Varun Arora

Founder, @OpenCurriculum. Author of "AI in Schools" Former Anne Lewis fellow at @CarnegieMellon. Interested in everything about teaching. 🌱

[Varun Arora @2pointsomeone]

“The people closest to the pain should be closest to the power.”
- @RepPressley

(learned through @AvashiaNeema on @bjfr's podcast)

[Varun Arora @2pointsomeone]

Always always always solves all doubts in life.

[Varun Arora @2pointsomeone]

Why does the IRS 990N epostcard website go down beginning of every year when most nonprofits have to file?

[Varun Arora @2pointsomeone]

Wow that is rebrand is beautiful and thoughtful! 😍

[Sacramento Public Library @saclib]

We’re starting our next chapter: a new look and website for Sacramento Public Library.

Built to connect you to everything we offer and discover more than you expected. Learn more at https://t.co/BcscMo08iK

[Varun Arora @2pointsomeone]

In a small way, I fear that not saying "thank you!" to LLMs after they do some work for me (in light of knowledge that this is costly to the companies offering the service) is going to make me inadvertently express less gratitude to humans too.

[Sam Altman @sama]

@tomieinlove tens of millions of dollars well spent--you never know

[The Disrespected Trucker @DisrespectedThe]

😂😂😂😂

[Varun Arora @2pointsomeone]

My full browser window on https://t.co/ycy5N1R7Vy, everyone

[Varun Arora @2pointsomeone]

This doesn’t even include private nonprofit associations and listings that keep charging at you with semi legal looking filing requirements and fees. Pretending that those are necessary to maintain status.

[Varun Arora @2pointsomeone]

California tries to make the life of nonprofits very hard with annual filing requirements.

You have to file similar reports and pay fees for filing not just to the IRS, but to the Secretary of State, the Franchise Tax Board, and the Department of Justice all separately

[Varun Arora @2pointsomeone]

This is so unnecessary and stupid you’d imagine this exists most because of broken communication systems or because of some nonprofit paper pusher mafia lobbyists who want job security.

This probably does more harm in bringing down small nonprofits than catching fraud

[Varun Arora @2pointsomeone]

You have to submit the same exact info to all these orgs. Different websites, different submission systems (many require post) and lots of silly fees.

[Varun Arora @2pointsomeone]

The crazy part is all these entities individually have the power to destroy an org’s tax exempt status. And they harrass you with mailers to that effect. There is just no way to avoid falling behind and becoming delinquent and targeted by them.

[Varun Arora @2pointsomeone]

I wonder if @ZohranKMamdani speaks any Malayalam

[Varun Arora @2pointsomeone]

@moronhumor That's GoraCal on TikTok. https://t.co/Hji7shulcm

[Varun Arora @2pointsomeone]

Should all grown ups just own a shirt saying "Not my President" to wear in 4 year rotations?

[Varun Arora @2pointsomeone]

“The meaning of life is to achieve your greatest potential, the purpose of life is to give it away.”

– A slightly adapted version of some bumper sticker by @gabemorningstar

[Varun Arora @2pointsomeone]

My book's Arabic translation is out! Thank you, @Abegsorg!!

(Although slightly bummed I didn't manage to include the transformers architecture—which became a basis for most of the LLM successes—in the book, since the draft was mostly written in 2018.)

[مكتب التربية | ABEGS @Abegsorg]

#من_بين_الرفوف

كتاب: الذكاء الاصطناعي في المدارس: دليل للمعلمين والمديرين وقادة التكنولوجيا

لطلب الكتاب: https://t.co/GF0UcAmX9H

[non aesthetic things @PicturesFoIder]

Two Chinese girls meet a black man for the first time

[Varun Arora @2pointsomeone]

Kaiser Permanente insures about 1 million people in the Sacramento area. That's about $7 billion+ in revenues per year just from premiums alone. 🤯

Does anyone analyze how much $ worth of care is actually provided/realized to how many people for just one mini region like this?

[Varun Arora @2pointsomeone]

Dear @linakhanFTC, please consider FTC taking on Adobe's unchecked monopoly 🙏🏼

I have a 1-time licensed Adobe CS5 Suite (I NEVER shared the key), and because I choose not to cave into overpriced monthly subscription of their newest stuff, they don't allow me to use it anymore.