bpiche

Joined 13 years ago

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Sep 16

NLP, Speech, and Text San Francisco Bay Area

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Comment · 1 month ago

Grammarly itself is basically a closed-source version of LanguageTool https://github.com/languagetool-org/languagetool

Comment · 3 months ago

Location: Oakland, CA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Python, JS/node/react/ts, Java, R, vector/relational/nosql dbs, docker/k8es, terraform, GitHub actions, tensorflow/pytorch/gensim etc etc

Resume: Available on request

Email: [email protected]

Github: https://www.github.com/bpiche

Hi, I'm Ben Piché, a full stack AI/NLP engineer with about 15 years of experience. Have worked at lots of startups as well as big companies like Apple, Capgemini, Deloitte, Twitter, Wells Fargo and SAP. Specializing in AI architecture, agents, conversational AI, digital transformation, and related solutions.

Comment · 4 months ago

I still think of this video often and wonder if it is building on any of that technology, almost 10 years old now. Just looking at this whitepaper it seems like they both use some kind of infrared transcranial light, but never imagined the machine in the original iteration was so big [Regina Dugan's Keynote at Facebook F8 2017 | Inverse] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCDWKdmwhUI

Comment · 4 months ago

Comment · 9 months ago

This is the plot of The Peripheral, right? Love the way the second half of that book turned out. Never finished Agency..

Comment · 9 months ago

IA is hosting a couple more of Rick Prelinger’s shows this month. Looking forward to visiting

Comment · 10 months ago

Kirlian Selections rocks

Comment · 10 months ago

I didn't see any mention of this in the article, but: not sure if his wife is still on the board of OpenAI or not. He must have a unique and intimate view into some of this stuff and it's probably why they asked him about this stuff instead of another good actor. Big fan of his movies

Comment · 1 year ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCDWKdmwhUI

regina dugan's f8 keynote 8 years ago

where they announced they were working on a 'haptic vocabulary' for a skin interface as well as noninvasive brain scanning technologyu\

Comment · 1 year ago

After Doug's recent passing, I sincerely doubt it.

Comment · 1 year ago

I've had a few TWSBIs over the last 5 years or so and I love them. Haven't had any hairline fractures yet - any idea what may have caused them? Am curious now

Comment · 1 year ago

https://www.kavitareader.com

Kavita is awesome. I host it on my pc and serve it to my iPad/iPhone over a zerotier VPN

Comment · 2 years ago

Well for what it’s worth I wouldn’t have watched it without this retrospective. Very skeptical of dark matter and find this topic highly interesting