Michael Young
@myoung
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deploying on a friday
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My big news: I'm running for governor of Oregon! Here's the full launch video, and check out https://t.co/MkRcl5axRo . It's hard to watch your home state struggle when you can make a difference on homelessness, education, jobs. Please share! Thanks!
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so interesting... fun to try out the sample prompts like "show me illustrations of a baby hedgehog with a mustache riding a unicycle"
openai.com
We’ve trained a neural network called DALL·E that creates images from text captions for a wide range of concepts expressible in natural language.
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Let's see if anyone notices this - I'm hiring 2 EIRs for the @nytimes to build new products
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great piece by @cocteau on the 2020 Census and differential privacy
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Guaranteeing people’s confidentiality has become more of a challenge, but some scholars worry that the new system will impede research.
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My @JupyterCon talk.Thanks to @gabrieldance,@nickconfessore, @Rich_Harris,@jashkenas, @myoung,@_RoySD, my computing classes @columbiajourn. With this talk, I rediscovered why I changed careers to teach in a school of journalism & my passion for the mission
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"Our incredible journey" continues...
Instapaper is going independent
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Good crowd currently viewing our public spreadsheet of #ICE contractor data, from today's @ReadSludge - reporting with #opendata, including from USASpending dot gov, and chatting with our members in the Forums about what's known about the companies named:
readsludge.com
Hundreds of for-profit and nonprofit corporations have pulled in billions of dollars worth of ICE contracts in recent years. See where these ICE operations take place and where the corporations are...
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Facebook has data-sharing partnerships with at least 60 device makers — including Apple, Amazon, BlackBerry, Microsoft and Samsung —and some device makers could retrieve personal information from users’ friends who believed they had barred any sharing. https://t.co/0x6rvECDIG
nytimes.com
The company formed data-sharing partnerships with Apple, Samsung and dozens of other device makers, raising new concerns about its privacy protections.
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an instant @mat classic
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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. But mostly the worst.
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Interested in applying machine learning & data science in public policy? I'm looking to hire a talented & dedicated data scientist to work with me at the University of Chicago Crime Lab (in Chicago). Find out more https://t.co/yiTKw26Rth Please spread the word!
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Now is as good a time as any to announce our project on the 2020 Census. Mike Ananny (@ananny) from USC and I are building networks to help local newsrooms cover the census -- https://t.co/UAlXPNTcrt 1/
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in the ~five years of running Digg Reader, we collected 12 billion pieces of content (~27TB of article content). that's prob most of what was published over the last five years. if anyone wants access to it for research or whatever, let me know.
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pouring a little out for Digg Reader, which we are shutting after 5 years. special thanks to the digg crew (current and past) who built it and to our awesome users. it was super fun/challenging to build but we never gave it the love it deserved.
Digg Reader is shutting down March 26th. Bummer, we know. But you can download all your feeds and import them into another RSS reader. Info on how to do that here -->
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I did a data visualization of all of @fmanjoo’s tweets over the past three months to SETTLE THIS ONCE AND FOR ALL https://t.co/qrpzJnKv5u
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ordered. really curious to try this.
"Accessibility and approachability is the future of specialty coffee. I think instant will be the leader in that." - Kent Sheridan, @voila_coffee
https://t.co/JDAY7tlhKr
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