One of the greatest "How it started/how it's going" examples, EVER.

(via Peter Kafka)

In which Santa's elves learn an important lesson about machine learning bias. 🎅🧵

'Twas the weeks before Christmas
And Santa was busy
His list was so long
It was making him dizzy

There are too many children
List checking can’t scale
If I do this by hand
I will certainly fail!

But one of his elves
Had a brilliant idea
What if we automate
Christmas this year!

[continued :) ]

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I think 25 minutes may be my new favourite talk duration

On the one hand, it's a really difficult space to fill: it's similar to a 5 minute lightning talk in that you have to edit drastically to fit the space, but it's a longer slot so it takes ~5 times longer to prepare

But the act of editing down to 25 minutes enforces getting straight to the point while also being long enough to explore more complex issues

And then later people can watch the talk video at 2x speed in just 12.5 minutes!