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#BKind - Some of the Kindest people I know! (1)
I wanted to share with you some of the kindest people I know! This is just a start with many more to come. Rufus came up with #BKind over on X over 2 years ago. Rufus, Lynn, and I wanted to continue the tradition here!
@rahaeli.bsky.social
Cofounder @dreamwidth.org / disabled queer cat lady / running social media since before it was "social media" and Trust & Safety since the dawn of time / do not cite the deep magic to me, I wrote it / no, I'm allergic to that, too
@emmettmacfarlane.com
Professor of political science. Author. Dad. Constitutional law, rights, governing institutions, and Canadian politics. Books: Legislating under the Charter; Constitutional Pariah; Governing from the Bench
@journodale.bsky.social
Freelance journalist. Author. Nigellavangelist. Pedant about civic literacy and Star Wars/Trek. 🇨🇦🏳️🌈
@justinling.ca
Uh-oh!! Freelance journalist in @thestar.com, @wired.com, @foreignpolicy.com, @thewalrus.ca. Subscribe to my newsletter: www.bugeyedandshameless.com Signal: JustinLing.42
@djfoster.bsky.social
Principal Researcher in AI/ML/RL Theory @ Microsoft Research NE/NYC. Previously @ MIT, Cornell. http://dylanfoster.net RL Theory Lecture Notes: https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.16730
@dfisman.bsky.social
Notorious pro-vaxxer and pro-masker. Famously unfair to pathogenic viruses, bacteria, fungi, and the Toronto Star. Weary of all these death threats with so little follow-through. https://www.dlsph.utoronto.ca/faculty-profile/fisman-david-n
@yoshuabengio.bsky.social
Full professor at UdeM, Founder and Scientific Advisor at Mila - Quebec AI Institute, A.M. Turing Award Recipient. Working towards the safe development of AI for the benefit of all. Website and blog: https://yoshuabengio.org/
@emollick.bsky.social
Professor at Wharton, studying AI and its implications for education, entrepreneurship, and work. Author of Co-Intelligence. Book: https://a.co/d/bC2kSj1 Substack: https://www.oneusefulthing.org/ Web: https://mgmt.wharton.upenn.edu/profile/emollick
@rolandparis.bsky.social
Professor and director, Graduate School of Public & International Affairs @gspia-esapi.bsky.social, University of Ottawa, Canada. Associate fellow, Chatham House. https://rolandparis.com/
@shionhonda.bsky.social
本田 志温 / Software Engineer / MSc in Computer Science / Posts are my own https://hippocampus-garden.com/
@michabbb.bsky.social
php laravel ai databases linux api and ebay expert mastodon: [email protected] medium: macropage.medium.com LinkedIn: macropage github: michabbb x: michabbb I built https://burner-note.link 🔒⏳🔥
@timkellogg.me
AI Architect | North Carolina | AI/ML, IoT, science WARNING: I talk about kids sometimes
@mihainica.bsky.social
Mathematician working on probability and ML at U of Guelph in Canada. I also make math videos at https://youtube.com/@MihaiNicaMath
@deedydas.bsky.social
VC at Menlo Ventures. Formerly founding team Glean, Google Search. Cornell CS. Tweets about tech, immigration, India, fitness and search.
@jeffdean.bsky.social
Google Chief Scientist, Gemini Lead. Opinions stated here are my own, not those of Google. Gemini, TensorFlow, MapReduce, Bigtable, Spanner, ML things, ...
@yann-lecun.bsky.social
Professor a NYU; Chief AI Scientist at Meta. Researcher in AI, Machine Learning, Robotics, etc. ACM Turing Award Laureate. http://yann.lecun.com
@mcnees.bsky.social
Professor and physicist. Black holes, quantum gravity, cosmology. Rocky Top. Tar Heel. Reposts are spooky action at a distance. These are my views, not my employer's. Just terrible at this.
@ian-goodfellow.bsky.social
Research Scientist at DeepMind. Opinions my own. Inventor of GANs. Lead author of http://www.deeplearningbook.org . Chronically ill: bilateral Ménière’s disease + long COVID. Founding chairman of www.publichealthactionnetwork.org
@gabepsilon.bsky.social
Gemini Thinking @ Google DeepMind. Previously @ Google Brain. Previously @ DeepMind. Intelligent Agents
@chiphuyen.bsky.social
AI x storytelling AI Engineering: https://amazon.com/dp/1098166302 Designing ML Systems: http://amazon.com/dp/1098107969 @chipro
@spavel.bsky.social
Raised gifted; non-practicing. 🌐 productpicnic.beehiiv.com 💼 UX Design 🟦 Sick of rectangles 🧑 he/him
@rachelgilmore.bsky.social
Your least favourite person's least favourite award-winning journalist✨ Follow for short-form videos on issues that matter! 💅 SUBSCRIBE: rachelgilmore.substack.com/ https://linktr.ee/rachel_gilmore
@sarahjeong.bsky.social
editor @ the verge. send pitches and death threats to [email protected]
@willoremus.com
Covering online speech and tech policy for @washingtonpost.com. Shitposting about Bluesky on Bluesky. Subscribe to the Tech Brief if you feel like it: https://www.washingtonpost.com/newsletters/tech-brief/ Signal: willoremus.24
@kattenbarge.bsky.social
Independent journalist covering internet culture, politics, and media @spitfirenews.com.
