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Founder, @OpenCurriculum. Author, "AI in Schools" https://xitter.gq/t.co/Xb0B4MSums. Former Anne Lewis fellow at @CarnegieMellon. Interested in everything about teaching.

Sacramento, California
Joined December 2010
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“The people closest to the pain should be closest to the power.” - @RepPressley (learned through @AvashiaNeema on @bjfr's podcast)
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Always always always solves all doubts in life.
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Why does the IRS 990N epostcard website go down beginning of every year when most nonprofits have to file?
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Wow that is rebrand is beautiful and thoughtful! 😍
We’re starting our next chapter: a new look and website for Sacramento Public Library. Built to connect you to everything we offer and discover more than you expected. Learn more at saclibrary.org/news/welcome-…
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In a small way, I fear that not saying "thank you!" to LLMs after they do some work for me (in light of knowledge that this is costly to the companies offering the service) is going to make me inadvertently express less gratitude to humans too.
Replying to @tomieinlove
tens of millions of dollars well spent--you never know
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My full browser window on weather.com, everyone
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California tries to make the life of nonprofits very hard with annual filing requirements. You have to file similar reports and pay fees for filing not just to the IRS, but to the Secretary of State, the Franchise Tax Board, and the Department of Justice all separately
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The crazy part is all these entities individually have the power to destroy an org’s tax exempt status. And they harrass you with mailers to that effect. There is just no way to avoid falling behind and becoming delinquent and targeted by them.
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I wonder if @ZohranKMamdani speaks any Malayalam
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Should all grown ups just own a shirt saying "Not my President" to wear in 4 year rotations?
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“The meaning of life is to achieve your greatest potential, the purpose of life is to give it away.” – A slightly adapted version of some bumper sticker by @gabemorningstar
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My book's Arabic translation is out! Thank you, @Abegsorg!! (Although slightly bummed I didn't manage to include the transformers architecture—which became a basis for most of the LLM successes—in the book, since the draft was mostly written in 2018.)
#من_بين_الرفوف كتاب: الذكاء الاصطناعي في المدارس: دليل للمعلمين والمديرين وقادة التكنولوجيا لطلب الكتاب: abe.gs/EBLA
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Kaiser Permanente insures about 1 million people in the Sacramento area. That's about $7 billion+ in revenues per year just from premiums alone. 🤯 Does anyone analyze how much $ worth of care is actually provided/realized to how many people for just one mini region like this?
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Dear @linakhanFTC, please consider FTC taking on Adobe's unchecked monopoly 🙏🏼 I have a 1-time licensed Adobe CS5 Suite (I NEVER shared the key), and because I choose not to cave into overpriced monthly subscription of their newest stuff, they don't allow me to use it anymore.
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Having acknowledged correlation is not causation, I think political pundits are wasting their time overanalyzing why Kamala Harris lost. The biggest factor, by far, simply, is: SEXISM. It's really not that complicated. Let's look at the electoral map, and some studies:
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I am using "sexism" as a bucket term for gender inequality is various domains of quality of life and freedom.
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Don't fool yourself. She lost because most people are still very very sexist and submissive.
Reasons why Harris lost 🧵: #1: Funding and arming the Israeli genocide in Gaza.
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The most significant box shading I will probably do in my life. And the first national leader vote of my life! Such such such a no-brainer, especially when the opponent is a spineless no-brain-er!
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Oh boy...
I think these kind of "capped-profit" companies are the way of the future. I have always desired this kind of legal structures for entities, but nothing existed. Really happy to see @OpenAI bring it to life for themselves and set an example. openai.com/blog/openai-lp/
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This win probability chart by @ESPNcricinfo instantly tells a story of what craziness happened in the cricket world cup final a couple of hours ago
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