The first reaction on literally any X post I make is always a 0 followers porn bot 😅 I'm glad I'll always have someone supporting me ❤️
February 7, 2025 at 7:48 PM
The first reaction on literally any X post I make is always a 0 followers porn bot 😅 I'm glad I'll always have someone supporting me ❤️
Typing into Cursor:
- Slow input speed
- Risks carpal tunnel
- Normie vibes
Dictating into Cursor with a physical (bright yellow) phone handset:
- EFFICIENT™
- Feel like an early 90s wall street trader
- Experience heft that tungsten cubes can only dream of
- Slow input speed
- Risks carpal tunnel
- Normie vibes
Dictating into Cursor with a physical (bright yellow) phone handset:
- EFFICIENT™
- Feel like an early 90s wall street trader
- Experience heft that tungsten cubes can only dream of
January 22, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Typing into Cursor:
- Slow input speed
- Risks carpal tunnel
- Normie vibes
Dictating into Cursor with a physical (bright yellow) phone handset:
- EFFICIENT™
- Feel like an early 90s wall street trader
- Experience heft that tungsten cubes can only dream of
- Slow input speed
- Risks carpal tunnel
- Normie vibes
Dictating into Cursor with a physical (bright yellow) phone handset:
- EFFICIENT™
- Feel like an early 90s wall street trader
- Experience heft that tungsten cubes can only dream of
Hayes has weird burner-y art again!!
Look at this big mirror spine thingy
Look at this big mirror spine thingy
January 19, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Hayes has weird burner-y art again!!
Look at this big mirror spine thingy
Look at this big mirror spine thingy
Proud to judge / advise at the conclusion of @aaronmayer.bsky.social's Impact Fellowship! The week-long program, hosted at the @hf0.bsky.social house, brought a bunch of college students together to build impactful tech projects. Lots of cool people and meaningful work 🙂
January 7, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Proud to judge / advise at the conclusion of @aaronmayer.bsky.social's Impact Fellowship! The week-long program, hosted at the @hf0.bsky.social house, brought a bunch of college students together to build impactful tech projects. Lots of cool people and meaningful work 🙂
Want to add evals to your production AI app in one day? We're hosting a code sprint @weightsbiases.bsky.social on Jan 11th for that. Accelerate AI development, make your system more reliable, compare models in real-world use.
No more excuses. You need evals.🧐
No more excuses. You need evals.🧐
January 4, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Want to add evals to your production AI app in one day? We're hosting a code sprint @weightsbiases.bsky.social on Jan 11th for that. Accelerate AI development, make your system more reliable, compare models in real-world use.
No more excuses. You need evals.🧐
No more excuses. You need evals.🧐
I now think fluoride toothpaste may be a worse choice for many than hydroxyapatite toothpaste. Fell down a rabbit hole and have emerged with whiter, smoother, less sensitive teeth 🦷
Wrote up thoughts about it: stowers.co/hydroxyapati...
Wrote up thoughts about it: stowers.co/hydroxyapati...
Thoughts on hydroxyapatite toothpaste - Sam Stowers
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stowers.co
January 1, 2025 at 3:35 AM
I now think fluoride toothpaste may be a worse choice for many than hydroxyapatite toothpaste. Fell down a rabbit hole and have emerged with whiter, smoother, less sensitive teeth 🦷
Wrote up thoughts about it: stowers.co/hydroxyapati...
Wrote up thoughts about it: stowers.co/hydroxyapati...
