Harrison Nolan

Tweets about education 📖, mental models 🧠, personal finance 💵 and life. Head of new ventures @applebycollege

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Damn, sometimes twitter can feel useful, and sometimes it feels like LinkedIn tomfoolery.

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Who cares if Google Bard is better than ChatGPT or the other way around. All of this is going the direction of Azure vs. AWS vs. GCloud. All that’s going to matter is who you got credits from first/what stack your dev is comfortable with.

[Kevin Dahlstrom @Camp4]

Matthew McConaughey has the best philosophy on fitness I’ve ever heard:

“Work up a good sweat every day, preferably outside.”

We overcomplicate fitness but if you adopt this simple plan you’re 90% of the way there.

Alright, alright, alright…

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@bairdk Riding clipless, that kids going places

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@skiingrogge Current in Collingwood ON

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@Camp4 @luca_tomescu It has one killer application. Ski racing where you want to wear very little but you aren’t intense enough to wear a race suit. One very slim application.

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@joelshansen You just need to use your

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@_dashanikolaeva @jakeadler Trial and error here. Go to a few conferences, building or not building and be honest with yourself if it moved the needle and made progress. It’s okay if the answer is no. It will be most of the time. This will help you understand what you are looking for.

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@_dashanikolaeva @jakeadler Still possibly the wrong question. All of this is context. What are you building? For who? Who is at these conferences? 90% conferences are a waste of time. The trick is know when you, your business and the conference are right to create value.

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@imrichardfertig Hah well my misinterpretation then. Not a problem, much better question 👍

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@chrissanislo Well that’s a bit better.

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@chrissanislo Lots of nerves in that first period. Hopefully a good talking to in the intermission and a different team coming out.

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@chrissanislo Goal of the tournament hands down.

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Written papers and fail students who use this tool or we find ways of evaluating students that does not rely on simply looking at papers. The former is most likely to happen, the latter may just enable new methods of evaluation that challenge students to learn more! Let’s see…

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@davidrliu warns to be on the lookout for AI-written papers. Interestingly enough, I have already seen a number of students brag about getting mid-high 80’s and 90’s on assignments written by GPT-3. Now I can see this going two ways. Either we determine a way to identify AI…

[David R. Liu @davidrliu]

A science sonnet, rap, research abstract, and future newspaper headlines generated by #ChatGPT from @OpenAI. It's quite impressive, especially considering that understanding science has been a challenge for recent AI tech such as #DallE2. Teachers: beware AI-written assignments!

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Love that in the long term this means we as humans won’t screw the planet. But me personally, I do not believe I will live 100,000 years therefore finding ways to curb climate change would be great. I know it’s selfish but also feels like the right way to respond.

[Net Zero Watch @NetZeroWatch]

New research by MIT scientists confirms that the planet harbours a “stabilising feedback” mechanism that acts over millennia to pull the climate back from the brink, keeping global temperatures within a steady, habitable range.

#CostOfNetZero

👉 https://t.co/fstMiroKJl

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The level of morality is at an all time low.

[Austen Allred @Austen]

OK this is messed up, but it’s also a little funny to read, “It’s immoral to expose these kids, whose brains have not yet fully developed, to something that is so likely to lead to financial ruin” from universities charging $300k in tuition for a sociology degree

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@Levijameshere Damn not wrong

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People who call someone boneheaded for failing = same people who would have shit on Thomas Edison for continuing to try and invent the light bulb.

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With the amount of people calling @elonmusk an idiot it’s no wonder the US is falling behind in innovation. He took over a $44b company that was losing millions, comes in and moves quickly to try and turn things around. Yes things will go wrong, that’s how innovation works.