We are going fully remote first at Quora. Most of our employees have opted not to return to the office post-covid, I will not work out of the office, our leadership teams will not be located in the office, and all policies will orient around remote work. (1/2)
They gathered around the tower of bone.
"We should knock it down," they said.
"Because you're jealous of what we've built!" called the ones atop the tower.
"No," said the ones below, "because you used our bones."
My take on @WHO press conference on asymptomatic transmission - sounds like a misunderstanding. WHO is drawing a distinction between transmission from people who are fully asymptomatic (never develop symptoms) and pre-symptomatic (haven’t developed symptoms yet). 1/3
Today both France and Spain (two badly hit countries) have come out with seroprevalence numbers. (France is a model, paper linked below. Spain was representative sample/survey of 60K; I don't have the paper yet). Both are ~5 percent. If that holds up, that is very very bad news.
There’s one metric that can help us know when it is safe to re-open.
This evening, @CarlosdelRio7 and I propose what that is in The @WashingtonPost.
It is tracking all deaths of ALL CAUSES.
https://t.co/HZttRzKETP
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Enfim voltamos à normalidade. A partir de hoje o governo federal brasileiro só usa referências de Médici, Duterte, Videla, Morawiecki, Stroessner, Trump, Salvini, Ustra, Al Saud, Pinochet e Costa e Silva. Nazismo nunca mais!
Se cair, paradoxalmente, Alvim cai por excesso de competência: por levar o ideário do governo às suas últimas consequências. Por criar uma performance onde essas idéias estão perfeitamente representadas, com suas origens históricas incluídas.
Our field isn't quite "artificial intelligence" -- it's "cognitive automation": the encoding and operationalization of human-generated abstractions / behaviors / skills. The "intelligence" label is a category error
Sobre o caso da Fundação Palmares, segue um fio 👇🏿:
1/19. A solidariedade racial é uma construção política, não algo "natural". Construir essa solidariedade política tem sido o papel histórico do movimento negro.
Last night, I was honored by the @EFF. As I reflected on what got me to this place, I realized I needed to reckon with how I have benefited from men whose actions have helped uphold a patriarchal system that has hurt so many. Here is my acceptance speech: https://t.co/trjjC96CFL
Tenho uma sequência de 4 bancas de TCC hoje, 3 são sobre gênero e diversidade. Pesquisas feitas por alunas de um CENTRO DE INFORMÁTICA! Resultados q não surpreendem, mas deveriam nos alarmar: mulheres e minorias sofrem em um meio pouco acolhedor, machista e cheio de preconceitos.
(1/7) So apparently some (I hope very few) people online are using the fact that I am the primary developer of the eht-imaging software library (https://t.co/n7djw1r9hY) to launch awful and sexist attacks on my colleague and friend Katie Bouman. Stop.