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Kevin Lacker

@lacker
Working on math + AI at acornprover.org and telescope software at deepsynoptic.org. Formerly: Parse cofounder, Facebook, Google
Piedmont, California
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Joined March 2008
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    Kevin Lacker
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    17h
    Four years later, still my favorite "conspiracy theory". Although it seems almost obvious at this point. Domenico Starnone and Anita Raja wrote the books together, and revealed it in the plot of the books themselves.
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    Kevin Lacker
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    Sep 6, 2022
    I think Elena Ferrante is two people writing together, hinted at by the scene in My Brilliant Friend where Elena and Lila write an essay together, with Elena providing the core ideas and Lila crafting the final prose
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    Kevin Lacker
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    21h
    TIL we used to have “mills” and “eagles” as words used to describe amounts of money
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  • @lacker
    Kevin Lacker
    @lacker
    Sep 5
    Imagine discovering the largest tree in the world, and immediately cutting it down so that you could show people in New York.
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    Kevin Lacker
    @lacker
    Aug 30
    At the end of the day I don’t really see what changes as a result of the HuggingFace incident. Yeah, there are zillions of malicious entities out there trying to hack you. But whether they are rogue AIs or intentionally created by bad guys, what’s the difference?
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    Kevin Lacker
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    Aug 30
    We should make a new urbanist utopia and put it right here
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