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Josh Wolfe
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Today's top issues sit @ renaissance of TECH of humanity x HUMANITY of tech

philosophy, ethics, literature, theater, history, art, diversity
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tech (AI/computer science/biotech...)

Thrilled to serve on advisory board of new Milstein Program in Technology & Humanity @Cornell...
...With @LASchoenfelder founder CEO of Lux family co @latchaccess + @peterjweiss + coinvestor #michaelmilstein
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Josh Wolfe
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1/ One highlight of recent global trip with USSOCOM Special Forces was Gen Braga—a scholarly warrior, fiercely erudite, in 60 seconds could take you through regional geopolitical consequences, historical considerations, technological advantage.

Before heading up the Pacific...
2/ Before heading the Pacific Gen Braga helped lead surge and coalition forces to drive ISIS out of key Syrian cities...
3/ And also was rare US official to publicly confirm intel of secret Russian mercenaries operatives on the ground in Syria who then faced warning and combat from US troops
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Josh Wolfe
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1/ AMAZING.

Some of the best 🎬's of my life.
May 3-22 @ BAM (Brooklyn Academy Music): "Black 90s"

A few memories...
2/ Remember standing out––seeing "JUICE"––on MLK day Kingsway movie theatre in Brooklyn

(thx for amazing ht @jacobmnookin)

The Eric B. & Rakim opener "Juice (Know The Ledge)"...
3/ Our this other Big Daddy Kane cut from "JUICE"
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Josh Wolfe
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1/Some GOOD news about a BAD thing—
The former is from science, the latter from nature.

SCIENCE is about better explanations
The better we can explain something the better we can understand (& control it)
The good news is we have a better explanation for a bad thing from nature.
2/ The BAD thing is cancer.

No amount of hope + prayer will better explain cancer—only science will

The GOOD news is we have a new powerful explanation for a key piece of cancer...
3/The better news is SCIENCE works to invite error correction—to evolve better explanations.

Scientists don’t just declare things in a hyped up stage show—they publish it for the scrutiny of skeptics.

Scientific status comes partly by surviving this scrutiny.
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Mike Trenell
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Artificial Intelligence & Health: On my way to a round table on how the UK should plan, manage and grow its capability. Let me know your views to share. #AI #health #ehealth #mhealth @OfficialNIHR @NIHRIOUK

My personal views in 4 tweets (I have many more shared over coffee!):
1) Create world leading annotated datasets (with the right governance) to build #AI tools to deliver value back to the #NHS these are vital to ensure the quality of outputs and also dataset for us to standardise understanding effectiveness. A #UKBioBank for data?
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Mar Hicks
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Feel so lucky to have snagged a seat in the totally packed room listening to powerhouse @safiyanoble talking about her work at @Harvard @HarvardHistSci Department #criticalracestudies #tech #ai #algorithmicbias
Starting out with her insights about the combined racialization and hypersexualization of searches for black girls on google, @safiyanoble ties it into a much longer historical narrative about racism, sexualization, and oppression of black women and girls in the US
She goes on to talk about how so many black women, people of color, & white women were leading charge to connect the actions of Google & other info behemoths to this history, showing how these platforms were not neutral & how critical they were becoming to our political landscape
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Ajay
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#History/#Art thread – From my recent trip to Madurai/Tirunelveli. On Jain sites (some with a rich history dating back to at least the 3rd cent. BCE), early Pandyan rock-cut cave temples (7th-8th cent. CE) & the amazing Vettuvan koil.

Pic: Mahavira (~8 cent CE), Kizhakuyilkudi
Before I start on the places, the history around all this is fascinating & splits opinion. Is it apt to call the script Tamili/Tamil Brahmi? Did it develop independently in the Tamil country/come with the Jain monks from the north? Were 8,000 Jains actually impaled in Madurai?>
>Were the Saivites overaggressive in promoting their faith? Shall only be happy to discuss on these separately (unless it gets too long/irrational). And I’m not posting every inscription from the places here, despite their importance. Again, shall be happy to discuss them.
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Do @realStuartReges’s opinions affect his teaching? See 2:20-3:30 of this lecture to of hundreds of students. The “news, or whatever” that he’s reacting to is @susanthesquark ’s Uber blog post published 3 days prior. uw.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/… 1/8
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A thread on Dbrain by @dbrainio , the platform that triggers the burgeoning adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI).

If AI is a gun, Dbrain is the trigger.

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1- AI is a field in computer science that enables softwares, machines, computers to act and think the way human does. It can’t achieve this without the help of humans currently. The process by which an AI program learns are in phases.
2- The dataset it learns from are gotten from various source, the datasets are now trained and retrained until a best fit is achieved. It’s inevitable for humans to be excluded from dataset gathering or training at the moment as we are still in the early stages of AI

#tech, #AI
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Over the long term, 1 in 10 will be killed by that choice.
You can even write books about it and make money.
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