Today I launched a new newsletter called Understanding AI. The first article is a deep dive on the copyright lawsuits over Stable Diffusion and other generative AI technologies. Please subscribe! understandingai.org/p/copyright-la…

Sidra at the Mosque of Ibn Tulun — Egypt 2022 instagram.com/p/Cm29xpTuSUQ/

Product asking eng to prioritize features over internal quality of life issues of the eng org is the product org doing its job correctly.

If tech debt gets so unwieldy it’s stopping engineering from doing its main job (building features), it’s a failure of the eng org leadership

This is a thread of my thoughts and feelings about the actions that led to FTX’s bankruptcy, and the enormous harm that was caused as a result, involving the likely loss of many thousands of innocent people’s savings.

Heading to Mexico City for the week! Would love food / art / other recommendations!

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Every extant culture is itself a product of appropriation. The question worth asking is “are you treating the thing you’re appropriating respectfuly?” And we can disagree about what that means in particular cases, but at least it’s the right frame.

SWE For Scientists pupils—I'm teaching Stanford University—often request best practices for storing/versioning datasets
•1GB-2TB
•compute on AWS/GCP/onprem
•often PHI
•git integration
Suggestions?
PS: Follow new acct @sweforscience for more in the future! #datascience #dataengineering

In the spring, shortly after Facebook announced the members of its new Oversight Board, Donald Trump called Mark Zuckerberg. He was unhappy with the makeup of the board, Kate Klonick reports. nyer.cm/oz1o3gI

“crosses the line from protected speech to political activism” cc Bad Legal Takes

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This is a fascinating look at how technology 'trickles down' from expensive industrial applications to consumer devices arstechnica.com/cars/2020/10/t…

This is Ars Technica at its best: arstechnica.com/science/2020/0…

whoami.filippo.io, the SSH server that knows who you are, got some newly refreshed intel! Try it out!

$ ssh whoami.filippo.io

So what was Tesla doing at Wardenclyffe tower?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wardencly…

I think the idea was this: the ground conducts electricity so it reflects EM radiation. The ionosphere has enough free electrons to conduct electricity so it also reflects EM...