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Max Woolf
@minimaxir
Senior Data Scientist at @BuzzFeed in San Francisco // AI content generation R&D
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    Max Woolf
    @minimaxir
    May 29
    I am no longer actively reading/posting on X due to a very poor signal-to-noise ratio: I will likely only be posting links to my blog posts/projects for posterity. If you want to see my more recent thoughts/commentary, I am on Bluesky: @minimaxir.bsky.social
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    Max Woolf
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    Dec 15, 2021
    I forced a bot to look at every Pokémon and told it to generate its own. Here are the results. (this isn't a joke, that's actually how I made these)
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    Max Woolf
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    Jun 16, 2023
    The Reddit strike should go on forever just because of this dialogue chain. theverge.com/2023/6/15/2376…
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    Max Woolf
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    Nov 17, 2022
    Replying to @ZoeSchiffer
    This is likely to prevent employees from sabotage but this just seems like it'll be more likely for them to do sabotage.
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    Max Woolf
    @minimaxir
    Feb 15, 2020
    A good Hacker News comment on tech interviews.
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    Max Woolf
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    Dec 6, 2022
    congrats to OpenAI on winning the Turing Test
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    Max Woolf
    @minimaxir
    Dec 15, 2021
    Replying to @minimaxir
    Bonus batch!
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    Max Woolf
    @minimaxir
    Apr 12, 2019
    YouTube algorithm vs. Katie Bouman
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    Max Woolf
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    Mar 7, 2019
    Is it a Duck or a Rabbit? For Google Cloud Vision, it depends how the image is rotated.
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    Max Woolf
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    Apr 21, 2024
    Replying to @edzitron
    Send me a message on messenger to get this corrected
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    Max Woolf
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    Dec 10, 2019
    Everyone joking about the price of the Mac Pro is missing one very important thing: It comes with a *free* Lightning cable!
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    Max Woolf
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    Dec 15, 2021
    Replying to @minimaxir
    Wow, you all really, really like these AI-Generated Pokémon! As a thanks for all your support, how about ANOTHER BONUS BATCH?! 😁
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    Max Woolf
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    Aug 5, 2024
    Broke: prompt engineer Apple Intelligence to reveal its system prompt Woke: just search for a .txt file containing the prompts lol
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    Max Woolf
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    Nov 22, 2021
    Replying to @HardDriveMag