Sam Stowers 🫡
@sammakesthings.bsky.social
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The first reaction on literally any X post I make is always a 0 followers porn bot 😅 I'm glad I'll always have someone supporting me ❤️
about 1 year ago
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Typing into Cursor: - Slow input speed - Risks carpal tunnel - Normie vibes Dictating into Cursor with a physical (bright yellow) phone handset: - EFFICIENT™ - Feel like an early 90s wall street trader - Experience heft that tungsten cubes can only dream of
about 1 year ago
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Hayes has weird burner-y art again!! Look at this big mirror spine thingy
about 1 year ago
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Proud to judge / advise at the conclusion of
@aaronmayer.bsky.social
's Impact Fellowship! The week-long program, hosted at the
@hf0.bsky.social
house, brought a bunch of college students together to build impactful tech projects. Lots of cool people and meaningful work 🙂
about 1 year ago
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Want to add evals to your production AI app in one day? We're hosting a code sprint
@weightsbiases.bsky.social
on Jan 11th for that. Accelerate AI development, make your system more reliable, compare models in real-world use. No more excuses. You need evals.🧐
about 1 year ago
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I now think fluoride toothpaste may be a worse choice for many than hydroxyapatite toothpaste. Fell down a rabbit hole and have emerged with whiter, smoother, less sensitive teeth 🦷 Wrote up thoughts about it:
stowers.co/hydroxyapati...
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about 1 year ago
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Throwing an SF Decade Party™ in 2035 Pay $20 now, that gets put in the stock market, party budget is whatever comes out of that Gets exponentially more expensive as we get closer to the date Reply if you want in (or want to cohost)
about 1 year ago
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Reminder that mobile UX is still a nightmare at times
add a skeleton here at some point
about 1 year ago
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How I’m gonna pitch my company from now on
about 1 year ago
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Kishan Bagaria
about 1 year ago
easy rules of thumb for designing consumer app onboarding: ・aggressively reduce the # of taps/clicks until first delight ・have one obvious next step per screen, reduce extra clickable elements ・imagine the user is not sober your first 30 seconds determine the next 30 days
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Someone stole my backpack in Vegas when I wasn't looking. I chased them down through four casinos via Find My to get it back. That airtag has been complaining about low battery for months. Now I'm getting it the freshest, most artisanal coin cell battery I can find 🫡
about 1 year ago
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Thomas Wolf
about 1 year ago
Releasing SmolVLM, a small 2 billion parameters Vision+Language Model (VLM) built for on-device/in-browser inference with images/videos. Outperforms all models at similar GPU RAM usage and tokens throughputs Blog post:
huggingface.co/blog/smolvlm
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You know how it feels slow to move in dreams? Like you’re running through water? I’ve discovered a way to teleport instead, and it’s so satisfying in contrast
about 1 year ago
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Assembling good datasets is what separates the boys from the men
about 1 year ago
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Eugene Yan
about 1 year ago
Evals are "too damn expensive" until you: • can't migrate underlying models safely • can't add new features with confidence • can't ship without HITL evals, which takes >100x longer • product development and iteration grinds to a halt • lose customer trust due to poor user experience
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Google Images is getting super polluted with AI generated fluff. Trying to find a funny image for a presentation and it's increasingly full of junk. Which is saying something, because it was already kinda useless
about 1 year ago
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If you're at The Curve Conference this weekend, come dive into what the future of applied evals looks like! I'll be demo-ing EvalForge, an implementation of the "who validates the validators" paper with
@weightsbiases.bsky.social
Big thanks to
@capetorch.bsky.social
and Anish for their work here
about 1 year ago
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Vicki
about 1 year ago
when you try to convert your text into smaller pieces but all it gives you is Elvish, that’s a tolkienizer
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Finally got out of Anki debt and I feel so free
about 1 year ago
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Bluesky pros - should I use my own domain (
stowers.co
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about 1 year ago
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Ethan Mollick
about 1 year ago
A really intriguing set of findings of AI researchers that needs more exploration, replication, and expansion: AI agents given personalities and backgrounds, and placed into a virtual formal organization (with CEOs, VPs, etc.) outperform normal AI in doing complex tasks.
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Looks like all the SF people tried Bluesky a year ago then left lol. Did I miss the wave
about 1 year ago
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