Former Engineering Director, Google AI
Brookline, MA
Joined February 2009
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Google Translate announced support for 110 new languages. I'd heard of...5 of them. support.google.com/translate…
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One year is exactly 365.2422 days long.
More than two thousand years ago a Greek astronomer called Hipparchus calculated the length of a year to within 0.005 of that figure.
And he didn't even have a telescope...
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New paper in Science today on playing the classic negotiation game "Diplomacy" at a human level, by connecting language models with strategic reasoning! Our agent engages in intense and lengthy dialogues to persuade other players to follow its plans. This was really hard! 1/5
Jon Orwant retweeted
The Cistercian numerals are a forgotten number system, developed by the Cistercian monastic order in the early thirteenth century, much more compact than Arabic or Roman numerals: with a single character you could write any integer from 1 to 9999 [more: buff.ly/2LDj1Kg]
Excellent thread that applies to computer science writing as well.
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Will any entity (government or corporation) ever employ 0.1% of Earth? That would be 8 million people. US Dept of Defense has 3 million; Walmart & McDonald's each have about 2 million.
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The evolution in the words kids are asked to spell today vs when I did Spelling Bee is remarkable. Most of the words we were asked to spell were, with some exceptions, words that a literate person might well know. Now it's a bunch of words that no one has ever used in a sentence.
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We built an AI system for solving crossword puzzles that outperforms the world’s best humans.
It works by combining deep learning with traditional probabilistic search and inference methods.
ACL ‘22 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2205.09665
Demo: berkeleycrosswordsolver.com
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As a scientist and an illustrator having our article featured on the cover of @Nature is a dream come true
I've done an illustrated tweetorial, so this is the illustrators' tweetorial.
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Learn to identify and solve any linear and integer optimization problem in less than 10 minutes in #Python.
Sometimes #MachineLearning is not all you need...
towardsdatascience.com/integ…
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Very rare and highly secretive, not much is known about the endangered Gee’s golden langur. Unlike other species of langurs that appear unafraid of humans, researchers have said that this monkey works hard to avoid human interactions, making them difficult to observe in the wild.
Proud to have worked with Masten on this! Operations Research has tremendous potential to reduce CO2 emissions.
In partnership with Lufthansa Group, we developed a mathematical tail assignment model to optimize operational performance for SWISS International Air Lines, resulting in reducing carbon emissions and lower operating costs. Learn more ↓ goo.gle/3vT16Ed
If you're a fan of Timeline card games, here's a sleek variant created from Wikipedia pages:
wikitrivia.tomjwatson.com/
My top score is 8.
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