Updating badge post based on feedback; about page job update

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 title: Facebook Badge Post - Motivations + Memories (2/2)  
 tags: facebook facebook-badge-post life 
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+<i> Note Jul 10, 2023: Made some minor edits to this after initial post; see [this PR](https://github.com/moyapchen/moyapchen.github.io/pull/13/files) </i>
 
 ## The Motivational Things
 
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 Frankly, it's also just sort of time. I've changed teams every 1.5-2 years, done 3 major area switches, and walked the research-to-production pipeline backwards; as much as I still think FB has its things together in ways that many other corporations don't, I've already seen a lot of how things are done here and what FB has to offer. Also while I have no intention of being a Retiree (despite whatever the Chuckr scale says[^chuckr]). I also reached the "financial independent" part of FIRE a while ago and want to explore what that means for me.
 
-[^chuckr]: [chuckr](https://engineering.fb.com/2012/04/05/production-engineering/release-engineering-and-push-karma-chuck-rossi/) was a internally well-known engineer who made a work-internal scale based on how long your tenure was at the company. Anything 7+ was retiree, 4-ish was traitor, and I think tourist was also on the list. (Someone that remembers should message me so I can update this appropriately lol) 
+[^chuckr]: [chuckr](https://engineering.fb.com/2012/04/05/production-engineering/release-engineering-and-push-karma-chuck-rossi/) was a internally well-known engineer who made a work-internal scale [based on how long your tenure was at the company when you quit](/public/blog_images/chuckr_quit_scale.jpg).  
 
 Lower order bits:
 * My birthday is Aug 8 (8/8). Getting to 8 years appeals to the numerical pattern matching part of my brain. 😛
 * I already sorta know what increasing the mean (ie climbing the career ladder) looks like and I want to play the variance from feeling that much more of the end-to-end ownership. (Or, maybe I read too much r/FatFIRE lol)
-* Because of all of the above, I've already had a quit-by date for a while now. (Among other things, I already made use of one of the rarer, but also best-optionality granting benefits back in early 2022 so that I wouldn't have to deal with those logistics now.)
+* Because of all of the above, I've already had a quit-by date for a while now. (Among other things, I already made use of one of the rarer, but also best-optionality granting benefits[^egg] back in early 2022 so that I wouldn't have to deal with those logistics now.)
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+[^egg]: Egg freezing. Will write another post about this at some point. 
 
 <b>What's next?</b>
 
 I'm going to spend the next 1-3 years intentionally doing the higher-variance things (travelling, startups, projects). If something from that time works out, great. If not, I'll have a lot of new experiences and understanding of how different environments are and how I am in those environments in kind, and that's a sort of working out too.[^sf]
 
-[^sf]: Currently starting out at the mecca that is the SF Bay Area (and hoping I don't turn to [Abomination](https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Abomination) from all the wishes + desires that the scene there can have) but we'll see how it goes. 
+[^sf]: Currently starting out at the mecca that is the SF Bay Area (and hoping I don't turn to [Abomination](https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Abomination)[^abomination] from all the wishes + desires that the scene there can have) but we'll see how it goes. 
 
 ## Contact
 I don't know where I'll be or when, but would love to stay in touch.

about.md

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-<span class="page-date"> Last updated: July 7, 2023 </span>
+<span class="page-date"> Last updated: July 10, 2023 </span>
 
 Hi there. My name is Moya.
 
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 [^layoff]: 32 weeks (16 base + 2 x 8 years of service) of severance would've been great. Some folks ask why I didn't sandbag myself to get the $$ - turns out, I've got too much of a conscience and feel enough guilt for my coworkers (not to mention anxiousness over my own unproductivity) to go that long.
 
 Prior to that, I spent a smudge over eight years walking the research-to-production pipeline but backwards at Facebook. Lot of this is in [my LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/moyachen/) but I semi-refuse to take that site wholly seriously, so here you go.
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+Separating out the LLM stuff cause that's the stuff that's <i>oh so hot</i> right now. 
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 * Research engineer, FAIR + GenAI. <i>(Nov 2022-Jul 2023)</i>
     * Large language model pretraining. Mostly looking at pretraining data. Nomadic-ish. 
 * Research engineer, FAIR (Facebook AI Research). <i>(Sept 2020-Oct 2022)</i>
     * Dorked around with [chatbots](https://about.fb.com/news/2022/08/blenderbot-ai-chatbot-improves-through-conversation/), [reasoning](https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.07919), and other parts of natural language processing. Was part of the [oncall for the OPT-175B train](https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.01068). NYC.
 
-Before that, I worked in applied research computer vision on large scale AR localization, face filters, and computational photography; before that, I was on a spam team working on political ads abuse + API abuse in general. See [this old CV from June 2022](/public/mpchen_industry_cv___June_2020__From_academic_cv_nov_2019_.pdf) for more of the details there. 
+Before that, I worked in applied research computer vision on large scale AR localization, face filters, and computational photography; before that, I was on a spam team working on political ads abuse + API abuse in general. This was all in the Seattle office. See [this old CV from June 2022](/public/mpchen_industry_cv___June_2020__From_academic_cv_nov_2019_.pdf) for more of the details there. 
 
 Before joining Facebook (and the corporate world as a whole), I did my undergrad at Caltech. [^mole]