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Bad artist. Dog valet. So very tired. Partially Liminal.
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brain
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modern life is rubbish✌️
18 days ago
Happy 25 years of dust2 Cyberspaces you could navigate as well as any place you’ve ever lived.
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Recsysml
28 days ago
Posted here as well.
www.linkedin.com/posts/gaurav...
I hope this gets the visibility to the the right audience
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Personalization at Bluesky | Gaurav Chakravorty
If you’re interested in building personalization systems where architecture still matters, this is worth a read. Ian Wesley-Smith — someone I hired at Discord and worked closely with — just published ...
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/gauravchak_personalization-at-bluesky-share-7433205375337840640-I_Um?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios&rcm=ACoAAAAWkLMBcHmlv2wyRlWpS4kNbcp3vIExqM0
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I made a post about personalization at Bluesky.
open.substack.com/pub/recsysml...
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Personalization at Bluesky
The past, present, and future of personalization of the Discover feed
https://open.substack.com/pub/recsysml/p/personalization-at-bluesky?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
about 1 month ago
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It’s impossible to watch any political thriller now because whatever incident is generating dramatic tension pales in comparison to reality.
about 2 months ago
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Qagggy!
2 months ago
Sign in PRO for presumed liability.
app.leg.wa.gov/csi/House?se...
add a skeleton here at some point
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Anna Zivarts
3 months ago
If we want to create a more affordable, livable Seattle, we need to design for *reducing* car volumes. This is the only way to meet our climate, public health, vision zero, accessibility and housing goals. Our fight to design highway on-ramps with LESS capacity epitomizes why it's still hard.
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Op-Ed: It’s Time to Imagine a Safer, More Connected Rainier Avenue » The Urbanist
# Rainier Avenue has too many cars traveling at dangerous speeds, but conventional planning practices make it hard to change that and design a future where Rainier Avenue thrives. Let's stop making ha...
https://www.theurbanist.org/2025/12/14/op-ed-imagine-a-safer-rainier-avenue/
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Recsysml
4 months ago
In this three part series I compare
#LLM
and
#RecommenderSystems
to show the gaps and opportunities. They are surprisingly fewer than one would think. Part 1
open.substack.com/pub/recsysml...
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Ranking Models explained: Deep Dive into RecSys Architecture (Features, Embeddings, & Attention)
Watch now (18 mins) | What happens post retrieval in a recommender system
https://open.substack.com/pub/recsysml/p/ranking-models-explained-deep-dive?r=3dhme&utm_medium=ios
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Ryan Packer
4 months ago
add a skeleton here at some point
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Sam Rose
4 months ago
This project is absolutely nuts. You can take the vector embeddings for text and convert them back to the text that generated them.
github.com/vec2text/vec...
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GitHub - vec2text/vec2text: utilities for decoding deep representations (like sentence embeddings) back to text
utilities for decoding deep representations (like sentence embeddings) back to text - vec2text/vec2text
https://github.com/vec2text/vec2text
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Read Xia et al., “TransAct V2.” earlier today, some notes: - long and short term user histories (long term [10k items], short term [100], impressions [100]) - sampled soft max loss function seems useful in environments with very weak negatives
#recsys
#ml
arxiv.org/abs/2506.02267
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TransAct V2: Lifelong User Action Sequence Modeling on Pinterest Recommendation
Modeling user action sequences has become a popular focus in industrial recommendation system research, particularly for Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction tasks. However, industry-scale CTR models o...
http://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02267
4 months ago
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Atticus wants to play
4 months ago
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watching Alien: Earth and I think I'm rooting for the alien
7 months ago
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todays discover outage was brought to you by the letter <SPACE>
8 months ago
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anyone got opinions on data orchestration tools? Specifically Dagster vs Temporal?
8 months ago
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To celebrate Zohran Mamdani's apparent win in NYC I donated my democracy vouchers to my choice for mayor, Katie Wilson
@wilsonforseattle.bsky.social
. If you live in Seattle you can too!
www.wilsonforseattle.com/democracy-vo...
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Vouchers | Katie Wilson
Each Seattle voter has $100 worth of Democracy Vouchers to give to their candidate(s) of choice. We would love if you assigned your vouchers to our campaign!
https://www.wilsonforseattle.com/democracy-vouchers
9 months ago
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
testing
11 months ago
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EWR giving SEA a run for bad airport award
11 months ago
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Erica C. Barnett
about 1 year ago
been hitting refresh all day
www.kuow.org/stories/moni...
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Monisha Harrell breaks silence on her uncle – and former boss – Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell
Monisha Harrell describes the mayor’s office as being a dog-eat-dog environment where white male advisors vied for power and influence. She said her experience, as a high-level woman ignored by the ma...
https://www.kuow.org/stories/monisha-harrell-breaks-silence-on-her-uncle-and-former-boss-seattle-mayor-bruce-harrell
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SXSW
about 1 year ago
You won't want to miss this one. Join
@bsky.app
CEO
@jay.bsky.team
for a conversation on the future of social and how users can take control over their own online experience at
#SXSW
.
#Bluesky
#JayGraber
Watch LIVE at 1pm CT:
ow.ly/3K0U50Vccnj
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House Our Neighbors
about 1 year ago
4 days left!!! Now that it's sunny, it's a great time to get those ballots into drop boxes, or in mailboxes! ☀️🗳️☀️🗳️☀️🗳️
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this is a test of the corgi broadcast system. If this were an actual corgi you would be loudly hearing barking at the wind. this is only a test.
about 1 year ago
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I've won 1 of my last 10 Deadlock matches. Game feels dead now and the only people left are the try hards. Oh well, was fun while it lasted.
about 1 year ago
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Fuse Washington
over 1 year ago
Hey Seattle voters! Have you used your Seattle Democracy Vouchers yet? We recommend donating yours to Alexis Mercedes Rinck for City Council Position 8! You can donate yours online, even if you lost your original paper copies:
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AMR Replacement Form v3
Share with your colleagues and friends the simplicity of using Adobe Acrobat Sign to sign documents electronically. Click on the buttons below to spread the word! Learn more at <a target='_blank'…
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over 2 years ago
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I turned off the porn filter and now my feed is all raccoons
over 2 years ago
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