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If you hate corrupt bureaucrats, you’ll love this speculative socio-scifi short story I wrote: “Could an Intergalactic Surgeon Tell an Organ From an Industry?”
foremost-olivine-7a6.notion.site/Could-an-Inter…
Andrew Beets
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Andrew Beets
@0beets
nyc
Joined May 2017
- NYC's public college system paid Oracle ~$600M to build our course management portal. It's built on top of Oracle's PeopleSoft suite, which they refused to customize without an extra $400M (to hit $1B). New Yorkers got the image below and pay $5M+ / year for *hosting*.
WHAT. DOES. ORACLE. DO??????? - Replying to @0beetsI don't know if it's just incompetence, kick-backs, or findom, but this is one of the worst misallocations of resources I've seen up close after years in startups. No risky bets, just bad decisions.
- Replying to @0beetsif you're curious about the traffic figures they used to justify this:
- Just released AgentMaps, a JS library to turn maps into living, breathing social simulations: github.com/noncomputable/…
GIF - Replying to @yeetgensteinthe latest hosting contract has a PDF at cuny.edu policy.cuny.edu/wp-content/upl…. David Arnow @ Brooklyn College talks about what he learned ~2007 when CUNYFirst was rolled out: pscbc.blogspot.com/2013/03/cuny-f…
- Replying to @0beetscurious about AI for automating science and stories of how AI can fix a doctor's fuck ups? follow me @chocolateycrepe!
- I’m lucky for all the friendships that bloomed from this amazing experience. Raffi and Marley did an amazing job organizing the house, not to mention: - energy of Grace, Michel, Fiona designing circuits and sourcing hardware 15 hours a day was exhilarating
- Replying to @csferriewhy wrong answers only? call it what it is: reverend tom's handy-dandy multipurpose venn diagram overlap calculator!
- Category theory's pretty cool, and Math for Math's Sake NYC's hosting an intro to it this Friday: meetup.com/nyc-math/event…. Come down and say hi!
- IME to get into any reputable Econ program you absolutely must be able to derive pref relations from empirical choice data, prove their lattice properties, and calligraph appropriate Hasse diagrams with a shard Hagoromo chalk you won in a fight against a math major at a hackathon
- Economic simulations before digital computers were common... conversableeconomist.blogspot.com/2012/11/hydrau…
- Replying to @AIHealthMIT and @octavianEganeathis is shocking, what a loss to the world. Well wishes to his loved ones. Rest in peace
