My day job is to speak in an arcane snake language to a crystal vibrating at 3,000,000,000 cycles per second sitting in a cloud so that it can alter probabilities in the real world. If that isn't magic what is.
Hector Yee
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Hector Yee
@eigenhector
Absurdist humor, AI stuff, recsys, machine learning, mythology, meditation. Tech Emmy & book author. Works on embodied silicon beings.
- Who remembers when LLMs were LSTMs?
- numpy is the best python library
- So excited that xmanager is open sourced
- ML languages over time 2010 C/C++ 2016 python 2022 yaml
- My team open sourced #FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources) protocol buffers today. It allows #EHR data to be handled in a portable way research.googleblog.com/2018/03/making…
- Fun to see Self Organizing Maps make a return. I remember coding one and my ML colleagues were very skeptical it could scale etc. Interesting new use for them in interpretability arxiv.org/abs/1806.02199
- I'm 44. I co-led Google image search quality. I have a MS in architectural science (graphics). Lots of papers including ICLR , technical Emmy, stars on github, dozens of patents etc and I still get asked to write code that runs in Python in interviews. *Shrug*I am 35. I co-lead the search engine in NL+BE's biggest e-commerce platform. I have a MS+PhD in CS. Starred in GitHub projects, blog posts, confs/meetups. But I still need to deliver a silly amount of algorithm & data structure puzzles in job interviews. 👈 #WrongDecisionsInLife
- Google 2019 research internships are now open
- It feels like NLP has changed a lot since the transition from LSTMs to transformers or is that an illusion?
- Today is my last day @GoogleAI for the third time. This time round worked on VR, had a nature digital healthcare paper and did deep learning on medical records and signals. Going off to do startup entrepreneurial stuff next.
- Why is France suddenly so active in AI. Do they have a sudden influx of government funding or something?
- Wow there are very mediocre ml medium posts out there
