Ryan Turner

[Ryan Turner @otterkoala]

@jon_stokes My gas stove sure was useful during a week-long power outage & storm. It gives folks hot water when they need it most. An electric stove can't do that.

How about gas stoves can't be banned in a community until the feds have paid for the power lines to be underground.

[joshua steinman (🇺🇸,🇺🇸) @JoshuaSteinman]

I don’t know who needs to hear this but:

STOP CONNECTING COMPUTERS TO PERFECTLY FUNCTIONAL MECHANICAL HOUSEHOLD OBJECTS

[Bojan Tunguz @tunguz]

Technical debt can sink companies. IMHO, every company should have an office that does nothing but run internal tech debt audits and stress test the infrastructure. https://t.co/EHAD16AofV

[Ryan Turner @otterkoala]

@nemanjagrujicic @AlecStapp The employee would owe income tax on the pre kickback amount, which is a big incentive against kickbacks.

[Holly ⏸️ Elmore @ilex_ulmus]

Guys. Plastic is the perfect material for straws. Paper disintegrates. Metal doesn’t bend in to assist with the suck. American trash is basically not what ends up in the Ocean (mostly from 3rd world rivers). And straws are not a large percentage of single-use plastic trash.

[Ryan Turner @otterkoala]

@theLUCASTDS @DrDrAbhiKole The sticking point has always been how to ban foreign buyers without being anti immigrant.

[bex, now on bluesky @bookbeaut]

Tonight I did a little bit of research into why, exactly, the U.S. Government has 1.4 BILLION pounds of cheese stored in a cave deep underneath Springfield, Missouri, & now I’m like “this is a perfect encapsulation of everything that’s wrong with this country.” Fucking CHEESE.

[Ryan Turner @otterkoala]

@curious_founder If you've ever cooked with a PM2.5 sensor in the room then it is clear that the cooking of the food itself is what causes indoor pollution.

[Ryan Turner @otterkoala]

@TheEconomist Another interpretation of this graph is that the real culprits for climate change are the binge eaters, not just the beef eaters.

[Ryan Turner @otterkoala]

@anothercohen That's because the buyers and the users aren't the same people.

[Ryan Turner @otterkoala]

Why is it that we don’t have RFIDs with expiration dates by now on all food? We should be able to scan the kitchen and list everything that will go bad soon. Huge potential for eliminating food waste here.

[Ryan Turner @otterkoala]

It is an epic fail that roombas need to have battery power to be put on their charger. Why can’t they just have a plug in charger port like everything else? @iRobot

[Ryan Turner @otterkoala]

Strava should have an option for snow shoveling. @Strava

[Ryan Turner @otterkoala]

@PMatzko Don't forget that FDR's CCC paved roads into many wild areas of the west, which required the next generation of progressive conservationists to do a 180 with the wilderness act and other regulations.

[Ryan Turner @otterkoala]

Did anyone else catch that the NeurIPS ML caption system calls NeurIPS: "New Europe"?

[Ryan Turner @otterkoala]

Does anyone else see this as a problem?

random.seed(0)
np.random.seed(0)
torch.random.manual_seed(0)

[Ryan Turner @otterkoala]

Now I am off to restack that 2000 lbs of wood.

[Ryan Turner @otterkoala]

It’s December and folks are turning on their heaters: The advantage of wood and pellet stoves is that you can only burn as much carbon as you can lift 💪

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Let’s set an age limit after which you can’t run for political office, perhaps a number just below 70 …

[Engineering @Engineering]

Want to speed up your A/B tests and get results faster? Join @umashanthi & @otterkoala from #TwitterCortex for their talk on "Isotonic Regression Adjustment for Variance Reduction" at the CODE@MIT conference on Nov 5 from 2:30-3:45pm ET.

https://t.co/QXLezq9JwN