David Beyer @dbeyer123 Twitter profile

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David Beyer

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2 years

@tunguz I’m in Tel Aviv now and will rent 8 cars to rest this theory out

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David Beyer

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5 years

Find someone who tweets about you the way Jason tweets about himself.

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5 years

Based on the last couple of weeks, I’m getting really, really good at my job (angel investing). It’s so rewarding to be great at something...

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David Beyer

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7 years

My brilliant colleague @lishali88 talks neural networks in this beautifully done explainer from @3Blue1Brown

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David Beyer

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4 years

Serious question. Those of you who move to entirely new cities for reasons other than cost of living, how do you factor the difficulty of making new friends, which gets progressively harder as you age / leaving behind the social network you spent years cultivating ?

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@drose007 Since when does moral authority derive from one's ability to scale their role in a hypergrowth company? "complex policy issues" is quite an understatement for a company that's tearing at the fabric of society. What responsibility do you bear?

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@davidrkadler You’re cool with massacring young people at a music festival ?

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@lexfridman Lex Friedman, auditioning for the role of Dean at Harvard university, expertly deploying a mix of bland, value neutral language and fashionable both sideism.

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4 years

@karaswisher Doesn't it say in the bible somewhere that "a person's virtue is measured in their success surviving re-orgs" ?

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David Beyer

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7 years

@TrueFactsStated Just sent you a cool $200

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David Beyer

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8 years

#POTUS I will miss you man.

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David Beyer

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9 months

@Lucas_Gage_ It's not news that Jews have historically punched above their weight class per capita. It's also not news that people, owing to a combination of envy, an external locus of control and not having enough hobbies become singularly obsessed with it.

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David Beyer

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3 years

@michaelanaftali This whole thread is precisely why the state of Israel needed and needs to exist.

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David Beyer

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8 years

@KellyannePolls @ZekeJMiller @billclinton @bobdalogger Gucci just screams "The forgotten man" and populism.

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David Beyer

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7 years

@Susan_Hennessey I'd argue Hannity does indeed have superior experience in "obsequious sycophancy in the service of demagoguery." A future Peabody category.

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David Beyer

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8 years

The Future of Machine Intelligence, my @OReillyMedia report incl. Yoshua Bengio, Brendan Frey, Daniela Rus and more

The Future of Machine Intelligence

Advances in both theory and practice are throwing the promise of machine learning into sharp relief. The field has the potential to transform a range of industries, from self-driving cars … -...

www.oreilly.com

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David Beyer

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9 months

@VividVoid_ I don't know if this claim about adderall, such as it is, is accurate. For people with ADHD, it corrects a neural state of understimulation.

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David Beyer

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8 years

@adudeinaplace2 fact that you can't tell the difference attests to your ignorance of history and diplomacy. Stick with duck dynasty quips

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David Beyer

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5 years

I think I'm going to lose my mind if tech leaders and VCs continue to tweet derivative aphorisms like they're philosophers.

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David Beyer

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8 years

@TheRickWilson First midnight massacre weak! LOW RATINGS! My massacre will be a ratings machine. Love!

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David Beyer

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7 years

@mattyglesias alternative cash

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David Beyer

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6 years

I challenge any VC firm to hold their offsite at Vinod's beachfront.

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David Beyer

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11 months

@SirProdigle @davidrkadler Even if one accepted (I don’t whatsoever) your gruesome end justify means framing, this doesn’t help gazans one bit. If anything, it turns public opinion against them and will in no way lead to a good outcome.

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David Beyer

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7 years

@ananavarro Just an innocent misteak

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David Beyer

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1 year

. @dauber and I are unreasonably excited for @AmplifyPartners to be leading the @LumaLabsAI Series A. If you're curious (or bored right now), I wrote about it here:

Our Investment in Luma

By David Beyer We're excited to double down on our seed investment by leading Luma Lab’s $20M Series A. Co-founders Amit Jain and Alex Yu bring a rare combination of deep technical talent and product...

www.amplifypartners.com

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David Beyer

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7 years

@pnehlen Because when I think of Jesus/his middle eastern heritage, I surely picture a pasty white guy in khakis shouting “Jews will not replace us.”

