Jonas Salk on his first Polio vaccine "Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors". This quote is a reminder of our duty to future generations.
And, to remember that his science was made free to the world.

Throwback to 2014 when Nick Hanauer sounded the alarm. IIRC, the message was heard, but not the solution, as the super wealthy decided it meant they should build survival bunkers instead of raise wages. Even now, wage gains made during the pandemic are being clawed back. youtu.be/q2gO4DKVpa8

Heads up from Reddit about UHC employee chatter and social media being scrutinized by the company: www.reddit.com/r/jobs/comme...

I clearly haven’t been paying attention… In my Luddite brain, a ‘maker’ was someone like Limor Fried or Simone Giertz (of shitty robots fame) - a hardware makers who made tangible things. Sometimes there was software on board, but not always. And now I see starter packs for Indie makers

Has anybody tried putting cool little prizes inside boxes of *healthy* food? Like I’m not saying I definitely for sure would eat quinoa five days in a row just to get a free decoder ring…but I’m not saying I definitely for sure wouldn’t either.

1/ 🚨 Conspiracy theories about the 2024 election miss the bigger picture.

The truth? It wasn’t one night, one hack, or one fraud. It was a system rigged in plain sight – right in front of us. The playbook was out in the open for years. But hardly anyone paid attention.

Here’s how they did it... 🧵

It's Sunday morning so taking a minute for a nerdy thread (on math, tokenizers and LLMs) of the work of our intern Garreth

By adding a few lines of code to the base Llama 3 tokenizer, he got a free boost in arithmetic performance 😮

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