CEO, cofounder @ Lightspeed AI. ex-Google ☁️ AI. MIT alum. O'Reilly Author πŸ“—: XAI for ML Practitioners.

Seattle
Joined September 2008
What resonates with me about why to work in AI, and why you should stay in and hold yourself to the harder standard edave.substack.com/p/the-res…
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Dave Pitman retweeted
🚨New book announcement!🚨 Award-winning astronomer Emily Levesque’s (@emsque) STARLIGHT IS FALLING, coming 2027, offers an expansive, eye-opening account of cosmic discovery through one of the greatest scientific debates of all time: the precise value of the Hubble constant.
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TIL there once was a man, Lodowicke Muggleton, who started a cult in the 17th century, known as the Muggletonians.
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My proudest (only) contribution to astronomy: the Pancake Hat Galaxy #PANCAKEHAT #IHOPBrandingOpp
[shows #JWST image to @edavepitman] "Cool. Lots of lensing...I like that pancake-hat one." [points] 🀣πŸ₯žπŸ€ 
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Not sure I've seen this yet: I made a comparison of the old #Hubble composite image of SMACS 0723 (B&W) fading to the new #JWST image! Actually surprising how similar they are! The real difference comes from the exquisite level of detail you can now see in every little galaxy.
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Pandemic, riots, now war And the doomsday people still haven’t gotten to use their bunkers yet
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In case you're wondering where things are at: I read the first sentence thinking this was a news update for TODAY and thought "yup, that makes sense"
A huge wave of strikes has begun across northern Italy, with ~700,000 workers refusing to aid Nazi occupiers. Factories of puppet "Italian Social Republic" stand idle in protest against continued German domination.
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can we just tell all the children that this is the metaverse – at Pacific Grove, CA
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Woot. For once I'm beating ⁦@emsque⁩ at a word game πŸ€“ Wordle 205 3/6 ⬜🟨⬜🟩⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Really?!?! Should've gone with the first word I thought of for guess number three Wordle 204 4/6 ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩 🟨🟩🟨⬜🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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What's more disturbing is @emsque and I had the exact same words for the last three guesses 😬
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That was fun Wordle 203 2/6 🟩⬜⬜🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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First Woordle I've done
Guaranteed to be the best event yet of the year! πŸŽ‰πŸŽ‰πŸŽ‰
It's PUB DAY for #TheLastStargazers paperback edition!! πŸ₯³βœ¨πŸ“– Join us at @Adason15th TONIGHT at 6:30PM PT to celebrate!
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β€œOh hell yes” - SchrΓΆdinger, reading the first line of A Tale of Two Cities
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Exciting news: #TheLastStargazers is GOING ON TOUR to celebrate its paperback release!! πŸ“šπŸ₯³βœ¨ Check the schedule to see if some astronomical adventures are coming to a venue near you! There are also virtual/hybrid events hosted by libraries & bookstores all over the country πŸ€“
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And I thought my winter commute was bad
NASA's Parker Solar Probe plunged deep into the Sun's corona & passed directly through streamers of solar plasma. The view out the window was...staggering. parkersolarprobe.jhuapl.edu/…
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