Nick André G. Johnson

Quant Researcher | MIT Optimization PhD | Princeton Applied Math | Chess Olympian 🇧🇸🇨🇦🇯🇲

[Nick André G. Johnson @NickAGJohnson]

Thank you everyone for the warm regards! My journey has only been possible because of the countless people who have supported and inspired me along the way. Looking forward to sharing my speech as Princeton's 2020 Valedictorian on May 31st!

[Ricky @ricky_pati]

💥 Excited to publicly launch Sparx and also share that we’ve raised a $3.1 million seed round from Drive Capital, Thrive Capital, Human Capital and Wicklow Capital! Thank you for @ChristineMHall for covering our raise in TechCrunch today

https://t.co/bVrJCbjsb6

[Ryan Cory-Wright @RyanCoryWright]

A good way to finish the week: our paper "Sparse Plus Low Rank Matrix Decomposition: A Discrete Optimization Approach" has been accepted for publication at The Journal of Machine Learning Research 🎉

[Angel Onuoha @angelonuoha7]

We’re tremendously excited to emerge from stealth today with $4.5 million in funding!

Zuvy provides invoice financing and software to small and medium-sized businesses across Nigeria https://t.co/MPCx0tm2Kb

[Nick André G. Johnson @NickAGJohnson]

@heistimi Interested!

[timilehin @strictlytmi]

back by popular demand, im bringing dope black technologists tg in nyc to honor bhm

• 5 $10K grants for attending founders
• finessing as a black founder panel
• food, drinks, & a live performance

deets here: https://t.co/ElFPeoFong 🫶🏾

[Bain Capital Crypto @BainCapCrypto]

Explore our CFMMRouter.jl update including a new paper and Uniswap v3 implementation from researchers @angeris and @theo_diamandis

https://t.co/youyhtr7XP

[Nick André G. Johnson @NickAGJohnson]

8/8

3) Index for creativity when hiring and promoting;

4) Emphasize ML literacy in employee development.

Check out the full post here: https://t.co/Y3aMUDeefz

[Nick André G. Johnson @NickAGJohnson]

1/8

How can #AI methods be used to improve efficiency in enterprises?

I dive into this question in a recent blog post and highlight:

1) Opportunities to best leverage existing ML methods;

2) Current important limitations of ML;

3) How business leaders can embrace ML.

🧵👇🏾

[Nick André G. Johnson @NickAGJohnson]

7/8

Here are 4 things business leaders should do to embrace ML:

1) Embrace the horizontal opportunity to embed AI across business functions;

2) Understand which types of problems can be addressed with ML and which can’t;

[Todd Baldwin @tbaldjr]

Let’s get started!

Part 1 - Online presence has become paramount for food & bev brands (mainly achieved through website, ads, social media).

And it all starts with the rise of online grocery! (1/5)

[Bain Capital Crypto @BainCapCrypto]

Congrats to all of the @Forbes 30 under 30s announced today including our own @lyd_hylton 👏 https://t.co/ycBDUyStd1

[Wei Dai @_weidai]

I'm trying to understand the killer use cases & apps in Web3 that require privacy, especially in evm-based ecosystems. Privacy-conscious users--what do you think twice about doing because it gives no privacy guarantees? NFTs? DeFi? Games? Please RT, reply or DM! 🙏

[TuongVy Le 🏀 @TuongvyLe12]

By trying to regulate both cefi and defi all at once, we’ve delayed some of the most necessary and obvious cefi regulations that COULD have and SHOULD have easily passed by now, and would have prevented or mitigated some of the blowups that have occurred this year. Some examples:

[Nick André G. Johnson @NickAGJohnson]

So excited for this!

[Duality Labs @dualityxyz]

Today, we unveil Duality, the DEX that gives Liquidity Providers superpowers. The next generation exchange is now coming to Cosmos.

https://t.co/uJM9wkRQzz

[Nick André G. Johnson @NickAGJohnson]

Can’t endorse this strongly enough! Apply!