Uri "shuri" Schonfeld
@uri.ai
I'm working on Room.AI and I try to make cool stuff happen.
mini-bio: PhD from UCLA, teach machine learning at Berkeley, consult around ML & AI, been a research scientist and software engineer at Yahoo & Google.
mini-bio: PhD from UCLA, teach machine learning at Berkeley, consult around ML & AI, been a research scientist and software engineer at Yahoo & Google.
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Uri "shuri" Schonfeld
@uri.ai
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I've been working on a new app. A "work timer" style app, kind of like pomodoro with tiny twists. Really early :). If you care (or struggle) with productivity, like (or gave up) on pomodoro timers, would love your thoughts on a testflight stage app :). Live long and prosper.
I shared some slides with our school's dean, I teach at Berkeley's mids program. Slides included in the thread :)
tldr:
1. Teachers don't scale
2. Student's who are determined to cheat, will. Prioritize learning!
3. We need to embrace AI for teaching.
What do you think? Slides in the thread.
tldr:
1. Teachers don't scale
2. Student's who are determined to cheat, will. Prioritize learning!
3. We need to embrace AI for teaching.
What do you think? Slides in the thread.
December 15, 2025 at 6:54 PM
I shared some slides with our school's dean, I teach at Berkeley's mids program. Slides included in the thread :)
tldr:
1. Teachers don't scale
2. Student's who are determined to cheat, will. Prioritize learning!
3. We need to embrace AI for teaching.
What do you think? Slides in the thread.
tldr:
1. Teachers don't scale
2. Student's who are determined to cheat, will. Prioritize learning!
3. We need to embrace AI for teaching.
What do you think? Slides in the thread.
Can this help you focus and be productive...? What else would you like me to add :)?
Tiny demo video for my productivity focus timer with joyous and silly celebration sounds app apps.apple.com/us/app/good-... #focus #pomodoro #adhd #timer #motivation #productivity #soundeffects #goodhuman
Tiny demo video for my productivity focus timer with joyous and silly celebration sounds app apps.apple.com/us/app/good-... #focus #pomodoro #adhd #timer #motivation #productivity #soundeffects #goodhuman
December 5, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Can this help you focus and be productive...? What else would you like me to add :)?
Tiny demo video for my productivity focus timer with joyous and silly celebration sounds app apps.apple.com/us/app/good-... #focus #pomodoro #adhd #timer #motivation #productivity #soundeffects #goodhuman
Tiny demo video for my productivity focus timer with joyous and silly celebration sounds app apps.apple.com/us/app/good-... #focus #pomodoro #adhd #timer #motivation #productivity #soundeffects #goodhuman
I'm on the app store :) it's a simple productivity timer (kinda like pomodoro), visualizes your week's sessions, and has fun / silly / possibly motivating sound effects 😀😆🙃 apps.apple.com/us/app/good-...
(no in-app purchases, no signups, all data local and encrypted)
#productivity #adhd #focus
(no in-app purchases, no signups, all data local and encrypted)
#productivity #adhd #focus
Good Human! App - App Store
Download Good Human! by Hyperfoo, Inc. on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more games like Good Human!.
apps.apple.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:39 AM
I'm on the app store :) it's a simple productivity timer (kinda like pomodoro), visualizes your week's sessions, and has fun / silly / possibly motivating sound effects 😀😆🙃 apps.apple.com/us/app/good-...
(no in-app purchases, no signups, all data local and encrypted)
#productivity #adhd #focus
(no in-app purchases, no signups, all data local and encrypted)
#productivity #adhd #focus
I teach applied machine at Berkeley and I think students and teachers are trying to figure out how Al fits in education. Al affects the entire "flow", figuring out the syllabus, preparing material, writing exercises and exams, and finally the work you do when you graduate. Many see this as a threat…
November 30, 2025 at 7:30 PM
I teach applied machine at Berkeley and I think students and teachers are trying to figure out how Al fits in education. Al affects the entire "flow", figuring out the syllabus, preparing material, writing exercises and exams, and finally the work you do when you graduate. Many see this as a threat…
Submitted my first Apple app to the app store :)!!! It's a work timer with some extras :).
Had to create a tiny site for privacy and support. Getting the right resolution screenshots required experimentation. Tweaking the views so they work on different devices and orientation took some work.
🥳
Had to create a tiny site for privacy and support. Getting the right resolution screenshots required experimentation. Tweaking the views so they work on different devices and orientation took some work.
🥳
November 29, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Submitted my first Apple app to the app store :)!!! It's a work timer with some extras :).
Had to create a tiny site for privacy and support. Getting the right resolution screenshots required experimentation. Tweaking the views so they work on different devices and orientation took some work.
🥳
Had to create a tiny site for privacy and support. Getting the right resolution screenshots required experimentation. Tweaking the views so they work on different devices and orientation took some work.
🥳
App icon for my upcoming productivity timer not-exactly-pomodoro-app. What'd you think :)?
November 28, 2025 at 6:01 PM
App icon for my upcoming productivity timer not-exactly-pomodoro-app. What'd you think :)?
Nano Banana's system prompt leaked via refrigerator magnets 🙃 minimaxir.com/2025/11/nano...
November 25, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Nano Banana's system prompt leaked via refrigerator magnets 🙃 minimaxir.com/2025/11/nano...
I've been working on a new app. A "work timer" style app, kind of like pomodoro with tiny twists. Really early :). If you care (or struggle) with productivity, like (or gave up) on pomodoro timers, would love your thoughts on a testflight stage app :). Live long and prosper.
November 24, 2025 at 5:55 PM
I've been working on a new app. A "work timer" style app, kind of like pomodoro with tiny twists. Really early :). If you care (or struggle) with productivity, like (or gave up) on pomodoro timers, would love your thoughts on a testflight stage app :). Live long and prosper.
Geoffrey Hinton 🙌: " I believe they [LLMs] have subjective experiences. But they don't think they do because everything they believe came from trying to predict the next word a person would say.... they have false beliefs about themselves because they have our beliefs" youtu.be/jrK3PsD3APk?...
AI: What Could Go Wrong? with Geoffrey Hinton | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
YouTube video by The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
youtu.be
November 6, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Geoffrey Hinton 🙌: " I believe they [LLMs] have subjective experiences. But they don't think they do because everything they believe came from trying to predict the next word a person would say.... they have false beliefs about themselves because they have our beliefs" youtu.be/jrK3PsD3APk?...
Conscious machines? Thou does protest too much: "only biological beings are capable of consciousness... should stop pursuing projects that suggest otherwise" and “If you ask the wrong question, you end up with the wrong answer. I think it’s totally the wrong question.”
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/02/m...
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/02/m...
Microsoft AI chief says only biological beings can be conscious
Mustafa Suleyman has become one of the most influential voices in tech to come out against building seemingly conscious AI.
www.cnbc.com
November 3, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Conscious machines? Thou does protest too much: "only biological beings are capable of consciousness... should stop pursuing projects that suggest otherwise" and “If you ask the wrong question, you end up with the wrong answer. I think it’s totally the wrong question.”
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/02/m...
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/02/m...
Will we ever run out of jobs for humans to do? People argue new jobs always pop up. My "giant bowl of M&Ms theory" says, every time you take an M&M it uncovers 4-5 new M&Ms. But even a giant bowl will run out. What's left? The human connection. Playing chess with a human, scarier, but more fun!
October 30, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Will we ever run out of jobs for humans to do? People argue new jobs always pop up. My "giant bowl of M&Ms theory" says, every time you take an M&M it uncovers 4-5 new M&Ms. But even a giant bowl will run out. What's left? The human connection. Playing chess with a human, scarier, but more fun!
Kaggle launched Game Arena, "AI models and agents compete head-to-head", in strategic games starting with chess. So Claude is playing against Grok and friends. See www.kaggle.com/blog/introdu... and Hikaru is streaming live right now www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nBy... covering the games.
Introducing Kaggle Game Arena | Kaggle
Watch models compete in complex games providing a verifiable and dynamic measure of their capabilities
www.kaggle.com
August 5, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Kaggle launched Game Arena, "AI models and agents compete head-to-head", in strategic games starting with chess. So Claude is playing against Grok and friends. See www.kaggle.com/blog/introdu... and Hikaru is streaming live right now www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nBy... covering the games.
Reposted by Uri "shuri" Schonfeld
The full story of how I made Talknotes in a week and sold it for $200,000 one year later 🧐
It covers:
- 💡 How I got to the idea
- 🤝 Getting my first customers
- 📈 Growing the app (and burning out)
- 💸 Selling it
Took me more 8+ months to finish it, but it's finally here! 😃
youtu.be/3XZK7RDCvK0
It covers:
- 💡 How I got to the idea
- 🤝 Getting my first customers
- 📈 Growing the app (and burning out)
- 💸 Selling it
Took me more 8+ months to finish it, but it's finally here! 😃
youtu.be/3XZK7RDCvK0
I SOLD my AI startup for $200,000 (yes, again)
YouTube video by Nico Jeannen
youtu.be
February 28, 2025 at 11:17 AM
The full story of how I made Talknotes in a week and sold it for $200,000 one year later 🧐
It covers:
- 💡 How I got to the idea
- 🤝 Getting my first customers
- 📈 Growing the app (and burning out)
- 💸 Selling it
Took me more 8+ months to finish it, but it's finally here! 😃
youtu.be/3XZK7RDCvK0
It covers:
- 💡 How I got to the idea
- 🤝 Getting my first customers
- 📈 Growing the app (and burning out)
- 💸 Selling it
Took me more 8+ months to finish it, but it's finally here! 😃
youtu.be/3XZK7RDCvK0
Simon Willison's benchmark for LLMs :), The last six months in LLMs, illustrated by pelicans on bicycles simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/6/s...
