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Ad Abyssum, Ut Ad Astra Eamus
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Y Combinator, With or without getting into @ycombinator , I will spend the next 10,000 days building equipment to harvest metal from the bottom of the ocean, because it has to be done. I am the co-founder of Nanablue - we design and construct systems to harvest metal from the
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Ad Abyssum, Ut Ad Astra Eamus
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Polygon working towards being able to handle 100 million DAILY active users. What an awesome ecosystem to be involved with. @0xPolygon @NarbTrading
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3 years
@ErikDavis @Legendary @dunemovie @RealChalamet @Zendaya @DaveBautista @Dastmalchian @BardemAntarctic @MissEssDeeBee @HansZimmer There are 6 core books by Frank Herbert - I wouldnt mind splitting each one into 2-3 movies. That's like a decade of movie production content, hopefully.
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2 years
Photure is now an official partner of Unlock Protocol! Over this past week we met with their team and were given access to their decentralized publishing platform, Via Headline This integration will allow our users to create token-gated content on web with embedded Photure NFTs
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@smartereveryday Might have been an airplane! Photo by Kendall Rust
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9 years
Me: you look like William Wallace. Haley: who is that? http://t.co/9OjgvLh8Bl
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@latishab_ Maintaining ocean ecosystems is the first consideration in anything we do. We operate in the 2nd-least biodiverse place on the planet, and ~80% of that biomass is bacteria. We pick up nodules that are sitting on top of the seabed so it’s not carving out chunks of earth like
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@aryan_kochhar Theory of Games has been really great for building out interaction systems - a little technical, you dont need to get into the math unless you're actually going to use it lol. Game thinking talks about building "sticky" products - a product that users want to return to
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9 years
*in bed at 9:00 *on social media until 11:00
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3 years
Sometimes life is kind of rough then I remember that I'm: 1) alive 2) young 3) healthy Life is actually pretty great, pretty much all of the time
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@Pavel_Asparagus Maybe you're single because you own a total of one duffle bag's worth of items
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@xtinacomputes Three Body Problem I’ve read just about every popular sci-fi series and this is absolutely top 3 if not #1
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2 years
What's a Photure?
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@mouthofmorrison Really thought that was one of these
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2 years
The progress that’s been made in web3 usability over the past year is incredible Unlock Protocol making BIG moves in their membership checkout functionality
@UnlockProtocol
Ʉnlock Protocol 🔜 Onchain Summer ☀️🌮
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Currently, one of the most notable opportunities in web3 is to improve and simplify the user experience. With that goal in mind, Unlock has completely redesigned the Unlock checkout experience based on extensive user testing and feedback. 1/ #ux
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3 years
@valor_zhang I started out pursuing ML for a bit and realized there's A LOT of prerequisites. - heavy statistics - working python knowledge - data science - domain knowledge for whatever your application is. BUT the path from data science > data engineering > ML engineer is pretty solid
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3 years
@cdixon Democratization of monetization. Web2 platforms are almost required to take 100 units of value from users for every 1 they give in return Web3 enables mechanisms where the platform can give 100 units of value for every 1 that's asked for in return
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2 years
I catch myself getting into a cycle of “why is my product not as good as x” But then seeing where x was when they first started makes me feel a bit better… Get started, then get good
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2 years
Grateful for the entire @TachyonAccel team. Approaching Demo Day, these past 12 weeks has been world changing for every aspect of our company ( @PhotureApp ) After Tachyon, the sky isn’t the limit - it’s just a starting point 🚀
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2 years
Founder Fridays! Who are you thankful for?
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3 years
@nickcammarata Been spending a lot of time on this lately. Progress and/or skill building is at the heart of attachment to an activity. This is why Factorio keeps me engaged for a 10hr stretch - it's clear to see progress from replacing just one inserter.
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2 months
Working on pulling Ni/Co/Cu/Mn to the left There is more Nickel and Cobalt in the deep sea in the form of polymetallic nodules (potato-sized chunks of ore sitting on top of the seabed) than all terrestrial sources combined Necessity of sourcing from the deep sea goes up as
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Alex Grant
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New critical metals assessment just dropped from the US Department of @Energy . It's going to be so much work pulling every single one of these dots left!
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Wife’s 9yo brother is staying the weekend with us. Avid reader. Told him he can read anything except the “forbidden books” (everything on the third shelf from the bottom) Asteroid Mining 101 has kept him occupied for hours
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Didn't get in, didn't get an interview. Obviously still full-steam ahead into the abyss. 9,981 days to go 🫡 Started raising our seed round last week - not sure where the whole "don't raise over summer/4th of July" came from - we met with half a dozen VC's/angels this week and
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Y Combinator, With or without getting into @ycombinator , I will spend the next 10,000 days building equipment to harvest metal from the bottom of the ocean, because it has to be done. I am the co-founder of Nanablue - we design and construct systems to harvest metal from the
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crazy that every single supply chain starts with either farming or mining
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2 years
Big shoutout to our good friend and advisor @crystaldstreet from @JournoDao for getting this relationship set up 🙏 @UnlockProtocol
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3 years
@IAmAndrewKirby From the book: 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, by Steven Covey "Time Management Matrix"
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9 years
To the kid sprinting across campus with a trash can: I don't know what you're doing but it looks really important so good luck.
