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by gault8121 6y ago
This is really fun! It reminds me of playing Pharoh https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharaoh_(video_game) A few ideas: (1) once you build everything there isn't really an end game. One easy way of adding more of an e
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by gault8121 6y ago
The video game industry takes advantage of young people who have dreams of making video games, and think that suffering through terribly paying jobs is the way to make that happen. That illusion gives cover to the industry to perpetuate ter
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by gault8121 6y ago
I am a huge Notion supporter - it's our organizaation's brain and one of our most important tools. However, having used the tool for more than a year at a 20 person org, one of the biggest pain points I have seen is people not kno
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by gault8121 7y ago
I'm with Quill.org, a free online tool that helps middle school students improve their writing skills. You can sign up and assign a diagnostic to your kids to assess their skills and assign recommended practice.
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by gault8121 7y ago
In the spreadsheet view, do users need to upload labels as a text file to then assign them to items? I work with Quill.org, a nonprofit edtech tool that helps students improve their writing skills, and we do a lot of labeling work now where
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by gault8121 7y ago
Hi there, great product! I'm with a nonprofit edtech writing tool that uses both spaCy and AllenNLP, and we've found AllenNLP's models to be more accurate for tasks like co-reference resolution. AllenNLP's models are bui
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by gault8121 7y ago
The title is clickbait, but should an educational program automatically be entitled to an income share agreement even if the educational program failed to teach anything and the person got a job despite the program? That seems to be the iss
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by gault8121 7y ago
This is very reasonable, and great that you provided those clear guidelines! Too bad the poster above didn't provide the full quote. Great project!
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by gault8121 8y ago
Quill.org | VP of Engineering | New York City, NY | ONSITE | Full Time Quill.org is an open source web app that helps low-income K-12 students become strong writers. There are currently over 1.5 million students and 10,000 schools using Qui
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by gault8121 8y ago
If orgs apply before the deadline but are not accepted for NYC interviews, are they still considered for SF interviews?
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by gault8121 8y ago
Yes, the projections are essentially useless. Nassim Taleb does a great job of laying this out - basically, the projections create a false sense of certainty onto a highly uncertain set of events. https://towardsdatascience.com&#
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by gault8121 8y ago
Moxie Marlinspike's counter-argument about the perils of federation: https://signal.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/ "On some level, federation is appealing precisely because it does freeze protocols i
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by gault8121 8y ago
It's 1 billion.
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by gault8121 8y ago
Quill.org | Senior Product Manager | New York, NY | ONSITE, SALARY: 80k-140k, https://www.quill.org/ Quill.org is an open source web app that helps low-income K-12 students become great writers and critical thinkers. Quill
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by gault8121 9y ago
They are now in the process of becoming a nonprofit and recently won a $50m grant.
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by gault8121 9y ago
The intention is that all of the nonprofit grantees cash out immediately. Almost all of the nonprofits funded operate on very tight budgets, and this funding is immediately applied to support payroll and recruit for essential positions.
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by gault8121 9y ago
Quill.org | Software Engineer | New York, NY | ONSITE, SALARY: 80k-120k, https://www.quill.org/ Quill.org is an open source web app that helps low-income K-12 students become great writers and critical thinkers. Quill is no
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by gault8121 9y ago
Quill.org | Software Engineer | New York, NY | ONSITE, SALARY: 80k-120k, https://www.quill.org/ Quill.org is an open source web app that helps low-income K-12 students become great writers. Quill is now being used by 600,00
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This Machine Learning-Powered Software Teaches Kids to Be Better Writers(fastcompany.com)
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by gault8121 9y ago
Congratulations Chase and the team, it's incredible to see such a complex product built in such a quick time period. How many folks from the dev team were in Uganda? And is this tool open source?
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by gault8121 10y ago
Too bad to see that Beacon shut down. With Trump's election, this might have been a prime moment for community-funded journalism.
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by gault8121 10y ago
Yes, nonprofits can charge money and hold onto it. What they can't do is distribute it to shareholders. Many universities are nonprofits, and they hold on to millions or billions of dollars. Nonprofits can also acquire companies, etc.
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by gault8121 10y ago
Quill.org | New York City, NY NYC | ONSITE | Fulltime & Interns https://Quill.org is hiring a fulltime Javascript developer and a machine learning intern. Our open source web app helps low-income K-12 students become sharp w
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by gault8121 10y ago
Thomas, I've been thinking about this as well. Here are some additional mechanics that could be used to build a "YC" for democratic candidates: 1) 8 week Training Program - an eight-week training program targeted at lawyers,
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by gault8121 10y ago
This is awesome. Thanks for sharing.
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How to solve Facebook's fake news problem: experts pitch their ideas(theguardian.com)
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How to solve Facebook's fake news problem: experts pitch their ideas(theguardian.com)
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Five Strategies Facebook Should Use to Combat False Information(petergault.com)
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by gault8121 10y ago
Quill.org | New York City, NY NYC | ONSITE | Fulltime https://Quill.org is hiring a Javascript developer. Our open source web app that helps low-income K-12 students become sharp writers. Quill is now being used by 100,000 stude
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by gault8121 10y ago
Great point! The wellbeing of millions of students, and the complex web of relationships a school creates in a community, deserves a well regulated industry.

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