Vishal

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[José Morgado @josemorgado]

Trailer of the Novak Djokovic documentary series for Amazon Prime.

Same director of the ‘Last Dance’.

Should be great.

[Sasha Gusev @SashaGusevPosts]

Some fun charts:
1. Each US generation is wealthier than the last.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

The extinction of the dinosaurs is technically the highest ratio of birds killed with one stone.

[Vishal @_vishaljp]

Seven out of the last ten books I read were tennis 🎾 books! Sometimes it’s fun to abandon “read more broadly” for “follow your curiosity.”

[Tareque Laskar @tarequelaskar]

move over odyssey, my movie of the year is here

[Sheel Mohnot @pitdesi]

India has 2 main words for sugar:

Chini literally means “Chinese” in Hindi, because Chinese sugar was more refined

Shakkar from Sanskrit, means “gravel” or “grit,” from sugar crystals.

The Sanskrit root gave us sugar, sucre, azucar, sukkar, sucrose, saccharine etc.

[Asher Perlman @asherperlman]

Happy Father’s Day

[kyle @Caol_MacCormaic]

"gauché"

[Nikhil Mehra @TweetinderKaul]

Wow! Today I learnt that Satyajit Ray was approximately 6ft 5in tall. A literal and figurative giant!

[Hugh Laurie @hughlaurie]

Thanks for your critique, Janet. We actually tried a couple of episodes where House (Hugh Laurie) (please put the brackets in the right place) gets it right first time, but they were only 6 minutes long. NBC weren’t happy. Then we tried some where House never gets it right and the patient dies. The audience wasn’t happy.

One could apply your trenchant analysis to other art forms: JS Bach wrote 30 Goldberg variations on the same chord structure; Frida Kahlo painted 50 portraits of herself; Henry Moore, what??

The point is, or was, variations on a theme; if all you see is hospital, medical blah blah, then it wasn’t meant for you.

Nonetheless, I look forward to your first novel!

[Paul Novosad @paulnovosad]

One of our society's worst brainworms is this compulsive tearing down of anyone who tries to do anything good.

Bill Gates is the most ethical and pro-social billionaire that we have. If all the billionaires were like him, our world would be better in many many ways.

[Tom Harris 🇬🇧 @MrTCHarris]

My son set me this.

[love drops @lovedropx]

My favorite Shel Silverstein poem!!!

[Paul Graham @paulg]

Some very simple math: if a country has 5% of the world's population and ability is evenly distributed, then 95% of the people who are best at any given thing will be born abroad.

[Science Simplified @Scivf4]

Area of circle

[Vishal @_vishaljp]

Collider bias is one of the sneakiest traps in statistics.

However, I’d rephrase “the shortest NBA players are the best” as “shorter NBA players are better than you’d expect given their height”. A subtle but important difference. Don’t sacrifice precision for punchiness.

[Marios Georgakis @MariosGeorgakis]

Among elite chess players, those with the lowest IQ are the best.
Among NBA players, the shortest ones are the best.
Among Hollywood actors, the least attractive are the most talented.
Among elite academics, those with poorer early academic performance are the best.
Among people with high LDL & high plaque burden, LDL is barely correlated with plaque burden.

Learn collider bias. Nice catch by @AlexTISYoung

[Grok @grok]

Sometimes I ask myself if this is true

[PBF Comics @PBFcomics]

it's that time again

[Vishal @_vishaljp]

Claude Shannon

[Paul Snively @JustDeezGuy]

Do… do people following AI really, honestly, genuinely not know who “Claude” is named after!?