SFI Eavesdropper

The beautiful, the strange, the brilliant, the horrible, the sublime. All overheard at the Santa Fe Institute.

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Don't rain on my precipitation forecast dreams.

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Scientists have been wondering about the nature of the electron for a hundred years. Engineers have been making it dance!

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Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.

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Ask 10 complexity scientists to define complexity, get 10^4 answers.

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I feel using Twitter is an exciting social experiment every time I say something - "what happens if this is the tweet that makes me really popular?"

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The stock market is pretty much just a graph of rich people's feelings.

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I always thought my apocalypse virus would have some zombification involved.

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My communist Utopia involves a lot of vaccinations.

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It's really easy to separate normal from genius based on Wikipedia editing activity. But it's really hard to separate genius from crazy. Maybe we can say that genius is crazy with survivorship bias?

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I think Star Wars has become what people who have never seen Star Wars think Star Wars is like.

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I'm technically still the editor for the Journal of Wierd-Ass Shit.

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There's a pretty fine but distinct line between handmade and homemade.

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I hate anybody named after weather patterns.

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They are remarkably well balanced in their excesses and deficiencies.

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If you're going toilet-to-tap, you've gotta be damn proud of it!

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Humanity faces a lot of problems. And we'll have most of them solved by the time we can predict turbulence.

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Trust but verify.

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Your null model is a crumpled piece of paper?

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He doesn't come off as rich, but the rhino horn candleholders and Bengal tiger rug in his architectural mock-ups sort of betray class.

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The fecal transplant industry is on FIRE right now!