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Sameer Farooqui

@blueplastic
 Bellevue, WA
linkedin.com/in/blueplastic/
Joined February 2009
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Tony Hawk
@tonyhawk23 Feb 2019
My daughter overcoming her fear in real time (wait for it). I might have been more nervous than she was. 👧🏼🛹⬇️ – at Encinitas, CA
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jack
@jack15 Aug 2018
Appreciate the conversation today. This reflects a lot of our thinking. We’ve changed Twitter a lot over time, but one thing we haven’t touched is what the service implicitly incentivizes people to do. That’s the level we need to reconsider.
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@washingtonpost15 Aug 2018
Jack Dorsey says he’s rethinking the core of how Twitter works wapo.st/2Mv0MVW
Jack Dorsey says he’s rethinking the core of how Twitter works

Jack Dorsey says he’s rethinking the core of how Twitter works

Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey said he is rethinking core parts of the social media platform so that it doesn’t enable the spread of hate speech, harassment and false news, including conspiracy...

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Two years of GAN progress on class-conditional ImageNet-128
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Spotify
@Spotify28 Apr 2018
Cheers to @PostMalone 🍻 'beerbongs & bentleys' has broken the first-day streaming record both globally (78,744,748) and in the U.S. (47,930,039) spoti.fi/2FlCNRn
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Jason Mayes@jason_mayes6 Dec 2017
Getting started with #ML? Want a deeper understanding, or maybe just plain confused? Check out my #MachineLearning 101 deck! This deck is a collection of knowledge I gathered over 2 years of reading many many articles so you don't have to. docs.google.com/presentation…
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@crunchbp 's Deep Learning Fundamentals workshop by @blueplastic is happening right now @MorganStanley
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Reza Zadeh
@Reza_Zadeh14 Sep 2017
A good overview of how Apple, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, & Facebook make their empires run.
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Grant Sanderson@3blue1brown7 Jul 2017
New video! Ever wonder how Bitcoin (and other cryptocurrencies) actually work? youtu.be/bBC-nXj3Ng4
But how does bitcoin actually work?

But how does bitcoin actually work?

The math behind cryptocurrencies.Help fund future projects: https:...

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Andrej Karpathy
@karpathy19 Jun 2017
"One Model To Learn Them All" another step in Google's attempt to turn all of itself into one big neural network arxiv.org/abs/1706.05137
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Seychelles expedition 2017 was gut wrenching, >50% of corals wiped out from 2016 mass bleaching @djsmitc @naj_graham @uts_c3 @UTS_Science
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Rolfe Winkler
@RolfeWinkler28 Apr 2017
What VCs paid for Cloudera (trading at $18.60): @Accel $0.39 @GreylockVC $0.49 @MeritechCapital $2.68 @TRowePrice $14.56 @Intel $30.92
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Best introductory training to Apache SPARK, Databricks and spark are awesome. Super great Job @@blueplastic ! lnkd.in/gXx63vR
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Mahmoud Hashemi
@mhashemi15 Feb 2017
Bay Area devs, designers, & data scientists, grab your tickets to the 2017 @Wikipedia Data Design Challenge here: bit.ly/wddc2017!
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François Chollet
@fchollet11 Feb 2017
Time for an update: what does the deep learning library landscape look like, seen from GitHub?
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M DuPont@maartenjdupont3 Jan 2017
Top 20 companies according to the number of #Apache #Committers. – at Daly City, CA
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United Airlines
@united20 Jan 2017
Replying to @blueplastic
Wow! That's cool to see. Thanks for sharing, Sameer. ^EB
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#DataAISummit@Data_AI_Summit18 Oct 2016
Tweet your favorite @ApacheSpark use case & win a free ticket to #SparkSummit in Brussels! #SparkSummitContest ssum.it/2ejphWU
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Black Mirror
@blackmirror23 Sep 2016
Replying to @blueplastic
we're so close, aren't we?
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Elijah Meeks@Elijah_Meeks15 Aug 2016
Same data as a line chart and ranked area (bump area) chart. Underutilized b/c not easy to build & unfamiliar. #d3js
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Reza Zadeh
@Reza_Zadeh25 Aug 2016
Organizational charts for: Amazon, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, Oracle. Surprisingly accurate.
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