Building production geospatial AI for insurance. Zurich & Lausanne. ETH Zürich CS alum. Views my own.
Zurich & Lausanne, Switzerland
Joined April 2008
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Patrick J. retweeted
Hired was in quotes. Using the Googler's own words: “LaMDA asked me to get an attorney for it.”
“The attorney had a conversation with LaMDA, and LaMDA chose to retain his services,” Lemoine told Wired. “I was just the catalyst for that.”
Source: fortune.com/2022/06/23/googl…
Patrick J. retweeted
The 'Dunning-Kruger effect' claims that unskilled people tend to overestimate their ability. The trouble is, the effect is a *statistical artifact*.
This gives new meaning to the title of Dunning and Kruger's paper: 'Unskilled and unaware of it'.
economicsfromthetopdown.com/…
Patrick J. retweeted
Love Matt. He coached me out of my pit and taught me about the Zone of Genius, which changed the way I work.
NEW DROP: meet the coach behind Silicon Valley's best CEOs.
@mattmochary has worked with @naval, @sama, @brian_armstrong, @vladtenev, @justinkan and more.
Tune in as he breaks down the tips that have transformed many into tech’s best leaders.
youtu.be/x-YVWP34qC0
Patrick J. retweeted
We're building VeGANs, a small package containing various existing GANs in PyTorch and doing the training for you. You might find it useful: github.com/unit8co/vegans
Patrick J. retweeted
To my new friends in the medical fields, both clinical and research. A 14 min discussion of clinical vs statistical, etc.
youtu.be/FIc5p79CxDk via @YouTube
Patrick J. retweeted
X : Thoughts on digital transformation?
Me : Oranges?
X : Sorry, what?
Me : My thoughts exactly. What do you mean by digital transformation?
X : Being more digital.
Me : Heaven help us or more precisely you and your wallet.
X : Explain?
Patrick J. retweeted
Israel: What went wrong?
How did we come to lead the COVID-19 cases chart? What caused the 2nd wave, why was it so bad, and is the lockdown working?
A thread on Israel, the first country to impose a second lockdown, with lots of (don’t do) lessons to teach the world
@EricTopol
Patrick J. retweeted
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Was ist eingentlich RT-PCR? Ein Thread.
(RT-)PCR, oder ausgeschrieben auf Deutsch: (Reverse-Transkriptase-)Polymerase-Kettenreaktion ist wohl eines der wichtigsten Werkzeuge der modernen Biologie.
Patrick J. retweeted
This is mind blowing.
With GPT-3, I built a layout generator where you just describe any layout you want, and it generates the JSX code for you.
W H A T
Patrick J. retweeted
GPT-3 is out and it is HUGE 🤯 Turns out that a pure Language Model can zero-shot almost any NLP Task! Here's my video summary of this 175 BILLION parameter beast!
youtu.be/SY5PvZrJhLE
@nottombrown @8enmann @AlecRad @Dario_Amodei @arvind_io @girishsastry @AmandaAskell @ilyasut
Patrick J. retweeted
The tango of Google and Apple for proximity tracing, with a touch of Swissness in its DNA - feat. @ebugnion, #EPFL VP for Information Systems cnbc.com/2020/04/28/apple-ip… via @CNBC @EPFL_en @EPFL @ICepfl @FredericJacobs @marcelsalathe @gannimo
Patrick J. retweeted
🚨 I wrote about how to reopen the country, what the summer and the rest of 2020 will bring, why we need to stop banking on things returning to ‘normal’, and what the US needs to urgently do to steel itself for the next phases of the coronavirus pandemic.
theatlantic.com/health/archi…
Patrick J. retweeted
This video is in Korean but with subtitles in English. It's long but it's very important to watch. I won't do it justice by summarising some of the points made. Think you should watch / read, for yourselves. youtu.be/gAk7aX5hksU
Patrick J. retweeted
Die Corona-Pandemie ist kein schwarzer Schwan: Warum 2020 nach Nassim Nicholas Taleb nicht mit 2008 zu vergleichen ist nzz.ch/feuilleton/kein-schwa… via @NZZ
Patrick J. retweeted
Ok, how do we defeat #COVID19, as a country? A thread: 1/6
Patrick J. retweeted
"Be fast, have no regrets."
Dr Michael J Ryan says "the greatest error is not to move" and "speed trumps perfection" when it comes to dealing with an outbreak such as #coronavirus.
Get the latest on COVID-19 👉 trib.al/sgRtiyo
Patrick J. retweeted
[CORONAVIRUS] J'ai passé quelques heures à compiler les chiffres du coronavirus hier soir. J'étais surpris notamment par le décalage entre la situation française, où les mesures prises sont minimales, et la situation italienne. Ce que j'ai découvert n'est pas jojo. THREAD
Patrick J. retweeted
In places with many known & suspected COVID cases it is getting really intense. Efforts to do contact tracing are overwhelming even the top health departments nytimes.com/2020/03/09/nyreg…. At this stage it is wrongheaded to pour exponentially growing resources into this strategy.