Rishab Aiyer Ghosh

past: head of Search Intl, Apple; cofounder at Topsy (bought by Apple); head of Collaborative Creativity Group, UNU-MERIT; Board Member, Open Source Initiative

[Rishab Aiyer Ghosh @r2g2]

"the universe is reflected in the mind like the sun on the waters." vijnanabhairava tantra, translation by daniel odier. http://is.gd/dLRan

[Rishab Aiyer Ghosh @r2g2]

@MattooShashank It’s much easier to get voter ID in India and also much easier to vote: India requires a voting booth within 2km (1.5 miles) of EVERY VOTER; in contrast US states make some Native American voters drive over 100 miles to vote!

[trish @TrisH0x2A]

Robert van Engelen wrote a complete Lisp interpreter in just 99 lines of C

it includes 21 built-in primitives garbage collection and an interactive REPL

to prove how small it is he ran it on a Sharp pocket computer from the 1990s

the source is free and every line is explained in an accompanying article

[Chris Anderson (in Bay Area) @chr1sa]

18 years after @Jrdmnz @jason4short and I created ArduPilot, here it is destroying large parts of the Russian air force. Crazy

[Rishab Aiyer Ghosh @r2g2]

@AshleyRParker Thank you for this article.

[Sarah McBride @SarahEMcBride]

I’m not here to fight about bathrooms. I’m here to fight for Delawareans and to bring down costs facing families.

[Rishab Aiyer Ghosh @r2g2]

@paulg @gfodor I remember when certain VCs and “thought leaders” were raving about Miami and the end of SF and California. A couple years later SF leads the AI revolution, gets the vast share of investor $ and even Trump-endorsers quietly close their Miami offices.

https://t.co/2xD1ZOXv3n

[Rishab Aiyer Ghosh @r2g2]

@ParkerMolloy This was the last straw, but it’s reflective of most of the @nytimes political reporting.

[Rishab Aiyer Ghosh @r2g2]

@arappeport @migold Cancelled my subscription finally, and sadly; I subscribe to over 20 publications because quality journalism needs funding. This is trash though. If you can’t bring yourself to describe Trump’s speech as incoherent, have the decency to quote even one paragraph of it directly!

[Rishab Aiyer Ghosh @r2g2]

@arappeport @migold Cancelled my subscription finally, and sadly; I subscribe to over 20 publications because quality journalism needs funding. This is trash though. If you can’t bring yourself to describe Trump’s speech as incoherent, have the decency to quote even one paragraph of it directly!

[Rishab Aiyer Ghosh @r2g2]

@shiramstein @sfchronicle Wow, love it that our local paper has a DC correspondent!

[Rishab Aiyer Ghosh @r2g2]

@mkhanpasha @suhaunah Wow where was this performance? I studied Dhrupad with him 30 years ago…

[Rishab Aiyer Ghosh @r2g2]

@patrickc @DStrachman @mybirdbuddy I’ve long thought the Merlin Bird ID app was the best use of AI (identifies birds by photo or sound) and this is a nice implementation :)

[Rishab Aiyer Ghosh @r2g2]

@BGrueskin I thought Buzzfeed already tried that business model - subsidize investigative journalism with listicles?

[Rishab Aiyer Ghosh @r2g2]

@generic_void Especially true for people who, autists or not, were privileged enough not to *have* to learn social skills. Devon Price’s fantastic book Unmasking Autism points out how many people are not diagnosed as autistic because they had developed social skills, because they *had* to!

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The extinction illusion: the left side and the right side have the same number of black dots

[Gabrielle Blair @designmom]

No matter how many orgasms she has, they won’t make her pregnant. Pregnancies can only happen when men have an orgasm. Unwanted pregnancies can only happen when men orgasm irresponsibly.

[Rishab Aiyer Ghosh @r2g2]

@shaunmmaguire “Netanyahu also gave his own death estimates. Some 13k Palestinian fighters had been killed, he said, while the civilian death rate estimated at 1-1.5 for every combatant. That would put the total killed — fighters and civilians — at over 26k [26k-32k]”

https://t.co/zGdRjjBxbr

[MMitchell @mmitchell_ai]

With an ethics or responsible AI approach to deployment -- I mean, the expert kind, not the PR kind -- you would leverage the fact that Gemini is a system, not just a single model, & build multiple classifiers given a user request. These can determine: 12/

[George Takei @GeorgeTakei]

A Democrat was in the White House when my family was sent to the internment camps in 1941. It was an egregious violation of our human and civil rights.

It would have been understandable if people like me said they’d never vote for a Democrat again, given what had been done to us.

But being a liberal, being a progressive, means being able to look past my own grievances and concerns and think of the greater good. It means working from within the Democratic party to make it better, even when it has betrayed its values.

I went on to campaign for Adlai Stevenson when I became an adult. I marched for civil rights and had the honor of meeting Dr. Martin Luther King. I fought for redress for my community and have spent my life ensuring that America understood that we could not betray our Constitution in such a way ever again.

Bill Clinton broke my heart when he signed DOMA into law. It was a slap in the face to the LGBTQ community. And I knew that we still had much work to do. But I voted for him again in 1996 despite my misgivings, because the alternative was far worse. And my obligation as a citizen was to help choose the best leader for it, not to check out by not voting out of anger or protest.

There is no leader who will make the decision you want her or him to make 100 percent of the time. Your vote is a tool of hope for a better world. Use it wisely, for it is precious. Use it for others, for they are in need of your support, too.

[Patrick McKenzie @patio11]

You might not know about @simonw's command line 'llm' tool. Here let me demo it.

git log | head -n 200 | llm -s "Of the most recent 5 commits, which is probably the most important? I use 'Minor' and similar commit messages to mark unimportant commits."

[Andrew Gazdecki @agazdecki]

Every startup founder needs to watch this.