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@taylorlorenz.bsky.social
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@pixelatedboat.bsky.social
The 76th most followed account on bluesky. I will NOT be updating this ranking when it’s no longer true
@caseynewton.bsky.social
Email salesman at Platformer.news and podcast co-host at Hard Fork.
@hausofdecline.bsky.social
Hank of Decline Patreon - http://patreon.com/hausofdecline Store - https://hausofdecline.bigcartel.com/
@internethippo.bsky.social
@meredithmeredith.bsky.social
President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute
@drewtoothpaste.bsky.social
author of Toothpaste For Dinner, @dasharez0ne.bsky.social etc. i make tshirts at dashare.zone vocals for HELL ORBS, listen at https://dendycrew.com my podcast with @nataliedee.bsky.social: https://www.garbagebrainuniversity.com
@wang.social
Anaconda Founder&Head of AI; created the PyData movement, PyScript, Bokeh, Datashader; Fellow @ Python Software Foundation; Center for Humane Tech Game~B; Physics, Cybernetics, Memetics. A student of the human condition. Memento mori
@kvlly.com
Engineering leader. I also write newsletters (modernleader.is and afterburnout.co). Find all my stuff at kvlly.com.
@joelhooks.com
lvl 16 half-orc nerd. jazz lover. freak for synths. crafting useful education products at @badass.dev working on Course Builder https://coursebuilder.dev a boutique CMS building @egghead.io since 2013 now 👉 https://joelhooks.com/now PDX (Vancouver, WA)
@maggieappleton.com
Design engineer exploring applied AI and hacky prototypes. Adores digital gardening, end-user development, and embodied cognition. Makes visual essays about design, programming, and anthropology. 📍 London 🌱 maggieappleton.com
@vickiboykis.com
ML Engineering. LLMs 😬. Information retrieval. Infra. Systems. Normcore code. Nutella. Vectors. Words. Vibes. Bad puns (soon). https://vickiboykis.com/what_are_embeddings/
@simonwillison.net
Independent AI researcher, creator of datasette.io and llm.datasette.io, building open source tools for data journalism, writing about a lot of stuff at https://simonwillison.net/
@wattenberger.com
web dev, design, LLMs, data viz, tools for thought ✨ Design @ SHV 🌸 wattenberger.com
@seanmcarroll.bsky.social
#Physics, #philosophy, #complexity. Johns Hopkins & @sfiscience.bsky.social. Host, #MindscapePodcast. Married to @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social. Latest: Quanta & Fields, book 2 of The Biggest Ideas in the Universe. https://preposterousuniverse.com/ He/him.
@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.
@maxroser.bsky.social
— Founder of Our World in Data — Professor at the University of Oxford Data to understand global problems and research to make progress against them.
@chris.blue
Writer of books (http://themissingreadme.com), code (http://slatedb.io), checks (http://materializedview.capital), and newsletters (http://materializedview.io)
@randomwalker.bsky.social
Princeton computer science prof. I write about the societal impact of AI, tech ethics, & social media platforms. https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~arvindn/ BOOK: AI Snake Oil. https://www.aisnakeoil.com/
@mjskay.com
Assoc Prof Computer Science and Communication Studies at Northwestern. Infovis, HCI. Author of tidybayes & ggdist R pkgs. he/him. 🏳️🌈 https://mjskay.com/ Co-director https://mucollective.northwestern.edu Co-founder https://journalovi.org
@spavel.bsky.social
Raised gifted; non-practicing. 🌐 productpicnic.beehiiv.com 💼 UX Design 🟦 Sick of rectangles 🧑 he/him
@bsky.app
official Bluesky account (check username👆) Bugs, feature requests, feedback: support@bsky.app
@nearestnabors.com
I used to make comics. Now I fuck around and find out in AI. Prev: AWS, React/Native at Meta, MSFT, W3C, MDN
@martin.kleppmann.com
Associate Professor at @cst.cam.ac.uk, researching decentralised systems and security protocols. Advisor to the Bluesky team. Wrote “Designing Data-Intensive Applications” (O’Reilly). he/him
@mitsuhiko.at
Creator of Flask • sentry.io ♥︎ API design, writing and giving talks • Choses Python and Rust • Excited about AI • Husband and father of three • Inhabits Vienna; Liberal Spirit • “more nuanced in person” More stuff: https://mitsuhiko.at/
@chrisalbon.com
Director of Machine Learning at the Wikimedia Foundation. We host Wikipedia.
@spencer.place
artist & engineer. towards technology that feels like ours https://spencer.place ࿌ http://gather.directory ࿌ http://playhtml.fun ࿌ https://spencerchang.substack.com ࠽
@tcarmody.bsky.social
Ex-liontamer https://timcarmody.com Now: Deputy 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.
@ryxcommar.bsky.social
Senior document signer @ Docusign, prev: lead risk manager @ Alameda Research
@whereisyvette.bsky.social
Astronomer here! I’m a Hungarian-American radio astronomer, alias /r/Andromeda321 on Reddit. Assistant professor at the University of Oregon
@swyx.io
i want everyone to aspire to integrity, intensity, and intentionality. see also @latent.space
@ruchowdh.bsky.social
www.rummanchowdhury.com www.humane-intelligence.org CEO & co-founder, Humane Intelligence US Science Envoy for AI (Biden Administration)
@hannes.muehleisen.org
I like databases and boats. Co-creator of @duckdb.org, Co-Founder and CEO DuckDB Labs. Professor of Data Engineering at Radboud Universiteit.
@adafruit.com
Engineer - Founder of Adafruit - Brooklyn, NY USA - Manufacturer, open-source hardware, certified Minority and Woman-owned Business Enterprise (M/WBE) https://adafruit.com - support https://forums.adafruit.com & order/customer help support@adafruit.com
@gunnarmorling.dev
Technologist @ Confluent · Ex-lead of Debezium · Spec lead of Bean Validation 2.0 · Creator of JfrUnit, kcctl and MapStruct · Java Champion · morling.dev · 🚴
@skamille.themanagerswrath.com
she/her. Author, manager, distributed systems engineer, etc etc, my latest book Platform Engineering is available now! https://amzn.to/4eUz5zB
@melaniemitchell.bsky.social
Professor, Santa Fe Institute. Research on AI, cognitive science, and complex systems. Website: https://melaniemitchell.me Substack: https://aiguide.substack.com/
@kareemcarr.bsky.social
Stats PhD student @Harvard • My posts are a cool, refreshing breeze of nerdy content crafted for a broad audience. Follow me to enter the nerd space safe.
@hmason.bsky.social
Co-founder & CEO of Hidden Door. I <3 cheeseburgers and making beautiful things. I know a thing or two about AI, but it's people who matter. I am interested in many things. NYC
@mmitchell.bsky.social
Researcher trying to shape AI towards positive outcomes. ML & Ethics +birds. Generally trying to do the right thing. TIME 100 | TED speaker | Senate testimony provider | Navigating public life as a recluse. Former: Google, Microsoft; Current: Hugging Face
@growth.wtf
Bootstrapping a software company. In my free time I try to do things with data and statistics, or post random thoughts here.