akbar

I work on Crypto data and explore blockchain use cases. Japanese language n00b!

[akbar @akbar]

Taking inspiration from @ThePrimeagen I am planning to not to renew. Also I think it helps me to learn rust better! :-)

[akbar @akbar]

If you like data analysis, this is a fascinating thing to read https://t.co/iqJsP1dvkS

[Parmy Olson @parmy]

🚨PSA about Google’s jaw-dropping video demo of Gemini - the one with the duck:

It was not carried out in real time or in voice. The model was shown still images from video footage and human prompts narrated afterwards, per a spokesperson. More here: https://t.co/ITU29Z5Oi9

[MMitchell @mmitchell_ai]

NY Times puts out a piece of "who's who" who has worked a decade+ to advance AI that, amazingly, is only men. That's intentional, right? It's legitimately hard to do that.
Fwiw, I've worked well over a decade on AI. I actually even won the "decade test of time" award last year...

[akbar @akbar]

https://t.co/2f6UrAlaVg

[akbar @akbar]

https://t.co/r9efpLhJBV

[Oakland Education Association @OaklandEA]

March with us NOW at Lake Merritt. Our fight is about more than salaries. We demand shared decision-making, safe schools, investment in our community, and housing for our unhoused students. #Unite4OaklandStudents

[Oakland Education Association @OaklandEA]

March with us NOW at Lake Merritt. Our fight is about more than salaries. We demand shared decision-making, safe schools, investment in our community, and housing for our unhoused students. #Unite4OaklandStudents

[Marc Owen Jones @marcowenjones]

Thread 1) @elonmusk is promoting racist misinformation in the wake of the #allentx shootings. There are a number of examples but I want to focus on this graph, which has been shared and liked hundreds of thousands of times. What's the story behind it, and why is it misleading?

[Kareem Carr, Ph.D. @kareem_carr]

I know a lot of you wanted a technical breakdown of this meme so here it is!

I don't think you will find this level of detail anywhere else so keep reading if you don't want to miss out.

[akbar @akbar]

@sanjanacurtis Yes!

[taylor santiago berger @taylorberger69]

& that’s that!!

[akbar @akbar]

https://t.co/P41NrFhHXs

[OAK @oakcurrency]

West Oakland Farners market onchain this sunday

this means neighbors are conducting permissionless p2p transactions with 0 fees for physical goods

keeping money circulating locally. keeping money in our economy

[Kareem Carr, Ph.D. @kareem_carr]

The central limit theorem is a statistical law that’s almost like a law of nature.

It says that a large-ish number of small, random, independent contributions tend to produce outcomes that resemble a bell curve.

The Galton board is an example of this:

[jo @whatsJo]

twitter blue is like paying to lower the basketball hoop and forcing everyone to watch you still miss

[akbar @akbar]

@ambertakahashi Me!

[@emilymbender.bsky.social @emilymbender]

Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 Episode 10 is up!

"Don't Be a Lawyer, ChatGPT" with special guest @kendraserra

... and of course your hosts, @alexhanna and me.

https://t.co/LcCUzZeMNz

#MAIHT3k #MathyMath #AIHype

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Federal minimum wage in:

2009: $7.25
2010: $7.25
2011: $7.25
2012: $7.25
2013: $7.25
2014: $7.25
2015: $7.25
2016: $7.25
2017: $7.25
2018: $7.25
2019: $7.25
2020: $7.25
2021: $7.25
2022: $7.25

The result: It's now worth 41% less today than it was in 1968.