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2 years
Let’s go 🚀 Demo day is TOMORROW!!! Reserve your spot, come watch @PhotureApp and the rest of the @TachyonAccel cohort pitch our companies to the world 🌎🌍🌏 There’s a POAP 👀
@TachyonXYZ
Tachyon
2 years
12/ @PhotureApp is building the Decentralized Global News Network: Peer-to-peer, unedited, uncensored first-person perspectives from across the globe, with images & videos as NFTs having their authenticity built into the metadata. 📸📹🖼️🌐
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@LongFormMath Yes. I thought I knew what a number was - I was wrong
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2 years
A car built in 1940 idling consumes more energy and creates more pollution than a car built in 2022, running at 60mph This is the same trend we’re seeing for blockchain tech, except the pace of innovation is much, much faster
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2 years
Ready Player Me is the fulfilling the grand vision that got me excited about web3 in the first place - portable content Imagine upgrading your weapon in Call of Duty then taking that gun into your Halo campaign: this is the sort of thing that web3 & @readyplayerme makes possible
@readyplayerme
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Ready Player Me x @a16z We’ve closed a $56M Series B funding round led by @Tocelot from @a16z GAMES FUND ONE and @cdixon from @a16z crypto!
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9 years
I have this bad habit of not telling people important things. Like, I'm moving to Arkansas tomorrow.
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2 years
@iamemilyleahy Flow, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Happiness is a never ending meandering up and to the right Increase challenge so you can increase skill, increase skill so you can increase challenge Learn to love growth and performance goes exponential
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2 years
Our friends over at Huddln are pushing web3 forward QUICK 🚀 Launching XP and now Livestreaming within weeks of each other. Joe and Jackie are a team to keep an eye on 👀
@XpProtocol
XP Protocol
2 years
. @themintlistnft presents the first-ever LIVE Music NFT Performances on the @Huddln_ app!🥳🥳🥳 With performances by @JameeCornelia & @AudacityOfAudia ! 🔥🔥🔥 Retweet and DM us for your access password! 😎
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3 years
I love @Replit
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3 years
@QiaochuYuan "Do the dishes" Does this even need done? What if this never got done, ever? Is switching to disposable fork/plates really that bad for the environment? Would I still be able to get a girlfriend if I did this? I feel good about this move, might get rid of dishwasher all together
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9 years
I think I'll just play it safe and trust absolutely nobody today.
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9 years
Why am I up at 4:00am? Because tonight was leg day.
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10 years
Alone in my kitchen singing and making fudge. #turndownforwhat
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3 years
@DJSnM The real crime here is having a toilet in your living room.
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9 years
Day three of college: I can't find the library.
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@geepytee @ycombinator We pick polymetallic nodules in the Clarion Clipperton Zone - an area in the abyssal plain between Hawaii and Mexico (not currently harvesting, but this is the zone we are building for). The ore comes in potato-sized nodules sitting on the seabed, so it’s really harvesting, not
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@nickcammarata You could live a very meaningful life by just bouncing back and forth between increasing challenge and increasing skill - a never-ending positive feedback loop of progress. I quit Factorio when my base gets overrun and feel like I lost so much "progress"
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2 years
Copilot has been tremendously helpful in jumping from Python to Javascript - the jump is mostly just syntax I just need to know how to *describe* what I want done, write a comment as if I'm teaching someone else how to do it, and auto-complete takes care of the rest
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3 years
@hubermanlab is hands down the most valuable podcast
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@nwilliams030
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this has got to be the best feature apple has ever made
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@ProductHunt "Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use." - Steve Jobs
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11 years
I cannot stand all of these high school confession pages. Cheap entertainment at the expense of others. Really mature.
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11 years
Things always work out in the end. If things aren't working out, it's not the end.
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3 months
Knot: tied 🪢
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@kenn_not_ken @duttakapil @ConsumerRick @ycombinator A few tradeoffs. Environmental impact is a big part of it - dredging picks up a lot of seabed/silt that has to be pumped back down, and crushing at the surface requires less power spend at the seabed. Big + of dredging is that it’s high throughput
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2 years
🌐 Just shipped the new website: 📲 Shipped a big new release two days ago (iOS & Android) 🧑‍💻 Evan & Patrick writing code as we speak 🍎 Ian networking in New York last Monday 🚀 Made the final touches on our pitch deck this morning __ We don’t stop.
@QuantumNFT
Quantum Art
2 years
If you haven’t stopped working in this market, prove it ⬇️👀
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10 years
I haven't made mistakes, I've just learned what not to do.
