Colin Scott @_colin_scott_

Google Next Billion Users. Previous: ICTD @ MSR-India, distributed systems @ UC Berkeley. eecs.berkeley.edu/~rcs Joined April 2011

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Colin Scott @_colin_scott_

2 months ago

Several news pieces claiming that the drop in the US dollar is a sign of America's downfall, without acknowledging that devaluing the US dollar is *precisely Stephen Miran's (and Trump's) goal*. m.youtube.com/watch?v=lkDXJT… Not that I agree at all with Stephen Miran...

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Daniel Denvir @DanielDenvir

9 months ago

Bannon versus the billionaires running the near entirety of the Trump administration. Bannon will lose: Out with the herrenvolk social democratic poetry of the campaign season, in with executive committee of the bourgeoisie prose of MAGA governance…

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Colin Scott @_colin_scott_

10 months ago

Inflationary pressure can occur well in advance of Tariffs being put into place. My wife just asked me if we should start stockpiling our (Australian) baby formula. Not a bad idea..

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Colin Scott @_colin_scott_

10 months ago

Insights after having a newborn child and then going back to work: Adults' need to (metaphorically) "burp it out" and have their backs patted is really not much different than babies.

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Colin Scott @_colin_scott_

11 months ago

Remember when Square / Clover reversed the order of the tip amounts on restaurant tablets and we all thought it was evil? Somehow the latest trick seems worse... look carefully at the number pad (apologies for the blurry photo)

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Colin Scott @_colin_scott_

a year ago

The CUDA ecosystem is one of Nvidia's most important moats. Would it be feasible to binary recompile to other platforms (within some reasonable degree of performance loss) (within the terms of service)?

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Colin Scott @_colin_scott_

a year ago

Would consumers (or enterprise customers) be willing to pay a premium for “fair trade” GenAI? The content creators that models are trained on need compensation for their work... and copyright law seems to be wholly inadequate.

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Colin Scott @_colin_scott_

2 years ago

Never thought I’d use the word ‘Therapeutic’ to describe an academic lecture, but boy was this what I needed: m.youtube.com/watch?v=IUUv8K…

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Colin Scott @_colin_scott_

2 years ago

Second time in two days that a hummingbird has mistaken my red hair for a flower

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Colin Scott @_colin_scott_

2 years ago

Remember to register your ulock keys!

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Colin Scott @_colin_scott_

3 years ago

Seems like Millennials are finally starting to have experiences that they can relate with Boomers about: - cursing at OPEC, - fighting for reproductive rights, - ...

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Colin Scott @_colin_scott_

3 years ago

Simple pleasures of academia: having worked in product groups for 4 years now, I had forgotten how satisfying it is to reword paragraphs to remove widow/orphan sentences in LaTeX.

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The author, Séamas O'Reilly @shockproofbeats

3 years ago

When I was 7, my teacher told us to write an article about “world cultures” for school over the weekend. I remembered it late on Sunday so in a panic I made up something called the "Icelandic Fish Festival", figuring said teacher wouldn’t know either way.

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Brandon Yung 容博東 @brandonyung1

3 years ago

An absolutely badass graph. UC Berkeley educates almost as many low income students as all of the Ivy Leagues combined.

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Colin Scott @_colin_scott_

4 years ago

Someone should build a plugin to automatically find the timestamp in the Youtube video where the thumbnail is taken from, so that we all collectively stop spending so much time fast-forwarding to figure out the context for the clickbait thumbnails

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Ezra Klein @ezraklein

4 years ago

Just an insane decision. And note that this lawsuit is being brought under the California Environmental Quality Act, though everyone, on all sides, knows the issues here aren't environmental. So please, stop telling me how CEQA has already been fixed. sfchronicle.com/politics/artic…

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Colin Scott @_colin_scott_

4 years ago

Has anyone else noticed a precipitous increase in "We're calling about your extended warranty" (and related) spam calls in the last few weeks? I'm receiving like half a dozen every single day now...