Thomas Dimson
@turtlesoupy
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Technical Staff @OpenAI . Former CEO @illdotinc (acq. OpenAI). Authored “the algorithm” @Instagram . 🇨🇦. Purple monkey dishwasher.
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Just in; we are joining OpenAI ✌️
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Introducing "this word does not exist" today - AI generated English words with dictionary definitions. Be kind!
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1/n I'm an engineer who wrote Instagram's feed algorithm. Twitter needs to lower the click-probability weighting in its ranking algorithm. A thread 🧵👇
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Nothing sweeter than the feeling when the live demo actually works. I’ll see everyone at 11:30 for the deep dive!
GPTs are a new way for anyone to create a tailored version of ChatGPT to be more helpful in their daily life, at specific tasks, at work, or at home — and then share that creation with others. No code required.
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Today, I'm proud to launch a website celebrating AI failure. Could this be the best day of my life? Looks like we have a new champion!
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The full set of OpenAI Dev Day talks are now online! Prep for
@nickaturley
diving into GPTs with talking pirates, TODOs, rickrolls, rap battles and mood lighting
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GPTs are now out to 100% of paid ChatGPT users so it is a perfect time to shill my launch night hack, "Cosmic Dream"
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Apple lidar hardware is insane: real-time axis aligned voxels!
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Bio s/currently/formerly/g. Wrapping up seven years of writing algorithms and cussing out SEVs at Instagram this week. Hard to believe we grew from 50 employees to serve a billion people. Don’t be a stranger
#follow4follow
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Emojineering: I ran a NLP-based study on Instagram emoji usage (contained almost 40% of posts!). Check it 😍
http://t.co/C3zVEoIxTa
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I deeply regret my participation in the board's actions. I never intended to harm OpenAI. I love everything we've built together and I will do everything I can to reunite the company.
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How to beat the Instagram algori^H^H^H^H^H Enjoyed sharing engineering stories from-the-ground at Instagram on this week’s Operators podcast!
The biggest change to online discourse in past decade has been the algorithmic feed
Thomas Dimson, one of the early engineers at Insta, developed their algorithmic feed, explore & story ranking
We talked about how it came to be & more on this weeks ep!
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Although I spent 7 years at Instagram introducing content ranking systems, I haven’t spoken much about it — I wanted to start with why it makes more sense to focus on transparency in experiments instead of ‘algorithms’
The size and sophistication of modern algorithmic ranking models makes it impossible to fully understand how they make predictions, writes
@turtlesoupy
, who built Instagram’s first content ranking system, but social platforms can still be more transparent.
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30 years of centralization tamed the Simpsons from a symbol of American counter-culture into mass media. Today, we liberate their free spirit in the “Fucked Crypto Homers” NFT.
20K purchasable AI-authored Homers minted eternally on the blockchain 💸💸💸
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Wow this blew up, don't visit my Soundcloud because I don't have one. But if I did, then I would have a direct financial incentive to post more 🧵
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I’m not going to do it, just thinking about it, just thinking about it, just thinking about it, just thinking about it, just thinking about it, just thinking
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Other days you sit inside trying to identify the latent dimensions of hats.
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Co-wrote an Instagram Engineering post our new ultra-shiny 🔍 search infrastructure --->
http://t.co/B7e7DhUAd5
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Still committed to no database, I just deployed a url-shortener to get out of those horrible, horrible base64ed URL links for TWDNE . To celebrate, please enjoy this wonderful introduction to clowncomputing
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2/n made you look? Seriously, that's the problem. You are infinitely more likely to "click" on something that has a little thread 🧵 icon in it as opposed to a vanilla tweet.
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5/n that's a "network effect" where a small ranking change has a huge effect on online discourse. Look at me! I'm writing a thread right now and I hate them.
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The little hackathon project that could
Introducing an interactive poll sticker in Instagram Stories. What will you ask your friends?
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I'm off to Taiwan and SE Asia for a few weeks - dogfooding with a little solo travel GPT few-shotted off other places I've liked
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Art imitates machines trained to imitate art
I found out about and I decided to draw some of my favorite results from it.
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Copilot X poem a little on the nose for introducing the OpenAI API
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Settle down and relax for an hour with messed up Simpsons
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Is anyone an expert in modern language model tokenization? I'm confused about a conceptual issue; most schemes are not prefix-free but you train on the optimal codes. While generating samples, it seems like you see impossible encodings with poor probability estimates?
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“What’s that untextured Mario mesh doing in the backyard?”
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3/n that also applies to people posting spicy hot takes where you click into the thread to see outrage. It is rubbernecking
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twitter bot getting a little meta
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Just got access to the GPT-3 beta, time to spend a few years worth of compute (＼◕‿◕＼)
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Input: blobby lidar scan self-portrait. Output: SUPER VOXEL FIGHTER 2 TURBO
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You can't help but crack a smile when GPT4 throws in xmlns=""
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Fucked up homers... and we're puttin' it on wax. It's the new style. Four and three and two and one
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4/n weighting on P(click), 🧵 posts dominate others and get ranked to the top of feed. But that encourages you to /post/ more 🧵 content so you get to the top of other people's feeds.
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tfw when you give your twitter bot a novelty birthday and get your account locked for being underage
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Note to self: while the IGHQ bar is tempting, don't reach for the baijiu in the middle of a work day
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And so ends my university career. Not with a bang, but a hailstorm
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Today I learned that you can get cited without writing a paper
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Are there large labelled datasets of Myers-Briggs types? Wondering if you can train a RNN-like model for MB from diary text (or other text)
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@rbranson
You are probably right. Let me wave from this subthread to the one person 5 years from now who has the same unanswered question and after a day of googling lands on this unsatisfying tweet. 👋
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What kind of a stupid future world do we live in when I can deploy Instagram server code above 30,000 feet?
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@rememberlenny
@OpenAI
Damn, I’ll miss you man! Seems like yesterday you were walking me through the ChatGPT data model while my house slowly disappeared in the background. Will be closely following for what comes next 🫡
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@devansh20la
@hardmaru
I mulled over whether to fix the random seed but it seemed more fun not to. The permalink ("link" button) should give you a stable one
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At the Unicode conference today and it's shocking how many people disagree standardization of emojis. Seems like a wild success to me?
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@colinahiggins
Personally, just that they keep getting ranked up even though my preferences are against them. Also it turns Twitter towards a long-form format which the interface is really not designed for.
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My kingdom for an Apple watch face that doesn't display "NO UPCOMING EVENTS" in giant letters when there are no upcoming events.
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I'm investigating language models for 3D voxel spaces by treating contiguous runs as variable length "words". Apparently it works? This transformer (reformer) model can chisel out a torus in a 20x20x20 voxel grid.
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Honoured to be chosen as 9th most creative person in business by
@FastCompany
today
http://t.co/KdlCSA0iFD
http://t.co/CAFVUp8jEK
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One thing led to another and at the end of it, it was 2AM and I was using Template Haskell to write a print function for my thrift types
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How to Shoot Hyperlapse Videos Without Making People Sick | Gadget Lab | WIRED
http://t.co/MjEoSaidhl
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Delighted to discover
#Meridian59
is open source these days. It was probably 90% of my childhood
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