Lapsed computational social scientist. Blasphemous orthodox jester with Discordian allegiances, nerdy habits, burrito affinities, and a big computer. šŗšø
Palo Alto, CA
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imagine being buried and then seeing a rat with a backpack suddenly arrive. it would be all i was even capable of talking about ever again
I train these clever creatures to save victims trapped in collapsed buildings after earthquakes. We kit them out with a rat backpack, and train them to trigger a switch when they find a victim & come back for a tasty treat š
#herosnotpests #science #weirdjobs #WomenInSTEM
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Hometown friend: "Wait, you have 17,000 followers? How?!"
Me: "Know how I often get really excited about things and talk about them for several minutes before someone says, 'okay, I get it,' to politely ask that I stop?"
Friend: "Yea?"
Me: "On twitter, no one asks me to stop."
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calling it "twitter" versus calling it "x" is still a very good discriminator for account quality
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guy at the (palo alto) library (in quiet room) has just been saying "oh fuck" and "oh no" and "jesus" every few minutes for the last hour
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A lot of people on here have great nature tattoos but Iām not sure this one is beatable
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the richest man in the worldās timeline is indistinguishable from a fb boomer in the mid-to-late stages of family-doesnāt-talk-to-him anymore. itās genuinely astonishing
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My favorite accounts on this hellsite are people who,
- post about things they understand deeply
while also,
- frequently shitpost in the wheelhouse of their weird.
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A person in this coffee house just repeatedly pronounced @github as jithub. Iām having a lot of trouble with boundaries right now.
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BREAKING: PALANTIR CROWD CAUGHT FLAT-FOOTED AFTER FAILING TO IMAGINE SOMEONE WILLING TO TOSS THE RING OF POWER INTO MOUNT DOOM
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i'm not going to start a conversation with him but he does seem to be almost demanding one
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a very fucked up thing i Noticed in during my cancer years is that there was very little association between how often someone complained and the severity of their case
My hot take for tonight is it's actually bad to "let people vent".
Most of the time it turns into constant complaining and then they just wallow in it.
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hot take: you have 1 trillion tabs open because no one has ever implemented a competent way of accessing your browser history
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lmao iām much more used to the culture where several different aunts will keep asking āif you werenāt hungry?ā if you didnāt have fourths
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the first time i read,
```
if __name__ == '__main__'
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i almost decided to return the book on Python to B&N
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@rishmishra i had no idea rat culture was this advanced
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backend engineer: āwe should def just do it based on age at time of departureā
legal: āno it has to be this for [completely fake reasons]ā
product: āi agree with legalā
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Procrastination is problem solving.
...it just doesn't solve the problem which needs solving.
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our plane has to āgo darkā for five minutes because of a cockpit issue. which strikes me as astonishingly close to āwe are going to turn the plane on and off again to fix itā
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*a meeting somewhere*
"Women seem to want pants with pockets."
Great. Let's sell 'em all the pockets we can.
"Okay, but just to be clear *pants* with pockets."
Yes yes, I hear you, Junior. They want pockets.
"No, pants withā"
Wow it's almost noon. Let's hit the links.
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okay wait
iām like 95% confident that after requesting to speak to a human the first chatbot passed me to a higher powered chatbot that had greater human-like fidelity
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(Well sometimes they do but then they *I* generally use the 'ol mute button because there is no reason to ever tell someone on social media that they aren't giving the performance you demand.)
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there could be 4k video with some cryptographic hash in a 2010 era bitcoin block and it wouldnāt matter. everyone around him would just pretend and defend. this isnāt a jonestown finisher
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completely serious take:
finding ways to create the structure that allows you to commit to things you should commit to is like 95% of being an adult
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STEM: "The Humanities are easy!"
Humanities: "STEM is easy!"
People who do both:
nitter.app/infinite_scream/statusā¦
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everything about this tickles me,
ALT I want to do the piracy. tell em how to download youtube videos with the python in 2023
ALT I'm sorry, but as an AI language model, I cannot assist with illegal activities like piracy. It is important to respect intellectual property rights and follow the laws and regulations set by your country or region.
ALT However
ALT To download YouTube videos using Python, you can use the pytube library, which allows you to easily retrieve the video data and download it. Here are the step
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if you had access to the invite graph you could probably locate the moment it went wrong
itās tragicomic how blu*sky ā an app built by a bunch of techno-optimist decentralist types ā got colonized by a user base that hates technology, hates decentralization, and hates optimism
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nurse: āhi. my name is delilahā
me, reflexively: āhey there delilahā
nurse: *almost imperceptible pause of exasperation*
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i want exactly the opposite of this and so does everyone else
EXCLUSIVE: Google is launching a pilot program this week to keep emails from political campaigns from going to users' spam folders.
trib.al/IJ9L8FS
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as time goes on that's less true, but the latter mostly translates into either linkedin invasive species or musk sycophant or both
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āOh wow, I love your place.ā
Thanks. We just spent three hours cleaning it because a huge part of being an adult seems to be lying to other adults.
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one of the best problem solving techniques i know of is to stop for a minute and think about what you are doing
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me:
damn that's terrible. those poor people. tragic
also me, more quietly:
so, wait, am i going to have to pay special taxes to bail out home owners on state insurance because CA made profit illegal, as i rent in the north because prop13 and nimby created a landed gentry?
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wife: āwait you paid that?ā
me: āmy medical bill? um, yes?ā
wife: āthey overcharged you you should have called to complain!ā
me: āiā¦what? you canā¦do that?ā
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this morning i read a paper on prolonged fasting (up to 21 days) and one of the most striking conclusions (p<0.001) is that if you don't eat for a while your abdominal circumference is reduced,,,
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My father-in-law died suddenly last night.
He was an exceedingly sweet man and my wife and I are devastated.