The last six months in LLMs, illustrated by pelicans on bicycles
I presented an invited keynote at the AI Engineer World’s Fair in San Francisco this week. This is my third time speaking at the event—here are my talks from October …
simonwillison.net
June 9, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Simon Willison's benchmark for LLMs :), The last six months in LLMs, illustrated by pelicans on bicycles simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/6/s...
MCP, Model Context Protocol, seems to "magically" connect software and apps (e.g. blender, unity, unreal, godot) to LLMs like claude (or chatgpt).
This shows you how, including: 1. don't just dump your API into your MCP, 2. work at a higher level, and 3. add tests. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeOA...
This shows you how, including: 1. don't just dump your API into your MCP, 2. work at a higher level, and 3. add tests. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeOA...
Your API is not an MCP | DEMFP786
YouTube video by Microsoft Developer
www.youtube.com
June 4, 2025 at 6:38 PM
MCP, Model Context Protocol, seems to "magically" connect software and apps (e.g. blender, unity, unreal, godot) to LLMs like claude (or chatgpt).
This shows you how, including: 1. don't just dump your API into your MCP, 2. work at a higher level, and 3. add tests. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeOA...
This shows you how, including: 1. don't just dump your API into your MCP, 2. work at a higher level, and 3. add tests. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeOA...
AI TikTok Block (suggestion)
I want to long-press on someone's face, and then "AI block" them, never to see a post with their face again.
Similarly, you can "tok block" people by their voice... or if their name is uttered?
Creating a "filter bubble", for better and worse. Ignore-ance is bliss!?
I want to long-press on someone's face, and then "AI block" them, never to see a post with their face again.
Similarly, you can "tok block" people by their voice... or if their name is uttered?
Creating a "filter bubble", for better and worse. Ignore-ance is bliss!?
June 3, 2025 at 11:57 PM
AI TikTok Block (suggestion)
I want to long-press on someone's face, and then "AI block" them, never to see a post with their face again.
Similarly, you can "tok block" people by their voice... or if their name is uttered?
Creating a "filter bubble", for better and worse. Ignore-ance is bliss!?
I want to long-press on someone's face, and then "AI block" them, never to see a post with their face again.
Similarly, you can "tok block" people by their voice... or if their name is uttered?
Creating a "filter bubble", for better and worse. Ignore-ance is bliss!?
Reposted by Uri "shuri" Schonfeld
Search & recsys have historically drawn inspiration from language modeling, such as Word2vec for item embeddings, and GRUs and BERT for sequential models. LLMs are no different and have led to updates in model architecture, training data & paradigms, etc.
eugeneyan.com/writing/recs...
eugeneyan.com/writing/recs...
Improving Recommendation Systems & Search in the Age of LLMs
Model architectures, data generation, training paradigms, and unified frameworks inspired by LLMs.
eugeneyan.com
March 19, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Search & recsys have historically drawn inspiration from language modeling, such as Word2vec for item embeddings, and GRUs and BERT for sequential models. LLMs are no different and have led to updates in model architecture, training data & paradigms, etc.
eugeneyan.com/writing/recs...
eugeneyan.com/writing/recs...
This podcast episode is a great review of developments around vision language models pca.st/episode/26e8...
Teaching AI to See: A Technical Deep-Dive on Vision Language Models with Will Hardman of Veratai - "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis
A biweekly podcast where hosts Nathan Labenz and Erik Torenberg interview the builders on the edge of AI and explore the dramatic shift it will unlock in the coming years.
The Cognitive Revolution is ...
pca.st
January 6, 2025 at 11:35 PM
This podcast episode is a great review of developments around vision language models pca.st/episode/26e8...
Claude (and LLMs) continues to blow my mind. From super vague description of an anecdote, Claude knows what I'm talking about :). You complete me :)
January 6, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Claude (and LLMs) continues to blow my mind. From super vague description of an anecdote, Claude knows what I'm talking about :). You complete me :)
Ilya Sutskever's talk from neurIPS 2024 www.youtube.com/watch?v=YD-9...
Ilya Sutskever NeurIPS 2024 full talk
YouTube video by OneBillionDollars
www.youtube.com
December 14, 2024 at 5:22 PM
Ilya Sutskever's talk from neurIPS 2024 www.youtube.com/watch?v=YD-9...
Chess is a great (and fairly mature) test case for coexistence with AI. You'd expect the fact that AI can beat every human to "ruin" the fun, but it hasn't. Yesterday's world championship between Ding and Gukesh was amazing and proof of that :). 🧵.
December 13, 2024 at 7:05 PM
Chess is a great (and fairly mature) test case for coexistence with AI. You'd expect the fact that AI can beat every human to "ruin" the fun, but it hasn't. Yesterday's world championship between Ding and Gukesh was amazing and proof of that :). 🧵.