Product Manager @BeaconHoldings
Berkeley, CA
Joined November 2006
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It was such a pleasure to speak with @SeanSilcoff about what we are building at @beaconholdings
Excited to partner with @cppib to bring AI to the real economy
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I am thrilled to announce that @beaconholdings has acquired @haizelabs, with me joining as VP of AI Research.
We started Haize in 2024 to enable anyone to build reliable and safe AI. Through our red-teaming and safeguards work with the frontier labs; our observability, guardrail, and evaluation platform serving the world’s largest enterprises; and our pro bono SMB work, any customer could build AI they trusted with Haize.
Joining Beacon lets us deliver the same trustworthy AI to those who need it most, and those most overlooked by Silicon Valley: the essential Main Street businesses the real world depends upon.
Transitioning these essential businesses through the AI revolution is one of the most consequential responsible AI problems of our time. We couldn’t be more honored to tackle it with Beacon.
Thank you to our customers, investors, and team for the journey of a lifetime. And thank you to Nilam, Goutham, Mark, and the Beacon team for the trust and opportunity.
It’s time to get to work.
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Here's the biggest journalism thing I've ever done. It's a @Wired feature on @IPVM, a small publication that stumbled on a huge story: the world's leading #surveillance-camera company used #AI to help China persecute #Uyghurs.
Peep some of the key bits🧵
wired.com/story/surveillance…
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An important statement from @ross_monique. CS and CER have limited epistemological belief systems, and that impacts both research and teaching. 1/2 dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3…
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Used to be that knowing how to start a fire was a critical skill. Maybe you'd add kindling to embers or even learn to use flint-and-steel. Before you went off into the woods, you'd know how to start a fire. You had to. 1/5
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President Trump saying, "When the looting starts, the shooting starts." 7 shot in Louisville, shots fired in Denver-all at peaceful protests for justice.
This is not dog-whistling. It's full-throated white supremacy.
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We Must Do More: 75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice by Corinne Shutack. Kara Springer, a black woman artist, created the image/public art that begins this piece called A Small Matter of Engineering, Part II.75 link.medium.com/UGrrK3KuJ6
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Scratch Day is one week from today! More than 500 events are planned around the world -- and there is still time to organize more! #scratchday day.scratch.mit.edu
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Coding is important – and fun. @CSforAll, thanks for your work to make sure every kid can compete in a high-tech, global economy. xitter.cf/csforall/status/909870…
800+ #CSforALL schools (like Shiprock HS in NM), educators, and advocates on call were thrilled by words of encouragement from @BarackObama
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The @WhiteHouse allocates $200M/year to expand access and diversity in computer science. Big win for students! medium.com/@codeorg/200-mill…
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BASIC computer language is 53 years old today. Retweet if BASIC was your first computer language? #ThisDayinSTEM bit.ly/2qxeFnU
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Reminder: never make fun of someone who is learning something new. xkcd.com/1053
ALT Image of the xkcd comic. First panel has text box saying "I try not to make fun of people for admitting they don't know things." Explains that since everyone starts knowing nothing, for everything that "everyone knows" by age 30, about 4 million learn it every year, so about 10,000/day are hearing it for the first time. Second panel is example where character says "you're one of today's lucky 10,000"
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Hour of Code 2016! There are dozens of new tutorials as well as ours from Processing: code.org/learn hourofcode.com/processfound
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Join champions @serenawilliams @neymarjr @carmeloanthony @Money23Green @chrisbosh @S10Bird @SergioRamos @MarceloM12 and more in #HourOfCode
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Check out adventofcode.com/
Online CS competition with a leaderboard!
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Schools: Make the pledge to offer computer science to all. Sign up by Friday 12/2! csforall.org/resources/pledg… #CSforAll – at Manhattan, NY
