A big part of starting a new job is getting comfortable saying “I don’t know” with a new group of people.

If you learn one thing today, let it be this: Independently constructed data sets are not plug compatible. - Mike Stonebraker #ODSCEast

Put your best people on cleaning up your data - it's the single most important thing. Also, use the best technology, which means from a startup, not a traditional vendor. - Mike Stonebraker #ODSCEast

Put your best talent on the shiny new stuff (Data Science & your "secret sauce") - don't stick them with maintenance. They'll quit. - Mike Stonebraker #ODSCEast

Advice from Mike Stonebraker: Read the Innovators Dilemma by Clayton Christiansen once a year, indefinitely. #ODSCEast amazon.com/Innovators-Dil…

You have to be willing to give up your current business model and reinvent yourself. You may lose customers! But if you don't, you will go out of business. - Mike Stonebraker #ODSCEast

Like our good friends at Dwarf Fortress know, time is subjective! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_perc…

We are in a change in the programming paradigm. OLD: writing code. NEW: provide data to deep learning program. Pieter Abbeel #ODSCEast

Two new waves of innovation about to happen: 1) Robots with eyes (happening now) 2) Teachable Robots (w/i 5 years) Pieter Abbeel #ODSCEast

Humans do 1 petaflop of compute, using 10^15 synapses. That's matched by only 30 GPUs that are available RIGHT NOW. Pretty soon we'll be building chips that far outstrip a human brain's compute power. #ODSCEast

We only get 1 chance at superintelligence - because eventually it will be smart enough that we won't be able to turn it off. So, let's get it right? I'm looking at you, #ODSCEast attendees.

Last year “Python” was Googled more in the US than “Kim Kardashian.” #themoreyouknow #PyCon2019 superuser.openstack.org/articles/pytho…

The ideas, visions and worldview of software developers are now key: things they make easier we do more, things they make harder we do less often. That's real power. #ODSCEast

There is almost nothing more frustrating than coding - everything is broken, nothing works. That makes the Coder Tribe incredibly persistent. #ODSCEast

Great recap for #ODSCEast 2019!

It turns out I am not allowed on boats. At least that’s what the human who shouted at me by the river indicated. I am a bear.

Hi Alison Herman happy holidays! Still digging your TV writing, and I'm back with questions for your big Witcher article. 1) Does every fantasy genre show need to be the successor to GoT? 2) Did Netflix position TW as a GoT replacement? 3) Is there anything you liked about TW?

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*rubs eyes, stretches* Wait, what year is it? Who owns Twitter? This is not the future I remember!