just posting stuff about learning and such

Washington, DC
Joined May 2020
What if we used the substantial firepower of Silicon Valley to invest in our urban landscapes where there are clear needs—public transit, clean water, affordable housing (don't get me started on Adam Neumann)—instead of to fund the pipedreams of an insular cadre of tech bros?
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Excited to share our work on Parti, state-of-the-art text-to-image model that generates photorealistic images with complex compositions & rich world knowledge! Parti shows that autoregressive modeling is powerful & universally applicable! (1/n) Blog/Paper: parti.research.google
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Some mantras for political thinking: Truth is hard. Humility is hard. Independent thinking is hard. Resisting tribalism is hard. Over and over, you will forget that these things are hard, and that's probably when you'll fail at them. 1/5
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I spent over 1,000 hours learning to write effectively— because college completely failed to teach me. Here's everything I learned distilled into 11 tweets (that you can start applying today):
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Six threads better than a college degree:
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The key to being a good developer is always doing the best you can within your constraints. Usually those will be either time or budget, but it could also be your own skillset. Keep your focus on creating the best possible product within those constraints.
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Apple: We will be experiencing technical difficulties on March 23rd. Our event will now be on the 24th. Tim Apple: hehehehehehe @jon_prosser @tim_cook 👀
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More people die from suicide than all other forms of violence combined. People are struggling. I see a lot of outrage online at the moment. What I don't see much of is compassion. As Gandhi said: "An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind."
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GitHub repositories to improve your programming skills. 🧵
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The best things you can do to grow as a software engineer: - write a blog - read books - build projects - discussions with more experienced engineers - attending conferences What would you add?
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I'm getting a lot of questions on what you need to learn in order to get started as a Cloud Engineer. So to make things easy, I've collected a couple of Learning Resources to get you up and running! 🧵🧵👇👇
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SQL INTERVIEW QUESTION CHEATSHEET. SQL is the most popular database and many popular websites use SQL. So, here is a collection of the most asked #SQL interview questions to help you prepare. Please RT for reach and bookmark for easy recall. 🧵A Thread 🧵 #100DaysOfCode
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The Pfizer and Modena vaccines were both effective, protective and safe. But the Oxford one seems to be effective, protective, and safe.
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More artists should build technology and more engineers should make art
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"Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty... I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well." - Theodore Roosevelt
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First law of creativity: Your best ideas will come to you when they’re impossible to write down
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1/x Been working on a list of problems facing decentralized ownership economies. So far I've identified 25 key issues that I'm going to start a blog series on. To help prioritize like/heart the issues you want to hear about. I'll do an analysis breakdown & proposal solutions:
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I’ve probably watched this video 4 or 5 times since it dropped. This really does thought provoking math justice! youtu.be/ovJcsL7vyrk
If experts don't know why countries are having wildly different coronavirus outcomes -- and they do NOT know why -- why are we confidently attributing those different outcomes to our leaders? Is it because we are stupid?
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