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holdenkarau.com
she/her, mostly OSS big data (Spark, Dask, Ray, and friends). I ❤️☕️🛵. I don't represent my employer. Live @ http://twitch.tv/holdenkarau , http://tech.lgbt/@holden , Twitter was @holdenkarau
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At Fight Health Insurance, we’re on a mission to empower professionals and patients to fight back against unfair insurance denials. As we prepare to launch our professional version, Fight Paperwork, we'd love your input on this survey: us20.list-manage.com/survey?u=d98...

Would folks be interested in a book entitled "How to do corporate taxes and other things I don't want to do -- a definitely not legal guide for startup founders" ? :p (and or do you know of one?)

I had a dream where I woke up in a country with affordable medical coverage. Then I actually woke up and got back to work on FHI :p Also check out our new logo :)

NEW: Trans young adults and parents sue over Trump’s orders restricting transition care For @nbcnews.com: www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-...

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... @holdenkarau.com 's Fight Health Insurance referenced in Guardian "New AI tool counters health insurance denials decided by automated algorithms"

Tomorrow (Thursday) at 1PM EST we are doing our new FOIA Forum, where we will teach you live how to pry records from the federal government (also via state). Subscribe now to get the livestream link, I will email it tomorrow morning (also archived for later viewing) www.404media.co/our-new-foia...

I wonder how the executive action by the cheeto impacts NEXUS cards. Jointly issued by Canada & US which may soon have different views on my gender.

After an amazing 3.5 years at Netflix it’s time for me to move on. Starting ~late next week I’ll be working full time on Fight Health Insurance ( www.fighthealthinsurance.com ) 😊 It’s exciting and scary to take a leap like this, and if you know folks we should be talking to get in touch :)

Listening to pink pony club on @SFBART on my way to talk to VCs for Fight Health Insurance :) (not pictured: my coffee.)

Came out of morning exercise this morning to the scene of a crash at 26th and Valencia :(

Utterly brilliant. Women in #STEM doing the realest shit. @holdenkarau.com

Dinner… took a turn. Bean cookie!

“Do we have a pay phone?” “No.” “Do you want one?” “No I just couldn’t remember if we did.” youtu.be/Cipc8EowshY?...

Anyone combined cantenas and the framework laptop? I’m at @theautocamp which I love but the WiFi is so so and I think a directional antenna would make life better…

What’s everyone’s favorite hoodies for fancy-ish meetings?

If you, or a friend or family member have been denied health insurance claims check out this free AI tool to help you appeal the decision - www.fighthealthinsurance.com

I'm super stoked to see the fantastic @businessinsider.com article by Ana Altchek on Fight Health Insurance and the work we're doing to level the AI playing field :D -- www.businessinsider.com/free-health-...

Come and join me for some (mini) hacking on FIght Health Insurance -- www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCs_... / www.twitch.tv/holdenkarau

When her health insurance denied her back surgery, my neighbor used this free AI tool to write the letter that got them to pay for it. Digging into the vault for this Here & Now conversation with the tool's creator @holdenkarau.com about how it works www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2...

Debating if I should do a AMA ( www.reddit.com/r/YouShouldK... ) after we went viral-ish on reddit ( www.reddit.com/r/YouShouldK... )

Not all heroes wear capes…..some have pink hair & spitfire personality! This incredible human is choosing to help all of us fight back against evil insurance companies who, continuously allow us to suffer & die, just so they can keep profiting off us. www.fighthealthinsurance.com

Nothing like going viral while on a date and checking on the server stats wearing a sparkly red dress & motorcycle jacket :) — www.reddit.com/r/YouShouldK...

Jazzercise with Mr Pickles

I’ve got a Taco Bell nacho cheese fries subscription!!! For 30 days.

Playing with dyes :)

Oh noes the flag fell down.

What are the most common places you've seen people try to use Apache Spark that they really should not have?

Hugs to those who need it especially today (and space to those who need it too ❤️)

for TDoR, a small reminder to treat the trans people in your life with kindness today; most of us have seen friends die whether through suicide, social murder, or plain old murder and it’s all weighing pretty heavily on us right now

I got recognized at Costco last night and they asked me if I was on my motorbike again. Costco is one of my happy places.

I know some folks here use #Spark and others who use #HPC techniques like RDMA. And there was a paper from 8 years ago talking about Spark + RDMA. Is there anybody here who uses RDMA or other high-performance data transfer mechanism to speed up Spark? #bigdata @holdenkarau.com

Guess who’s got a bunch of fax modems on the way there house? #business #fighthealthinsurance

Good morning from Professor Timbit

Just did a little TikTok on the newest feature on www.fighthealthinsurance.com — faxes. We used our Time Machine to travel to the 90s and pick up a fax modem so you don’t have too — www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8LhqcPp/

This is a fantastic project, btw

Just did a little TikTok on the newest feature on www.fighthealthinsurance.com — faxes. We used our Time Machine to travel to the 90s and pick up a fax modem so you don’t have too — www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8LhqcPp/