Throwing an SF Decade Party™ in 2035
Pay $20 now, that gets put in the stock market, party budget is whatever comes out of that
Gets exponentially more expensive as we get closer to the date
Reply if you want in (or want to cohost)
Pay $20 now, that gets put in the stock market, party budget is whatever comes out of that
Gets exponentially more expensive as we get closer to the date
Reply if you want in (or want to cohost)
December 30, 2024 at 3:53 AM
Throwing an SF Decade Party™ in 2035
Pay $20 now, that gets put in the stock market, party budget is whatever comes out of that
Gets exponentially more expensive as we get closer to the date
Reply if you want in (or want to cohost)
Pay $20 now, that gets put in the stock market, party budget is whatever comes out of that
Gets exponentially more expensive as we get closer to the date
Reply if you want in (or want to cohost)
Reminder that mobile UX is still a nightmare at times
Ok I know nobody cares about this but me, but GOD I care:
1. I have just downloaded your app.
2. You want me to make an account. I don’t want to make an account!
3. When I enter my email, you inform me that I already have an account! This seems like a good thing, but I know it means only pain. 1/2
1. I have just downloaded your app.
2. You want me to make an account. I don’t want to make an account!
3. When I enter my email, you inform me that I already have an account! This seems like a good thing, but I know it means only pain. 1/2
December 13, 2024 at 11:03 PM
Reminder that mobile UX is still a nightmare at times
How I’m gonna pitch my company from now on
December 10, 2024 at 7:35 PM
How I’m gonna pitch my company from now on
Reposted by Sam Stowers 🫡
easy rules of thumb for designing consumer app onboarding:
・aggressively reduce the # of taps/clicks until first delight
・have one obvious next step per screen, reduce extra clickable elements
・imagine the user is not sober
your first 30 seconds determine the next 30 days
・aggressively reduce the # of taps/clicks until first delight
・have one obvious next step per screen, reduce extra clickable elements
・imagine the user is not sober
your first 30 seconds determine the next 30 days
December 8, 2024 at 5:47 PM
easy rules of thumb for designing consumer app onboarding:
・aggressively reduce the # of taps/clicks until first delight
・have one obvious next step per screen, reduce extra clickable elements
・imagine the user is not sober
your first 30 seconds determine the next 30 days
・aggressively reduce the # of taps/clicks until first delight
・have one obvious next step per screen, reduce extra clickable elements
・imagine the user is not sober
your first 30 seconds determine the next 30 days
Someone stole my backpack in Vegas when I wasn't looking. I chased them down through four casinos via Find My to get it back.
That airtag has been complaining about low battery for months. Now I'm getting it the freshest, most artisanal coin cell battery I can find 🫡
That airtag has been complaining about low battery for months. Now I'm getting it the freshest, most artisanal coin cell battery I can find 🫡
December 9, 2024 at 11:03 PM
Someone stole my backpack in Vegas when I wasn't looking. I chased them down through four casinos via Find My to get it back.
That airtag has been complaining about low battery for months. Now I'm getting it the freshest, most artisanal coin cell battery I can find 🫡
That airtag has been complaining about low battery for months. Now I'm getting it the freshest, most artisanal coin cell battery I can find 🫡
Reposted by Sam Stowers 🫡
Releasing SmolVLM, a small 2 billion parameters Vision+Language Model (VLM) built for on-device/in-browser inference with images/videos.
Outperforms all models at similar GPU RAM usage and tokens throughputs
Blog post: huggingface.co/blog/smolvlm
Outperforms all models at similar GPU RAM usage and tokens throughputs
Blog post: huggingface.co/blog/smolvlm
November 26, 2024 at 4:58 PM
Releasing SmolVLM, a small 2 billion parameters Vision+Language Model (VLM) built for on-device/in-browser inference with images/videos.
Outperforms all models at similar GPU RAM usage and tokens throughputs
Blog post: huggingface.co/blog/smolvlm
Outperforms all models at similar GPU RAM usage and tokens throughputs
Blog post: huggingface.co/blog/smolvlm
You know how it feels slow to move in dreams? Like you’re running through water?
I’ve discovered a way to teleport instead, and it’s so satisfying in contrast
I’ve discovered a way to teleport instead, and it’s so satisfying in contrast
November 28, 2024 at 6:35 PM
You know how it feels slow to move in dreams? Like you’re running through water?
