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So happy to have worked on this project with @winclimate!
🚨Big announcement!🚨
Today we presented a report to legislators on how much new single-family homes would save under the All-Electric Building Act that's being considered in New York State 👇
bit.ly/aeb-report
#GasFreeNY
@GovKathyHochul (1/11)
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Watching this video of @pde33 eulogizing Aaron Swartz, and thought I'd share for anyone who feels the need to hear him speak: youtube.com/watch?v=ztMGZlE_… Please send any other videos or content by Peter you recommend reading/watching/revisiting.
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Peter was a member of what I call the Class of 1993 -- the hackers who came of age as the first web browsers created the modern Internet. We found each other in those early online spaces, and built out this new digital world together. We never lost the optimism or the work ethic.
The only consolation has been to see such an amazing outpouring of love from so many others whose lives he also touched, and to get to grieve with some of them in person.
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Today, I, along with a team I spent over 6 years helping to build, mentor, and lead got phased out & laid off. It’s a gut punch. But it was a gift getting to work with a group of kind, smart, and motivated Data Scientists for so long. I’m incredibly of proud of the work we did.
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The @60Minutes interview with @FrancesHaugen_ is just absolutely brutal.
Incredible fortitude for her to so scrupulously leak this research.
Let’s hope she becomes a model for all data scientists: rigorous, brilliant and relentlessly principled.
xitter.cf/60Minutes/status/14448…
“Facebook has realized that if they change the algorithm to be safer, people will spend less time on the site, they'll click on less ads, they'll make less money,” says Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen. cbsn.ws/3ouorZb
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Mythbusters but for rich people who think they work harder than the poor and that's the only reason disparity exists.
👓Warby Parker job alert!👓
We’re looking for someone to lead our Data Engineering team, which owns BI tools for 100+ analysts. Our goal is to grow in sophistication without loosing our startup flavor.
Know anybody who might be interested? Send ‘em this! boards.greenhouse.io/warbypa…
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Signal tried to use Instagram ads to display the data Facebook collects about you and sells access to.
Facebook wasn't into the idea, and shut down our account instead: signal.org/blog/the-instagra…
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I’ve asked my 3rd year illustration students at @sva to come up with a post-pandemic New Yorker magazine cover. Here is what they sent in:
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This. In my anthro/bio work, the debates and confusion are about new things. In my stats work, the debates are about wtf probability means. Stats is like an inverted field, in which everyone uses linear regression but no one agrees what it means.
It blows my mind (in a good way!) that we're just getting our heads around something as basic as what cross validation really means.
Reminds me of one of my favorite University of Chicago t-shirts: "That's all well and good in practice... but how does it work in theory?"
"Cross-validation: what does it estimate and how well does it do it?" now available on arxiv: arxiv.org/abs/2104.00673
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"Cross-validation: what does it estimate and how well does it do it?" now available on arxiv: arxiv.org/abs/2104.00673