@akbar

I work on Crypto data and explore blockchain use cases. Japanese language n00b!

 Oakland, CA
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Joined March 2007
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Taking inspiration from @ThePrimeagen I am planning to not to renew. Also I think it helps me to learn rust better! :-)
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If you like data analysis, this is a fascinating thing to read cid.usc.edu/turnout-briefs
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🚨PSA about Google’s jaw-dropping video demo of Gemini - the one with the duck: It was not carried out in real time or in voice. The model was shown still images from video footage and human prompts narrated afterwards, per a spokesperson. More here: bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
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NY Times puts out a piece of "who's who" who has worked a decade+ to advance AI that, amazingly, is only men. That's intentional, right? It's legitimately hard to do that. Fwiw, I've worked well over a decade on AI. I actually even won the "decade test of time" award last year... – at Los Angeles, CA
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theatlantic.com/technology/a…

There Will Never Be Another Second Life

The virtual world, a strange cross between Burning Man and Neal Stephenson’s metaverse, marks its 20th anniversary with no true corporate competitor in sight.

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theguardian.com/us-news/2023…

The gentrification font: how a sleek typeface became a neighborhood omen

The clean, modern typeface has adorned the New Yorker, Shake Shack and even HBO’s Girls – now it might bedeck your last home

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March with us NOW at Lake Merritt. Our fight is about more than salaries. We demand shared decision-making, safe schools, investment in our community, and housing for our unhoused students. #Unite4OaklandStudents
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March with us NOW at Lake Merritt. Our fight is about more than salaries. We demand shared decision-making, safe schools, investment in our community, and housing for our unhoused students. #Unite4OaklandStudents
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Thread 1) @elonmusk is promoting racist misinformation in the wake of the #allentx shootings. There are a number of examples but I want to focus on this graph, which has been shared and liked hundreds of thousands of times. What's the story behind it, and why is it misleading?
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I know a lot of you wanted a technical breakdown of this meme so here it is! I don't think you will find this level of detail anywhere else so keep reading if you don't want to miss out.
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& that’s that!!
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From AWS to Aave & Lens Protocol: Nader Dabit Explains Web 3 Social Media by The Defiant

Today we are joined by the all-around dev phenomenon Nader Dabit. Nader has become a household name across the developer community with his combination of to-the-point tutorials, live coding demos...

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West Oakland Farners market onchain this sunday this means neighbors are conducting permissionless p2p transactions with 0 fees for physical goods keeping money circulating locally. keeping money in our economy
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The central limit theorem is a statistical law that’s almost like a law of nature. It says that a large-ish number of small, random, independent contributions tend to produce outcomes that resemble a bell curve. The Galton board is an example of this:
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twitter blue is like paying to lower the basketball hoop and forcing everyone to watch you still miss
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Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 Episode 10 is up! "Don't Be a Lawyer, ChatGPT" with special guest @kendraserra ... and of course your hosts, @alexhanna and me. peertube.dair-institute.org/… #MAIHT3k #MathyMath #AIHype

Mystery AI Hype Theater, Episode 10 - Don't Be A Lawyer, ChatGPT

Alex and Emily are joined by law and technology scholar Kendra Albert for a conversation about ChatGPT, legal expertise, and how we do and don't measure someone's ability to practice law. Listen to...

peertube.dair-institute.org
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Federal minimum wage in: 2009: $7.25 2010: $7.25 2011: $7.25 2012: $7.25 2013: $7.25 2014: $7.25 2015: $7.25 2016: $7.25 2017: $7.25 2018: $7.25 2019: $7.25 2020: $7.25 2021: $7.25 2022: $7.25 The result: It's now worth 41% less today than it was in 1968.
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Lots of IRL tech events in SF!⚡️ A list of what's happening this week (April 20 - April 27) ⬇️
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Alright folks, ready for this morning's lesson in #AIhype? On the dissection table: forbes.com/sites/forbesbusin… >>
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