@pratyushajaitly.bsky.social
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With the CHI deadline fast approaching, I'm resharing our lab's resource on making figures for HCI papers: docs.google.com/presentation...
New content suggestions always appreciated. Don't be shy to promote your own work!
New content suggestions always appreciated. Don't be shy to promote your own work!
Makeability Lab - How to Figures
How to figures makeabilitylab.cs.uw.edu
docs.google.com
September 2, 2025 at 8:10 PM
With the CHI deadline fast approaching, I'm resharing our lab's resource on making figures for HCI papers: docs.google.com/presentation...
New content suggestions always appreciated. Don't be shy to promote your own work!
New content suggestions always appreciated. Don't be shy to promote your own work!
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⚠️ "This report explores the systemic risks associated with algorithmic bias, digital colonialism, and cultural homogenization, while also highlighting promising interventions through inclusive design and policy." @saiphcita.bsky.social buff.ly/KisUu9R
opus.bsz-bw.de
August 28, 2025 at 1:51 PM
⚠️ "This report explores the systemic risks associated with algorithmic bias, digital colonialism, and cultural homogenization, while also highlighting promising interventions through inclusive design and policy." @saiphcita.bsky.social buff.ly/KisUu9R
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What makes a standout software engineer?
Charles-Axel Dein was engineer #20 at Uber, hired me there and was my manager for years (a great manager, I might add.) He answers, and also shares what a standout engineer looks like at CloudKitchens, today:
Charles-Axel Dein was engineer #20 at Uber, hired me there and was my manager for years (a great manager, I might add.) He answers, and also shares what a standout engineer looks like at CloudKitchens, today:
October 7, 2025 at 1:59 PM
What makes a standout software engineer?
Charles-Axel Dein was engineer #20 at Uber, hired me there and was my manager for years (a great manager, I might add.) He answers, and also shares what a standout engineer looks like at CloudKitchens, today:
Charles-Axel Dein was engineer #20 at Uber, hired me there and was my manager for years (a great manager, I might add.) He answers, and also shares what a standout engineer looks like at CloudKitchens, today:
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September 17, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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September 12, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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The last week has made it very clear to me that Bluesky's model isn't one that promotes user safety or security.
When people start leaving, it'll be a trickle at first, which each mod or ToS misstep, and then everyone in a deluge when enough cracks give way.
When people start leaving, it'll be a trickle at first, which each mod or ToS misstep, and then everyone in a deluge when enough cracks give way.
September 15, 2025 at 12:17 AM
The last week has made it very clear to me that Bluesky's model isn't one that promotes user safety or security.
When people start leaving, it'll be a trickle at first, which each mod or ToS misstep, and then everyone in a deluge when enough cracks give way.
When people start leaving, it'll be a trickle at first, which each mod or ToS misstep, and then everyone in a deluge when enough cracks give way.
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Your mods seem to always make mistakes towards queer people. The second a we (and even more if it's a trans woman specifically) express our feelings on right wing figures hell bent on our extermination, we get suspended. There's screenshots of death threats IN THIS THREAD. Those accs are safe.
September 13, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Your mods seem to always make mistakes towards queer people. The second a we (and even more if it's a trans woman specifically) express our feelings on right wing figures hell bent on our extermination, we get suspended. There's screenshots of death threats IN THIS THREAD. Those accs are safe.
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hah not hard, basically unicode has a (kiiind of loose) concept of a "grapheme" and that's a cluster of codepoints that represents what we visually would consider a single character. that's what we count
so why doesn't twitter do that, it's because...
so why doesn't twitter do that, it's because...
April 22, 2023 at 11:05 PM
hah not hard, basically unicode has a (kiiind of loose) concept of a "grapheme" and that's a cluster of codepoints that represents what we visually would consider a single character. that's what we count
so why doesn't twitter do that, it's because...
so why doesn't twitter do that, it's because...
