Peter Cahill (@petercahill) profile picture

Manager at Siri, Apple. Previously founder of Voysis, faculty at UCD. Views are my own.

Dublin, Ireland
Joined December 2009
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Boss: How good are you at Power Point? Me: I Excel at it Boss: Was that a Microsoft Office pun? Me: Word
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Today, the Supreme Court not only reversed nearly 50 years of precedent, it relegated the most intensely personal decision someone can make to the whims of politicians and ideologues—attacking the essential freedoms of millions of Americans.
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Big shoutout to @LasTapasDeLola 🇪🇸in Dublin & manager Roman🇺🇦. Called in last week with a voucher for €150 that expired in July 2020. Not only did he offer to honour it but he extended it by 6 months. An example of outstanding customer service. 👏👏👏@conor_pope @HelenORahilly
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(Italy) Enjoy 5-year-old Alberto Cartuccia Cingolani performing some Mozart.🎶🎵
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Very notable that Twitter stock isn't rising close to Musk's bid. Traders either don't believe he's serious, that he can get the cash or that the board will accept.
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Before the pandemic, Pfizer was making 200M doses per year across all vaccines. In 2021, they manufactured 3 billion doses of the COVID-19 mRNA vaccine -- 15x scale-up, in 1 year, for a new platform, during pandemic itself. Still think the extent of the achievement is underrated.
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It's quite easy to spot, but isn't this reverse video of coati walking a brilliant illusion of dinosaurs? [source: buff.ly/30SyR74] [more about coati: buff.ly/2MyyUNo] #SaturdayFun
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A panoramic view from the surface of Mars captured by Curiosity rover.
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We’re bringing Mac users an entirely new system with Mac Studio and Studio Display. I can't wait to see the ideas you’ll explore and the magic you'll make. nr.apple.com/d2I1S3Z5w1
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A beautiful #birdofprey 🦅has been living in this #tree and the kids have loved watching it from their school. A true outpouring of emotion falling on deaf ears. Impossible not to feel emotional watching this. #saveenniskerry
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This chart strongly supports the whole "gasoline prices theory of politics." Biden's approval (white line) cratering, as pump prices surge again.
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Lucas would have made more money if he'd given Jobs 99% of the company for free.
On this day in 1986: Steve Jobs buys Pixar from George Lucas for $5 million
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Someone used deep learning and drones to chase pigeons off of their rooftop. ieeexplore.ieee.org/document…
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There's 447M people in the EU, 92% have internet (411M) Let's say they "accept cookies" 5x/day Let's say it takes 1 second to accept them That's 2 Billion wasted seconds every day That's 24,000 person-days wasted every day Did anyone in the EU ever think about this...
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Duolingo watching me do the wordle every day
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A Gaussian process is a collection of (infinitely many) random variables such that the marginal distribution over any finite subset is a multivariate Gaussian distribution. This somewhat arcane description is easier to conceptualize when we focus on a subset of two variables:
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Netflix to Peloton:
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