David Soergel @[email protected]

ML infra @ Google. Adequate parent. Dilettante on other topics, especially guitar. Opinions mine, not employers'.

[David Soergel @[email protected] @loraxorg]

@sqcai But, isn't "making my job easier" the same thing as "taking the job of junior people assisting with / learning how to do my job"? I know, this argument goes back to the steam engine, etc.

[No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen @NoLieWithBTC]

Katie Porter reads a book during the Speaker vote.

(Getty/Anna Moneymaker)

[Tyler Sloan @quorumetrix]

I’ve made this video as an intuition pump for the density of #synapses in the #brain. This volume ~ grain of sand, has >3.2 million synapses (orange cubes). Peeling them away leaves only inputs on 2 #neurons. Zooming in, we see the synapses localized to the dendritic spines.
#b3d

[Peter Schiff @PeterSchiff]

I know there's a war, but #Zelensky isn't under fire. He flew to the U.S. aboard a U.S. government private jet, arrived at the White House in a Chauffeur Driven SUV, yet showed up wearing a sweatshirt. It's better than a t-shirt, but I still maintain the proper attire is a suit.

[David Soergel @[email protected] @loraxorg]

@GreenEngineer42 How’s this holding up? 😜

[David Soergel @[email protected] @loraxorg]

Moving to @[email protected]; see you there. #TwitterMigration

[David Soergel @[email protected] @loraxorg]

These tech geniuses don’t even have an ssl cert

[Alfredo Andere @AlfredoAndere]

If this resonates, come work with us. https://t.co/AwcOjAbMLa

[David Soergel @[email protected] @loraxorg]

“Trickle down economics” shall henceforth be known as “suck it up economics”

[Graham Cummins @grahamcummins]

@GreenEngineer42 @McAffee I prefer to call that "suck it up" economics. It better captures both the direction of wealth transfer and what we get to do about it

[Middle Age Riot @middleageriot]

Saying Donald Trump ruined the Republican Party is like saying spoiled mayonnaise ruined a pickle and shit sandwich.

[Tyler Sloan @quorumetrix]

In reality, neurons are packed in so tightly that they make sardines look comfortable. Here are 364 neurons packed into a box roughly the size of a grain of sand. This dense reconstruction is from the Allen Institute's MICrONS layer 2/3 dataset. Rendered in #Blender3d

[David Soergel @[email protected] @loraxorg]

@grahamcummins Surely “Elon Sucks” would be more concise

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

LEGO machine for making domino runs. Each 'domino' is a stack of 5 1x3 LEGO bricks.

[📹 JK Brickworks: https://t.co/KUxREjCfDv]

[Fyodor Urnov @UrnovFyodor]

"Unless things change dramatically, the millions of people #CRISPR could save will never benefit from it. We must, and we can, build a world with #CRISPR for all."
#healthjustice @igisci @nytimes
https://t.co/7VjfFdkLzJ

[MONDO 2000 @2000_mondo]

https://t.co/5bJ8Caw3XN How Brian Eno Created Ambient 1: Music for Airports

[shaurya @shauseth]

too many smart people waste time on top-down thinking (what does utopia look like) rather than bottom-up (how to build dope shit in an imperfect world)

[Michael Thomas @curious_founder]

In my reporting on clean energy misinformation I've seen one argument over and over.

Wind turbines kill birds.

While this is true, it misses an important piece of context:

Fossil fuel power plants kill 35x more birds per GWh than wind turbines do.

🧵

[Steve Stewart-Williams @SteveStuWill]

Scary: 73 teams tested the same hypotheses with the same data. Some found negative results, some positive, some nada. No effect of expertise or confirmation bias. "Idiosyncratic researcher variability is a threat to the reliability of scientific findings." https://t.co/pCRR2wFVWE

[joel sachs @SachsLab]

Graduate students, postdocs, and other represented workers deserve a living wage at the University of California.

It's not a proud day when the UC cannot provide this request.

My department runs the biggest major at UCR, Biology, and we are nothing without these folks.

[Graham Cummins @grahamcummins]

.@loraxorg (1993): "The fact that meme viruses exist would be a useful meme to propagate"

(Monkey paw curls)
(Ominous scraping sounds begin outside the door)