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3 years
@StewartalsopIII University: *buy $400 book *pay someone $4000 to read it to you *get piece of paper saying that you allowed this to happen ~30 times over 4 years
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2 years
A blockchain is a database The difference between a traditional db and a blockchain: There is no updating, only appending
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@ConsumerRick @ycombinator We don’t use a dredger, and bring up whole nodules instead of crushing the ore at the bottom and pumping it up as a slurry
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2 years
Lol no
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2 years
do founders take off the 4th
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3 years
@adetolaov • Life is for me not against me • People have capacity for maximum good and maximum evil, but are inherently good unless proved to be otherwise • I can do anything but not everything • Meaning is created not found • High weight low reps • Drink more water
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2 years
@michaelmiraflor YouTube Premium buys back more time than TSA Pre pre ever could
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2 years
Photure would not be possible without blockchain - anonymous donations/publishing; IPFS makes our content immutable and uncensorable Our business model runs on subscriptions & content licensing - built on Polygon, but we'll still be running if $matic goes to $0.01 @photureapp
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@aaroncbailey @ycombinator Here for the challenge 🚀 thank you!!
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9 years
Stephen Curry's daughter is probably the cutest thing alive.
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3 years
@KylieKrejmas Keeping a consistent sleep schedule is always #1 for me! Around that - 5-10 minutes of walking + sunlight in the mornings (suggested by @hubermanlab ), and taking some silent time every day.
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3 years
Why does Venmo have a feed? I really don't want to be able to like or comment on a stranger I met 6 years ago paying their roommate for the electric bill.
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11 years
Personally, I appreciate people being rude. It means they're being honest.
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2 years
@KylieKrejmas web2 was a frontend revolution web3 is a backend revolution Ethereum is a database that all the web3 companies (that operate off of eth) share
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2 years
@StewartalsopIII Yes, GPT Plus comes with GPT4 and you can switch between models. Text is the only modality available as of now
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9 years
"Nothing can stop God's plan for your life" -Isaiah 14:27
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9 years
Tried to go to sleep before midnight... Better luck next time.
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2 years
@willdepue @algekalipso This is all you need
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2 years
@heylizelle Photure, the Decentralized News Network ( @PhotureApp ) Solving censorship, misinformation/disinformation, consolidation of media, and news deserts for those in underdeveloped and war-torn countries 30k users on mobile, 20k of those users split between Russia and Ukraine …
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9 years
"You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do." -Eleanor Roosevelt.
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9 years
Taking a poll. Is "fish stick" an insult?
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3 years
@NimaRoohiS I feel that. Everyone loves to highlight the fun and exciting parts of starting a business but this side of it is unfortunately kept quiet most of the time. Recently came across @FoundersSquared - a community of founders supporting each other in the journey. Check it out 👍
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2 years
NFT’s are not just twitter pfp’s, they’re a piece of content stored on the blockchain The use-cases may change but the technology is here to stay ➡️ “NFT” is just a file type ⬅️
@Kimiro74114607
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2 years
If you haven't abandoned NFTs, let me hear you!
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9 years
College officially starts in 12 hours and honestly, I'm pretty ready.
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11 years
After 20 minutes of searching for my keys, I finally found them... Under my cat.
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3 years
Thank you so much 🙏 honored and humbled to be working with such an amazing team, solving one of the hardest problems in web3 - usability "As of today, using @PhotureApp is the easiest way we know of to convert any photo or video to a #NFT directly from a #smartphone "
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11 years
I got ninety nine problems and they're all wrestling.
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2 years
I need a text editor with copilot for creative writing Every interface I’ve used (except vscode) is just a text field with a “generate response” button I want small suggestions & corrections as I go instead of I/O’ing whole paragraphs
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10 years
In search of a new family. Please help. http://t.co/9QCYWueg1m
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3 years
@nwilliams030 @JohnSigmon @TurnerNovak To be real I see this tweet come back every few months...
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3 years
this has got to be the best feature apple has ever made
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At the age of 16 my friends and I got a value pack of this stuff and have all been addicted to the gym ever since. this was the real deal. the realest deal. iykyk.
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Remember when we could walk into our local supplement store and buy meth? The banning of jack3d was the top. Nothing has improved since then
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@growing_daniel ChatGPT is a Trisolaran
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3 years
So incredibly grateful for this life, and everything and everyone in it.
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11 years
Andrew and I hanging out: going back and forth showing each other tweets for an hour a half.
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10 years
@nothwehr_2017 I'm disappointed in how long it took me to understand that...
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2 years
@nat_sharpe_ Adds to the aesthetic IMO
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2 years
Incredible discussion today with the great @ethereumJoseph , talking about the many many use-cases of blockchain, how bottom-up trust structures enable rearchitecture of *everything*, and all things Ethereum The future of this ecosystem is getting brighter by the day 🙏
@TachyonXYZ
Tachyon
2 years
🗓DAY 15: @ethereumJoseph joined @TachyonAccel cohort for Founder's Friday today 🔥🙌 Super 🧠interesting discussion about @ConsenSys & @ConsenSysMesh , Vision for a user-centric world🌎, Age of communities👯, Coopetition b/w ecosystem players, and much more !! 🚀
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3 years
What does a beginner need to know getting started in Twitter growth and building a userbase? #indiedev #buildinpublic #DEVCommunity #entrepreneur #marketing #socialmediamanager #SocialMediaStrategy
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1 year
ChatGPT can now browse the internet Here we go…
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@valor_zhang Getting a job in ML in one year is low probability, but getting a job in data science in less than a year is high probability and makes getting a job in ML much easier.
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