Dmitri Friedenberg

Software engineer in machine learning.

[Dmitri Friedenberg @dmitrifried]

@carelesspricing It looks like a fine standard width monitor to me

[Dmitri Friedenberg @dmitrifried]

@aureliengeron I did not realize that you could use Python in Julia. That's amazing and I'm going to give Julia a much better look now.

[Dmitri Friedenberg @dmitrifried]

@nataliexdean Absolutely. A lot of credit goes to @jeremyphoward for pushing for masks, based on science (and common sense) despite the CDC's absurd messaging. It was problematic at the time because we did need more masks to go to health workers, but there should have been better guidance.

[Tristan Cooper @TristanACooper]

Every time I see a story about Americans refusing to wear masks I think of this scene in Avenue 5 where people repeatedly throw themselves out of the airlock because they think they're on a reality show instead of an actual spaceship

[Dmitri Friedenberg @dmitrifried]

@rasbt This is kind of like saying no one should do a math major before trying abstract algebra. Sure, that's a threshold after which you understand the subject for what it really is, but you won't know that until you get there. How can someone know they won't like ML if they don't try?

[Dmitri Friedenberg @dmitrifried]

@rasbt Sounds like an opportunity to design a cryptocurrency based around training GPT-3 models as a means of mining.

[Dmitri Friedenberg @dmitrifried]

@JoINrbs ayaya

[Michael Harriot @michaelharriot]

But...

(trigger warning)

[Adam Karpiak @Adam_Karpiak]

On LinkedIn I posted about recruiters encountering racism from clients/hiring managers, either overtly or thru microagressions. Here is a thread of some responses and examples, some of which were DMs...

[CNN Communications @CNNPR]

Official response from CNN General Counsel to @TeamTrump‘s letter demanding CNN apologize for a poll that shows @JoeBiden leading.

[Dmitri Friedenberg @dmitrifried]

I really think #ShutDownSTEM is fundamentally a pro-science stance. It's asking for one day to see if we can empower the STEM community for generations to come by making it more inclusive and attractive to all people and cultures. Science stands to gain a lot here.

[Dmitri Friedenberg @dmitrifried]

The racial and gender disparities in STEM are a massive problem. The culture is built around a very select slice of the population in a toxic way. Taking a day to #ShutDownSTEM is a healthy way for companies and institutions to consider how better to support women and minorities.

[Michael Harriot @michaelharriot]

So much of history has been whitewashed for the sake of making it palatable for white consumption that we are starting to perpetuate things that are not only misconceptions, but outright lies.

A lot of what you're told about protests, MLK, etc. is wrong.

A thread.

[Dmitri Friedenberg @dmitrifried]

CHAMPION breakdown of real statistics, in the face of sham interpretations.

[Michael Harriot @michaelharriot]

I had a professor who always talked about "the necessity of existence." Basically, some things should be created just so that thing will exist in the world.

So here's a thread to RT anytime some1 responds to #BlackLivesMatter with "but black on black crime" like this yahoo.

[Nate Silver @NateSilver538]

From campaign finance data, an estimate that 75-80% of police support Trump over Biden.

https://t.co/17pxJsvJOy

[Dmitri Friedenberg @dmitrifried]

This is one of the best examples of data visualization I've seen this year:

Coronavirus Deaths vs Other Epidemics From Day of First Death (Since 2000) [OC] https://t.co/N4y8yV7S8P via @reddit

#DataScience #DataVisualization

[Dmitri Friedenberg @dmitrifried]

@carelesspricing yes

[David Chapman @Meaningness]

Look at the date on this tweet.
Via @The_Lagrangian
https://t.co/O178rLh2es

[Jeremy Howard @jeremyphoward]

What's happening here? Does this masks thing really make sense, scientifically? Yes, it does!

Here's 34 scientific papers that all point to the same thing: masks (even home made ones) really work to dramatically reduce the spread of covid-19.
https://t.co/payMDpDppf