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CEO, cofounder @ Lightspeed AI. ex-Google ☁️ AI. MIT alum. O'Reilly Author πŸ“—: XAI for ML Practitioners.

Seattle
Joined September 2008
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What resonates with me about why to work in AI, and why you should stay in and hold yourself to the harder standard edave.substack.com/p/the-res…
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🚨New book announcement!🚨 Award-winning astronomer Emily Levesque’s (@emsque) STARLIGHT IS FALLING, coming 2027, offers an expansive, eye-opening account of cosmic discovery through one of the greatest scientific debates of all time: the precise value of the Hubble constant.
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TIL there once was a man, Lodowicke Muggleton, who started a cult in the 17th century, known as the Muggletonians.
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My proudest (only) contribution to astronomy: the Pancake Hat Galaxy #PANCAKEHAT #IHOPBrandingOpp
[shows #JWST image to @edavepitman] "Cool. Lots of lensing...I like that pancake-hat one." [points] 🀣πŸ₯žπŸ€ 
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Not sure I've seen this yet: I made a comparison of the old #Hubble composite image of SMACS 0723 (B&W) fading to the new #JWST image! Actually surprising how similar they are! The real difference comes from the exquisite level of detail you can now see in every little galaxy.
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Pandemic, riots, now war And the doomsday people still haven’t gotten to use their bunkers yet
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In case you're wondering where things are at: I read the first sentence thinking this was a news update for TODAY and thought "yup, that makes sense"
A huge wave of strikes has begun across northern Italy, with ~700,000 workers refusing to aid Nazi occupiers. Factories of puppet "Italian Social Republic" stand idle in protest against continued German domination.
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can we just tell all the children that this is the metaverse – at Pacific Grove, CA
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Woot. For once I'm beating ⁦@emsque⁩ at a word game πŸ€“ Wordle 205 3/6 ⬜🟨⬜🟩⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Really?!?! Should've gone with the first word I thought of for guess number three Wordle 204 4/6 ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩 🟨🟩🟨⬜🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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What's more disturbing is @emsque and I had the exact same words for the last three guesses 😬
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That was fun Wordle 203 2/6 🟩⬜⬜🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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First Woordle I've done
Guaranteed to be the best event yet of the year! πŸŽ‰πŸŽ‰πŸŽ‰
It's PUB DAY for #TheLastStargazers paperback edition!! πŸ₯³βœ¨πŸ“– Join us at @Adason15th TONIGHT at 6:30PM PT to celebrate!
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β€œOh hell yes” - SchrΓΆdinger, reading the first line of A Tale of Two Cities
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Exciting news: #TheLastStargazers is GOING ON TOUR to celebrate its paperback release!! πŸ“šπŸ₯³βœ¨ Check the schedule to see if some astronomical adventures are coming to a venue near you! There are also virtual/hybrid events hosted by libraries & bookstores all over the country πŸ€“
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And I thought my winter commute was bad
NASA's Parker Solar Probe plunged deep into the Sun's corona & passed directly through streamers of solar plasma. The view out the window was...staggering. parkersolarprobe.jhuapl.edu/…
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