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@0xlelouch_ @JeffDean @Sanjay_Ghemawat since he’s here officially now ;)

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@0xlelouch_ If there's @JeffDean here, I suppose there should be Sanjay Ghemwat too.

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Happy birthday @rogerfederer My inspiration and my most favourite athlete of all time 😍

[UNIQLO_Ambassadors @UQAmbassadors]

Happy birthday to @rogerfederer.
It’s an honor to work with you, year after year.
Here’s to many more.

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@championswimmer 😂

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@dhh Just for Rails?

[Skyroot Aerospace @SkyrootA]

Building for the world from India. 🇮🇳

India’s first privately developed orbital rocket stands on the launch pad at Sriharikota, ready for its maiden test flight. 🚀

This documentary takes you behind the scenes of Vikram-1—from bold ideas and relentless testing to the teams, technology, and reforms that made this moment possible.

#Vikram1 #SkyrootAerospace

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Terrifyingly beautiful!

[1X @1x_tech]

NEO’s Hands
An API to the Physical World

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@Served_Podcast Roger Federer and the Wimbledon chairs!

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@MongoDB How did he go from a senior software engineer to a VP in 9 years!? 😮
What's the trick?

Love Atlas by the way, used it for a side project once.

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@SelvaPr007 Whenever I feel the sting of the 2019 loss as a Federer fan, I remind myself of this year where Roddick should have actually won as a better player, and feel that Federer is compensated this way in the past already.

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🥹 Yours is a beautiful game @stanwawrinka You’re a great champion!

You will be missed on tour! Good luck for the road ahead!

#StanTheMan

[The Tennis Letter @TheTennisLetter]

Stan Wawrinka spoke with tears in his eyes after losing his final Wimbledon match to Berrettini

“This is your final Wimbledon appearance. After that performance are you sure you want to retire?”

Stan: “I don’t want to retire but I know it’s time for me to stop. 🥹One of the reasons I kept playing for so long was to enjoy these moments like tonight. So much emotion. I’m so grateful to have this opportunity. To have received a wildcard.. to have the chance to play one last time in Wimbledon. It’s such a special tournament. As a kid you always dream about maybe being here one day. I had a chance to play it so many times. With that kind of support, it means so much to me. Thank you so much for all those years.”

Stan: “It was not my first time here. I pushed it to my own limit tonight. It was a great fight. Matteo is a good friend. He’s a great guy. He deserved to win, so congrats. It’s never easy to say goodbye to something you love so much. I’ve always been passionate about the game. I’m grateful. I’d like to thank everybody because I had a chance, this opportunity to play here. I couldn’t dream of a better goodbye. Thank you so much for the support.” 🥹🥹🥹

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@MarcJBrooker @embano1 @mlafeldt @rustlang Really? I thought the runtimes do make a difference. Starting a JVM app vs a Go/Rust binary for example?

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@Rossst_03 ?

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@Rossst_03 *link

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Give your app updates proper descriptions please @ETMONEY

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@PKCWoffl @PawanKalyan @Sujeethsign @MusicThaman Lyrics meaning enti?

Music adiripoyindi!

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

# on shortification of "learning"

There are a lot of videos on YouTube/TikTok etc. that give the appearance of education, but if you look closely they are really just entertainment. This is very convenient for everyone involved : the people watching enjoy thinking they are learning (but actually they are just having fun). The people creating this content also enjoy it because fun has a much larger audience, fame and revenue. But as far as learning goes, this is a trap. This content is an epsilon away from watching the Bachelorette. It's like snacking on those "Garden Veggie Straws", which feel like you're eating healthy vegetables until you look at the ingredients.

Learning is not supposed to be fun. It doesn't have to be actively not fun either, but the primary feeling should be that of effort. It should look a lot less like that "10 minute full body" workout from your local digital media creator and a lot more like a serious session at the gym. You want the mental equivalent of sweating. It's not that the quickie doesn't do anything, it's just that it is wildly suboptimal if you actually care to learn.

I find it helpful to explicitly declare your intent up front as a sharp, binary variable in your mind. If you are consuming content: are you trying to be entertained or are you trying to learn? And if you are creating content: are you trying to entertain or are you trying to teach? You'll go down a different path in each case. Attempts to seek the stuff in between actually clamp to zero.

So for those who actually want to learn. Unless you are trying to learn something narrow and specific, close those tabs with quick blog posts. Close those tabs of "Learn XYZ in 10 minutes". Consider the opportunity cost of snacking and seek the meal - the textbooks, docs, papers, manuals, longform. Allocate a 4 hour window. Don't just read, take notes, re-read, re-phrase, process, manipulate, learn.

And for those actually trying to educate, please consider writing/recording longform, designed for someone to get "sweaty", especially in today's era of quantity over quality. Give someone a real workout. This is what I aspire to in my own educational work too. My audience will decrease. The ones that remain might not even like it. But at least we'll learn something.

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😄

[Convex @convex]

we watched this and now we understand convex better, which is weird because we made convex

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@clattner_llvm @Qualcomm Will Qualcomm have any unique advantage from this in terms of beating the other completed building GPUs?

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@ConorBronsdon @waterloo_intern @Qualcomm @clattner_llvm Yes, he confirmed nothing changes about the vision of @Modular . Hope it remains true.

A very surprising announcement however!