tuning global tech pulse toward int'l civic data-informed products, starting in Peace Corps in Tanzania & Liberia. I am [mimeograph] years old.
Cambridge, MA - Washington, DC
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🧵 “Complex language requires shared maintenance” reference thread (see also my thread on how computers _produce_ human intellect mid-thread)
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Reading “Educating the Reflective Practitioner” (1988) about the then new pressure & how to help professions (medical,edu,architects,policy) better cope w nebulosity in work from @meaningness book recs. Keep thinking about how this dynamic could’ve grown crisis amidst automation
Reflecting back on @brightball pointless story points piece about Product Development Flow (2009) now considering trying to implement bits of the book’s queue wisdom in Factorio game
cc: @patio11
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This is everything. In 2006, students from Xavier High School in NYC sent Kurt Vonnegut five letters asking the writer to visit their class. What he wrote back is one of the best things ever:
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Flocking clocks 😅: Only magenta clock advances time on its own, others just show average time of neighbors
Source code: editor.p5js.org/anvaka/full/…
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I love this 2006 piece on how employer-sponsored apprenticeships may work differently and less well for women than school-based opportunities due to the turns of life.
So tacit knowledge reproduction seems likely to be gendered by our institutions, too.
dropbox.com/scl/fi/c15mfe17g…
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A lot has happened since the launch of the first HOT Tasking Manager in 2011...
Today, we celebrate our first 500,000 mappers on the platform, almost the same as the population of Cape Verde! 😮 🎉
Have you mapped today? buff.ly/4e0cEZQ
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BREAKING: The PMC COVID Forecasting Model officially sunsets Biobot.
Biobot has not reported public data in 3 weeks, during the height of the surge. They will be downgraded to 0% weight in Monday's case estimation model. CDC data will now account for 100% of case estimation.
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Why concepts are (probably) vectors (cell.com/trends/cognitive-sc…)
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Lead poisoning hurts kids’ cognitive development.
Lead poisoning is also widespread across many low & middle income countries.
However, we don’t know each local source.
We can learn, discover & eradicate
Like by protecting turmeric in 🇧🇩
Yes, lead exposure is bad/widespread. But where's it coming from?
New CGD paper from @rachelbnfield & @RoryTodd12
cgdev.org/blog/whats-causing…
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What happens when a government decides that their banking sector needs proper competition, and mandate a new payment method that is:
1. Instant (unlike bank transfers)
2. Free for consumers, very very cheap for merchants (unlike credit cards)
What Brazil did with Pix:
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Pretty cool analysis of the cultural evolution of filled pasta (link.springer.com/article/10…). Gotta try them all...
YT version of the podcast has a GraphRAG demo which sets the scene for the rest of the rich conversation: Graphs as a translated-queryable left brain for less deterministic LLMs.
If you’re working in #GenAI and looking for some weekend listening, check out this week’s Data Exchange podcast and my conversation with the one & only @bigdata about latest evolutions in GraphRAG:
thedataexchange.media/superc…
Metrix's accuracy prevented travel-related spreads for me & my people twice already
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And if you're a researcher interested in running an RCT that of a chlorination program that is well-powered to detect mortality effects in children under-5, I'd love to hear from you! [my first name].[last name]@givewell.org
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I curated a playlist and wrote an article about Tanzanian singeli for @getupradioo
#Tanzania #singeli #Swahili @NyegeNyegeFest @MarioSwagga1 getup.radio/playlists/the-gu…
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Trying something different—groundwater resources of Africa.
#rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale
ALT A visualisation of the groundwater resources of Africa over shaded relief
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finally found again this beautiful illustration of the process of embracing your shadows
"About fear" by Cécile Carre
works better on instagram where you view each of 6 panes one at a time, but I wanted to share it here anyway
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you can make yourself legible to others in order to accomplish your goals or you can accomplish goals in order to make yourself legible to others
I think a lot of people get these two paths mixed up…