Engineer by nature; EE/CS by education; Systems software at all levels/purposes in practice. Now working Open Source
Joined May 2014
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One summer my advisor told me he didn’t think I belonged in EE, or even at MIT. Next semester he failed to get tenure and left. I graduated an have worked on space shuttle telecom, Hubble diags, SIMD ‘puters, neural nets, mobile compute , cloud, the list goes on. 😎
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According to the TSA, everyone is happy to go along with having their faces scanned, and our growing record of passengers who wish to opt out is insignificant. If you have any concerns about the proliferation of facial recognition throughout the United States, please consider filling out a scorecard at fly.ajl.org and share the link with others.
See article from Fast Company for more details:
fastcompany.com/90918235/tsa…
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Reminder that the SAT was literally created bc too many students of color were getting into college. The creator of it published that the increase of racial diversity in schools would cause the decline of American intelligence. By 1930, he admitted it was a eugenics test.
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Epic. Someone posted this somewhere else, you know, a site not run by a megalomaniac who is unable to comprehend how his site works.
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So there's good and bad news; which do you want first?
The bad news is that we're leaving @Meetup because it's not free and the good news is we've redesigned our website so you can sign up for events and get reminders from there. Come check us out @ blackgirlshack.org
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PSA for trans people in Kansas, Montana, Tennessee.
Get your drivers license and birth certificate changed ASAP.
And order MANY copies of your birth certificate, as they will not confiscate those.
Kansas intends to roll back legal gender changes, even if you already did it.
Rochelle Grober retweeted
For those that travel, watch your hotel bills carefully.
I've had an increase in incorrect incidental charges (minibar, in-room water, etc) to the tune of one every 5-6 stays.
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One of our key sources of human data is no longer fully “human"!
We estimate that 33-46% of crowd workers on MTurk used large language models (LLMs) in a text production task - which may increase as ChatGPT and the like become more popular and powerful.
arxiv.org/abs/2306.07899
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A challenge to the 7-2 Alito opinion in Gamble v US (2019): Will he stick to his originalist guns?
law.com/nationallawjournal/2…
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URGENT #netneutrality news: Europe’s biggest telecoms are trying to trick the EU Parliament into endorsing their proposal to force websites to pay them without proper evaluation & debate. MEPs shouldn’t let them.
The vote is TOMORROW.
More: cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2…
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Born from a collab between Prof. Neil Gershenfeld, director of MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms (CBA), and the late civil rights activist Mel King, a former MIT adjunct professor, the Fab Lab Network now includes more than 2,500 centers in 125 countries. news.mit.edu/2023/how-mits-f…
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I keep trying to explain why switching existing tools and services to generative AI models will make their energy costs/carbon footprint explode: this is a great example!
"Dylan Patel, chief analyst at the semiconductor research firm SemiAnalysis, estimated that a single chat with ChatGPT could cost up to 1,000 times as much as a simple Google search."
washingtonpost.com/technolog…
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We are looking for AV pros, people who can edit recordings and manage workflows. Please DM me. Cc @thenewstack
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Please assist if able! Donate! Boost! Check out Mari's work! #settlersaturday
I'm rationing heart/blood sugar meds & skipdosing my p. nueropathy meds (i only take B4 sleeping now) so pain is constant pins & needles & occasional taser zaps turning my brain into etch-a-sketch. eating 1 pk ramen /day. CareCredit med. debt remains buff.ly/3N0O0gj