I’ve discovered a way to teleport instead, and it’s so satisfying in contrast
I’ve discovered a way to teleport instead, and it’s so satisfying in contrast
Assembling good datasets is what separates the boys from the men
November 24, 2024 at 7:28 AM
Assembling good datasets is what separates the boys from the men
Reposted by Sam Stowers 🫡
Evals are "too damn expensive" until you:
• can't migrate underlying models safely
• can't add new features with confidence
• can't ship without HITL evals, which takes >100x longer
• product development and iteration grinds to a halt
• lose customer trust due to poor user experience
• can't migrate underlying models safely
• can't add new features with confidence
• can't ship without HITL evals, which takes >100x longer
• product development and iteration grinds to a halt
• lose customer trust due to poor user experience
November 23, 2024 at 4:57 AM
Evals are "too damn expensive" until you:
• can't migrate underlying models safely
• can't add new features with confidence
• can't ship without HITL evals, which takes >100x longer
• product development and iteration grinds to a halt
• lose customer trust due to poor user experience
• can't migrate underlying models safely
• can't add new features with confidence
• can't ship without HITL evals, which takes >100x longer
• product development and iteration grinds to a halt
• lose customer trust due to poor user experience
Google Images is getting super polluted with AI generated fluff. Trying to find a funny image for a presentation and it's increasingly full of junk.
Which is saying something, because it was already kinda useless
Which is saying something, because it was already kinda useless
November 23, 2024 at 5:58 AM
Google Images is getting super polluted with AI generated fluff. Trying to find a funny image for a presentation and it's increasingly full of junk.
Which is saying something, because it was already kinda useless
Which is saying something, because it was already kinda useless
If you're at The Curve Conference this weekend, come dive into what the future of applied evals looks like! I'll be demo-ing EvalForge, an implementation of the "who validates the validators" paper with @weightsbiases.bsky.social
Big thanks to @capetorch.bsky.social and Anish for their work here
Big thanks to @capetorch.bsky.social and Anish for their work here
November 22, 2024 at 5:29 PM
If you're at The Curve Conference this weekend, come dive into what the future of applied evals looks like! I'll be demo-ing EvalForge, an implementation of the "who validates the validators" paper with @weightsbiases.bsky.social
Big thanks to @capetorch.bsky.social and Anish for their work here
Big thanks to @capetorch.bsky.social and Anish for their work here
Reposted by Sam Stowers 🫡
when you try to convert your text into smaller pieces but all it gives you is Elvish, that’s a tolkienizer
November 20, 2024 at 5:51 PM
when you try to convert your text into smaller pieces but all it gives you is Elvish, that’s a tolkienizer
Finally got out of Anki debt and I feel so free
November 20, 2024 at 9:51 PM
Finally got out of Anki debt and I feel so free
Bluesky pros - should I use my own domain (stowers.co), or match my handle to other platforms (sammakesthings)?
Which has better vibes
Which has better vibes
Welcome - Sam Stowers
Welcome - Sam Stowers
stowers.co
November 20, 2024 at 2:50 AM
Bluesky pros - should I use my own domain (stowers.co), or match my handle to other platforms (sammakesthings)?
Which has better vibes
Which has better vibes
Reposted by Sam Stowers 🫡
A really intriguing set of findings of AI researchers that needs more exploration, replication, and expansion: AI agents given personalities and backgrounds, and placed into a virtual formal organization (with CEOs, VPs, etc.) outperform normal AI in doing complex tasks.
November 19, 2024 at 2:33 PM
A really intriguing set of findings of AI researchers that needs more exploration, replication, and expansion: AI agents given personalities and backgrounds, and placed into a virtual formal organization (with CEOs, VPs, etc.) outperform normal AI in doing complex tasks.
Looks like all the SF people tried Bluesky a year ago then left lol. Did I miss the wave
November 15, 2024 at 8:53 PM
Looks like all the SF people tried Bluesky a year ago then left lol. Did I miss the wave