Balaji S. Srinivasan
Angel investor. Cofounder of Earn, Counsyl, Teleport, Coin Center. Previously CTO of Coinbase, GP a16z. I hear this Bitcoin thing might be kind of a big deal.
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Facebook canceled a 5,000-person conference in San Francisco because of coronavirus
Vox 6d 2 tweets
It’s the latest example of how the tech industry is reacting to worries about the virus’s spread.
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Balaji S. Srinivasan Btw this piece was much better! 6d
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Balaji S. Srinivasan CITATIONS Recode: TC: CBS SFBA: Fortune: BBC News: Reuters: Telegraph: Wired: 6d
Daily Crunch: Mobile World Congress is canceled
TechCrunch 6d 1 tweets
The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here. 1. GSMA cancels Mobile World Congress due to coronavirus...
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Balaji S. Srinivasan CITATIONS Recode: TC: CBS SFBA: Fortune: BBC News: Reuters: Telegraph: Wired: 6d
IBM Pulls Out Of Major San Francisco Tech Conference Over Coronavirus Fears
Sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com 6d 1 tweets
Days after a major mobile technology conference was cancelled in Spain, IBM announced Friday it would not be sending any of its employees to San Francisco for the upcoming RSA gathering of top cyber security experts over fears of the coronavirus.
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Balaji S. Srinivasan CITATIONS Recode: TC: CBS SFBA: Fortune: BBC News: Reuters: Telegraph: Wired: 6d
Cancelling MWC is a big loss for the tech industry
Fortune 6d 1 tweets
The annual show was a great promotional vehicle for 5G phones and lots of other products.
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Balaji S. Srinivasan CITATIONS Recode: TC: CBS SFBA: Fortune: BBC News: Reuters: Telegraph: Wired: 6d
Phone show cancellation a 'nightmare' for firms
BBC News 6d 1 tweets
One business owner says Mobile World Congress was "much more than a trade show".
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Balaji S. Srinivasan CITATIONS Recode: TC: CBS SFBA: Fortune: BBC News: Reuters: Telegraph: Wired: 6d
WHO investigates Singapore conference linked to foreign virus spread
U.S. 6d 1 tweets
At least three employees of a multinational company that held a meeting of more ...
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Balaji S. Srinivasan CITATIONS Recode: TC: CBS SFBA: Fortune: BBC News: Reuters: Telegraph: Wired: 6d
Coronavirus victim attended conference in London with 250 people
The Telegraph 8d 2 tweets
One of the UK's nine confirmed coronavirus patients attended a conference in central London last week alongside 250 people before they were diagnosed, it emerged last night.
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Balaji S. Srinivasan CITATIONS Recode: TC: CBS SFBA: Fortune: BBC News: Reuters: Telegraph: Wired: 6d
Coronavirus Fears Will Leave Empty Seats at a Top AI Conference
Wired.com 16d 3 tweets
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Balaji S. Srinivasan CITATIONS Recode: TC: CBS SFBA: Fortune: BBC News: Reuters: Telegraph: Wired: 6d
Citations for the Recode Handshake Debunking
Balaji S. Srinivasan - Medium 8d 3 tweets
Instead of covering tech used to fight the novel coronavirus, Recode covered handshakes. Unfortunately, they messed that up too. Here are…
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Balaji S. Srinivasan CITATIONS Twitter didn't have space to link these inline, but I compiled all the references in this thread into a Medium post. Here it is! 8d
Thread by @balajis: Incredible. Last week I called out a journalist who I thought was writing a piece that would be a disservice to public health. Unfortunately…
Balaji S. Srinivasan - Threadreaderapp.com 8d 1 tweets
Thread by @balajis: Incredible. Last week I called out a journalist who I thought was writing a piece that would be a disservice to public heUnfortunately, my concerns proved well-founded. Recode’s virus piece ignores WHO & CDC, gets the science...
Coronavirus contagion fears in Silicon Valley - Vox
archive.is 8d 2 tweets
archived 13 Feb 2020 16:04:38 UTC
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Balaji S. Srinivasan But this isn't reflected in the article. Instead it has: - clickbait lede - wrong science - author w/o domain expertise - bad faith request for comment - outrage at assuming bad faith - article that proves assumption of bad faith right! See for yourself: 8d
Check out this 195-gigapixel image of Shanghai
TechSpot 8d 1 tweets
The image is the work of a company called Jingkun Technology, or Bigpixel Technology Corporation. It’s obviously a little too large to put here, but you can explore it on the company’s website. The firm recently said over 8 million…
Balaji S. Srinivasan Is that right? Link would be great. I've seen other stuff like this to illustrate this may be possible, eg 8d
Mobile CT scanner in trailer
YouTube 9d 1 tweets
Vindt u ons kanaal leuk, abonneer u dan.
Balaji S. Srinivasan Toshiba also has a mobile CT scanner on a truck 9d
Detecting Pulse From Head Motions in Video
YouTube 9d 1 tweets
We extract heart rate and beat lengths from videos by measuring subtle head motion caused by the Newtonian reaction to the influx of blood at each beat. Our ...
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Balaji S. Srinivasan You can also go much farther with "normal" cameras than people think. Here's pulse rate from video 9d
Mobile MRI, PET/CT & CT Imaging Solutions - Alliance Radiology
Alliance HealthCare Services 9d 1 tweets
Alliance Radiology assesses your market to help determine your service and equipment needs. We use a data-centric approach, removing any guess work.
Balaji S. Srinivasan With some combination of drones and (autonomous?) trucks, China might be able to do a lot of medical imaging outside the hospital. Alliance says they have mobile MRI, CT, PET scanners and have done 1 million+ scans. 9d
Bloomberg - Are you a robot?
Bloomberg.com 9d 1 tweets
独家|北京首例患者就医始末：1月12日收治，19日确诊
China.caixin.com 9d 1 tweets
大兴公布首例新冠肺炎病例1月12日由地坛医院收治诊断，此后须报国家卫健委下属CDC进行复核、确诊，1月19日深夜方出结果，20日凌晨对外披露
Market Price (USD)
Blockchain.com 9d 1 tweets
Average USD market price across major bitcoin exchanges.
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Balaji S. Srinivasan Some links: 1) BTC prices: 2) JHU dashboard: 3) Geometric Brownian Motions: 4) SEIR[S]: 5) Level crossings: 6) Excursion probabilities: 9d
Geometric Brownian motion - Wikipedia
En.wikipedia.org 9d 1 tweets
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Balaji S. Srinivasan Some links: 1) BTC prices: 2) JHU dashboard: 3) Geometric Brownian Motions: 4) SEIR[S]: 5) Level crossings: 6) Excursion probabilities: 9d
SEIR and SEIRS models — Generic Model documentation
Institutefordiseasemodeling.github.io 9d 1 tweets
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Balaji S. Srinivasan Some links: 1) BTC prices: 2) JHU dashboard: 3) Geometric Brownian Motions: 4) SEIR[S]: 5) Level crossings: 6) Excursion probabilities: 9d