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founder & CEO @novitypdm fmr VP @parcinc. innovation and deep tech enthusiast. amateur chef, struggling surfer and cyclist. opinions are my own.

San Francisco
Joined December 2007
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I'm as excited about AI as the next guy (and even more excited these days), but I think AI people are being a wee bit delusional (on two levels) about how the whole AI builder vs. publishers with training data saga will play out. Many celebrate this: biia.com/japan-goes-all-in-c…
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Wait, America... you were serious??
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This combines 2 things that tick me off: not checking data & not knowing The Simpsons 2023: Nuclear technician salary in IL: $93,210 4 bedroom house in Springfield IL: $220,000 Burns illegally put him in a job req. a nuclear phys degree so he went to college in season 5 ep. 3 – at Minneapolis, MN
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Thrilled to announce we are joining @SRI_Intl, thanks to a donation by @Xerox. SRI and PARC have played central roles in the Silicon Valley innovation ecosystem and will create the next set of tech breakthroughs that will transform our world. Read more: xerox.bz/41BasSg
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Excited to announce that Novity has officially spun off from Xerox PARC. We’ve had a successful journey in the past year with Xerox PARC and now we’re ready on our own feet to deliver the promise of enabling customers to operate cleaner, faster and better.bit.ly/3sT3et3
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lol San Francisco
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Replying to @marlar
The fact that both marlars are bikers 🚴‍♀️ 🚴‍♂️ is tremendous coincidence. @marlar @_marlar_ "Schlemiel! Schlimazel! Hasenpfeffer Incorporated!" #ItsASmallWorld I think a West Coast Larkin Fan Club is taking root.
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In case anyone wondered what a hedgehog getting an X-ray looked like
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A reasonably calm and rational thread about the new COVID variant. Short answer: we don’t know much yet across the board. Some troubling signals but the data is so small right now that it may be meaningless. Mostly good to see the world moving fast to do the right things. 🤞🦠💉
Every few months, we hear about anew variant Most turn out to not be much Well, unfortunately, there's a new variant B.1.1.529 that is concerning What do we know so far? A few things but not a lot Reminder: when it comes to variants, we focus on three things Short thread
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Much is made lately of unrealized gains being a means of tax avoidance, so I propose selling 10% of my Tesla stock. Do you support this?
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42%No
3,519,252 votes • Final results
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Men naturligtvis reste sig hela tåget i givakt när vi passerade Vingåker, den store ledarens födelseort. Någon ordning får det ändå vara i ett parti.
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Visst är det en tragedi att Morrissey blev fascist?
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California megafires are solvable. If you live here, understand that you have agency. Start with the facts. If you live anywhere else in the U.S., this is impacting your air quality (and food quality) too. Get educated. We can do this. #wildfires gabekleinman.medium.com/cali…
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The Portland Airport officially hit 116°F shortly after 5pm this evening making this the warmest temperature on record. This breaks yesterday's warmest temperature on record of 112°F. 3 days ago the warmest temperature on record was 107°F set twice in Aug '81 & once in Jul '65.
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Helped get an old Xerox Alto running at @TheDigibarn yesterday. It's the first time in decades that this machine has worked. Photos show it running Star Trek and Missile Command games. (We couldn't run "serious" programs because of disk drive issues.)
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San Francisco General has no coronavirus patients for 1st time since pandemic kron4.com/news/bay-area/san-…
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In anticipation of his upcoming presentation at PAW Industry 4.0, we asked Markus Larsson a few questions about their deployment of predictive analytics: ow.ly/StuN50EQn5R #pawcon #machinelearning #AI #datascience #predictiveanalytics #industry40
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Water stored in CA's snowpack is essentially gone--statewide value for May 4th is only *15%* of avg. Strikingly, this water does not appear to be contributing much to streamflow--it's either soaking into #CAdrought-parched soils or sublimating directly into dry atmosphere. #CAwx
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In the last 72 hours we’ve had fires ignite in Contra Costa, San Mateo, Lake and Solano counties. We have our 1st 1,000+ acre fire burning in San Diego county. Fire season is here and we will be with you every step of the way for the next 6 months.
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