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joy

@joy@mastodon.social

👩🏻‍💻Technologist. Early-stage 0 to 1 startup builder in Silicon Valley. #AI, #Infra, #OSS enthusiast. Single mom with an amazing daughter. A part of my heart is in 🇪🇺. Originally from NJ & Philly.✨

#Tech #Startups #OpenSource #Web3 #Community #IndieMusic #SiliconValley #SF #SFBA #SFBay #SanFrancisco #fedi22

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ElleGray, to random
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Omg any day now computers will be able to add

joy,
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@ElleGray Gonna play the straight (joke) person and use this opportunity to teach: embedding is used to describe or represent data in ML/AL systems.

It’s admittedly kinda neat to drill down and see what cool shit people are using embeddings and building for (2D vs. 3D, vectors, etc. etc.)

Anyway…

joy, to SF
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Hey #SFBA folks, a quick request… I’m starting to look at housing in the city #SF, and if you have any leads (even if it’s an “I love my neighborhood because…” type of comment) that would be great. 🥰

I don’t need a roommate, but I do need a place that accepts cats and has in unit laundry (which apparently is a very limiting factor). Not sure where to start my search other than the usual online portals.

joy,
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@EverydayMoggie This is exactly the insight I was looking for, Moggie, thanks! What neighborhood are you in now?

thomas, (edited ) to random
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I'd like to remind all Mastodon users that you can add a language filter to any follow relationship on Mastodon.

If you follow me and you don't speak German, you can easily remove my German posts from your timeline by adjusting the language settings.

Go to my profile page, select the dot menu and click "Change subscribed languages". Then select the languages that you speak.

This really is a hidden gem 💎 on Mastodon and not many people seem to know this feature :awesome:

joy,
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@thomas I follow some German speakers purposely to passively improve my reading comprehension. (I would follow more Italian speakers, but I haven’t seen as many.)

As for the translation feature, I’m on mastodon.social and using Ice Cubes as my phone client, and a high percentage of fedi posts I see have native translation. For the few that don’t have it supported, I can usually use native iOS right click or copy/paste into Google Translate.

toddalstrom, to random
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Can't believe that it's already been a year since we moved to Finland.

joy,
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@toddalstrom Whoa, time has gone by quick!

neuralgraffiti, to random
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Happy Lillet season to all who celebrate,

joy,
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@neuralgraffiti What is it?

jimgon, to random
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I was talking to a friend and he mentioned that someone was quoting Hobbes and I had to ask “philosopher or stuffed tiger”?

joy,
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@jimgon Well, the stuffed tiger was named for the philosopher, so…

NorcalGma2, to random
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I am feeling quiet today, mostly because I was in the emergency room all night.
Going through my thyroid debacle and fighting with the doctor's office about the bill has been pretty stressful.
Thursday night, I noticed a change in my vision. I have these floating spots of distortion. It looks like something is coming towards my eye. When the eye started to feel swollen and the white of my eye started turning red, I called the doctor, who told me to go to the ER.
My right eye is pretty unhappy.
The consensus is that this is probably stress and will resolve itself. If it doesn't, I will head to Santa Rosa for expery eye help.
Right now, I have nurse Summer keeping me close.

joy,
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@NorcalGma2 Ahhh jeez, sorry about the stress, I hope you feel better soon…

carnage4life, to random
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I sometimes wonder if LLMs are this generation’s self driving cars? A decade ago self driving cars were so promising it was assumed they were 90% of the way to being ubiquitous. But now it looks like the last 10% of the work is taking 90% of the time.

LLMs work well 90% of the time. The question is how hard will it be to address that last 10%?

joy,
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@carnage4life Kinda funny, the founder I'm working with now used to be an engineer at one of those self driving startups.

But if you ask him about where the big problem is, he would say that last 10% is a data quality issue. You need to be working with good quality data no matter whatever techniques you're using - RAG, fine-tuning, etc.

estherschindler, to random
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A pair of French companies have the two most mispronounced brand names in the world: financiers Société Générale and car company Peugeot.
https://businessfinancing.co.uk/most-mispronounced-brands/

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@estherschindler An ex-beau of my daughter’s worked for SocGen here in the US, and we just eventually gave up any pretense in trying to pronounce the name, and would call it “a French investment bank.”

ai6yr, to random

LOL someone looking to give away black goldfish. Curious if someone did not approve of their feng shui and introduced them in there when someone wasn't looking (apparently black goldfish are symbolic in feng shui).

joy,
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@ai6yr LOLing at "not sure how they got here."

joy,
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@ai6yr 🤨

joy, (edited ) to random
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My daughter just FaceTime’d me from a bar in New Orleans with a good girlfriend of mine from my pre-startup days in Philly, as they were attending the same conference in NOLA this week. So that was a neat surprise.

joy, to random
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Just a reminder, there are over 655,000 open-source models hosted on HuggingFace alone. https://huggingface.co/models

OpenAI isn't close to being the heartbeat of the AI Ecosystem, just the most dramatic perhaps...

joy, to random
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🤘

https://open.spotify.com/track/4vsoWZcvtvSsE0OiVvDDvX?si=2_g4UkL_RbmJ3Gd9zRQFxg&context=spotify%3Asearch%3Aharness%2Byour%2Bhopes

joy, to random
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Kid is back in the States this week for a professional conference in New Orleans where she went to undergrad. (Kinda cool she was able to return on grad weekend 4 years later.)

Lo and behold, her dang card was skimmed at bank ATM or somewhere else possibly in the French Quarter.

wallacewords, to random
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Cool, they speak Welsh here now.

joy,
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@vincent @wallacewords Yeah, I was trying to figure out where this sign was too… 🤷‍♀️

joy, to random
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Hello hello are you up yet?!? The sun is out and I need to eat and go outside on my patio!

CavedaleRhones, to homebrewing
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Amazing lunch pizza from Lebbers at Tin City just south of Paso Robles. Paired with an exceptional Chenin Blanc from the Hubba winery next to the pizza oven.

The Hubba wine label

joy,
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@CavedaleRhones I trust you on the wine but I absolutely do not trust you on the pizza.... 😜 Are those green beans on the pizza?

joy,
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@CavedaleRhones Cal-Ital cuisine will never cease to (initially) unnerve me.

joy, to random
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I would love to know what the heck is triggering my allergies up to 11 today in the South Bay.

joy,
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@Viss It says Grass Pollen is high in Mountain View. But my complex is heavily landscaped with native plants, and I can't help but think something close by is the cause.

joy,
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@Viss Aww thanks for the offer, if this goes on for a while I may have to rethink how I keep my patio door open for the cat during the day.

ai6yr, (edited ) to gardening

25 feet tall! Agave appears to be preparing to bloom. I wonder if I could turn this into a radio antenna.

joy,
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@ai6yr My dude, I don't care what you're going to tell me as I won't believe otherwise, but that is a giant asparagus spear.

joy, to random
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If Ben and Jen can’t make it work a second time…

…to all of my exes, it’s not gonna work again with any of you either.

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