Legislator @AsmLaShae bravely stands up to her committee to say the obvious: K-12 should should prepare college-bound kids for college. Alas, her voice of reason fell on deaf ears. AB 1217 strips UC/CSU from controlling college admission reqs, and to take orders from K-12. 1/

ICPC alumni meetup at @Quora . @poucherw @adamdangelo @dojideon @que_tourist Asset Abdualiyev @randomjohnnyh

RT @hadip: This past week, my twin brother Ali (@apartovi) and I received hundreds of messages from Iranian students who were accepted into….

Today is my first as department chair at @Berkeley_EECS . When I left Harvard 6 yrs ago, I just saw it as moving from one great place to another. Then, it hit me at a state school I'm also now a public servant, and that fact weighs on me every day. I aim to serve the best I can.

RT @GoogleResearch: Applications are open for the Google Academic Research Awards, a program that supports academic research in computing a….

RT @OfficialLoganK: Gemini 2.5 Pro is back in the free tier of the API, have a great weekend : ).

41. My whole life I had looked out onto an uninhabited island from my parents’ back porch — today decided to go visit it for the first time. Any Caribbean geography experts want to guess which island this is? (hint: there are two tiny islands, one in front of the other)

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See below on what Zuckerberg is looking for in star recruits worth $100m pay packages for Meta’s plans in Artificial Intelligence. But weren’t some people saying calculus is no longer useful in the AI age? 🤔

“A federal judge has not only ordered the Trump administration to restore millions of dollars in UC grants, but also said the case could proceed as a class-action suit, opening it to UC researchers statewide.”. Go Bears!.

'the move includes a dedicated executive suite for [HUD Secretary] Turner, the construction of an executive dining room, reserved parking for the secretary's five cars, an exclusive elevator for Turner and a potential gym for Turner and his family. "While Secretary Turner and.

RT @TechCrunch: Better Auth, an authentication tool by a self-taught Ethiopian dev, raises $5M from Peak XV, YC | TechCrunch .

RT @ycombinator: Congrats to @imbereket and @better_auth on their $5M seed!. Better Auth is the most comprehensive authentication library f….

Confession: I’ve never taken a linear algebra class (nor a probability class).

There’s a reason these ideas catch on.

RT @JeffDean: Separately from my Google role, I'm excited to help @LaudeInstitute identify and fund non-profit computer science research t….

RT @andykonwinski: Today, I’m launching a deeply personal project. I’m betting $100M that we can help computer scientists create more upsid….

RT @andykonwinski: @LaudeInstitute is a non-profit that gives the right resources to the right researchers at the right time. We help more….

Memories from an old e-mail (note the date) . Sadly, the website is no longer up. Anyone remember this old TopCoder flash game that some player made in their free time? Featured me, d000hg, bmerry, AleaActaEst, @t2mykleb, @misofac, Jan_Kuipers, and @marek_a_cygan

RT @deedydas: No one talks about the real reason driving the ~500k tech layoffs. Section 174 in the 2017 tax cuts turned engineer salaries….

The commenters interpreted this as augmented intelligence, but there’s an alternative sci-fi interpretation: an even more dystopian “The Matrix”. The model in your implant feeds false sensory inputs 24/7 so you live in an imaginary world, interacting only with AI-powered NPCs.