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18 Sep 2024
If you hate corrupt bureaucrats, you’ll love this speculative socio-scifi short story I wrote: “Could an Intergalactic Surgeon Tell an Organ From an Industry?”
foremost-olivine-7a6.notion.…
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17 Sep 2024
NYC's public college system paid Oracle ~$600M to build our course management portal. It's built on top of Oracle's PeopleSoft suite, which they refused to customize without an extra $400M (to hit $1B).
New Yorkers got the image below and pay $5M / year for *hosting*.
16 Sep 2024
WHAT. DOES. ORACLE. DO???????
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18 Sep 2024
if you're curious about the traffic figures they used to justify this:
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18 Sep 2024
If you hate corrupt bureaucrats, you’ll love this speculative socio-scifi short story I wrote: “Could an Intergalactic Surgeon Tell an Organ From an Industry?”
foremost-olivine-7a6.notion.…
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16 Jun 2024
I’m lucky for all the friendships that bloomed from this amazing experience. Raffi and Marley did an amazing job organizing the house, not to mention:
- energy of Grace, Michel, Fiona designing circuits and sourcing hardware 15 hours a day was exhilarating
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- Stephen graciously let me practice my barber skills on him and subjected himself to our grueling experiments
- Stephen, Michelle, and Anna were great to work with on data collection, analysis, and banging our heads on failing sanity tests
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16 Jun 2024
- Aayush for some badass reverse engineering and taking us to the caves
- Raffi for sharing my first Sephardic Rosh Hashanah seder with me
- Marley Raffi both for their persistent attentiveness and eclectically contributing to every part of the project
- Everyone for the joy
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.@raffi_hotter and I ran a 2-week hackathon investigating whether you could decode images from a portable brain scanner
We got initial results that suggest you can reconstruct images like these from brain activity recorded with time-domain NIRS, and share our detector prototype
We did it in an incredible team of 16 people: @a__bra @stephen_fay @humanscotti @fionaleng_ @chocolateycrepe @yush_g @michelle__wang @jonxuxu @thomas_rribeiro, @bryanhpchiang, Michel Adamic, Wellington Avelino, Grace Jiang, and Stephen Polcyn
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Andrew Beets retweeted
8 Jun 2024
there is a revolution taking place in biology before our eyes
I spent the past month reading the papers & interviews of @drmichaellevin, and wrote a long-form essay explaining his work and why it's important
bitsofwonder.co/p/a-revoluti…
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Andrew Beets retweeted
16 May 2022
Paradoxically the feeling of safety is the foundation of all healthy risk taking which is exactly why it's so fuckin important that you make sure your kids know your love for them is absolute and unconditional
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27 Sep 2022
amazingly it came up with this composition all by itself -- the arcade steps leading into the arches, the arches leading into the eye, to the eye melting into the bright cluster of stars
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22 Sep 2022
coolest part of "girl in bathtub full of pomegranates" is that DALL-E must have wondered "where did the pomegranates come from?" and answered "the faucet, obviously"
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Andrew Beets retweeted
7 May 2022
The emerging role of mass spectrometry-based proteomics in drug discovery - fast-growing number of applications from discovery of novel targets to uncovering mechanisms of action of candidate compounds nature.com/articles/s41573-0…
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Andrew Beets retweeted
4 May 2022
Machine learning directed evolution to improve CRISPR-Cas9 activity.
nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
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Ever notice how most community software encodes an admin/mod model? What about other models, like democracy? What if communities could *build for themselves* the governance that suits them?
Presenting our #uist2020 paper on "PolicyKit: Building Governance in Online Communities"!
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Andrew Beets retweeted
15 Aug 2019
Studies increasingly support the conclusions exercise can alleviate mental health problems reduce chronic inflammation (distinct from acute inflammation caused by exercise).
inflammation @nytimes
tinyurl.com/y2shhyqm
mental health @neurosciencenew
tinyurl.com/y3aas8ux
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