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anand kulkarni 🇺🇸

@polybot

I founded Crowdbotics & LeadGenius. ML, social enterprise, crowd computing, polytopes, startups. Sometime Berkeley PhD + YC alum.

 Berkeley, California
crowdbotics.com
Joined September 2009
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LeadGenius@LeadGenius2 Jan 2018
This past year, Nabila Hassan used her earnings as a LeadGenius researcher to build a borehole well in her home village of Bomani, #Kenya that provides more than 500 families with safe drinking water. hubs.ly/H09zlGf0
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visualizing individual word vectors as circular blobs (distance of each point on the perimeter proportional to the value of a dimension)
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Reza Zadeh
@Reza_Zadeh12 Sep 2017
Good guide on building your own neural conversational agent. blog.statsbot.co/chatbots-ma…
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Kyle Griffin
@kylegriffin14 Sep 2017
Schwarzenegger is calling for gerrymandering reform in all 50 states, funding legal challenge to WI district maps. sfchronicle.com/politics/art…
Schwarzenegger’s bipartisan next political act: Terminating gerrymandering

Schwarzenegger’s bipartisan next political act: Terminating gerrymandering

Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is a master at marketing, having scaled to the top of three different professions. But these days, the former bodybuilder and movie star...

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@Reza_Zadeh4 Sep 2017
Common mistakes when newcomers use Neural Networks. Good to avoid all of these. theorangeduck.com/page/neura…
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James Ryan@xfoml26 Aug 2017
I recently excavated a forgotten computer story generator from the early 1960s—my paper on the system is out now at: researchgate.net/publication… – at Santa Cruz, CA
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The New York Times
@nytimes10 Aug 2017
What a fraternity hazing death revealed about the painful search for an Asian-American identity nyti.ms/2ft9oxH
What a Fraternity Hazing Death Revealed About the Painful Search for an Asian-American Identity...

What a Fraternity Hazing Death Revealed About the Painful Search for an Asian-American Identity...

When Michael Deng, a college freshman, joined an Asian-American fraternity, he was looking for a sense of belonging and identity. Two months later he was dead.

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Michael Berolzheimer@berolz8 Aug 2017
Thinking about the rewards, material & otherwise, of pre-Seed & Seed investing beepartners.vc/seed-investme… #investing #startup #venturecapital
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tatsiana@tatsianams7 Aug 2017
Diamond, an open-source Python solver for certain kinds of generalized linear models multithreaded.stitchfix.com/… via @stitchfix_algo
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Pavan Yara@pavanyara_3 Aug 2017
The Surprising Things Statistics Tell Us About Fiction newyorker.com/books/page-tur…
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Reza Zadeh
@Reza_Zadeh1 Aug 2017
The "Facebook AI had to be shut down" story is clickbait "journalism", devoid of substance. Pure hype & false. Author should be ashamed.
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AccidentalEngineer@AccdtlEngineer31 Jul 2017
Replying to @polybot
@polybot temporarily left stealth mode to share with us his new project: crowd-sourced software theaccidentalengineer.com/cr… – at California, USA
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Adam Marcus@marcua31 Jul 2017
Nice coverage of Orchestra/Flash Orgs/research from @dretelny @thisisdhaas @lydiagu @polybot @msbernst @stanfordmav! qz.com/1039981/robots-are-re…
Robots are replacing managers, too

Robots are replacing managers, too

A startup called B12 builds websites with the help of “friendly robots.” Human designers, client managers, and copywriters still do much of the work—but they don’t coordinate it.

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Star Simpson@starsandrobots30 Jul 2017
Software is still too hard to make. Imagine when whatever is the equivalent of camcorder::movies happens for making software.
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Wade Foster
@wadefoster25 Jul 2017
The Remote Work Survival Guide bit.ly/2utU1d6
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Prof Richard Johnston@DrRichJohnston6 Jul 2017
The amber fossil of the anthropocene - fly trapped in a 3D print
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Akshay K@mrslfmde25 Jun 2017
Replying to @ycombinator
@ycombinator @startupschool comes to an end and a new journey begins!!! #startuplife #SiliconValley
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Reza Zadeh
@Reza_Zadeh19 Jun 2017
One neural network that simultaneously learns image classification, captioning, translation, speech rec. & others arxiv.org/pdf/1706.05137.pdf
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Ross Baird
@rossbaird13 Jun 2017
Wow. Nearly 50% of the $2B raised on GoFundMe in 2016-2017 was for medical expenses: bloomberg.com/news/articles/… – at Alexandria, VA
American Health Care Tragedies Are Taking Over Crowdfunding

American Health Care Tragedies Are Taking Over Crowdfunding

Sites such as GoFundMe and YouCaring are poised for a wave of medical appeals if Trumpcare leaves millions uninsured, and even if it doesn’t.

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@[email protected]@partytimeHXLNT4 Jun 2017
If learning to cook was like learning to code:
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