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❤️ Curiosity, NLProc, Tacos, Data Science, Equity • @Reddit @GeorgiaTech • @MIT @United @TempusLabs • A map≠the territory. All models are wrong, some are useful

Chicago, Spaceship Earth
Joined June 2009
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Replying to @1871tech
daily reminder RT @1871Chicago: "Instead of waiting until something is perfect, we try to make it better every single day." @tullman
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What a week for public health 🤦🏻‍♂️ I don’t know who needs to hear this, but: surviving an infection doesn’t make you “stronger” for it. Surviving a #COVID19 infection leaves a mark. Like a boxer, every fight leaves it’s mark on your body. It can be an easy fight or a hard fight 1/
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My brother asked me what’s the big deal with ChatGPT. So I told him “ask it to write a review for one of your restaurants”. Few minutes later: “I got a very impressive review, except it said it liked the steak and we don’t serve steak at this restaurant”.
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Here’s an example of how race is a social construct. #Science #genetics #medicine #biracial
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New call for pitches from @techreview, for our upcoming issue on ⭐️accessibility⭐️. We're looking for *big* swings: narrative features, investigations, essential profiles, and sharp essays at the intersection of accessibility+technology. Rates: $1-2/word. Pitch deadline: Feb 3
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Been practicing having ChatGPT help me write code. My productivity has fallen 60%… I have no idea how others can claim that AI makes you code faster. But I am definitely having the most fun I’ve had as a programmer 🥰
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“There are 2 ways to make money: 1) bundling 2) unbundling” — some business book I can’t remember 🤔
Starting a new company. It's called "Cable." We're going to take all of the streaming services, combine them, put them in one menu, and charge you one simple fee to navigate all of them. Raising $750m at a $10b valuation.
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More info on #longcovid. Some people have it and don’t even know cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-nco…
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A basic misunderstanding about the difference between medicine and public health is hurting our ability to talk about covid and making us all less safe.
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Insert meme: I am in this tweet and I don’t like it… 🙈 🤣😅
Replying to @housecor
Under-engineering: -Never refactor or address tech debt Over-engineering: -Never getting new features out or releases made because the team always has one more refactor to do.
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IMPORTANT: Those at-home tests you’ll be able to order next week won’t arrive by Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanza or New Year’s. BUT! If you have private insurance you can walk into most drug stores and get 8 free at-home tests at no cost PER INSURED PERSON, EVERY 30 DAYS.
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Reupping this question since it’s even more important now: anyone know what the training data for ChatGPT is?
NLP People: Anyone know what these two Books1 and Books2 data sources in GPT-3 are? Writing a newsletter about them and have not been able to successfully find them. *holds up butterfly meme* is this n-grams?
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- You can get a portable CO2 monitor to get a better idea of the quality of ventilation in a place to help you understand the risk of being in a space. - You can get a rapid COVID-19 test before you gather to help ensure you don’t accidentally infect people. Remember that…
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Elon holding the visa employees hostage at 1:30am should not inspire you
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Please wear a properly fitted respirator, get vaccinated and protect yourself and those you love. There is nothing mild about this virus, and we are only just scratching the surface at finding out just what kind of damage this does. End/
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UNC is the oldest public university in the US.Established in 1789, built largely by the enslaved,they & their descendants would be prohibited from attending UNCs for its first 171 years. Today, the flagship is < 8% Black in a state that's 21%. SCOTUS will say that doesn't matter.
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folks: it's just not possible to run a top tier university w/o legacy preferences
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One of the most pernicious misconceptions that the tech industry has about human psychology is a strong belief in essentialist, deterministic, "born with it" personality traits that map cleanly onto homogenous, quantity-stable productivity outputs.
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Rest in Power, Bill Russell
What was Bill Russell's life like while he was racking up 11 rings? His daughter writes:
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After 2 years, Practical Deep Learning for Coders v5 is finally ready! 🎊 This is a from-scratch rewrite of our most popular course. It has a focus on interactive explorations, & covers @PyTorch, @huggingface, DeBERTa, ConvNeXt, @Gradio & other goodies 🧵 course.fast.ai/
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We are currently working on annotating this, but I felt it was too beautiful not to share—even unlabeled. This is a scatterplot of 1% of the dataset @BigscienceW 🌸BLOOM🌸 was trained on; ~6M documents colored by language. Can you guess the languages?
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