalent, is it still necessary to read this book carefully?
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When I was at Google, the culture was to celebrate interns. Overall we made attempts for them to be as supported as possible. And in many research teams, interns were very welcome since they would bring fresh new ideas. Summers were always very exciting for this reason. And at Bespoke, interns have done lots of impactful work. For many people across the world intern is kind of derogatory. Not for some of us.
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ChatGPT appears to speak Farsi now (I believe it only spoke Dari previously).
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The best opening line in any physics textbook: States of Matter by David L. Goodstein ✍️
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I'm looking for a summer'25 intern at Apple AI/ML, New York. Focus: long-context modeling for LLM pretraining Apply link: shorturl.at/wyK0G Please also email me your resume after application.
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I like the part where Willem Dafoe says, "You know I'm something of a Nosferatu myself."
Nosferatu
@NosferatuFilm24 Jun 2024
He is coming. NOSFERATU. A Robert Eggers picture. Only in theaters this Christmas.

Nosferatu | Official Teaser Trailer

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I recall @GreatDismal saying once in an interview that he wrote Neuromancer in a state of "blind animal panic." I think about that a lot in the course of my own work.
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Google employees are super busy populating a rule system for every hallucination-inducing question if 'president' in input and 'madison' in input: return 'I cannot respond to this'
MMitchell
@mmitchell_ai22 May 2024
Meanwhile, over in Google Search. Andrew Johnson has been killin it, I never knew.
Screenshot of Google search with new AI overview feature. [ Google Q_ which us president went t..] Thirteen US presidents have attended UW- Madison, earning 59 degrees in total. Some of these presidents include: e Andrew Jackson: Graduated in 2005 e William Harrison: Graduated in 1953 and 1974 e JohnTyler: Graduated in 1958 and 1969 e Andrew Johnson: Earned 14 degrees, including classes of 1947, 1965, 1985, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2006, 2007, 2010, 2011, and 2012 e James Buchanan: Graduated in 1943, 2004, and 2013 e Harry Truman: Graduated in 1933 e John Kennedy: Graduated in 1930, 1948, 1962, 1971, 1992, and 1993 e Gerald Ford: Graduated in 1975 ( ~

ALT Screenshot of Google search with new AI overview feature. [ Google Q_ which us president went t..] Thirteen US presidents have attended UW- Madison, earning 59 degrees in total. Some of these presidents include: e Andrew Jackson: Graduated in 2005 e William Harrison: Graduated in 1953 and 1974 e JohnTyler: Graduated in 1958 and 1969 e Andrew Johnson: Earned 14 degrees, including classes of 1947, 1965, 1985, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2006, 2007, 2010, 2011, and 2012 e James Buchanan: Graduated in 1943, 2004, and 2013 e Harry Truman: Graduated in 1933 e John Kennedy: Graduated in 1930, 1948, 1962, 1971, 1992, and 1993 e Gerald Ford: Graduated in 1975 ( ~

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Surviving the AI Summer, by @asbruckman asbruckman.medium.com/surviv…

Surviving the AI Summer

When I was in grad school in the 1990s, we talked about “surviving the AI winter.” Explosive, transformative progress in AI had been…

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Add coffee stains to LaTeX documents ctan.org/pkg/coffeestains
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The 4th CHI Workshop on Human-Centered Explainable AI is GO! Submissions due by February 14, 2024 hcxai.jimdosite.com/

Home | HCXAI

ACM CHI 2026 Workshop on Human-Centered Explainable AI (HCXAI). Monday, April 13, 2026 (14:15 – 18:00 CEST) Barcelona, Spain. This is the flagship workshop on HCXAI and one of the most well-attended...

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Upol Ehsan@UpolEhsan19 Dec 2023
As DJ Khaled would say: "ANOTHER ONE!" ☝️ 🚀 The Human-centered Explainable AI workshop is back at #CHI2024! 🎯 LLMs, LLMs, everywhere. What does it mean for Explainable AI & humans? 📍Submit to #HCXAI & find your community! 🔗 hcxai.jimdosite(.)com Pls RT. Pro tips ⤵️ 1/3
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Will Gish@wwgish22 Nov 2023
Inarguably 32 of the best seconds ever committed to celluloid. Magic Crystal, @VinegarSyndrome release.
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