Deb Das

Optimizing Trade-off Relationships in Technology for FinTech, HealthTech, EdTech,Media Orgs. Alum @WapoEngineering, @washingtonpost rt/like/follow ≠ endorsement

[Deb Das @ddffx]

DALL-E Beta (#OpenAI image generator) is now available to play with!
Here is my first attempt with the text:
"A tiger hunting a deer near a river close to a mountain under blue sky with flying vultures looking".
Enjoy! 😊 https://t.co/qJqOFvnVxd

[Deb Das @ddffx]

From my Axios newsletter feed, by the CEO Jim VandeHei, on the gifts of Mike Allen (his co-founder) & Fred Rogers (Mister Rogers' Neighborhood)

BTW, back in the days, Mike (in Politico then) became my Twitter follower after I post…https://t.co/tVbv2b5rEG https://t.co/Sy2BIqks7C

[Deb Das @ddffx]

If you care about eye candy charts and EM 😊 https://t.co/UjBk831KPV

[Deb Das @ddffx]

If you are into this thing called #NFT (Non-Fungible Token), our resident teenager got one minted today for 1.5 Sol (~$120). Hoping one day it would fetch multiple times of that.👀

Someday your house/car/expensive jewelry/handbag might be on one of these…https://t.co/HylWDF6pHt

[Deb Das @ddffx]

Evolutionary biologist "Darwin's successor" Edward O Wilson died at 92.
NYT: Do you believe in God?
EOW: I think it would be foolish to deny dogmatically the possibility of a superior intelligence, but religion is simply an expression of tribalism ...
https://t.co/E0iUFrjDVW

[Deb Das @ddffx]

New resource. Good one for the kids or anyone wants an overview about cloud computing.
https://t.co/2oh4oBQCVA

[Deb Das @ddffx]

@helenlewis @TheAtlantic Very interesting! Enjoyed the piece!

"We will never simply want the things we should."

Wondering how do you determine the *should*s?
Is that list really made by you or someone else? :)

[Deb Das @ddffx]

It's complicated! 😃
Happy Memorial Day!🥂 https://t.co/iBI9HmQKjd

[Deb Das @ddffx]

How to set up a good feedback mechanism for your team.
"Every problem can be framed as a gap between reality and expectations. ...the goal of a good clarification/feedback check is for all parties to come out of it in sync on: 
Wha…https://t.co/T5nA4orKk7 https://t.co/nY5PjPfaVw

[Deb Das @ddffx]

Check out how a Digital Health Pass solution was built on a Hyperledger Fabric blockchain for verifying vaccine credentials. Currently in use at NY state and other places. Potentially the pattern could be used in building other cre…https://t.co/przZ95d5Ab https://t.co/C4gMpey9cD

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@asymmetricinfo @alexmagnusBTC Not very convincing one! It is a point of view stuck with "land and/or gold" as primary means for store of value. Digital assets and their value proposition in networked world is beyond our generation's imagination. Thankfully you or me are not in charge of these things! 😃🥂

[Deb Das @ddffx]

AWS just launched an interesting new capability, S3 Object Lambda. Transform objects on the fly before downloading from S3.
Useful for many typical cases like redacting (PII data) or enriching/augmenting datasets or resizing, wate…https://t.co/iXZUTPqqIF https://t.co/XD5niGKrQQ

[Deb Das @ddffx]

Is your self-hosted exchange server (in case you aren't yet on Microsoft Cloud) patched? Hopefully yes.
According to this report, there are more than 10K servers still vulnerable ( found via public scanning).
PoC exploit is public…https://t.co/gCLuC0s8Ei https://t.co/4v8nYTSeY2

[Deb Das @ddffx]

@brave browser's standard tracker blocker stopped 99+ items on @voguemagazine website!😲

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@JonErlichman Facts without context are useless! 😀

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"In the war between humans and pathogens, never have humans been so powerful." https://t.co/j5kCsBUXbx

[Deb Das @ddffx]

The (ancient) UI failed on many levels (safe UX design pattern has evolved, so it is unlikely that modern UI designers/engineers would design such a critical UI without a confirmation screen, etc).
However, the other manual gatekee…https://t.co/VojcUpQAP4 https://t.co/VZRYJIUepp

[Deb Das @ddffx]

Interesting piece, China being culturally collectivist, conformist ( and probably would remain that way) is good at low-cost mass production at scale. However, lacks the ability of unconventional thinking ( being an obedient cultur…https://t.co/KHF6NwKFBG https://t.co/WmFaS6XTiF

[Jordan Hall @jgreenhall]

Watch very closely. You are watching culture be created in realtime.

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[Deb Das @ddffx]

"We are worth more when we are addicted, outraged, polarized, disinformed and so on, than if we’re actually a thriving citizen who is critically examining his or her own choices and trying to make do in the world." - @tristanharris https://t.co/GWKd6Haxkf