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Kevin Tong
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It’s been an incredible 4 months working @X . Few places let interns work on high vis projects, let alone be responsible for double-digit top line metrics. As of today, 100% of the push recommendation system is now replaced with newer, better, faster. 2 billion notifications a
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2 years
@Peston none of the former PMs still in the backbenches voted, nor did a lot of other big names @BorisJohnson was on holiday (who would expect anything less from Boris)
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10 months
the amount of compute you need for an intern project nowadays is insane
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2 years
for a city called waterloo, you’d think the water would be better
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2 months
Much credit to co-conspirator @shivamkhare95 and leadership from @BrianWichers @dexter_mh !
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trying to see if Nobel laureate @geoffreyhinton might be on the next flight back to Toronto
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6 months
landed in sfo, found a waterloo friend flying back we oughta just charter a flight
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2 years
celebrating suffering at engineering day
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1 year
there’s way too many Waterloo hoodies in the SFO boarding line this is embarrassing how are there 40 year olds still repping
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2 years
waterloo is an exercise in calendar management if anything
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2 years
the temptation to google everyone on the interview roster is too great
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ai this ai that can someone please cure the common cold
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2 years
microcontrollers lab during witching hour, photo for posterity writing C while it snows is more surreal than having made it this far this OS better work
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2 years
waterloo engineering senior year prank (I’m not a senior, unless you’re hiring)
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3 years
So...this is the bird app. I will resist you.
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Kevin Tong
2 months
@thanosthinking always has been
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Kevin Tong
10 months
I’ve done battle with nvidia drivers for 8 hours straight my sanity oh my sanity there’s a critical nvidia vaapi driver maintained on GitHub by one dude named elFarto the state of the tech industry in 2023
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2 years
happy pi day! @CTVKitchener filming us recite pi dropped out after first 4 people all broke the 100 digit mark (only 80 😞) first prize is $314 only at @UWaterloo do students chant numbers together
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asked #FranLebowitz what she would do if someone tried to assassinate her. she then told the people behind me she’s worried I’ll assassinate her happily stuck at Union. 3 hours back.
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Kevin Tong
1 year
it’s the busiest week of the waterloo recruitment cycle and I’m ladling water out of the sink because it’s slowly backfilling this place really tests your sanity
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Kevin Tong
11 months
fire alarm goes off during an exam, everybody keeps writing until prof asks people to leave what do you mean my life is worth more than my control systems grade
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Kevin Tong
1 year
day 1 of living dt #Toronto full time pants are now divided into “this is clean” and “this was on the subway and basically radioactive” right above @UofT cs buildings if I drop a rock good chance it takes out one of my profs’ old advisors
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3rd time round “how am I holding up?” as good as ever
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Kevin Tong
2 years
did it again, Waterloo edition. it’s not every day you can get #FranLebowitz to laugh “thanks for leaving me alive”
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if you get a million notifications next week, you're probably in my test set make sure you open every one of them
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Kevin Tong
2 years
to the monkeys on electric scooters who choose the busy sidewalk over the empty bike lane when you swerve to avoid me and meet my cousin the utility pole do not look upset when I burst out laughing
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aisle 13 on a Boeing pray for me
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Kevin Tong
3 years
So...this is the bird app. I will resist you.