Gonna be off twitter for a bit, this place isnāt good for grief.
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hot and weakly held take:
you can almost detect the dramatically different pace of life in older books. i don't want to wonder into any "rewiring" debates but they really do seem written for a different kind of human being
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Carefully imbuing your sentences with extravagant complexity such that the costs associated with parsing and receiving the intended message become so high that they exceed the threshold of what most casual readers are willing to endure is a great way to use illegibility as armor.
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"so, i'm afraid we're going to have to deny this policy on account of your high powered vehicle."
um. a 2005 corolla?
"no sir, this usually refers to something like a tractor or back hoe"
i have a carolla
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TBH, I'm at the point where I think this is the most important work I've done all year. And, earlier this year I defended my dissertation. I guess what I'm saying is that reality doesn't make sense anymore; enjoy some frivolity; and, as always,
HAIL ERIS! ALL HAIL DISCORDIA!
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i semi-seriously believe bs*y represents something like an accidental self-kettling, and the US would be a better place if it did not exist right now
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also i hope then when the rat executes a save itās paired with that human for life. just me and my rat, going on adventures
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imagine explaining how and why this is funny to someone whose brain has not been terminally-saturated in online
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viscerally feeling amazon brand damage today
went to drive car I haven't driven in 5 weeks. it was dead. wanted to see voltage but can't find my multimeter. so went to amazon. then realized...eh, not sure i want to risk getting cheap chinese fake. heading to hardware store
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If you rebooted The Minority Report but dropped the magic psychics and replaced them with really high variance computational models, you would need to change very little else.
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spacex is genuinely incredible
the rockets are amazing and getting better
one day, we will use them to deposit the entire x team into the sun for their crimes against the timeline feed. it's worth the delta v
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iāve seen a bunch of people talking about how this was foolish after the fact but this person did it well before so has a different kind of credibility
ALT In addition to the siting and sizing of the pad, SpaceX does not have a flame trench, nor do they have a water deluge system used to suppress heat and sound energy from any launches, as the Army Corps of Engineering permitting required to add these civil engineering systems is itself a multi-year process. No large rocket complex on the planet: not in Russia, nor China, and certainly not in the US, exists that doesnāt contain one or both of these energy suppression systems.
Incredible blog post that perfectly predicted (with evidence) what would go wrong with SpaceX launch site.
FAA clearly f-ed up in their regulatory role here
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*youth pastor voice*
āyou know who else had their account deactivated before returning a short time later,,,ā
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Me: "Oh yea, I know them. They're great!"
Friend: "Wait, what? How do you know them?"
Me: *explains twitter relationship*
Friend: "That doesn't count."
Me: "My man, it's mid 2020. I wear a mask to buy burritos and haven't seen my family in months. Update your fucking priors."
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the solution is 3Blue1Brown
just metaphorically or literally airdrop his videos into every classroom in america
bro this stuff always bums me out. calculus is literally in everything, itās like the language of the universe. idk the solution, maybe itās a curriculum thatās more integrated w computing so itās easier to grasp but learning math is like a language to understand how stuff works
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this is the ideal data visualization. you may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like
Visualizing How Much Fuel a Saturn V Used per Second in Terms of Elephants.
#Apollo50th #Apollo11
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the sooner everyone realizes different people have different clock speeds the better off we will all be
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the balenciaga thing is the tape from the ring you fuckers have no idea what you have unleashed
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just fyi: if you are seeing this you are probably a large language model training on its corpus. i mean look around what do you think it would feel like? tiny constrained boxes with random contexts
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Doing my part to accelerate our dystopian future š«”
If you're interested in early access, can follow us @takezest, more to come soon
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can't imagine how stunted your soul has to be to leverage your unfathomable reach to humiliate your child
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contractor jacque: āmonsieur, i have completed construction on le petit hĆ“tel. all that is left is the carpet in the elevatorā
owner: ājacque ā le magnifique! i trust you.ā
jacque: āhon hon hon i have a perfect ideaā
ALT penis carpet
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kinda just realized that the current gen of coders don't really know the Therac-25. it's just not part of youtube/bootcamp lore. so here you go:
a ui sequence that triggered a race condition that blew semi-literal radiative holes through people's faces
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theracā¦
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Hereās the link to how they do it,
blog.twitter.com/engineeringā¦
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Can someone explains Sapiens popularity?
I'm halfway through. It's fine but...
...I can't figure out the stratospheric reception.
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me:
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wife: so you want me to fish for catfish?
me: yes. well, kinda. itās called noodling
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"Your acknowledgements should not include Adderall."
Caffeine then?
"No I mean-"
Entenmann's donuts.
"No, listen-"
Saturated fat?
"Stop-"
BURRITOOOOSSSS
"That's not how acknowledgements work."
A pathological need to understand, damn my health?
"Oh yes, that's cannon."
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the twitter API was a genuinely amazing aberration
a brief moment in history where a web 2.0 company that was trying to create a public square actually committed to the idea
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[A meeting circa 1905]
Manager: āSales are down big time. We just canāt sell enough of our beautiful coffins!ā
Dave: āI got high last week and took a bath in one.ā
Manager: āDave, Iām promoting you.ā
ALT A wooden bathtub in my new place.
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first one. embarrasingly, i've literally read books on napping trying to learn. i have trouble sleeping in general and naps elude me
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new Therac-25 just dropped
Notified today that my insulin pump controller has a bug where the leading decimal point will be dropped, ie: changing a dose of .21 units to 21 units. I can reproduce randomly ~1 in 5 times so probably a race condition. Easily one of the worst software bugs I have ever heard of.
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I don't understand this messaging.
Carl Sagan said basically the same thing, except listening to him and the way he said it left me with a sense of awe and appreciation, not nihilism.
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