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X | Machine Learning Engineer - Community Notes | SF, SJ, Seattle, LA, NYC | All Levels The role: build scalable production machine learning systems and infrastructure, and improve…

I wouldn't say they were being childishly subversive -- it is very unclear that paper bags are better than plastic bags for the environment. "Manufacturing a paper bag takes about …

It is very confusing to me how this got painted as pressure solely from the right. Ackman seemed like the driving force behind it, and he has mostly donated to democrats: "Since 19…

There is a type of advertising called "brand advertising" where the goal is more about brand awareness (e.g. think of a Coca-Cola superbowl ad) than "direct response advertising". …

The code is open source: https://github.com/twitter/communitynotes The notes and rating data is released to the public every day: https://twitter.com/i/communitynotes/download-data…

Indeed, it does this! >For a note to achieve a high intercept term (which is the note’s helpfulness score), it must be rated helpful by raters with a diversity of viewpoints (facto…

How come? Just long hours or something else?

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It started rolling out to everyone in the US in early October, and first version launched at smaller scale back in January 2021 https://twitter.com/birdwatch/status/157800457599020…

Hi! Birdwatch ML Engineer here-- these context notes are from Birdwatch. They are written and rated by users, and the notes are only added as context to Tweets if they are rated hi…

>but you’ve got to think about the idea that the folks who conducted this study know as well how hard science is, and for them to publish this anyway means they (and their reviewer…

Sounds like it might be The Last Psychiatrist? https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/