Jason McCandless

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[Jason McCandless @jasonmc]

Verifying myself: I am jasonmc on Keybase.io. QoBLiz2bpZXJTpj23CTzpN6aZemk_niqdRTy / https://t.co/8Uh6yVFNly

[Jason McCandless @jasonmc]

@_Sowellsista_ Wild that Yeats asked for her hand in marriage four times

[Jason McCandless @jasonmc]

@_Sowellsista_ This is why I had to lose mine

[Jason McCandless @jasonmc]

@robinhanson @StefanFSchubert Even then the US is an outlier - @jburnmurdoch had a graph on that recently.

[Barry C Smith @smithbarryc]

Really sad news. In the world of academia, he was a rare thing. Worldly, curious, human with wide impact beyond his field of research. Be took real pleasure in life and lived to to the full

[Matt Jugo @Jeanvaljean689]

I still think about the Alan Watts adage - "every problem is just a question, asked the wrong way"

implies something interesting -

that the real path, to a fulfilled life

might just be

learning to ask only the right questions, at the right time, in the right way

simple as

[Patrick Collison @patrickc]

@atroyn The Two Cultures.

[John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch]

Honestly I think it’s the horrendous driving more than the guns and drugs that would most put me off raising kids in America.

You have far more control over your exposure to the latter two than the first.

[Princeton School of Public & International Affairs @PrincetonSPIA]

Today we’ve lost a giant and a visionary: Prof. Daniel Kahneman has passed at the age of 90. The Princeton SPIA community shares our condolences with his family and all who knew him, learned from him, and loved him. https://t.co/JbTXQSuzlw

[Dripped Out Technology Brothers @TechBroDrip]

Claude Shannon (mathematician, electrical engineer, and cryptographer known as one of the fathers of information theory)

[Jason McCandless @jasonmc]

@fitzfromdublin There's only extremes in USA, so no drizzle.

[Jason McCandless @jasonmc]

@ShouldIBike Definitely not optimal

[Azlen @azlenelza]

Computer history by Balenciaga

[Jason McCandless @jasonmc]

@visakanv Actually Nowadays there could be a good location - lots of space

[Jason McCandless @jasonmc]

@HistoryBoomer PUAs? Though it seems like it was already on the way out in the US. Still a fine sartorial choice in Europe though.

[Will Kinney @WKCosmo]

Of course that's your contention. You're a first year grad student. You just got finished reading some pop science author, Michio Kaku probably, you’re gonna be convinced of that until next month when you get to Sean Carroll, then you’re gonna be talking about how anybody taking the wavefunction seriously automatically believes in the Everettian multiverse. That's gonna last until next year, you’re gonna be in here regurgitating Leonard Susskind, talkin’ about, you know, firewalls and Einstein-Rosen bridges.

[Jason McCandless @jasonmc]

@visakanv Dry air will be a consideration for you too. Even coming from Ireland it took me a few years to adapt to a -20c dew point.

[Jason McCandless @jasonmc]

@embryosophy

[Jason McCandless @jasonmc]

@iamdulma Conspicuous consumption

[SIMD Crawford 🟣 @omershapira]

A cache of Polaroids from the set of HACKERS just dropped.

I’m experiencing a lot of feelings about this.

https://t.co/BX7DvbVOpt

[Jason McCandless @jasonmc]

@startingfromnix Taleb calls this convexity.