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David Beyer

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1 year

One of the things that seems missing to me from most of the debates on AI risk is a kind of status quo blindness. We have early indications (e.g., AlphaFold) that AI could bring us measurably closer to solving a range of problems that cause suffering and death for

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David Beyer

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1 year

The whole world is about to experience collective imposter syndrome

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David Beyer

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5 years

@aloukissas @lpolovets @stevesi Agreed completely. A good sign of progress in the future will be looking back with abject horror at our treatment of animals.

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David Beyer

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8 years

@kenvogel @weedouthate As an Israeli and a Jew, that makes me sad.

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David Beyer

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5 years

What I miss is the feeling that nothing has started yet, that the future towers over the past, that the present is merely a planning phase for the gleaming architecture that will make up the skyline of the rest of my life. But what I forget is the loneliness of all that.

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David Beyer

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7 years

@EWErickson Great, Fight strawmen with strawmen. Kudos on keeping logical reasoning front and center in your critique.

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David Beyer

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8 years

@ananavarro @60Minutes hitler called off the Sturmabteilung when it was politically expedient. Don't be lulled into a fig leaf.

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David Beyer

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3 years

Dear NY. You are currently receiving an influx of people who tweeted about leaving SF to come to you. Just beware they will eventually tire of you too and invariably tweet about it.

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David Beyer

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4 years

He has become a kind of modern art.

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David Beyer

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4 years

@JonahDispatch Chevy chase residents got an email saying the other week it was DOE helicopters doing baseline radiation mapping pre inauguration. Whatever that actually means.

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David Beyer

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7 years

@spakhm Renee Elise Goldsberry?

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David Beyer

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2 years

Given the stage of MLOps it should probably be renamed MLOops

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David Beyer

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8 years

@jayrosen_nyu @brianstelter @JasonMillerinDC yes! Why is this so rare in television news?

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David Beyer

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6 years

@JohnEkdahl Self immolation to own the libs. Nice!

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David Beyer

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8 years

I just published “Unsupervised Learning and other Mysteries: An Interview with the OpenAI Founder”

Unsupervised Learning and other Mysteries: An Interview with the OpenAI Founder

Download the free report “Future of Machine Intelligence: Perspectives from Leading Practitioners.” The following interview is one of many…

medium.com

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David Beyer

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6 years

Me (seeking affirmation): Lenny, you'd describe me as plug and play for certain aspects of VC work, right? Lenny: You're more like a USB drive loaded with Stuxnet.

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David Beyer

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1 year

@simonw As long as the training set included the story of darmok and jalad at tanagra.

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David Beyer

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3 years

Respect to the tech reporters who don’t go into VC.

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David Beyer

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5 years

I really like this passage. "Now that I am almost never the youngest person in any room I realize that what I miss most about those times is the very thing that drove me so mad back when I was living in them.

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David Beyer

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6 years

The great things about those phones cases that double as wallets is it saves you the trouble of having to lose two separate things.

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David Beyer

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2 years

@proetrie Because they cared about them possibly and there’s something sacred about past connections. I’d feel uncomfortable being with someone who extirpates loved ones at the end of a relationship because it would make memories were creating now feel conditional

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David Beyer

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3 years

@tomloverro Miami doesn’t have hills Tom.

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David Beyer

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9 years

On the Evolution of Machine Learning: from Linear Models to Neural Networks. An interview with Prof. Reza Zadeh. http://t.co/8wEn6wjmrr

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David Beyer

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4 years

My mom painted this!

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David Beyer

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1 year

@ModeledBehavior I wonder to what extent this might be confounded by fact that one's eating a lot less garbage (sugar, etc.), which in itself, affects energy and motivation levels.

