Michael @_michael_z

cross-domain sequential recommendation. research @amazonscience. ex @palantirtech Joined October 2022

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Michael @_michael_z

a week ago

Tbh Leetcode is really just adult times tables

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Michael @_michael_z

2 months ago

Coding: Sonnet 4 > GPT 5

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Michael @_michael_z

2 months ago

Seattle’s pretty nice

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Was talking with my wife about starting a company, as she works closely with funds on the daily… seems the only way to win in vertical agents rn is to be in the knows on some highly niche, esoteric knowledge around a shared pain point. Building costs are so low that any semi…

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Michael @_michael_z

3 months ago

My product manager and I were talking today about how industry is moving towards LLMs for recommendation. However, so far in practice, I've found that they're great for augmenting co-occurence with semantic/metadata scoring - but still far from outright replacement of neural…

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Michael @_michael_z

3 months ago

This is why precisely Palantir forward deployed engineers disproportionately become founders...

Garry Tan @garrytan

3 months ago

This is why precisely Palantir forward deployed engineers disproportionately become founders...

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Michael @_michael_z

3 months ago

solving cold-start using cross-domain data - e.g. using reading history to recommend streaming items for someone who's never streamed - is low-hanging fruit. using another domain's taste signals to bootstrap is obvious. the hard part is finding truly orthogonal taste signals…

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Sakana AI @SakanaAILabs

4 months ago

We’re excited to introduce Text-to-LoRA: a Hypernetwork that generates task-specific LLM adapters (LoRAs) based on a text description of the task. Catch our presentation at #ICML2025! Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2506.06105 Code: github.com/SakanaAI/Text-… Biological systems are capable of…

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Michael @_michael_z

5 months ago

for longer context coding... Gemini 2.5 is still superior

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Daniel Tenner @swombat

6 months ago

@BasedBeffJezos Hot takes and dumb takes and uninformed takes and genius takes, all blended into one smooth mix, coming down a light-speed pipe right into YOUR FACE. The largest Mixture Of Non-Experts Model. Tokens per minute rate may vary.

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kazi @wolfofbaystreet

6 months ago

you will never know the strength of a man who has a steadfast wife behind him. “I feel like hulk” —a happily married friend

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Quanquan Gu @QuanquanGu

6 months ago

In RL we trust.

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Jiankui He @Jiankui_He

7 months ago

Human will no longer be controlled by Darwin's evolution.

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Jiankui He @Jiankui_He

6 months ago

Every pioneer or prophet must suffer

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Michael @_michael_z

6 months ago

Hard ass pose. How is this guy the goat without even trying

Jiankui He @Jiankui_He

7 months ago

Hard ass pose. How is this guy the goat without even trying

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Michael @_michael_z

7 months ago

My research team at Amazon Prime Video is looking for full-time & intern Applied Scientists / Researchers! If you like working on foundation models, large-scale rec systems, non-stationary processes, numerical optimization, pls reply/DM Feel free to share this around