Xiaodi Wu, MD, PhD

🇨🇦 • leukemia instructor @sloan_kettering • @SwiftLang language steering group member

[Xiaodi Wu, MD, PhD @xwu]

@krzyzanowskim Lifetimes are a supported experimental feature. Read more about it here: https://t.co/XQEDlzSzKu

[Xiaodi Wu, MD, PhD @xwu]

@DonnyWals This source-breaking change is being deferred from Swift 6, and you will continue to be able to write ‘bare’ existentials (or explicit ‘any’) until some future language mode to be determined—unless you enable the future feature. https://t.co/gGzEJPPnvl

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@TfL @Burberry Hey @TfL, remember when you yourselves did a station takeover of the @TTChelps (in Canada! why?) in the 2000s, complete with London transit maps? Tourists seriously confused—good times! (It really wasn’t.) Neat that you’re now doing the same thing to your own customers!

[Xiaodi Wu, MD, PhD @xwu]

@MichaelRetchin It had to be discovered eventually, but (at least how I was taught) the notion that certain lineages of immune cells obligatorily break and edit their own DNA was more or less heretical at the time of Susumu Tonegawa’s work, and the Nobel was awarded to him alone

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@never_released @okcupid The date ends if you forget to say “SEMICOLON” at the end of a statement

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@jckarter @beccadax @porglezomp Sold

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@slava_pestov If sentience is sufficient to understand generics puzzles, then I am not sentient

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@slava_pestov 💩

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@stephentyrone Sorry, I waited until all the hyperbole was vented before chiming in to kick off the technical discussion part :P

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Wordle 227 2/6

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[Xiaodi Wu, MD, PhD @xwu]

@matthew_mei @sargsyanz Nah, only one too many; no J chain I can see

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@AaronGoodman33 Epinephrine: tachycardia. Not making this up.

[Josh Spero @joshspero]

“some AIs were found to be picking up on the text font that certain hospitals used to label the scans. As a result, fonts from hospitals with more serious caseloads became predictors of covid risk” 😬 https://t.co/U68CRY4c90

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@stephentyrone @sarahposner I mean, the British did try that with their subalterns in WWI

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@stephentyrone @lorentey @ktosopl If the cloud wills it, who are we mortals to argue? The alternative prediction was “CEO of the office.”

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@migueldeicaza @NeoNacho @stephentyrone Best meta-meta-comment?

[Xiaodi Wu, MD, PhD @xwu]

@bjhomer It's been talked about before, certainly.

Since key path literals can be used where a function takes a closure as an argument, my preferred spelling is something like the following, which can be used as `people.sort(on: \.surname, by: >)`:

[Xiaodi Wu, MD, PhD @xwu]

@doug_rand @InnovateEconomy @LettieriDC Curious if you have insight into why biological sciences are excluded from the definition of “STEM” in this bill. Seems like now’s particularly not the time for that.