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Alex Ratner
Snorkel AI
@ajratner
@SnorkelAI @uwcse / prev @StanfordAILab – Interested in data management systems for machine learning, weak supervision, and impactful applications.
Menlo Park, CA
ajratner.github.io
Joined November 2013
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    Alex Ratner
    Snorkel AI
    @ajratner
    Aug 2
    We are once again witnessing a new version of Moravec's paradox, where what we think of as hard vs. easy for humans turns out to be a poor guide for what's hard vs. easy for machines. This is not to express pessimism about the latest Math/Coding breakthroughs (mind blowing!!),
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    Alex Ratner
    Snorkel AI
    @ajratner
    Jul 28
    One of the main goals in AI has always been to get subject matter expertise into computers as efficiently as possible. Data is the most natural, universal transfer medium for subject matter expertise. But it's never really been about data :)
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    Alex Ratner
    Snorkel AI
    @ajratner
    Jul 26
    All enterprises need some kind of specialized AI to be non-commodity in the AI era - and for that, they need a data flywheel. However: data flywheels are *not* built by just passively collecting user/agent interaction traces and then tuning on these. That is like telling a