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    Dec 10

    “We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.” On this day in 1986, Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel delivered his timeless Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech:

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  2. Dec 10

    And chatting with is always a great way to put your own thoughts in order! As said so many years ago about blogging, “It’s narrating your work in public."

    Chatting with is always fun and enlightening. We spoke recently about the latest concept he is hashing out... Big Tech platforms as the landlords of the web, extracting "algorithmic rents" from suppliers - and the public. check it out:
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  3. Dec 10

    This is so true of Google. If anyone can turn this around, though, it's Amazon. I hope product and engineering management there is paying attention.

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    Dec 8

    How do we fix the – and what went wrong? Our founder, shares his thoughts with

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    Dec 7

    New data release! and have released hospital capacity data for efforts. Communities can use this data to make decisions and improve their planning and response. The data as well as an FAQ are available at .

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    Dec 9

    NYT: More than a third of Americans live in areas where hospitals are running critically short of ICU beds. In some areas, care for the sickest patients is becoming “difficult or impossible.”

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  7. Dec 6

    I was not involved in and did not attend this event. But I have since spoken with the organizer, who forwarded numerous emails he’d sent out inviting female speakers. I should have gotten more information before tweeting. Glad to see people caring about diverse voices.

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  8. Dec 4

    Congratulations, ! The bigger your bully pulpit, the better off we all will be.

    Meet Professor , one of the newest members of Columbia Law’s faculty and a leading voice in the antitrust movement that aims to combat Big Tech’s monopolistic practices.
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    Dec 4

    “the master algorithm of our economy is that the social responsibility of business is to increase profits. We’ve baked that into the system. We are calling out the tech industry but really, it is showing us our system” Fixing the data economy

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  10. Dec 4

    Human bias pre-empts honest appraisal of AI bias, as 's story shows! Bad enough not to include some of the many female experts on the subject, but then to add insult to injury by banning Kathy for raising the question!

    Storytime I guess. So, I went. Was just removed 20 min in from the Zoom b/c I asked them why the slate of speakers was still all men - Adam Cheyer, Thom Tillis, Neil Jacobstein. There are so many brilliant women who can speak to the topic of GPT-3 + AI Ethics. They removed me 1/
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    Dec 1

    This year, we helped over 300,000 people receive an estimated $40M in flexible cash benefits by helping them maximize their tax returns. Donate today to help us reach even more people next tax season:

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    Dec 1

    [NEW RELEASE] AI and Machine Learning for Coders -- Most books on machine learning begin with a daunting amount of advanced math. This guide by is built on practical lessons that let you work directly with the code.

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  13. Dec 1

    We need more ambition like this from venture capitalists and entrepreneurs, and massive support from LPs for world positive investing.

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    The future is world positive. Come see how we measure the extraordinary impact of the Obvious portfolio. Turn up the volume.
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    Nov 30

    Net dollar retention is one of the most useful SaaS product metrics that every company should be tracking. Cohorted NDR now comes out of the box in Stripe Billing.

    We just added net revenue retention cohort charts to Billing! 🥳
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  15. Nov 30

    Click through the image to read the whole thing. You won't regret it.

    I’ve had this card from , chief data scientist for up in my room for a long time and thought I’d share. Dream in Years. Plan in Months. Evaluate in Weeks. Ship Daily. It applies to any and all industries. Thanks DJ.
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    Nov 29

    If you had told me 10 years ago that despite all our price/performance innovation in UAV technology, Insitu would still be charging the government $700k for each one of these ScanEagles drones, I wouldn't have believed it. The military-industrial complex is real

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  17. Nov 30

    Another example of privatizing profits while socializing risks, and of another of the many systemic shocks that we face as the century progresses

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  18. Nov 28

    Sounds about right. But we can do better.

    I worry that our response to climate breakdown will look eerily similar to our response to covid: 1) dither and delay 2) double down on individual liberty rhetoric 3) play whack-a-mole with disasters 4) take advantage of corporate profit opportunities 5) get used to mass death
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    Nov 23

    The idea that a life-saving medicine would be locked up under corporate patents and treated as an elite rent-seeking opportunity in the middle of a global pandemic is reprehensible and we should have the clarity to say so.

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  20. Nov 23

    For those of us who grew up on science fiction, this is pretty sweet. A lot later than we expected, and a lot less. But still sweet.

    Just an extraordinary reminder of the normalcy of this miracle of human inventiveness, courage, scientific care and exploratory zeal. Back to and the
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