UX researcher. This account is dormant because this place has become too full of shouting. Follows are not endorsements.
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Arvind Venkataramani is letting go of conditioning retweeted
Remember the backlash against all AI voices being feminine—Siri, Alexa, etc.? Now, companies use a wider range of AI voices with ambiguous names like “alloy” and “shimmer.” Bias solved forever—ha, no. What happens when people hear these supposedly neutral voices?👇
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And, last but not least, we’re planning some in-person workshops focused on deriving a “grand theory” of protocols. The first one will focus on the intersection of distributed AI and blockchains 🤖
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This is awesome. Who would think innovation was possible in teaching kids to read 200 years after it became common in the West.
Arvind Venkataramani is letting go of conditioning retweeted
#H5N1 #birdflu symptoms may include fever or feeling feverish or chills, eye redness or irritation, and respiratory symptoms, such as cough, sore throat, runny or stuffy nose, muscle or body aches, headaches, and tiredness. More: cdc.gov/bird-flu
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On Thursday, the SFMTA was notified of QR code stickers on a machine in Fisherman’s Wharf. We then found 5 machines with the fraudulent QR sticker. The URL has been disabled. We the public to be aware of this scam. Find info on how to pay correctly here: sfmta.com/getting-around/dri…
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Good morning! A new cheat code just dropped to get a real person at CVS over the phone.
1. Voice menu: "Are you calling the pharmacy?", you say “No”.
2. Voice menu: "Okay, how can I help you?", you say "Store".
3. Voice menu: "Do you need store hours, address, etc", you say "Speak to someone”.
4. The automated system transfers you. A person picks up.
5. At this point, you can either ask them to transfer you to the pharmacy, or you can ask them to check with the pharmacy if they have 2024-2025 Novavax.
Be clear that it is not Moderna or Pfizer. If you want, you can give them the single dose syringe NDC: 80631-107-01. It comes in a 10 dose box with NDC 80631-107-10.
ALT Vintage Phone Vector.svg from Wikimedia Commons by Videoplasty.com, CC-BY-SA 4.0
Gotcha. Don’t press any #s.
I use the voice option and say in “quotes.”
CVS-Are you calling the pharmacy?
“No”
CVS-Okay how can I help you?
“Store”
CVS-Do you need store hours, address, etc…
“Speak to someone” then automated system will transfer. Then a person picks up.
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7 years ago, my brother Aparajith embarked on an extraordinary project. I’m thrilled to announce that it’s finally complete. His book Engineering a Nation is not merely the first authoritative biography of India’s most celebrated engineer/devt thinker, Sir M Visvesvaraya…
Arvind Venkataramani is letting go of conditioning retweeted
not to be overdramatic but neeraj chopra's mother saying "the guy who won gold (arshad nadeem) is also my child" will stay with me for a long long time. people are so simple. they can be so beautiful when they want to be. how i wish world was just as simple
Arvind Venkataramani is letting go of conditioning retweeted
So, I am redoing my annual BSL-3 facility training, and this is how we have to dress to work with #SARSCoV2 in the Lab. I am investigating the same strain that is circulating everywhere, Omicron variants KP.2 and KP.3. What do you think? 🙇
#biohazardous #BSL3 #Covid
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We are entering an era of pervasive unforeseen design failures
It’s so hot in NYC that the Third Ave Bridge over the Harlem River can’t fully open/close because the heat has expanded the steel. We saw workers using a saw to shave part of the steel down & fire boats shooting water on the bridge to cool it down @nbcnewyork #nbc4ny #nyc #heat
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First it was the strange hue of the trees now it’s a real life nightmare.
This is very hard to take, it must be shared because none of us can escape this.
A catastrophe like we’ve never known is unfolding & exploding at an incredible rate. 🧵
#tasmania
Arvind Venkataramani is letting go of conditioning retweeted
Big update to the Healthicons .org project. We now have over 1350 quality icons, free and open source, for anyone working on medical projects. Great work from our all-volunteer team. 💖
ALT New icons from the Healthicons project.
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New paper where @KatSchwerzmann and I try to develop a theory of machine learning as a political technology—distinct from rational or bureaucratic types. How are we governed by its specific form of predictions and classifications—derived from *examples* ?journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
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Apple's new "Crush" ad (let's call it "2024") is a visual & metaphorical bookend to the 1984 ad.
1984: Monochome, conformist, industrial world exploded by colourful, vibrant human
2024: Colourful, vibrant humanity is crushed by monochrome, conformist industrial press
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Apple has unintentionally made one of the most fitting and revealing advertisements of the modern era.
My god. This horror perfectly encapsulates the feeling of life as the powerful wreak escalatingly careless and clueless destruction.
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With book bans increasingly common in schools, I think a lot about something Maurice Sendak, legendary creator of Where The Wild Things Are, said; he didn’t believe in childhood. It’s made up. There is no magical line where grief, fear, pain won’t cross.