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Kevin Tong
2 years
i've lost count how many people have told me my twitter photo fails to betray my height consider yourself warned, i'm 10 ft tall fee fi fo fum
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Kevin Tong
2 years
end of another one. some highlights: - evicted myself from evil landlord - lapchi lau lectures (algos prof makes or breaks degrees) - microprocessor kernel (and questionable features) w/ @kbilalll !! - moved a final exam (benevolent dictator powers) (credit to Umut the Goblin)
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Kevin Tong
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@bilaltwovec I mean. they distill reasoning into liquid form…
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Kevin Tong
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hiring managers should put their own resumes through the application process every once in a while, but change some details keeping recruiters on their toes can only be a net social good
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Kevin Tong
2 years
having to move every 4 months really makes you wish you had efficient noexcept move semantics
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Kevin Tong
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the fact that @X has its own internet company in @Starlink and therefore can't effectively be banned by @alexandre is so based comes very close to being a 0 dependency company
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Kevin Tong
1 year
boarding for markham takes as long as the train to waterloo, not that anybody is on it
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Kevin Tong
2 years
beautiful thick chalk #HagoromoChalk
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Kevin Tong
3 years
packing bags for waterloo, got a paper cut fate does not want me there
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Kevin Tong
1 year
waterloo interns arriving in silicon valley
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Buitengebieden
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These geese decided to take back the beach.. 😂
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2 years
@cgpgrey @finmoorhouse it looks like they use some sort of boundary to break up expansion within a large cell so it’s an unnatural construction - horror justified
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1 year
@ronawang tech twitter optimizes you heavily (source: irl tech twitter)
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Kevin Tong
2 years
math degrees in the wild
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Kevin Tong
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new factorio expansion means agi has been delayed another year
@factoriogame
Factorio
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Factorio: Space Age is here! #factorio #gamedev
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Kevin Tong
2 years
Exciting announcement! @trussliz and I are co-authoring a paper on adapting Kwarteng-style gradient descent to macroeconomics Tentatively titled “Tax Cuts are all you need” Preliminary results show faster convergence than all other emerging markets since Zimbabwe et al. (2008)
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Kevin Tong
2 years
being back home after another tough semester feels like time never passed since high school and it was all a nightma-dream, I meant dream! the only way to process time spent here in Waterloo is in 4 month chunks, and after a while it all looks the same…
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2 years
back in loo for a day we’ve been invaded by toddlers is this how profs feel
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Kevin Tong
2 years
my dear delivery dude the doorbell is idempotent you’re literally Postman you should know this
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Kevin Tong
1 year
@itsclivetime first thought was “damn trains in Japan give you terminal access??”
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Kevin Tong
2 years
se lounge reads
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my life depends on you open every notification
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6 months
@bilaltwovec seek medical help
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Kevin Tong
2 years
end of my 3rd internship today, that was fun how am I only halfway through this degree
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9 months
@bilaltwovec come home bilal
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Kevin Tong
3 years
visited the @globeandmail office for the first (and last) time to return my laptop and philosophize over coffee astonishing views of Toronto. going to miss the extraordinary people. (photo stolen from tgam center)
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7 months
impossible that this isn’t in MC 4th floor
@brianwhelton
𝔅͛𝔯͛𝔦͛𝔞͛𝔫͛ ͛𝔚͛𝔥͛𝔢͛𝔩͛𝔱͛𝔬͛𝔫͛
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Two loo rolls, two brushes, we're just one toilet away from a high available environment.
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it’s on cold Canadian days like today that I’m grateful I own an Apple Spaceheater 2019
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Kevin Tong
2 years
well shit, I’m 20 now wow wow look at all the milestones I’m supposed to hit in the next 10 years when do I get that sweet sweet quarter life crisis can’t. wait.
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Kevin Tong
2 years
i really think #combinatorics profs orders mcdonalds and go "how many ways can i eat these fries in bijection with the ketchup"
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Kevin Tong
2 years
think about it, @Rogers is able to tweet right now, so they must be using a @Bell network 🤔
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Kevin Tong
2 months
@bilaltwovec this account is compromised
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Kevin Tong
3 years
Tensorflow? has a memory leak issue? since 6 years ago? that’s still not fixed????
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Kevin Tong
2 years
microsoft tea >> microsoft teams
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Kevin Tong
4 months
he's going to drop dead, isn't he
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Kevin Tong
2 years
got my interview q wrong by one ampersand *waves fist at stroustrup*
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Kevin Tong
4 months
@lewis_goodall sadly not the beast
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Kevin Tong
2 years
was just called “a moving vegetable with a macbook” why do mothers always have the most creatively ruthless insults
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Kevin Tong
3 years
how to explain to someone new to 🇨🇦 there's 3 fake springs that finally ends with 1 big snow near the end of April to mark true spring precision-recall curve didn't work
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Kevin Tong
1 year
shopping vacuum cleaners not laptops for Black Friday I must be old
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Kevin Tong
2 years
I knew Waterloo had Asians I did not expect this many Asians #AAPIHeritageMonth
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Kevin Tong
2 years
@natashajaques @uwcse @UWCheritonCS can you and @uwcse please battle it out and figure out who the real UW is? I get excited to see tweets like these only to find out - wrong UW. side note: @UWaterloo if we lose and do change names, I would not mind UWU as an acronym
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2 years
uw for you
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did it again, Waterloo edition. it’s not every day you can get #FranLebowitz to laugh “thanks for leaving me alive”
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Kevin Tong
2 years
asked #FranLebowitz what she would do if someone tried to assassinate her. she then told the people behind me she’s worried I’ll assassinate her happily stuck at Union. 3 hours back.
