Mike Cvet
@mikecvet
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🤘🏻. 🌹. 🏋️. 👹. 💻. 🎸. 👶🏻 x 5. 🇨🇦 / 🇺🇸. He/him. #BLM. formerly distinguished eng @twitter
East Bay, CA
Joined June 2010
Distinguishing authentic human-produced media from deepfakes or other algorithmically generated media is notoriously difficult. The C2PA standard provides confidence that supported classes of media are human-generated — when stated as such in metadata.
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A walkthrough of the C2PA content authenticity specification and its Rust SDK
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RT @BttrProgramming: Better-than-Cubic Complexity for Matrix Multiplication in Rust by Mike Cvet.
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Toying around with Rust and hash functions: .
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My first hobby project for learning Rust was implementing MD5, SHA-2, and SHA-3
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Why software migrations are broken, and some ideas for how to fix them.
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Some observations, principles and best practices for large, first-party software migrations
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I wrote more about this here:
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Sooner or later, every software engineering organization is faced with the task of trying to evaluate the productivity of their team and…
Technology companies which measure impact by easily-observable (and game-able) metrics like commit-count or lines-of-code mistakenly treat their software as an asset, rather than the liability it actually is. Their products and capabilities are the assets, not the code.
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The sad reality of all the 2.0-era bad takes on how simple it would be to “fix” or “rebuild” Twitter is that they are wholly under-appreciating the challenges and complexity of this system at scale. If it looks like a simple app as a user, that is because the UX does a good job.
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“When can we launch a new bad policy when most people won’t notice?”.
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My kids don’t quite comprehend that they’re watching history in the making 🇦🇷 🇫🇷.
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Given a pending crisis in coming years over creative authenticity, I wonder if a market will develop for tools or technology which differentiate human-generated original material. For example, cameras which digitally sign the photo and provide cloud APIs for verification, etc.
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You all should be proud of what you built together. And for doing what’s right for you, even if it’s hard 💙 🫡.
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it’s well-established convention that all code located under common/util is cursed.
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We know that Covid misinfo contributed to 300k+ preventable deaths just in the US this year, in part due to inadequate handling by social networks. So to pretend that lives aren’t regularly at stake by the choices these platforms make is just ignorant .
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As the U.S. nears one million deaths from COVID-19, analysis finds nearly a third of those deaths could have been prevented — if people had been vaccinated.
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A cursory read through any articles demonstrating the link between social media usage and teenage depression and suicide, the influence it has on violent national movements, and why networks ban doxxing would have prevented this bad tweet.
In both those companies, people die if the software doesn't work right. Do you really think he's not up to managing a social network?.
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Or ask… random people on the internet?.
Elon is just demanding random people on his website tell him how it works now
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it demonstrates a dramatic underappreciation of individual expertise, domain knowledge, and the complexity of the platform.
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It’s hard for people on the outside to appreciate how nonsensical this selective “policy” enforcement is. The team responsible for the serving of 10MM+ tweets / second for internal and user-facing use cases is down to like 2 people. Good luck shipping basically… anything?.
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The “app being slow” is the result of years of organizational decisions, it’s not one engineer’s job.
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