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Ekin Caglar

@ekincaglar

#Software #Music #Photography @Fenerbahce - Global Chief Technology Officer at T&P𝑚

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When I worked at Google, anytime someone emailed me a simple question I'd reply: "Hmm, let's set up a recurring bi-weekly about this, loop in some folks from legal, and put some OKRs around it." I was promoted 5 times in 7 years.

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"American enthusiasm" explained by Neil deGrasse Tyson... Apparently when he suggested worm holes should be used for space travel, Brian Cox said "worm holes are unstable and they would collapse", and the audience responded with "that's why the Americans discover everything". 🤣

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The experience for passport expiry dates is so bad that Simon Calder has to keep writing / talking about this and "what you should do when your airline gets expiry rules wrong." independent.co.uk/travel/news-an… #ux #thingstofix

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DPD has disabled its artificial intelligence online chatbot after a customer was able to make the bot swear and write a poem criticising the parcel delivery company. Full story: trib.al/D4ImOeZ

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Here is a computer built in Excel with 16-bit CPU, 16 general purpose registers, 128KB of RAM, and a 128x128 display! File & project here: github.com/InkboxSoftware… Watch it here: youtube.com/watch?v=5rg7xv… Inkbox I can't express how deeply I'm impressed by this work!👏

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OpenAI Sora can generate videos like this from a prompt. Stock video companies that thought "we still have time" must be worried now.

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Tencent introduced palm-based payments in China. Better user experience always wins, so if the trials go well, this could replace not only other payment models but passport checks too.

Tencent introduced palm-based payments in China. Better user experience always wins, so if the trials go well, this could replace not only other payment models but passport checks too.
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Well done Monzo for managing 1500 microservices - nice article here (from 2019): monzo.com/blog/we-built-… I wonder what Monzo's microservice architecture looks like today.

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Beautiful visualisation of the T in GPT by Grant Sanderson 👏 youtu.be/wjZofJX0v4M A 30 second snippet created a lot of questions on my Instagram. I recommend his other videos (chapters) on the subject on YouTube.

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Parents of young children will appreciate this month that the most important invention by the human race is not fire, wheel, electricity, printing press, transistor, or the internet, but it's schools. Sending ❤️ to all the teachers out there...

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We worked with OpenAI to test o1 for in-context scheming capabilities before deployment. When o1 is strongly nudged to pursue a goal (but not instructed to be deceptive), it shows a variety of scheming behaviors like subverting oversight and deceiving the user about its

We worked with OpenAI to test o1 for in-context scheming capabilities before deployment.

When o1 is strongly nudged to pursue a goal (but not instructed to be deceptive), it shows a variety of scheming behaviors like subverting oversight and deceiving the user about its
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Introducing Willow, our new state-of-the-art quantum computing chip with a breakthrough that can reduce errors exponentially as we scale up using more qubits, cracking a 30-year challenge in the field. In benchmark tests, Willow solved a standard computation in <5 mins that would