Quant Researcher | MIT Optimization PhD | Princeton Applied Math | Chess Olympian 🇧🇸🇨🇦🇯🇲
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Thank you everyone for the warm regards! My journey has only been possible because of the countless people who have supported and inspired me along the way. Looking forward to sharing my speech as Princeton's 2020 Valedictorian on May 31st!
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💥 Excited to publicly launch Sparx and also share that we’ve raised a $3.1 million seed round from Drive Capital, Thrive Capital, Human Capital and Wicklow Capital! Thank you for @ChristineMHall for covering our raise in TechCrunch today
techcrunch.com/2023/10/03/sp…
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A good way to finish the week: our paper "Sparse Plus Low Rank Matrix Decomposition: A Discrete Optimization Approach" has been accepted for publication at The Journal of Machine Learning Research 🎉
Happy to share a new paper with @dbertsim and @RyanCoryWright on computing certifiable near optimal solutions to the Sparse Plus Low-Rank Matrix Decomposition problem: arxiv.org/abs/2109.12701
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We’re tremendously excited to emerge from stealth today with $4.5 million in funding!
Zuvy provides invoice financing and software to small and medium-sized businesses across Nigeria techpoint.africa/2023/07/03/…
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back by popular demand, im bringing dope black technologists tg in nyc to honor bhm
• 5 $10K grants for attending founders
• finessing as a black founder panel
• food, drinks, & a live performance
deets here: bit.ly/kinfolqbhm 🫶🏾
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Explore our CFMMRouter.jl update including a new paper and Uniswap v3 implementation from researchers @angeris and @theo_diamandis
baincapitalcrypto.com/introd…
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How can #AI methods be used to improve efficiency in enterprises?
I dive into this question in a recent blog post and highlight:
1) Opportunities to best leverage existing ML methods;
2) Current important limitations of ML;
3) How business leaders can embrace ML.
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Here are 4 things business leaders should do to embrace ML:
1) Embrace the horizontal opportunity to embed AI across business functions;
2) Understand which types of problems can be addressed with ML and which can’t;
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3) Index for creativity when hiring and promoting;
4) Emphasize ML literacy in employee development.
Check out the full post here: medium.com/the-black-wealth-…
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Let’s get started!
Part 1 - Online presence has become paramount for food & bev brands (mainly achieved through website, ads, social media).
And it all starts with the rise of online grocery! (1/5)
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Congrats to all of the @Forbes 30 under 30s announced today including our own @lyd_hylton 👏 forbes.com/profile/lydia-hyl…
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I'm trying to understand the killer use cases & apps in Web3 that require privacy, especially in evm-based ecosystems. Privacy-conscious users--what do you think twice about doing because it gives no privacy guarantees? NFTs? DeFi? Games? Please RT, reply or DM! 🙏
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By trying to regulate both cefi and defi all at once, we’ve delayed some of the most necessary and obvious cefi regulations that COULD have and SHOULD have easily passed by now, and would have prevented or mitigated some of the blowups that have occurred this year. Some examples:
So excited for this!
Today, we unveil Duality, the DEX that gives Liquidity Providers superpowers. The next generation exchange is now coming to Cosmos.
blog.duality.xyz/introducing…
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Super excited to have our baby in the world for the first time
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