@sambiddle.com
Senior Technology Reporter at The Intercept Got a tip? Signal: sambiddle.11 (Make sure you don’t contact me via a work-provided device) https://sambiddle.com
@parismarx.com
i criticize the tech industry 🎙️ @techwontsave.us & @systemcrash.info 📬 https://disconnect.blog 📖 https://roadtonowherebook.com
@seamus.bsky.social
Them: You're the father of the xbox! Me: If it moves back in, it’s paying rent. theoretical physics | CEO | gastroegyptology | cacao | CHM trustee
@neurograce.bsky.social
Assistant Professor, Psychology & Data Science @ NYU | Working on brains & climate (separately) | Author of "Models of the Mind: How physics, engineering, and mathematics have shaped our understanding of the brain" http://tinyurl.com/h9dn4bw7
@carlbergstrom.com
UW biology prof. I study how information flows in biology, science, and society. Book: *Calling Bullshit*, http://tinyurl.com/fdcuvd7b LLM course: https://thebullshitmachines.com Corvids: https://tinyurl.com/mr2n5ymk I don't like fascists. he/him
@patrickmineault.bsky.social
NeuroAI, vision, open science. NeuroAI researcher at Amaranth Foundation. Previously engineer @ Google, Meta, Mila. Updates from http://neuroai.science
@lesv.bsky.social
Ex of Google (TV, Chromecast, Cloud(Bigtable, AppEngine, Cloud Run, Java, many more); Apple (The iBook, AirPort networking, Core99 chipset, Newton HW Recognizer); Encore Systems (Full Impact); Motorola (Computer cX); Boeing Energy Systems. lesv.dev
@markhneedham.com
Product Marketing Engineer at ClickHouse I make short videos on Local AI @ youtube.com/@LearnDataWithMark
@lmarsden.bsky.social
Hacker & entrepreneur. Founder helix.ml, private GenAI stack, getting business value out of local open source LLMs
@ddjohnson.bsky.social
PhD student at Vector Institute / University of Toronto. Building tools to study neural nets and find out what they know. He/him. www.danieldjohnson.com
@hamel.bsky.social
Building something new 👉 http://nbdev.fast.ai Ex Github, Airbnb, DataRobot. ML / Data Tooling & OSS
@diptanu.bsky.social
CEO @tensorlake.bsky.social Past - AI Infrastructure at Facebook, LinkedIN, Hashicorp, Netflix
@mikael.barbero.tech
Head of Security @ Eclipse Foundation We build our computers (systems) the way we build our cities: over time, without a plan, on top of ruins — Ellen Ullman
@kylelo.bsky.social
#nlp #ml #hci research scientist @ai2.bsky.social, Co-lead of Data for OLMo w/ @soldaini.net, statistics @uw, open science, tabletop, seattle, he/him,🧋 kyleclo.com
@howard.fm
https://Answer.AI & https://fast.ai founding CEO; previous: hon professor @ UQ; leader of masks4all; founding CEO Enlitic; founding president Kaggle; various other stuff…
@tcarmody.bsky.social
Ex-liontamer https://timcarmody.com Now: Editor at DeepLearning.AI. I used to write for Wired, The Verge, The Message, Adweek, and Amazon Chronicles. I also host sometimes at Kottke.org. Call me he/him. Everything changes; don’t be afraid.
@ruchowdh.bsky.social
www.rummanchowdhury.com www.humane-intelligence.org CEO & co-founder, Humane Intelligence US Science Envoy for AI (Biden Administration)
@melaniemitchell.bsky.social
Professor, Santa Fe Institute. Research on AI, cognitive science, and complex systems. Website: https://melaniemitchell.me Substack: https://aiguide.substack.com/
@meredithmeredith.bsky.social
President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute
@tedunderwood.me
Uses machine learning to study literary imagination, and vice-versa. Likely to share news about AI & computational social science / Sozialwissenschaft / 社会科学 Information Sciences and English, UIUC. Author of Distant Horizons (Chicago, 2019). Pluviophile.