Software engineer / enthusiastic Clojure programmer. Columbia University biochemistry alum, though not a working biochemist (but I do make good homebrew beer.)
Washington, US
Joined January 2010
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Russell Whitaker retweeted
Once someone hooks the OpenAI chatbot to an Alexa, millions of lonely, elderly people will immediately have company. It may not pass the Turing Test, but it passes the Grandpa Test.
This is transformational for the future of retirement and nursing home care.
Russell Whitaker retweeted
SpaceX now makes this look easy. It isn't. No one else has ever recovered a single orbital booster. More bothersome to me is that no other large organization (other than Blue Origin) seems to be trying. For example, NASA has absolutely no plans to try to recover SLS boosters.
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When I worked at Google, as an engineer on Google News, I was asked to write code to censor news articles in China (circa 2006). I refused and they took me off the project and put someone else on it.
Doesn't surprise me Google is back at it. "Don't be Evil" is a Google myth.
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In the kitchens around the world brigades of chefs are mourning the loss of the greatest chef of our time .his life was full , his accomplishment was great and his legacy will leave on forever . Today we honor our master and bid him farewell to heave… ift.tt/2BwQE5O
Russell Whitaker retweeted
Large Clojure codebases get into trouble when people skip over the evolutionary, bottom-up aspect of Lisp programming. When premature jumps are made to Microservices, or to define schemas for every data structure... that's when it gets really messy.
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My new iMac Pro, with 64 GB RAM and 4TB SSD has 11 times as many bytes of electronic memory as the Apple II, and by "Apple II," I mean the total of all electronic memory ever installed in all six million Apple II computers ever made
Russell Whitaker retweeted
Let me say: too many worry about what AI—as if some independent entity—will do to us. Too few people worry what *power* will do *with* AI.
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Learning to code is an essential skill in the modern world. Here's a handy diagram showing you how to get started.
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God this dates me terribly, but it's hilarious. teapawt.net/apelad/status/81416009…
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Cuban soldiers push Fidel's broken-down funeral vehicle -- an Econ teacher's dream-come-true for a metaphor HT @franciscome – at Manhattan, NY
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Tezos talks about its self-amending #blockchain ibtimes.co.uk/tezos-discusse…
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Really disappointing thing about Yahoo building wiretap capability for NSA is they are in 9th circuit where law says they don't have to...
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"We fight any requests that we deem unclear, improper, overbroad, or unlawful." —Ron Bell, Yahoo General Counsel transparency.yahoo.com/gover…
