Agelast

[Tuur Demeester @TuurDemeester]

"Christopher Columbus was perhaps the first economist. When he left to discover America, he didn't know where he was going. When he got there, he didn't know where he was. When he returned, he didn't know where he had been. And it was all done on a government grant!"

[I Am Devloper @iamdevloper]

1969:
-what're you doing with that 2KB of RAM?
-sending people to the moon

2017:
-what're you doing with that 1.5GB of RAM?
-running Slack

[Programming Wisdom @CodeWisdom]

"What one programmer can do in one month, two programmers can do in two months." - Fred Brooks

[Agelast @ma3axaka]

@apedragosa @nntaleb @mikeandallie @LorenzoWVilla @CutTheKnotMath So it's just a sequence of Bernoulli trials with p = 1/3. And the average number of trials till success is 1/p.

[Agelast @ma3axaka]

@apedragosa @nntaleb @mikeandallie @LorenzoWVilla @CutTheKnotMath It's 3. We are conditioning on even numbers so our "outcome" space shrinks to all sequences of {2, 4, 6} where we treat "6" as success...

[Agelast @ma3axaka]

@nixcraft @pwang "Things everybody can understand without help of hipster visualizations"

[Gavin McInnes @Gavin_McInnes]

I can't take this anymore. It's like I have winning AIDS. https://t.co/jbpAmoo4dW