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		vsareto on May 29, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A good day with Jeff Bezos >The purpose of the offsite was to bring Amazon’s technical thought leaders together to figure out if we could use machine learning to help us with systems operations. How often do technical leaders get rounded up and asked to pitch ideas with little research beforehand?

lupire on May 30, 2023 [–]

Amazon has brainstorming parties, before the research starts.

I did one where a bunch of random ICs were locked in a room for an hour and told to make up ideas to patent.

My group patented an auto parts picker.

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