Alex Sherstinsky
@AlexSherstinsky
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Scientist, Engineer, Manager, Musician, Athlete, Thespian, Father, Husband, Son, Friend
Silicon Valley
Joined August 2008
Fundamentals of Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) and Long Short-Term Memory(LSTM) network -- https://t.co/jZWEtxQCjQ (published on January 29, 2020 in Elsevier "Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena"; also available at https://t.co/QiUl6X72I3).
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Thanks to @GoogleDeepMind and @GraphonAI - we had a lot of fun hosting Gemini 3 build day @ AGI House last Saturday Cc. @DynamicWebPaige @vadiamit @bonniesjli @JessicaChenX
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The encouraging part is that regular up-skilling, which must now be part of a standard development cycle, is also more readily accessible -- as self-guided, AI-assisted, enjoyable part of an engineer's work.
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This happens much more frequently than before, because the pace of development is so much greater.
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I believe that this is a reality we will have to accept and update our development processes for just like we engineer our software solutions for hardware/software failures in production.
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However, for a strategic engineer possessing a product-focused mindset, these tools afford a 100-time-fold force multiplier in both productivity and code quality. The uncertainty lies in what happens when the operator is out of their technical depth.
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My reflections on using AI-assisted software development tools thus far is that without an experienced operator, any such tool quickly gets out of control and generates mountains of error-prone, unmaintainable "code" (in quotes, because there is no quality in that "code").
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Conversation Analysis reveals what truly unfolds in business conversations — far beyond the binary "won/lost" label common in sales. A powerful reminder that the "best" outcomes often transcend immediate closes, turning apparent losses into stronger, trust-based wins later.
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Really excited to attend PyTorch Conference 2025 at Moscone West in San Francisco next week! Looking forward to reconnecting with the ML Engineering community, diving into keynotes, hands-on talks, and real-world use cases. If you're going, let’s connect! #PyTorchConf #PyTorchCon
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"You didn't like that movie?" is not really a question in search of a comprehensive analysis of the particular film; rather, the real speech act of that sentence is an accusation, scorn. #ConversationalAI #ConversationDesign #ConversationAnalysis
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This dawned on me during a working session: AI coding assistants aren’t for “vibe coding.” They’re a force multiplier for product-savvy engineers.
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7/7 Read more about different ways of materializing speech acts to imbue AI agents with personality in this 1997 (correct! - AI agents are not a 2024+ invention!) paper by Janet E. Cahn et al ( https://t.co/JoNyB1224a).
#ConversationalAI #ConversationDesign #ConversationAnalysis
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This paper introduces Linguistic Style Improvisation, a theory and set of algorithms for improvisation of spoken utterances by artificial agents, with applications to interactive story and...
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6/7 Our family's car is so dirty that it is undriveable, and without our car, we cannot go shopping for groceries and will have no food tomorrow. Your legal status as a licensed driver must be called in to rescue the family. You are our only hope!" (a little Star Wars reference)
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5/7 I channel my inner Mark Twain and utter something like this: "A great honor, responsibility, and trust has been bestowed upon you today. You are the only one who can rise up to the task.
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4/7 Asking the spouse would be simple and straightforward: "Could you please take our car to the car wash today?" But motivating a teenager, who would rather go visit friends, requires more craftsmanship.
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3/7 Consider the following situation. Our family car is dirty and needs to be taken to a car wash. However, I cannot do it, because I caught a nasty cold and should stay home. I have two choices: to ask my spouse or our adolescent child who just got their driver license.
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2/7 Now, here is the fun part. There is more than one way to realize a "request" speech act (i.e., express it in words).
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1/7 A request-act (or simply a request) is a type of speech act in which the speaker attempts to get the hearer to do something. It’s part of the broader category of directive speech acts, as described in speech act theory (e.g., by philosophers like John Searle and J.L. Austin).
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So no — communication isn’t 93% body language. Talk matters. Voice matters. Words do more than we give them credit for. To understand human connection, we want to look not past language, but into language. #ConversationalAI #ConversationDesign #ConversationAnalysis
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