Nick Pentreath
@MLnick
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ML Engineer @tumblr. Apache Spark PMC. Author Machine Learning with Spark (https://t.co/FYXT0gHqUQ). Formerly Principal Engineer @codait_org, cofounder Graphflow.
Joined November 2009
It’s so perfect it feels orchestrated. Can’t wait for the Michael Lewis book and Aaron Sorkin film on this!
Microsoft essentially acquired the best parts of OpenAI for $0 - 2 of the original founders (Sam & Greg), now unshackled & probably with a lot more skin in the game. - A significant amount of OpenAI staff will follow Sam & Greg to the new org, some of the best people in the
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Come check out Tumblr! See if your Twitter username is available!
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DStv partnering with Disney+ may just be why saves them (for a while at least!)
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Today I'm announcing my new company, @usewaitroom where I will be leading the charge as co-founder & CEO. Waitroom is a short-form video platform for sequential 1-1 conversations. We have hosts like @tanfrance, @jimmy_wales, @yoruk, @CharlDeCarle and more lined up for today!
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ML Engineers love to say "matrix factorization for recs? What is this, 2014?" and then spend a few million dollars building something worse
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Personal ANNOUNCEMENT ✨ Happy to share the early release of my book on Machine Learning with Apache Spark. It contains 3 chapters, and new chapters, corrections, and updates will be released every month. Looking forward to your thoughts and how it can better serve your needs!
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Personal news! I'm joining Hugging Face 🤗. It's a community creating transparent AI models that are now powering both private and public AI, so exactly where I should be to move AI forward from its very foundations. =) Thanks to @dinabass for covering! https://t.co/y2Q3HJcmXb
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Former co-head of Ethical AI group will join Hugging Face to create tools for AI fairness
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NEW: in the last couple of weeks there have a *lot* of new studies out assessing vaccine efficacy, many of which have touched on the question of waning immunity. Unsurprisingly, these have prompted a *lot* of questions. Time for a thread to summarise what we do and don’t know:
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JUST IN: #VaccineRollOutSA stats: Fri, 20 Aug * 18+ have done their bit: We’ve done 57 067 more doses than on Thu—almost 250 000 in the past 24 hrs * 1. Jabs, past 24 hrs: 248, 873 (Thu: 191, 806) 2. Total doses: 10, 431, 124 3. Adults fully vaccinated: 4, 782, 071 (11.9%)
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No one in South Africa has died from getting a Covid-19 vaccine, shows a new report from medicine regulator the SA Health Products Regulatory Authority.
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No one in South Africa has died from getting a Covid-19 vaccine, shows a new report from medicine regulator the SA Health Products Regulatory Authority.
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Just watched the latest Dune trailer and now I feel I have to re-read the book before it comes out!
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Have I mentioned recently that we are hiring search and data engineering folks? It is great working at an open source company that is growing so well. #elasticsearch #opensearch #DataScience #lucene
Some belated news and some timely news, on the latest with @automattic:
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Some belated news and some timely news, on the latest with @automattic:
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In February of this year, Automattic closed a new primary funding round of $288M, bringing in some great new partners including BlackRock, Wellington, Schonfeld, and Alta Park. Existing investors I…
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Watching the English football with full stadiums and in South Africa, world champion Rugby with empty stadiums. High coverage vaccination in the UK allows fun to come back. Come on SA! Lets vaccinate so we can go back to exciting full stadiums and kick back the economy!
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