Fernando Diaz

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Associate Professor, CMU. Researcher, Google. Evaluation and design of information retrieval and recommendation systems, including their societal impacts.

Pittsburgh, PA 841.io Joined January 2011

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Fernando Diaz @841io Oct 7

very excited about this release by @HamedZamani and the amazing team at @manningcics.

Hamed Zamani Verified account @HamedZamani Oct 7

We are releasing the most significant technology transfer effort by the CIIR in the last decade. Please share with your network.

In this thread you will learn what Nage enables you to do.

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Fernando Diaz @841io Sep 22

+1! The next generation of information retrieval researchers — @SalemiAlireza7 and @TEKnologyy — has lots to say about scaling multi-agent information sharing to cooperative and non-cooperative settings.

Andrew Drozdov Verified account @mrdrozdov Sep 22

Two papers you should read from the information retrieval community about scaling up agent swarms:
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Fernando Diaz @841io Aug 5

may be time to resurface this <squints> ten year old FATML paper that explored the ethics of automatic experimentation, say by agents.

841.io/doc/ethics-of-…

Brad Stone Verified account @BradStone Aug 4

A confidential internal document shows TikTok withheld a safety feature from millions of users — including a teenager who died by suicide.

@livcarville in @BW
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Fernando Diaz @841io Jul 18

almost like ppl are using search engines from the 90s

Kyunghyun Cho Verified account @kchonyc Jul 18

not entierly sure about @OpenAI 's choice of the authoritative source

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Fernando Diaz @841io Jul 14

standards bodies are good, but should go beyond benchmarks or laboratory testing. given the current state of ai evaluation, it's worth mentioning a few reasons why benchmarks are brittle...

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