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Co-founder and CEO of @anduriltech, formerly Dir of Eng at Palantir

Costa Mesa, CA
Joined June 2018
Bloke on radio said he asked a German why they were so good at manufacturing. He said "You put your financial people on pedestals. We put our engineers on ours" ... So true.
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"Putin in September 2017 said that AI leadership was a means to become “the ruler of the world.” China has vowed to achieve AI dominance by 2030. . . . Meanwhile, much of the top AI talent in the United States is working on things such as ad optimization."
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American companies should not build platforms for mass censorship of people and ideas, nor should they directly collaborate with oppressive regimes on products that result in imprisonment of dissidents. theintercept.com/2018/08/01/…
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Got an exclusive look at a new partnership between the @DefenseDigital Service and the Army that's giving technically skilled soldiers an opportunity to work alongside Silicon Valley talent, building life or death tech. wired.com/story/pentagon-dre…
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This post summarizes the biggest success and challenge of modern AI: it's succeeded through unprecedented scale empiricism and statistical correlation. That has massive impacts on what explaining and understanding -- and therefore governing -- these systems can mean. nitter.cf/bznotes/status/1011799…
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Let me be clear that I like the result & reasoning in #Carpenter. Basically, you can have a legitimate privacy interest in (some) observations about you by a third party. I just think that the logic goes much further than the majority is willing to acknowledge.
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We're calling it Super SloMo. See how @NVIDIA researchers developed a #deeplearning method that uses #GPUs to turn any video into a slow motion masterpiece. #CVPR2018 nvda.ws/2Mr2ZPt
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Exciting to see progress on UAS flights in the US. Solving the regulatory problems would open up huge new industries in the US, and would really be a shot in the arm for US drone industry. fastcompany.com/40584304/in-…
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AI+ethics is important, but has been partly hijacked by the AGI (artificial general intelligence) hype. Let's cut out the AGI nonsense and spend more time on the urgent problems: Job loss/stagnant wages, undermining democracy, discrimination/bias, wealth inequality. – at Stanford, CA
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Looking forward to how this experiment plays out. Instant runoff voting has a lot of potential to reduce the nastiness in politics — when you want to be the second choice, attacking their first choice isn’t a great idea. Obviously requires more than 2 parties to be effective. nitter.cf/politico/status/100667…
Polls close in an hour in Maine, where they're experimenting with "ranked-choice" voting. Under this system, voters can rank multiple candidates instead of just picking one, which continues until a candidate has reached majority support politi.co/2y3btt6
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The founders of @anduriltech differ in their political views but share a love of country and a belief in the duty of American companies to step up and solve crucial national security problems. Very proud to back this team. wired.com/story/palmer-lucke…
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Smart security at the border only one of many problems @anduriltech is working to solve. Check out our remote fire-fighting system in @WIRED. Proud to bring top tech minds together on tough issues. wired.trib.al/3r1jvB9
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