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@grok Create a random image inspired by my X account!

[Arthur B. @ArthurB]

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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@wylfcen Terrific has always puzzled me

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@thogge ScreenZen app. Be ruthless

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@__phantomderp You can probably ‘brew edit lua’ and then either add the url and hashes for 5.2 to the formula or just crib off the formula to compile it by hand

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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]

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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@ZachWeiner Seems like this could apply to Harry Potter too

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@sidddddesh What? Where do you see that?

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@MrCatid @lemire Certainly you could always choose a compression scheme for any given input where a single 0 represents that input (and all other inputs are preceded by a 1) and it will be very efficient for that one input, but outweighed by the extra bit for all the other ones.

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@MrCatid @lemire Seems like he means to say you cannot devise a compression scheme that will in the aggregate be helpful in compressing random data. The lucky cases will be outweighed by the unlucky cases.

[Jason Crawford @jasoncrawford]

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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@cremieuxrecueil For anyone interested, the whole thing is available here and includes written explanations on the left side of the page.

https://t.co/xjbbRg4LF3

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@ArthurB @diviacaroline Should be the very last byte of this archive. https://t.co/6Hl8t5jIyl

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@ArthurB @diviacaroline I mean, have you checked? Maybe it’s right?

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@ZachWeiner Very disappointed! Literally hundreds of pages of historical and scientific background and then almost no practical instructions or diagrams. Pretty much useless as a how-to guide. This book might as well have been called “The History of the Atomic Bomb”.

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What was the technological opportunity cost of the computer revolution? (All those programmers would have been doing something, right?)

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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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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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The Declaration of Independence happened closer to the present day than to Columbus' Voyages

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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?