Derek Willis
I teach data journalism at the University of Maryland, run OpenElections.
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I teach data journalism at the University of Maryland, run OpenElections. Fan of WBB & test cricket. Posting obscure things about campaign finance, Congress & elections. https://github.com/dwillis https://thescoop.org https://buttondown.com/dwillis
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Mistral AI: Three Paris Classmates From DeepMind and Meta Who Raised €105 Million at Four Weeks OldMistral AI was co-founded in Paris in 2023 by Arthur Mensch, who had worked at DeepMind, and Guillaume Lample and Timothée Lacroix, who had worked at Meta's Paris AI lab and on its LLaMA models. The three had known each |
Hotjar: A Twice-Failed Founder in Malta Who Sold a $29 Tool Before He Built ItHotjar was founded in Malta in 2014 by David Darmanin, a law graduate turned conversion-optimization consultant who had already given up on two earlier companies, together with former colleagues, several from the softwar |
OVHcloud: A Polish-Born Engineering Student Visited His Web Host's Wooden Shack in Pennsylvania, Realized Hosting Was Simple, and Built Europe's Biggest Cloud With His FamilyAs a student at the ICAM engineering school in Lille, Octave Klaba was about to be cut off by his small US web host for using too many resources. He flew over, found the host running a few machines in a wooden cabin, and |
Magic: A Teenager From Vienna Out-Researched His Way to FAIR, Then Raised Half a Billion Dollars to Give AI a 100-Million-Token MemoryEric Steinberger became obsessed with AI at 14, published reinforcement learning research that caught Noam Brown's attention right after high school, and worked part-time at Meta's FAIR while at Cambridge. In 2022 he co- |
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