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Kevin Tong
1 year
@amanmathur_ all the good forecasters became quants
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Kevin Tong
1 year
Soon the twitter logo will be used in set notation to unambiguously denote {} or ∅, otherwise known as the empty set
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Wait, did they REALLY go with \mathbb{X} as their logo? They cannot possibly be THAT lazy?
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2 years
an OA a day keeps unemployment away follow me for more fun lies
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Kevin Tong
5 months
when America tries too hard it becomes France
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Kevin Tong
4 months
the best part of the night is watching @BethRigby tweeting live from the @SkyNews reporting desk
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Kevin Tong
20 days
now I’m trying to figure out if I’m in the same cheap hotel
@NobelPrize
The Nobel Prize
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"I'm in a cheap hotel in California which doesn't have a good internet or phone connection. I was going to have an MRI scan today but I'll have to cancel that!" - New physics laureate Geoffrey Hinton speaking at today’s press conference where his #NobelPrize was announced.
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hold on a minute I know that building
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Dan Goodman 🍊
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Edge cases amirtie @Waymo
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Kevin Tong
3 months
I saw every one of these positions on market street today
@medicinexthings
Katie
3 months
Insane respect, got an all expenses paid trip to Paris plus all the free gear and is forever an Olympian. She cooked hard here I’m afraid
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3 years
only reason this work term report is getting written is to bring more pretty #LaTeX into the world
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Kevin Tong
2 years
@qvinnh @adorabowlll markham waterloo pipeline all over twitter
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Kevin Tong
2 years
@nicholastao_ so show her pringles shaped guy, not another dorito shaped guy
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2 years
computer science will teach you the theory software engineering will teach you to compute Fibonacci numbers by throwing embedded SQL exceptions
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Kevin Tong
1 year
@kbilalll ml equivalent of quoting religious texts
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Kevin Tong
1 year
when your hotel overlooks Apple offices, this is what you wake up to
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Kevin Tong
2 years
watching vlogs of people who decided to exchange to waterloo you hear phrases like “this is the ugliest library ever designed by any university, this is DC”
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Kevin Tong
3 years
year 1 should just be python data wrangling, building APIs, DBs, basic algorithms, AWS, Docker, and the standard set of math courses i’ve never been asked to apply the Biot-Savart law in an interview, so sprinkle degree reqs in upper years as a change of pace
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Kevin Tong
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@UWaterlooPres you can tell it’s a math school when the president uses words like “isomorphism”
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Kevin Tong
2 months
proud to have made the tiniest possible contribution to this project
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Haicheng Wu
2 months
CUTLASS reached 5K stars this summer with 3.5M downloads per month. Thank you for your support!
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Kevin Tong
2 years
there’s a guy behind lobster burger bar handing out pamphlets every day, and I keep seeing people talking to him I think curiosity is going to win very very soon
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Kevin Tong
3 years
come to think of it, I don’t want me there either
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Kevin Tong
1 year
saw #Suzume sooo pretty I guess control theory project is gonna have to be a drink balancing chair on 3 legs
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Kevin Tong
2 years
@PourjafarNima welcome to the madhouse. run for elected leadership.
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Kevin Tong
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@tessybarton @nvidia that's a much nicer way of saying it than how Linus did it
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Kevin Tong
2 years
some guys from the shelter firing off fireworks from the balcony over the street queen victoria could only dream of being remembered this way
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Kevin Tong
2 years
@Number10cat we’re gonna get to eating 40 rings 40 maids 36 ladies 30 lords 22 pipers and 12 drummers
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Kevin Tong
1 year
ok I know math education is bad in America but I didn’t think it was THIS BAD I wonder how many tickets you need for 4 people
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Kevin Tong
2 years
when it’s cold and windy downtown #Toronto way too late at night and you want something to eat but everything looks closed about to give up except aHA there’s a sketchy Chinese noodle parlour still alive that will always want your money you, you are getting my business tonight
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Kevin Tong
2 years
I drink only imperative water @WholeFoods
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