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Product Development at One Medical. Technical Advisory Board member & Cofounder @Quill_org. Views are my own.

San Francisco, CA
Joined June 2009
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.@onemedical’s goal: Make getting quality care more affordable, accessible, and enjoyable for all. Today they join the Nasdaq family -- We feel better already! #OneMedicalIPO
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🔥 Sick of clicking that stupid "Learn more" button on the @tailwindcss homepage to get to the docs? I deleted the homepage 😅 tailwindcss.com
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Completed my last learning walk of the semester at SUHI. We focused on differentiation, community building, and in the moment changes. I even learned about @Quill_org which is an online tool to help students with writing. Thanks SUHI for opening your classrooms.
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Replying to @wheatpond
I feel strongly believe you could replace every pitch competition with an impromptu live fantasy roleplaying session and neither lose anything of value nor fundamentally change the character of the event.
Our updated review of @Quill_org | Free Interactive Writing and Grammar Activities for K-12 | Now with new Quill Lessons! | bit.ly/2nsikpt | #edtech #k12 #education
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After 2 years of development, we've just launched fastai v1, the first deep learning library with a simple consistent API across vision, text, tabular, and collaborative filtering data. Built on the wonderful @PyTorch v1 (preview released today) fast.ai/2018/10/02/fastai-ai…
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Big opportunity here: We’re on the hunt for a CTO. #leadership #business #Opportunity lnkd.in/d-C43jv
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Interesting research by @MSFTResearch on allowing persons with visual impairment to navigate VR with a cane - microsoft.com/en-us/research… - @MSFTEnable
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Amazing accomplishment! The entire graduating class at @UncommonSchools High School in Bed-Stuy is going to college. ow.ly/5LeY30keEjK
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New work with @seb_ruder: "Universal Language Model Fine-tuning for Text Classification", with code and pre-trained models. Text classification with ~20% better accuracy, or with ~100x less labeled data nlp.fast.ai/classification/2…
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Finishing up #NSVFSummit w/ unanswered Qs. AI/ML will clearly = massive abrupt changes in job market. But don't make light of systemic job retraining. We're a VERY long way from retraining billions of people. Plus tons of cracks real people WILL fall through along the way.
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Join the New York chapter of @thewattclub for a #Business Breakfast at 0730 on 6 April at @quill_org, hosted by @heriotwattuni alumnus Donald McKendrick (@deardonald) and HWU Assistant Principal, Development, @nuala_boyle. More info at bit.ly/2Gvj9XX
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Today we’re announcing the Dropbox Foundation, which will partner with organizations around the world to protect human rights. dropbox.foundation
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@Quill_org is honored to be named one of @FastCompany’s 10 Most Innovative Companies in Education for 2018! medium.com/writing-with-quil…
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Ms.Scott’s class @APSPeytonForest are showcasing their ELA skills using @Quill_org @APSInstructTech @peytonprincipal
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Enjoying a lesson using @Quill_org in Mrs.Doster’s 1st grade class. @APSPeytonForest @APSInstructTech
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We love Quill.org! Mrs. Dietert puts our answers on the screen so we can see everyone else’s sentence ideas too! Today we were making sentences juicier with adverbs! #ccefixerupper
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Wrapping up a great morning session at iLearnNYC. Join us at 12:30 pm in 226 for Breakout Session B! #iLearnNYC
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