Twitter Acquires Magic Pony
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Twitter Acquires Magic Pony
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Re: Twitter Acquires Magic Pony
#2Another sad moment for the London startup scene as one of the most promising startups of recent years get acqui-gobble-hired up by $BIGCO
Re: Twitter Acquires Magic Pony
#3I know nothing about Magic Pony, but I'm starting to wonder how much of this craze is a form of "keeping up with the Joneses", except with tech giants and ML/AI startups instead of suburban families and their cars, etc.
Re: Twitter Acquires Magic Pony
#4This headline is far better if you don't know what Magic Pony is.
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#5I looked into these guys a month ago, they have a great team of young researchers.
The main application I saw was applying neural networks to video compression, improving compression by 3x or more (I guess by regenerating the lost detail?). Not sure if Twitter has much use for that but it looks like they have patented a bunch of other stuff too, and I'm sure will be a great addition to twitter's ML team.
Congrats to the guys - and hope they continue creating interesting tech in old blighty after the vesting period is over.
Re: Twitter Acquires Magic Pony
#6Another sad moment for the London startup scene as one of the most promising startups of recent years get acqui-gobble-hired up by $BIGCO
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Re: Twitter Acquires Magic Pony
#7Machine learning on your images and videos to "enhance our strength in live and video and opens up a whole lot of exciting creative possibilities for Twitter"!
As ironically stated here [1], "The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads."
Though Twitter has a good record of open-sourcing internal infrastructure projects, I think it's it's safe not to expect any substantive amount of this work to see the light of day.
On the other hand, the quality of their search and recommendations when it comes to non-text content will significantly improve. They're really doubling down on Twitter being the "best place to see what's happening and why it matters, first", which is a welcome change from the confusing signalling in months prior.
Re: Twitter Acquires Magic Pony
#8This headline is far better if you don't know what Magic Pony is.
I assumed it was something about Hasbro's My Little Pony series then actually found myself disappointed when it wasn't.
Re: Twitter Acquires Magic Pony
#9I looked into these guys a month ago, they have a great team of young researchers. The main application I saw was applying neural networks to video compression, improving compression by 3x or more (I guess by regenerating the lost detail?). Not sure if Twitter has much use for that but it looks like they have patented a bunch of other stuff too, and I'm sure will be a great addition to twitter's ML team. Congrats to…
Do you have a link to the compression stuff?
Re: Twitter Acquires Magic Pony
#10I looked into these guys a month ago, they have a great team of young researchers. The main application I saw was applying neural networks to video compression, improving compression by 3x or more (I guess by regenerating the lost detail?). Not sure if Twitter has much use for that but it looks like they have patented a bunch of other stuff too, and I'm sure will be a great addition to twitter's ML team. Congrats to…
Do you have a link to the compression stuff?