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Working on something new. Previous: @LocalWiki, @DavisWiki. I program computers and like sunshine, mathematics and burritos.

 San Francisco, CA
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What I've been up to lately! Proud to be part of the team that created the first FDA-cleared medical device that uses a patient-facing LLM. wsj.com/pro/venture-capital/…
Exclusive | UpDoc’s AI Gets FDA Nod to Act as ‘Concierge Doctor’ Between Visits

Exclusive | UpDoc’s AI Gets FDA Nod to Act as ‘Concierge Doctor’ Between Visits

The venture-backed startup says its AI can adjust medication doses between doctor visits.

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Someone found a message in a bottle my parents wrote on their honeymoon in Hawaii 41 years ago. Unreal!
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Encycla@encycla30 Jan 2022
Page of the day: Hyperbolic plane isometry. encycla.com/Hyperbolic_plane…
Hyperbolic plane isometry

Hyperbolic plane isometry

An isometry of the hyperbolic plane is a mapping of the hyperbolic plane to itself that preserves the underlying hyperbolic geometry (e.g. distances and angles). The isometries of the hyperbolic ...

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Friends, excited to finally (!) share what me & @cjerdonek have been quietly working on for a while now: Encycla, a better way to share knowledge on the web. Check it out!!✨ encycla.com

Encycla

Encycla is a collection of editable pages about anything and everything in the universe. Anyone can add a page to Encycla — it's as easy as making a Facebook post. Share what you know See just ...

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RIP Tony Hsieh “Happiness is really just about four things: perceived control, perceived progress, connectedness (number and depth of your relationships), and vision/meaning (being part of something bigger than yourself).”
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The .org TLD is at risk for censorship and unrestrained price hikes. Please sign! savedotorg.org/
GO NYC! 🙌🙌👊⚡️
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BREAKING: New York City has voted to switch to a ranked-choice voting system. NYC is the most populous place in the US yet to adopt ranked-choice voting. 20 other cities have already adopted ranked-choice voting. More on how it works here: bit.ly/2JUaBdQ
New York City adopts ranked-choice voting, a major milestone for the reform

New York City adopts ranked-choice voting, a major milestone for the reform

The biggest city in the US is joining a voting reform movement.

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Huge congrats to @ivanov & and the rest of the Jupyter team to winning the very well-deserved ACM Software System Award! blog.jupyter.org/jupyter-rec…
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lmao, @localwiki apparently made it into the California state voter guide
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Insane and irresponsible. The demo pages even meant that attackers were one XSS or CSRF from your home address. medium.com/@philipn/want-to-…
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what the fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck medium.com/@philipn/want-to-…
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Oh nope. This is not OK. Guess @ATT just lost both my lines. Will be churning to MVNO who doesn’t deal with them (got a bunch on @tingFTW will see if this works on those networks and churn to them) nitter.gq/philipn/status/9186992…
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Want to see something crazy? Turn off WiFi and check this out on your phone: medium.com/@philipn/want-to-…
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Want to see something crazy? Turn off WiFi and check this out on your phone: medium.com/@philipn/want-to-…
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fivethirtyeight is a model that takes time to update. By the time Clinton hits 62% it'll be 5 days before election.
Trump is 4+ points in Florida. This is before Comey. Trump could win unless we act now nytimes.com/interactive/2016…
Latest Upshot Poll Shows Trump With a Lead in Florida (Published 2016)

Latest Upshot Poll Shows Trump With a Lead in Florida (Published 2016)

He has no plausible path to the presidency without Florida’s 29 electoral votes, which is not true of Hillary Clinton.

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Helped put this together this weekend. Find your friends in swing states, then talk to them! Makes a big difference. friendsinswingstates.com
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Ex-UC Davis chancellor Linda Katehi paid 4 PR firms $400k to, in part, edit her @localwiki page: sacbee.com/news/local/educat…
‘Get me off the Google,’ UC Davis Chancellor Katehi urged communications staff

‘Get me off the Google,’ UC Davis Chancellor Katehi urged communications staff

In the end, UC Davis Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi was done in largely by pepper spray and ego.

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So much love to everyone who helped move the needle at @SunFoundation. sunlightfoundation.com/blog/…
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