A dating coach, an eviction standoff and the coming reckoning for Bay Area landlords sfchronicle.com/bayarea/articl… via San Francisco Chronicle

Last night the Board of Supes rejected a project with 500 new homes to replace a parking lot. It met the criteria for approval and it would have created 100+ new affordable homes. If you're wondering how we got into our housing crisis, this is how.

Actions speak louder than words. Elected officials delaying, watering down, or effectively killing housing has real-world consequences. It’s great to see actual transparency & accountability when it comes to whether electeds’ words match their actions. sfchronicle.com/sf/bayarea/hea…

sfchronicle.com/sf/bayarea/hea… Wow. Supervisor Preston is great at preventing new housing in SF!

Ever hear of #BindingArbitration? That's a clause in a contract that says that you aren't allowed to sue the company you're doing business with, even if they cheat, maim or kill you. 1/

For those that follow local politics and watch Star Trek :)

Glad to see Google moving swiftly in reaction to the supreme court's decision and the resulting trigger laws. Protecting people’s privacy on health topics Google blog.google/technology/saf…

My latest column: Two San Francisco roommates called police about a man sawing a catalytic converter off a car. Cops arrived, learned the man was on probation for a previous theft and let him walk away. What is the SFPD doing? Too often, it’s not much. sfchronicle.com/sf/bayarea/hea…

Didn't realize #SanFrancisco's budget included $670 million annually to the department of homelessness and supportive housing! sfchronicle.com/projects/2022/…

Ok this one was pretty funny!

🤯This is insane! But WWW will NOT be the only conference with sky-rocketing registration fees this year. In a big tech recession, conferences will have difficulty getting sponsors: hotel contracts were signed 1+ years back, and the cost will now be transferred to participants.

"We thought the future is going to look like humans painting pictures with robots vacuuming in the background, but perhaps it is going to be robots painting pictures with humans vacuuming in the background." -- this week's Ezra Klein episode.

If your research involves understanding complex documents, check out our #KDD paper based on -- VRDU: A Benchmark for Visually-Rich Document Understanding. 2-minute video: youtube.com/watch?v=BLUWuo… Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2211.15421

Check out VRDU -- a Document Understanding benchmark we released at #KDD2023. If you thought existing benchmarks don't capture real-world complexity, try VRDU.

An actual hero. This is what America First looks like when it’s a lived ethos, rather than a mask for narcissism and ambition.

How can you get short-context models to do the work of a long-context model? Check out the work Dulhan Jayalath did with our team at Google. #deepmind #LLMs