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Loves science, engineering, music, and sports

San Francisco, CA
Joined January 2014
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Why people don't trust the government, part 4,994,283. First we're told that the lab leak hypothesis was crazy and impossible. Then in this morning's news, this:
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Scary read...
TikTok may have evolved into a Chinese bio-weapon to accelerate the West’s cognitive decline. My new long-read. gurwinder.substack.com/p/tik…
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Wordle 582 5/6 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟨🟨🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟨🟩🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 It feels like Wordle has started to use less common words these past few days. Today's word is a great example of that...
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To the optimist, the glass is half full. To the pessimist, the glass is half empty. To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
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Space fact: Uranus smells like rotten eggs. The clouds in Uranus' upper atmosphere are composed largely of hydrogen sulfide, the molecule that makes rotten eggs so stinky.
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It's never easy finding a job, especially in this climate. I work for a company called ServiceNow and we're always looking top talent to join us. If you've got what it takes and you want a home, here's a place for you - smrtr.io/c7k2t #ServiceNow #AIOps #ITOM
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Looking to hire a presales engineer in the IT operations management space in the Texas region to work with some of our most strategic customers! Apply at jobs.smartrecruiters.com/Ser…
May this never happen again
For the Japanese American community, today is a solemn day. It's the Day of Remembrance, the anniversary of FDR's Executive Order 9066, which ordered the internment of 120,000 persons of Japanese descent, two-thirds of whom were citizens of the United States.
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0/5 – Hey hey! Working with @OReillyMedia, I've created a free report on @opentelemetry and the future of observability. 🔥🎉📖🎉🔥 go.lightstep.com/register-or…
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#NIH can’t get their act together and punish scientists for including URLs in their grant submission (face palm). One would think it’s a relatively easy thing to mitigate by checking during submission... sigh
So my R21 that is supposed to be reviewed in less than 2 weeks was WITHDRAWN due to the inclusion of hyperlinks in my Biosketch and RS (including linking to GitHub and bioRxiv preprints). Looks like I can either appeal and/or resubmit the app June 16. Advice? #academicnightmare
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Looking for great talent to join #ServiceNow as an ITOM Solutions Architect. #Hiring #HiringNow jobs.smartrecruiters.com/Ser…
Amazingly true...
I’m laughing and wincing at the same time
My wife does amazing work!
Starting off the year of the 🐮 right! Thrilled to share our preprint where we used machine learning techniques to predict CBCL depression scores from clinical, sociodemographic, and MRI-based features from #ABCD at baseline and one-year followup! bit.ly/2ZgDB6H
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Yikes... the importance of security cannot be stressed enough for enterprise software.
Someone asked me to provide a simple description of what this SolarWinds hack is all about. So for anyone who is confused by the technical details, here's a thread with a simplified explanation of what happened and what it means.
ServiceNow's platform is the best enterprise software platform there is, bar none. The sheer agility and flexibility to create meaningful apps at a time like this only goes to show the true strength of #servicenow. Really excited about the workspace apps…lnkd.in/geRBpja