Jelani Nelson (@minilek) 's Twitter Profile
Jelani Nelson

@minilek

Professor and Chair of Computer Science Division @Berkeley_EECS. Research Scientist (part-time) @GoogleAI. Founder @addiscoder. 🇻🇮🇺🇸🇪🇹

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Pieter Abbeel (@pabbeel) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Amazing work by Ideogram team. 80/20 rule, but in reverse: this team is willing (and exceptionally capable!) to put the extra 80% ingenuity and effort to nail that last 20% so you get what you really want! And proud PhD advisor moment for myself, congratulations

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Best part so far of the CS division chair role: learning about all the amazing things our faculty are doing. (UC faculty, even full profs, undergo "merit review" every few years -- kind of like performance review in industry -- and write statements on what they've accomplished)

J.D. Tuccille (@jd_tuccille) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Pavel Durov's Durov's arrest stands as less of a one-off than as part of a concerted effort by governments, including those of nominally free countries, to control speech. reason.com/2024/08/28/tel… via reason

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Flight to London in two hours. That means: it’s time to take a shower and start packing. (Umeshism: if you have never missed a flight, you spend too much time in airports — note, I’ve never missed a flight)

Brendan Carr (@brendancarrfcc) 's Twitter Profile Photo

On Brazilian Justice de Moreas's order shutting down X: The text of his 51-page decision is far more concerning and sweeping than the headlines suggest. de Moreas’s own words make clear that he is attempting to strike a broader blow against free speech and in favor of

JamCoders (@jamcoders) 's Twitter Profile Photo

3rd through 5th formers, apply to the (free!) JamCoders 2025 4-week summer camp by the December 31st deadline to learn algorithms and programming. Teaching assistant volunteers can also apply. Camp dates; June 29 to July 25, 2025. Link: jamcoders.org.jm/#apply

AddisCoder (@addiscoder) 's Twitter Profile Photo

9th to 11th graders, apply to the (free!) AddisCoder 2025 4-week summer camp by the December 31st deadline to learn algorithms and programming. Teaching assistant volunteers can also apply. Camp dates: to be determined, 4 weeks in summer 2025. Link: addiscoder.com/#apply

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"Despite high math scores in earlier grades and a passion for the subject, I was placed into lower-level math courses in middle school... ... being tracked into lower-level courses contradicted my math identity and eroded my confidence to the point of becoming a self-fulfilling

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Happening right now: University of California HS guidance counselor conference. One workshop topic is on "upcoming changes to Area C (math) validation" (on what can/can't sub for Algebra 2). Thanks to all UC senate+administrative leadership for making this happen! ucop.swoogo.com/uccounselorcon…

Happening right now: <a href="/UofCalifornia/">University of California</a> HS guidance counselor conference. One workshop topic is on "upcoming changes to Area C (math) validation" (on what can/can't sub for Algebra 2).

Thanks to all UC senate+administrative leadership for making this happen!

ucop.swoogo.com/uccounselorcon…
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Am I the only one getting much more of this type of garbage on my X feed? My feed started noticeably changing post-Musk acquisition, but the deterioration seems to have accelerated lately…

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aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04498 Sep 16th application deadline. UC Berkeley "seeks applicants for four tenure-track (Assistant Professor) positions and one tenured (Associate or Full Professor) position in the area of “AI, Inequality, and Society” (AIIS)...Areas of interest for the AIIS

Garry Tan (@garrytan) 's Twitter Profile Photo

When I graduated with my computer engineering degree I went to Gap and wanted a job that could let me code and design clothes. They laughed at me and told me to go work in IT. I went to an ad agency and said I wanted to work on creative and they said haha there is no role for

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Congrats to Ephrem, Yonas, Nafira, Ebise, Eyuel, Fenan, Hundaol, Suud, and Dagmawi for completing another year of AddisCoder Spark at the Oromia Development Association Special Boarding School! Spark was founded at ODA by some of our alumni, using our free, open syllabus.

Congrats to Ephrem, Yonas, Nafira, Ebise, Eyuel, Fenan, Hundaol, Suud, and Dagmawi for completing another year of AddisCoder Spark at the Oromia Development Association Special Boarding School!

Spark was founded at ODA by some of our alumni, using our free, open syllabus.