DeWitt Clinton

@dewitt

Research and Machine Intelligence at Google. Father, husband, and Eph. Mostly. (he/him)

Seattle, WA
Joined January 2007
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    16 May 2019

    1/ Some personal news: After almost 13 years working on what we now know as Google Cloud, I'm making a huge leap and taking on a new role at Google.

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  2. Retweeted
    Feb 24
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    Some people, when confronted by a problem, think “I’ll use multithreading.” Now they have N:M problems.

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  3. Feb 24

    Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use microservices." Now they have N problems.

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    Feb 10

    Um, I'm only a cow geneticist, but...

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  5. Jan 27

    To appreciate how non-discoverable multitasking is on the iPad, consider that I've used an iPad for 10 years and I only just now learned how to open a second app side-by-side via 's article here: Aaaand I've already forgotten it again.

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    Jan 21

    Ironically if you cut Infinite Jest in half you end up with two Infinite Jests

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  7. 12 Dec 2019

    Very excited to see "Advances and Open Problems in Federated Learning", a collaboration among many top researchers in the field, curated by our teammates Peter Kairouz and Brendan McMahan of Google. I expect these seeds will bear fruit for years to come.

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  8. 11 Dec 2019

    My teammate speaks at TensorFlow World about his work on TensorFlow Federated: A great introduction to the emerging field of privacy-preserving machine intelligence.

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  9. 30 Nov 2019

    I disabled all of my ad targeting preferences except one. I'm excited to see what full-on "Sandwich Twitter" is like.

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  10. 16 May 2019

    15/ Phew, that was long! This will ideally be the last I tweet about myself for at least another 13 years. I hope to serve you all well in my new role. See everybody in the future!

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  11. 16 May 2019

    14/ Where I'm headed reminds me in so many ways of the Google I joined so many years ago, full of brilliant people, tremendous kinetic energy, and seemingly impossible challenges to overcome. It's science fiction turned reality, and I'm a kid in a candy store once again.

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  12. 16 May 2019

    13/ I feel like a Noogler all over again (Google's pet term for new hires), and I'm in equal measures terrified and giddy to dive head first into a new part of the company and into a whole new science.

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  13. 16 May 2019

    12/ The team I'm joining in Seattle is at the intersection of cutting-edge applied research, massive real-world customers, and production Google-scale infrastructure, with a healthy dose of open source as well!

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  14. 16 May 2019

    11/ And 's awesome recent oped in the NYT, "Privacy Should Not Be a Luxury Good", which touches on how we're already using federated learning to protect millions of people's personal privacy today:

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  15. 16 May 2019

    10/ Or if visuals are more your style, this primer does an amazing job telling the story in comic-book form:

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  16. 16 May 2019

    9/ As a high-level introduction, see Brendan McMahan and Daniel Ramage's post, Federated Learning: Collaborative Machine Learning without Centralized Training Data:

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  17. 16 May 2019

    8/ For those unfamiliar with the field, Federated Learning is a branch of machine intelligence that explores what is possible when we distribute machine learning to the edge while preserving privacy and protecting personal data.

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  18. 16 May 2019

    7/ They must have liked me, because starting in a week I'm joining the Federated Learning team here in Seattle. (I once joked that when the AI team at Google offers you a job, you say yes. Turns out, you do!)

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  19. 16 May 2019

    6/ I explored everything from other teams, to other companies, to starting my own, but there was one opportunity that I knew from the very first conversation that I'd accept on the spot if they offered me the job.

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  20. 16 May 2019

    5/ That said, I'm already 20 years deep into this crazy career, and people like me grow best by running headlong into the unknown, so it was time for me to disembark and try my hand at something new.

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  21. 16 May 2019

    4/ The relationships I made, the customers we served, and the products we shipped all mean so much to me, and I want to hang on to those memories and friendships forever. I've been so lucky to have part of something so much bigger than I ever could have imagined.

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