Dave Pitman

ex-Google ☁️, ML & UX 🧐, 🤓 former entrepreneur, UX lead for 2 YC comps, MIT alum. O'Reilly Author📗: XAI for ML Practioners.

[Quanta Books @QuantaBks]

🚨New book announcement!🚨 Award-winning astronomer Emily Levesque’s (@emsque) STARLIGHT IS FALLING, coming 2027, offers an expansive, eye-opening account of cosmic discovery through one of the greatest scientific debates of all time: the precise value of the Hubble constant.

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@umbrellanaut Can I wait in line for it?

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@sophiamyang @OReillyMedia @mikemunnster Please let me know if you have any questions 😁 Also happy to chat wth the book club!

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@chriswilcox47 @the_thagomizer I'm helping: "In case you needed more context, just wanted to catch up"

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TIL there once was a man, Lodowicke Muggleton, who started a cult in the 17th century, known as the Muggletonians.

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My proudest (only) contribution to astronomy: the Pancake Hat Galaxy #PANCAKEHAT #IHOPBrandingOpp

[Prof. Emily Levesque 🤓✨🔭📚 @emsque]

[shows #JWST image to @edavepitman]

"Cool. Lots of lensing...I like that pancake-hat one." [points]

🤣🥞🤠

[Prof. Emily Levesque 🤓✨🔭📚 @emsque]

Not sure I've seen this yet: I made a comparison of the old #Hubble composite image of SMACS 0723 (B&W) fading to the new #JWST image!

Actually surprising how similar they are! The real difference comes from the exquisite level of detail you can now see in every little galaxy.

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@HeyerSascha Thanks!

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@HeyerSascha thanks for writing up Explainable AI on Medium. I head up the XAI team and wanted reach out and say hi 👋🏼 We didn't realize that the GitHub repo for the XAI SDK was not alerting us when there were new issues, so we just saw the bugs you filed. Apologies!

[Prof. Emily Levesque 🤓✨🔭📚 @emsque]

Happening tonight at 7pm, Boulder! Get your tickets at https://t.co/9XLKYKvFpX! #TheLastStargazers

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@emsque Log == log_numeric_base. Whoever made that slide clearly is in the chaotic evil category, and they probably think that pizzas are sandwiches. Yes I'm willing to start a new front in the culture wars over this.

[Eade @eade_bengard]

Pandemic, riots, now war

And the doomsday people still haven’t gotten to use their bunkers yet

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In case you're wondering where things are at: I read the first sentence thinking this was a news update for TODAY and thought "yup, that makes sense"

[Second World War tweets from 1941 @RealTimeWWII]

A huge wave of strikes has begun across northern Italy, with ~700,000 workers refusing to aid Nazi occupiers. Factories of puppet "Italian Social Republic" stand idle in protest against continued German domination.

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@c_dan4th I'm guessing he's decided (if he's still rational) that holding Kyiv hostage is his next big bargaining chip for getting NATO to give him an Eastern Europe sphere of influence. Next tipping point is probably if Turkey denies use of Bosporus or NATO moves more missile defense

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@c_dan4th Basically Putin needs a good distraction/rallying cry from issues at home, a grudge about Pres Clinton breaking security guarantees in the 90s, desire for USSR-like relevance, & good pretext for invading Estonia/Lithuania next to secure Kaliningrad access

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@c_dan4th What's odd is that before Putin has been much shrewder and a master of strategy. This crisis feels more like he's suffering from mental health issues from lockdown and is irrationally re-using strategies that actually started wars that quickly escalated beyond original intent/aim

[Prof. Emily Levesque 🤓✨🔭📚 @emsque]

Happening in just two days!! 🥳 Get your tickets now for #TheLastStargazers at @caveatnyc!

https://t.co/Ctd73XG78r

[Prof. Emily Levesque 🤓✨🔭📚 @emsque]

T-3 days until #TheLastStargazers show at @CaveatNYC! 🤓✨Grab your tickets at the link below to join us on Thu 2/10 at 7pm for wild science trivia, space adventure stories, and signed paperback copies! #NYC #astronomy https://t.co/Ctd73XG78r

[Dave Pitman @edavepitman]

@gabor Alternative hypothesis- this has always been going on and what has changed is the narrative arc we tell ourselves about successful startups swung from "grit, speed & ramen" to "Sistine chapel"

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@fancysandwiches "of course I want something valuable IRL, but obviously the rest of meatspace is trivial and not valuable"