Joshua Kopin

[j⧉nus @repligate]

These models are archetype-attractors in the collective human prior formed by narrative forces. This may be the process we have to learn to navigate to align them.

[Sam Zeloof @szeloof]

Dipping a rock into chemicals until it can add numbers

[Dan Luu @danluu]

In general, I don't think it's very interesting when someone spends a lot of time talking about how much better the world would be if we all listened to them when they don't discuss specific details about what mechanisms would make things better and why.

[Omar Rizwan @rsnous]

document vs place vs body metaphors for what software is

[Kate @thingskatedid]

consistency in design makes programing languages ergonomic, intuitive and desirable. in this paper, i propose replacing char with short short,

[julesh @_julesh_]

"Maths is discovered" was invented

[🝆 @policefala]

geology is straight up insane

[Keenan Crane @keenanisalive]

A powerful idea in math (that nobody teaches you directly…):

If you don't know how to map between two "things," you can often map each of them to the same "canonical thing."

Then you can just go from the 1st thing to the canonical thing, and back to the 2nd thing. [1/n]

[New New York Times @NYT_first_said]

hippopotamically

[Caleb Meredith @calebhuwm]

Emergence
2x mag, 25x speed

[Sara Imari Walker @Sara_Imari]

I am not my atoms. You are not your molecules. We are part of the current moment of a billions-year-old lineage of propagating information that has structured matter on our Earth since the origin of life.

[Marcin Ignac @marcinignac]

Electrical Discharge, Anonymous, 1909
https://t.co/mPoPLOMUfO

and

Goethe Colour Chart, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1810
https://t.co/xyDXgZYyqF

[Andrew McCarthy @AJamesMcCarthy]

I find that by tracking the shadow instead of the Moon it is much easier to visualize what is happening during an eclipse. Watch it simply drift through Earth's waiting shadow. #astrophotography #space #opteam

[Robert G. Reeve @RobertGReeve]

So. They know my mom's toothpaste. They know I was at my mom's. They know my Twitter. Now I get Twitter ads for mom's toothpaste.

Your data isn't just about you. It's about how it can be used against every person you know, and people you don't. To shape behavior unconsciously.

[Robert G. Reeve @RobertGReeve]

I'm back from a week at my mom's house and now I'm getting ads for her toothpaste brand, the brand I've been putting in my mouth for a week. We never talked about this brand or googled it or anything like that.

As a privacy tech worker, let me explain why this is happening. 🧵

[Omar Rizwan @rsnous]

single-use website
perishable website

[morgan @CasualEffects]

It is OK if the result has semantic errors in this domain. It is more important for a "non-programmer" in the coding sense to be able to control their environment. The result is usually interpreted by a human anyway, who is forgiving. This domain is closer to art than engineering