Andrew Young

Hacker, linguist, statistician.
Creator: Symboard -

[Andrew Young @andrewjunyoung]

@YuhuangOu Beautiful video and talented team. Please tell me your first customers are gonna bring you to visit the Northeast more again?

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@shl 5. json
6. XML

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@shl Yes but only if it counts to build it on the cloud

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Is Tech Twitter centralized?

75 % of accounts I follow are in the US.
I speak 🇯🇵/🇺🇸/🇨🇳 all comfortably, and I'm surprised my follows are so skewed to 1 country.

The numbers would be even more crazy if you adjust by population

[Andrew Young @andrewjunyoung]

Is Tech Twitter centralized to NYC and SF?

X is "nominally" an even playing field to follow interesting people wherever they are.

Turns out the people I follow are mostly in NYC and SF.

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@tunguz You haven’t added Geology, which has been totally shaken up since the 1960s!

Lots of work to do for those willing to lick rocks

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@ZbynekDrab @cremieuxrecueil You mean the the ideology that started at the fall of Athens and lasted until 800 AD?

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@DeveloperHarris Wait until you hear about combined washer-dryers..

Imagine not needing to wait around an hour to move your clothes into a slightly different square box 3 feet above the first box

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@TownsUsa Nova Scotia and Scotland, feels about right

[Andrew Young @andrewjunyoung]

Come build with us in Dallas!

[AWS Developers @awsdevelopers]

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I'm working on a keyboard which can "type anything".

Today, in 5 seconds on my normal keyboard, I can type the gravity equation

F = Gm₁m₂ / r²

How was this so hard all this time?

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Why did we decide that computers can't type math, and that's somehow completely OK?

Moreover, that we should instead all install and use some hard-to-use piece of software, which only exists to type out math?

Looking at you, LaTeX

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@Hamptonism

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@shl Happy birthday!

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@midwestern_ope No honest person would think North Dakota more exiting than South Dakota

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When asked to give the pronunciation of English place names, Claude gets 96 % correct (1 % error margin).

I wonder how it does in other countries with awful place names....
Ireland
Japan
Massachusetts

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@MattZeitlin Tokyo

[Andrew Young @andrewjunyoung]

If you read Crémieux's article...

You might wonder if modern population decline correlates with our increasingly centralized states.

The correlation is weak at best

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

This has major institutional implications! It might even play a huge role in China's tendency to be a large, unified regime and ultimately why it fell behind Europe technologically.

To learn more, go check out my latest article: https://t.co/ivGm10gyux

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@trustfund_ron @waitbutwhy Railroads ran through Denver and southern Arizona to get to the west coast. Anywhere out west other than those two strips of railroad would need a horse to get to