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David Beyer

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6 years

Judging from the responses, in an ironic twist, this great post on product market fit has itself achieved product market fit.

rahulvohra

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6 years

founders! here's a step by step guide to get to Product/Market Fit; please send it those who need it —

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David Beyer

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2 years

@lucy_guo Is that list of achievements really the measure of a good life?

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David Beyer

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7 years

The seed round has finally reached its logical conclusion.

NYTimes Tech

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7 years

Jeffrey Katzenberg tries to raise $2 billion for his new TV start-up — the largest first-round financing in history

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David Beyer

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6 years

It could even be said that it sparks joy.

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6 years

Kamala Harris calls for marijuana legalization: 'I think it gives a lot of people joy'

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David Beyer

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4 years

@jaltma Yea but call option checks from billion dollar funds go BRRRR

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1 year

@DavidSacks Aren’t you supposed to be running a venture firm ?

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David Beyer

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6 years

@lpolovets Nothing beats this masterpiece

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David Beyer

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5 years

Correction: "fewer" errors 😆

Google AI

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5 years

Today we announce a novel, open-source method for text generation tasks (e.g., summarization or sentence fusion), which uses edit operations instead of generating text from scratch, leading to less errors and faster model execution. Read about it below.

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David Beyer

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12 years

A new data landscape (esp. Big Data and mobile) requires a new approach to search. This team is tackling a...

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David Beyer

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6 years

@mgsiegler Except Fox would be too busy discussing the latest Hillary emails until Shep Smith pointed out dear leader was being frogmarched.

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David Beyer

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1 year

I've seen people @NickADobos e.g., use gpt to have it break down tasks into subtasks. I took it one step further with a little app that lets you get a breakdown rendered in @mermaidjs_

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David Beyer

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6 years

Does anyone else live on the edge like me in that mad race to type in a two-factor auth code that's only seconds away from expiring? A fresh, leisurely new code is a mere seconds away, but it's the small things that make life worth living.

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David Beyer

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2 years

Btw and this should go without saying. Please someone rebuild Mint from ground up using new ml techniques. Their categorization is awful.

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David Beyer

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3 years

The SF to Miami tech immigration clown car might be a historical first: a group of wealthy people decided to set sail for a new land (where the miserable climate was known *in advance*), claiming to flee persecution (that was completely imagined).

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David Beyer

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4 years

Been waiting for this day since I was 5 years old

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4 years

Men in therapy. So hot right now.

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David Beyer

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7 years

@LouiseMensch The REIT Stuff

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David Beyer

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7 years

@LouiseMensch Torah! Torah! Torah! (I can make this joke as a Jew :)

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David Beyer

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2 years

Someone woke up in the middle of the night, breathlessly and with the confidence of an epiphany thought: you know what Rome needs? A rubber ducky store.

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David Beyer

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6 years

@politicalelle @benshapiro Spare me the “for shame.” Saying there are “nice people on both sides” and endorsing a Nehlen-supporting candidate and so on should offend you as a Jew far more than Chris reacting to Jeff Sessions broaching the comparison.

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David Beyer

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5 years

The inverted yield curve is my least favorite hot yoga position.

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David Beyer

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8 years

@JackPosobiec don't flatter yourself. The Star Wars franchise will hardly skip an alt right beat as you guys yell at cloud.

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David Beyer

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5 years

@villi Yes but the hubris from some ex operators and their seeming disregard for survivorship bias and contingency is even more maddening to me, esp when delivered in smug appeals to their own authority.

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David Beyer

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8 years

@Campaign_Trump @realDonaldTrump that's exactly right. A critical media doesn't belong in a constitutional democracy. State owned media ftw!

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1 year

My mom, who is a born storyteller, shares our family story for one of the many holocaust Remembrance Day “salons” in peoples’ houses throughout the country.

