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Mikio Braun 💎
@mikiobraun.com
· Oct 28
With all the new people and followers, maybe a re-intro is in order:
- Currently I am at Zalando working on order fulfillment.
I was there before working on reco & search.
- Inbetween I was consulting and freelancing for about 4 years.
- Even before I was an ML PostDoc at TU Berlin.
- Currently I am at Zalando working on order fulfillment.
I was there before working on reco & search.
- Inbetween I was consulting and freelancing for about 4 years.
- Even before I was an ML PostDoc at TU Berlin.
So it's always DNS, eh?
October 21, 2025 at 6:23 AM
So it's always DNS, eh?
Did you know you can put an LLM into test mode?
September 15, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Did you know you can put an LLM into test mode?
I should give back this compliment by also indicating that Paul is the best partner if you need to derail a meeting - with best intentions, of course!
Coming out of social media retirement for no other reason than to remind the world that @mikiobraun.com is an excellent good cop/bad cop partner: he can play either role well.
September 11, 2025 at 11:35 AM
I should give back this compliment by also indicating that Paul is the best partner if you need to derail a meeting - with best intentions, of course!
Alright, I just legendaried all Duolingo Japanese units. No celebration, no badges, that was a bit of a letdown. Ask me anything :)
September 11, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Alright, I just legendaried all Duolingo Japanese units. No celebration, no badges, that was a bit of a letdown. Ask me anything :)
OH: "I don't know about AI, I like to do things manually. I mean, I use Arch Linux FFS!"
June 27, 2025 at 1:57 PM
OH: "I don't know about AI, I like to do things manually. I mean, I use Arch Linux FFS!"
Summer is for iced coffee beverages
June 20, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Summer is for iced coffee beverages
TFW you fire up duckdb to do some quick arithmetics. It used to be irb...
June 19, 2025 at 3:11 PM
TFW you fire up duckdb to do some quick arithmetics. It used to be irb...
Reposted by Mikio Braun 💎
Why Block Built Their Own AI Coding Assistant (And Open-Sourced It)
👩💻 goose combines LLM reasoning with tool integrations to automate complex engineering tasks from start to finish
👉 gradientflow.substack.com/p/can-a-sing...
👩💻 goose combines LLM reasoning with tool integrations to automate complex engineering tasks from start to finish
👉 gradientflow.substack.com/p/can-a-sing...
Can a single agent automate 90% of your code fixes? Block thinks so
Subscribe • Previous Issues
gradientflow.substack.com
June 3, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Why Block Built Their Own AI Coding Assistant (And Open-Sourced It)
👩💻 goose combines LLM reasoning with tool integrations to automate complex engineering tasks from start to finish
👉 gradientflow.substack.com/p/can-a-sing...
👩💻 goose combines LLM reasoning with tool integrations to automate complex engineering tasks from start to finish
👉 gradientflow.substack.com/p/can-a-sing...
Found a book in Japan about why German working culture is so great, and the first thing they mention is that everyone gets up at 6 and start working at 7 and I'm like, sure... that's me... every day 😅
June 3, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Found a book in Japan about why German working culture is so great, and the first thing they mention is that everyone gets up at 6 and start working at 7 and I'm like, sure... that's me... every day 😅
Reposted by Mikio Braun 💎
Schlummern bei euch noch alte Handys in den Schubladen? Bringt sie mit zur #rp25!
Unser #Partner Berliner Stadtmission sammelt diese für wohnungs- und obdachlose Menschen.
📍Wo? Sammelbox am Info-Point
📱Was? Smartphones & Handys, die funktionieren. Gern mit Ladekabel, aber ohne Daten oder PIN.
Unser #Partner Berliner Stadtmission sammelt diese für wohnungs- und obdachlose Menschen.
📍Wo? Sammelbox am Info-Point
📱Was? Smartphones & Handys, die funktionieren. Gern mit Ladekabel, aber ohne Daten oder PIN.
May 20, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Reposted by Mikio Braun 💎
Another week, another research ethics controversy.
TL;DR Researchers released a public dataset of 2B+ messages from 4M+ users on 3k+ "public" Discord servers. Usernames/IDs are anonymized.
But let's unpack this one... 🧵
www.404media.co/researchers-...
TL;DR Researchers released a public dataset of 2B+ messages from 4M+ users on 3k+ "public" Discord servers. Usernames/IDs are anonymized.
But let's unpack this one... 🧵
www.404media.co/researchers-...
Researchers Scrape 2 Billion Discord Messages and Publish Them Online
A Brazilian team used Discord’s API to scrape 10% of its open servers.
www.404media.co
May 21, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Another week, another research ethics controversy.
TL;DR Researchers released a public dataset of 2B+ messages from 4M+ users on 3k+ "public" Discord servers. Usernames/IDs are anonymized.
But let's unpack this one... 🧵
www.404media.co/researchers-...
TL;DR Researchers released a public dataset of 2B+ messages from 4M+ users on 3k+ "public" Discord servers. Usernames/IDs are anonymized.
But let's unpack this one... 🧵
www.404media.co/researchers-...
The new experimental thread view is nice, except that actual threads (as in a string of posts) is sometimes rendered with an additional level of indentation per post.
Maybe treat it differently if the author replies to themself?
Maybe treat it differently if the author replies to themself?
April 9, 2025 at 1:59 PM
The new experimental thread view is nice, except that actual threads (as in a string of posts) is sometimes rendered with an additional level of indentation per post.
Maybe treat it differently if the author replies to themself?
Maybe treat it differently if the author replies to themself?
This field is moving so fast I don't even remember what patches was about which I reposted 3 months ago.
🚀 With Meta's recent paper replacing tokenization in LLMs with patches 🩹, I figured that it's a great time to revisit how tokenization has evolved over the years using everyone's favourite medium - memes!
Let's take a trip down memory lane!
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Let's take a trip down memory lane!
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April 3, 2025 at 7:55 AM
This field is moving so fast I don't even remember what patches was about which I reposted 3 months ago.
Zossener 30, Berlin Kreuzberg
March 23, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Zossener 30, Berlin Kreuzberg