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we just deployed a fix to a long-standing issue with our image cdn: images within posts are no longer unnecessarily scaled-up. that means many images will load faster and use less data. we also took this as an opportunity to improve the quality of full-size images, as many have requested! 🌅
October 14, 2024 at 8:08 PM
we just deployed a fix to a long-standing issue with our image cdn: images within posts are no longer unnecessarily scaled-up. that means many images will load faster and use less data. we also took this as an opportunity to improve the quality of full-size images, as many have requested! 🌅
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Today’s entry in “ML research is a garden of perversions to sate the desires of any man, woman, child, pet, beast of burden, you name it”: fortune.com/2025/03/09/o...
ChatGPT gets ‘anxiety’ from violent and disturbing user inputs, so researchers are teaching the chatbot mindfulness techniques to ‘soothe’ it
A study on how to “calm down” chatbots could advance how AI is applied in mental health interventions, according to the authors.
fortune.com
March 12, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Today’s entry in “ML research is a garden of perversions to sate the desires of any man, woman, child, pet, beast of burden, you name it”: fortune.com/2025/03/09/o...
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the feminine urge to
Bluesky CEO: imagine a 'world without Caesars'
Jay Graber dunks on Mark Zuckerberg without mentioning his name.
mashable.com
March 10, 2025 at 10:57 PM
the feminine urge to
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OSS models offered as serverless products that are good enough are **absolutely** the death knell of OAI, Anthropic, etc.
What little utility these models offer to users — very little utility as the “revolution” turns out to be abortive — can easily be provided this way.
These cos. are cooked.
What little utility these models offer to users — very little utility as the “revolution” turns out to be abortive — can easily be provided this way.
These cos. are cooked.
AWS is first cloud service provider to offer DeepSeek-R1 as fully managed, generally available model
AWS expands the ways that customers can get started with DeepSeek-R1 and its distilled variants in Amazon Bedrock.
www.aboutamazon.com
March 12, 2025 at 4:52 AM
OSS models offered as serverless products that are good enough are **absolutely** the death knell of OAI, Anthropic, etc.
What little utility these models offer to users — very little utility as the “revolution” turns out to be abortive — can easily be provided this way.
These cos. are cooked.
What little utility these models offer to users — very little utility as the “revolution” turns out to be abortive — can easily be provided this way.
These cos. are cooked.
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Great job explaining why the economy could contract
Trade data from this morning has driven a huge drop in the Atlanta Fed GDPNow real-time tracker for Q1 GDP. Today's data took it from 2.321% to -1.477%. What's going on? Let's do a little thread explaining.
March 1, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Great job explaining why the economy could contract
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Maddow went off and I’m here for it!
Maddow: I think it is a bad mistake to let Joy Reid walk out the door. It is also unnerving to see that on a network where we've got two nonwhite hosts in primetime, both of our nonwhite hosts in primetime are losing their shows, as is Katie Phang on the weekend. I do not defend it.
February 25, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Maddow went off and I’m here for it!
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🎉Microsoft Research New England is hiring a predoctoral research assistant to work with @nancybaym.bsky.social, Tarleton Gillespie, and @marylgray.bsky.social on issues related to the dynamics of technology and society. 🎉
socialmediacollective.org/2025/01/22/s...
socialmediacollective.org/2025/01/22/s...
Seeking a Sociotechnical Systems Research Assistant (aka “Pre-Doc”)
Apply here: (NOTE: Application Portal opens February 3, 2025) Deadline: March 3, 2025. (Late or incomplete applications will not be considered.) NOTE: Unfortunately, applicants must be eligib…
socialmediacollective.org
February 13, 2025 at 4:25 PM
🎉Microsoft Research New England is hiring a predoctoral research assistant to work with @nancybaym.bsky.social, Tarleton Gillespie, and @marylgray.bsky.social on issues related to the dynamics of technology and society. 🎉
socialmediacollective.org/2025/01/22/s...
socialmediacollective.org/2025/01/22/s...
