Matthew Conlen

my team at Midjourney is looking to hire an experienced web developer (full-stack, front-end focused). if you're interested, or know someone who is, DM me a portfolio or resume.

you should be comfortable turning research prototypes into production apps, and love to ship code to users

19.05.2025 21:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Sad to hear the news about FiveThirtyEight. Another blow to data-driven, empirical methods in journalism

05.03.2025 17:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Image showing new features to download data from charts on Our World in Data.

We recently made it even easier to reuse the data we provide, with two new features — upgraded data downloads & an API.

We’ve heard how helpful these are from many users — e.g., data scientists & researchers have told us how the API makes their workflows more efficient and reproducible.

19.12.2024 14:15 — 👍 99    🔁 17    💬 3    📌 3

Scaling Laws – O1 Pro Architecture, Reasoning Training Infrastructure, Orion and Claude 3.5 Opus “Failures” There has been an increasing amount of fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD) regarding AI Scaling laws. A cavalcade of part-time AI industry prognosticators have latched on to any bearish narrative the…

from semianalysis.com/2024/12/11/s...

11.12.2024 17:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

fascinating, on the economic (dis)incentives for AI labs to release their most powerful models. will the best models remain private and mainly serve to improve cheaper ones?

11.12.2024 17:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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25.11.2024 21:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A novel agent architecture that simulates the attitudes and behaviors of 1,052 real individuals 85% accurately --applying LLMs to qualitative interviews about their lives, then measuring how well these agents replicate the attitudes and behaviors of the individuals that they represent.

18.11.2024 17:14 — 👍 47    🔁 17    💬 2    📌 4