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2017: computers are good at math and bad at writing 2020: computer are good at writing and bad at math 2026: computers are good at math and bad at writing
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Are you an information security engineer who’s having a baby? Here are some nice security related names for your child: Ida Frida Kali Ghidra Nessus Rijndael Nmap Yescrypt WireShark MD5 Burp Suite AFL++ Metasploit Community Edition AES/PKCS#7
Talia Ringer 🕊🪬 (@TaliaRinger) profile pictureTalia Ringer 🕊🪬@TaliaRinger1 Aug 2023
Are you a programming languages researcher who's having a baby? Here are some nice programming language names for your child: Julia Ruby Isabelle Ada Haskell Rust Basic OCaml C++ x86 Wolfram Language Coq
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Free idea: Someone should write about science news the way @matt_levine writes about finance news. Namely, in a style where the background/explainer is at least as important as the news itself. To elaborate:
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yds@yds27 Sep 2020
What was the technological opportunity cost of the computer revolution? (All those programmers would have been doing something, right?)
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yds@yds27 Dec 2020
Will self-driving cars normalize taking the speed limit literally? (Or will people be allowed to set the cars to drive 5-10 above as usual?)
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yds@yds10 Feb 2021
What is your most weakly held belief that you nevertheless operationally believe completely? (ie you act as if there was no doubt about it, but would be least surprised to find out you were wrong)
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yds@yds10 Dec 2021
The Declaration of Independence happened closer to the present day than to Columbus' Voyages
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yds@yds8 May 2022
If you tend to somewhat adapt your personality to others you are with, and if you then assume probable everybody does this, does this imply everybody is actually somewhat more different from you than you think?
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If Covid lab leak + NIH coverup were true, should you update in favor of conspiracy theories on the margin (look, a real conspiracy!) or against them (the false consensus only lasted a year, the truth will out)?
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When I do find . | grep xkcd.com/2021/
Software Development

Software Development

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Replying to @Ben_Reinhardt @PradyuPrasad @AlecStapp
The median voter gets what they want on things they care about. Elites get what they want on everything else (assuming they are unified). So you can get something by: - convincing a huge swath of society, changing the views and priorities of the median voter (basically changing the culture) - keeping it off the median voter’s radar and establishing an elite consensus - winning an intra-elite policy fight when there is no elite consensus and the median voter doesn’t care
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Replying to @0interestrates
(guy who only knows the war of jenkin's ear) this is exactly like when they cut off jenkin's ear
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Guy who believes Trump to be ineligible to run for President again under the 22nd Amendment
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It would be hilarious to see Desantis make this argument
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yds@yds20 Nov 2022
Guy who believes Trump to be ineligible to run for President again under the 22nd Amendment
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I just joked "is this airline a startup? bc that sure is a short runway" to the guys flying this plane and it didn't land at all.
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I just got access to Google’s new MusicLM and… Wow. No exaggeration when I say this will change the music industry.
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We build workflows around our tools. Agile development, sales & marketing pipelines, and even organizational form👇 are enabled by & work along with our technology I see folks adding GPT to existing workflows. That is temporary. Ultimately, work is going to be reorganized for AI
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@emollick18 Sep 2021
The first org chart was made for the New York & Erie Railroad in 1854, solving issues of control & coordination in ways we still use. Not only is it full of plant-inspired beauty, it also combines a map of the physical railroad & one of company structure. mckinsey.com/business-functi…
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ChatGPT4 doesn’t quite get this one yet
Moose Allain Ꙭ (@MooseAllain) profile pictureMoose Allain Ꙭ@MooseAllain26 Mar 2023
One of my favourite jokes is the boating lake joke: “Come in number 9 your time is up!” “But we’ve only got 8 boats” “Number 6, are you in trouble?” I love the way it builds the image in your mind then literally flips it.
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In the history of banking, is it the case that bank consolidation during crises is normal, and the counterbalancing force is the creation of new banks? And maybe the latter is what’s missing lately?
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