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David Beyer

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7 years

Second video in the series on how neural networks work! Beautifully done and featuring my colleague @lishali88

Grant Sanderson

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7 years

Part 2 is out! "Gradient descent, how neural networks learn"

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David Beyer

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2 years

I would pay a little bit extra if the DoorDash app would start judging me. Looks like you've ordered Patxi's pizza 3 days in a row you addict. Are you sure you want to order it AGAIN?? If you keep this up, you will die alone.

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David Beyer

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4 years

@austin_rief Let’s hope that people who do actual work and keep their heads down rather than constant “thought leadership” and “insights” and annoying self promotion win the day. Probably not but one can hope.

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David Beyer

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3 years

I have a question. If dbt plus cloud native dw plus airtable plus hightouch model re balances key business sys of record data back inside enterprise, which deflates the rent Salesforce et al can charge, what does their replacement look like if they don't own the db.

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David Beyer

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5 years

My roommate is, unfortunately, smarter than me. Using deep learning to ‘read your thoughts’ — with Keras and an EEG sensor by @justLV

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David Beyer

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8 years

@JackPosobiec I'm sure you'll help bring down one of the most successful franchises of all time.

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David Beyer

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6 years

My version 3PM: deep existential dread from eating too many carbs. 4PM: compose thoughtful rage tweets at other plainly idiotic tweets. 5PM: call @lennypruss to read aloud my best tweets. Lenny hangs up. 6PM: try Lenny again. 7pm: more carbs.

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Honestly, so relatable. After dinner, I too love to talk a walk with my wife, reflecting on our key wins

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David Beyer

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6 years

@hunterwalk The Collison Collision

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David Beyer

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5 years

I think it's likely that ours is the only firm in SV where one day two partners in the office during a lull in meetings broke into the Gevatron rendition of Adon Olam. Possible I'm wrong but I don't think so.

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David Beyer

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3 years

@dhaliwas Sunil, you cancelled our first 1:1 in 2014 and I’ve been patiently waiting since.

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David Beyer

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4 years

@LoganBMorton @SomeScrap @MarkDice Have you ever been told you score high on the "dark triad" traits? You probably clear the low empathy one pretty easily.

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David Beyer

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4 years

Is the novel Coronavirus also available on audible?

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2 years

@_ali_taylor God save me from people who spend more than 5 min in the small talk phase. Life’s too short to talk about the weather.

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David Beyer

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4 years

@sgourley @pacoid @balajis @primer_ai You'll never guess which AI startup is ruining headlines like these.

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David Beyer

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4 years

@noampomsky I think it's more common for the deeply arrogant to be that way because they're tortured by insecurity.

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David Beyer

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6 years

@Reza_Zadeh @Cmdr_Hadfield That's pretty cool. When are you joining NASA? Training deep nets in zero G would give new meaning to floating point numbers.

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David Beyer

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11 years

Digging into R

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David Beyer

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8 years

@drjr10 @AdonisGalilei @EversFam @kenvogel @weedouthate true. But I feel an obligation to stay and resist americas Mussolini / Peron hybrid.

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David Beyer

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4 years

@Gormogons Huh you realize the states this hits are so called donor states that pay more in federal taxes than they receive in benefits (eg nyc, CA) that help carrying freeloading states like Arkansas that take more than they receive.

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David Beyer

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7 years

@LouiseMensch AWOLdorf Astoria

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David Beyer

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4 years

Another painting from my mom!

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2 years

@tunguz

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1 year

c'mon @culturedcode ... are you guys working part-time? It does not take this long to ship quality software.

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David Beyer

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8 years

@ScottBaio @realDonaldTrump nope. He just goes with z list celebrities like yourself.

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4 years

@EzraMoGee @fapsid @dauber @sm Dauber is actually, sadly, correct. It is not a new phenomenon either.

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David Beyer

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5 years

Very proud of my mom. Here is a story about her art exhibition!

Piece by piece, a survivor’s daughter finds a trove of letters inspires art

A painter's mother saved every piece of her family's wartime correspondence. Now this treasure chest of revelations is set to be exhibited where she began her life, in Krakow

www.timesofisrael.com

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