Victor Amaral @_victorama

Machine learning engineer, @JohnsHopkins alum, musician, 🇧🇷 vamaral1.github.io Los Angeles, CA Joined August 2014

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Victor Amaral @_victorama

3 weeks ago

Sad to see federal research funding slashed at universities across the U.S. @DrLeanaWen shares voices from students, faculty, and families on how grant cuts are affecting medical progress and stalling science. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/…

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Victor Amaral @_victorama

a month ago

Curious about how recent AI models "think"? @small__thinking gives an approachable and relatable intro to reinforcement learning. Among other things, Yexi talks about cooking, learning to walk, existentialism, and the philosophy of decision making yexijiang.substack.com/p/if-you-under…

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Victor Amaral @_victorama

2 months ago

Cloudflare unveils ways to monetize content consumed by AI and bots, as organic internet traffic drops blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-pa…

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Victor Amaral @_victorama

2 months ago

"...overreliance on these LLMs can have unintended psychological and cognitive consequences, especially for young people whose brains are still developing" time.com/7295195/ai-cha…

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Victor Amaral @_victorama

4 months ago

When 1950s sci-fi foreshadows the modern kid-behind-a-screen libraryofshortstories.com/onlinereader/t…

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Victor Amaral @_victorama

2 years ago

My skepticism with a lot of generative AI startups is rooted at the popular trend of finding problems for a solution, instead of the contrary. This also happened in the web3 rush

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Victor Amaral @_victorama

3 years ago

Is there a “focus” feature on @SlackHQ that hides unread messages or the whole sidebar? Sometimes I’m in the middle of something and go to Slack to search previous conversations, get distracted by unread messages, and forget why I opened the app in the first place.

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Victor Amaral @_victorama

3 years ago

Gen Z - this is for you dot.la/222-anti-metav…

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Victor Amaral @_victorama

3 years ago

The use of “feel free to [do something],” “should we [do something],” etc is often vague and confusing. How can we make #communication clearer and more direct?

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Victor Amaral @_victorama

4 years ago

Waiting for someone to make an Icelandverse logo NFT

Aaron Levie @levie

4 years ago

Waiting for someone to make an Icelandverse logo NFT

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Victor Amaral @_victorama

4 years ago

Exciting to see the latam recognition and the movement to understanding the market and solving real, local problems instead of just creating the "X for latam," for X in {Uber, Airbnb, etc}

Sonya Huang 🐥 @sonyatweetybird

4 years ago

Exciting to see the latam recognition and the movement to understanding the market and solving real, local problems instead of just creating the "X for latam," for X in {Uber, Airbnb, etc}

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Victor Amaral @_victorama

4 years ago

Learning and detecting objects without labels seems very useful for self-driving, among other applications ai.facebook.com/blog/dino-paws…

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Victor Amaral @_victorama

5 years ago

Pretty neat that a model trained on a text corpus can generalize to other tasks such as image classification with minimal fine-tuning

AK @_akhaliq

5 years ago

Pretty neat that a model trained on a text corpus can generalize to other tasks such as image classification with minimal fine-tuning

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Wojciech Zaremba @woj_zaremba

5 years ago

AI, please give me an emoji of a baby penguin wearing a blue hat, red gloves, green shirt, and yellow pants openai.com/blog/dall-e/

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Victor Amaral @_victorama

5 years ago

How do we reach those with low income to prevent them from entering this cycle? science.sciencemag.org/content/370/65…

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Victor Amaral @_victorama

5 years ago

Teach yourself how to be not good at something. It'll help you stop comparing yourself to others vox.com/the-goods/2142…

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Victor Amaral @_victorama

5 years ago

I've been mentoring a couple students and have enjoyed it. If you know any underrepresented, low-income, and/or first gen hs or college students who'd benefit, I'd be happy to continue sharing my experiences: college apps, student life, internships, career planning, etc. Lmk!

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Victor Amaral @_victorama

5 years ago

"I've tried to stop playing the guitar and start playing music on the guitar." I feel that. Great conversation b/w great musicians youtu.be/-hbJBAm4jss