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this haptic display absolutely rocks. basketball is for everyone.
February 6, 2025 at 9:56 PM
this haptic display absolutely rocks. basketball is for everyone.
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At Y! Sports: I wrote about exceptionalism, dreams, nightmares, old-head wisdom, bold gambits, prime movers, half-court defense, half-court offense, the past, the future, and the absolute brain-melting stunner that is Luka Dončić for Anthony Davis: yhoo.it/4aF1Pvf
Luka Dončić, LeBron James and the biggest winners and losers of the Lakers-Mavericks trade
Here's a first look at who appears to have been helped or hurt in one of the most shocking moves the NBA has ever seen.
yhoo.it
February 3, 2025 at 12:47 AM
At Y! Sports: I wrote about exceptionalism, dreams, nightmares, old-head wisdom, bold gambits, prime movers, half-court defense, half-court offense, the past, the future, and the absolute brain-melting stunner that is Luka Dončić for Anthony Davis: yhoo.it/4aF1Pvf
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Since everyone wants to learn RL for language models now post DeepSeek, reminder that I've been working on this book quietly in the background for months.
Policy gradient chapter is coming together. Plugging away at the book every day now.
rlhfbook.com/c/11-policy-...
Policy gradient chapter is coming together. Plugging away at the book every day now.
rlhfbook.com/c/11-policy-...
February 1, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Since everyone wants to learn RL for language models now post DeepSeek, reminder that I've been working on this book quietly in the background for months.
Policy gradient chapter is coming together. Plugging away at the book every day now.
rlhfbook.com/c/11-policy-...
Policy gradient chapter is coming together. Plugging away at the book every day now.
rlhfbook.com/c/11-policy-...
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this is very good stuff - involving neighbours in the actual design of projects is important
Near neighbours of one of the country’s biggest #wind projects are being given the opportunity to choose how close they want to be to the proposed turbines
Neighbours of giant wind project offered up to $100m in unique deal that could shape design
Near neighbours of one of the country’s biggest wind projects are being given the opportunity to choose how close they want to be to the proposed turbines.
reneweconomy.com.au
January 31, 2025 at 7:52 AM
this is very good stuff - involving neighbours in the actual design of projects is important
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Extremely important new rapid study just out, by @wwattribution.bsky.social @frediotto.bsky.social
It confirms our burning of fossil fuels injects a mad acceleration into the factors that blend to create disastrous fires -->>
www.worldweatherattribution.org/climate-chan...
Short thread.......
It confirms our burning of fossil fuels injects a mad acceleration into the factors that blend to create disastrous fires -->>
www.worldweatherattribution.org/climate-chan...
Short thread.......
January 29, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Extremely important new rapid study just out, by @wwattribution.bsky.social @frediotto.bsky.social
It confirms our burning of fossil fuels injects a mad acceleration into the factors that blend to create disastrous fires -->>
www.worldweatherattribution.org/climate-chan...
Short thread.......
It confirms our burning of fossil fuels injects a mad acceleration into the factors that blend to create disastrous fires -->>
www.worldweatherattribution.org/climate-chan...
Short thread.......
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Massive news - another precedent for including the damage caused by the end-use of the products supplied by these projects.
Aggressive expansionism in fossil fuel supply = new demand, more emissions and anti-climate lobbying.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Aggressive expansionism in fossil fuel supply = new demand, more emissions and anti-climate lobbying.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
January 30, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Massive news - another precedent for including the damage caused by the end-use of the products supplied by these projects.
Aggressive expansionism in fossil fuel supply = new demand, more emissions and anti-climate lobbying.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Aggressive expansionism in fossil fuel supply = new demand, more emissions and anti-climate lobbying.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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I asked Siri to start a timer and it told me it couldn’t play that song.
January 30, 2025 at 3:52 PM
I asked Siri to start a timer and it told me it couldn’t play that song.