he/him ... a conglomeration of ideas, side projects, and experiments. Former web developer of 15 years, spinner of lies and truths (writer/editor), c++/as3/tla
Berkeley, CA
Joined February 2009
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I made some explainer videos for a couple of #hourofcode projects — flappy code, block jumper, and ai is a hoot youtube.com/watch?v=ODvl4QPZ… @codeorg
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You may have heard about the organization Moms for Liberty. It was founded in early 2021 with the initial purpose of advocating against COVID-era protections in schools, like vaccines and mask mandates.
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Years ago when my wife and I we were planning to buy our home, my dad stunned me with a quick mental calculation of loan payments. I asked him how - he said he'd learned the strange formula for compound interest from his father, who was a merchant in 19th century Iran.
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Do I have enough quota here to post #findmeonthreads? threads.net/@kaolinfire // don’t know what’s going on but hey ;) how many accounts am I going to copy over or just let die?
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> We have made some updates to our Terms of Service to reflect that Twitter, Inc. is now X Corp
... why?
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What’s in the box? 👀
You can RT and find out!
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I love tracing consumer apps that are now huge back to the very first Reddit post about them.
It's an unvarnished look at the original "wedge" - and the level of doubt every new product is up against.
Some gems ⬇️
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📢Introducing ClimateLearn, a new PyTorch library for accessing climate datasets, state-of-the-art ML models, and high quality training and visualization pipelines.
Blog: aditya-grover-group.github.i…
Docs: climatelearn.readthedocs.io/
Quickstart Colab: colab.research.google.com/dr…
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This is what you get when you ask the sports guy to come in to cover a blizzard in the morning show.
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The stuff uncovered in the Twitter whistleblower report is much crazier than anything in the "Twitter files" but it's much less politically/tribally salient so it got no attention. Going to do a thread on some of the craziest things, in no particular order.
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i trained an ai chatbot on my childhood journal entries - so that i could engage in real-time dialogue with my "inner child"
some reflections below:
