Kelsey Skvoretz

Advocate of data science for social good, women in tech, and other *radical* ideas

[Kelsey Skvoretz @kelseyskvoretz]

An incredibly powerful video about the role of the listener.

How can we take these learnings and apply them to both our personal lives and AI?

"Your job is to fill in these gaps with patience."

https://t.co/yXRCfnWJ6l

[Kelsey Skvoretz @kelseyskvoretz]

2023 Mascot Bracket complete just in time https://t.co/377ofsmN6W

[Joy Marie Clarkson @joynessthebrave]

you are not a machine. you are more like a garden. you need different things on different days. a little sun today, a little less water tomorrow. you have fallow and fruitful seasons. it is not a design flaw. it is wiser than perpetual sameness. what does your garden need today?

[Adam Grant @AdamMGrant]

The true leader in a group is rarely the person who talks the most. It's usually the person who listens best.

Listening is more than hearing what’s said. It’s noticing and surfacing what isn’t said.

Inviting dissenting views and amplifying quiet voices are acts of leadership.

[Kelsey Skvoretz @kelseyskvoretz]

Great article about inclusivity at work! https://t.co/FzOmnSzFQf

[Kelsey Skvoretz @kelseyskvoretz]

I love this framework! Written by my colleague @HunterGehlbach
https://t.co/kUAayKAaTH

[Wonder of Science @wonderofscience]

These 'Beach Animals' were created by Theo Jansen as a fusion of art and engineering. The kinetic structures walk on their own and get all their energy from the wind.

[NY Sports Sufferer @Saquon_Gleyber]

This girl had the whole section rooting for her bottle flip

[Neal Katyal @neal_katyal]

Gonna be very weird if Supreme Court ends a constitutional right to obtain an abortion next week, saying it should be left to the States to decide, right after it just imposed a constitutional right to concealed carry of firearms, saying it cannot be left to the States to decide

[Mark Tenenholtz @marktenenholtz]

Every data scientist needs to know Parkinson’s Law:

It says that work expands to fill the time you have available to complete it.

In ML projects, there’s always something else to try.

But, at some point, you gotta know when “good” is “good enough” and deliver some value.

[John Dagdelen @jmdagdelen]

Last summer I did an internship at Google Brain. As someone that came to do machine learning from a non-CS background, I found the experience extremely illuminating as a developing researcher. Here’s some of the top things I learned:

[Paul Deasy @TheDeasyProject]

Some people never read 500 books to get a personal pan pizza, and it shows.

[Kelsey Skvoretz @kelseyskvoretz]

Really not trying to promote publication bias here.

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[Kelsey Skvoretz @kelseyskvoretz]

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[Kelsey Skvoretz @kelseyskvoretz]

@emilyriter A math equation 🙃

[Kelsey Skvoretz @kelseyskvoretz]

Now we're talking.
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Jk of course I play Wordle, too.

[Kelsey Skvoretz @kelseyskvoretz]

🤣 Future me beware.

[Chelsea Parlett @ChelseaParlett]

Me reading my code from > 6 months ago 🙃

[Abraham Gutman @abgutman]

Great British Bake Off but you pair every contestant with a 3-year-old who really wants to help.

[C Thi Nguyen @add_hawk]

OK, so I was curious, and I played Wordle. And I have a theory about why it's so successful. The design is ingenious in a very particular way

This is a philosopher of games' theory of Wordle. A thread:

[Kelsey Skvoretz @kelseyskvoretz]

@Tom_Weseli How would one prove they are not lazy at 6 weeks old?