#Abstraction

Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏🇺🇸

Conaw

100 Opinions on this -- prompted by @vgr Will have to break for a call any minute, but will do best to free associate in meantime.https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1206034891390902272 1. Johnny Von Neumann

Scott Young

ScottHYoung

Some useful mental models worth knowing: Efficient markets (and the efficient market hypothesis): Prices adjust until quantity supplied = quantity demanded, and that this can result in an "efficient" distribution

@simpolism

simpolism

one like = one tweet relating to postrats in some form. who knows where this might go?(max 100 tweets, no purchase necessary, entry limit of at most one like per

Doctora Malka Older

m_older

Just in case you want to follow along with something ELSE right now, let's get started with Module 5, also very relevant, on predictive fictions about things we don't want

GenericPerson

GenericPerson4

1/ WOKENESS IS KILLING THE ACADEMY. By design, perhaps?Me in grad school (1990s): "You are kidding, right? Why are you defending postmodernism and using that as a theoretical foundation for

David Copeland

davetron5000

I just finally released Sustainable Web Development with Ruby on Rails after a year of writing and editing. https://sustainable-rails.com Here are all the hot takes it contains: 1/59 Sustainability is

Robin Monotti

robinmonotti

Bring back the Renaissance Man/Woman, or why "listening to the expert" is not such a good idea although it superficially seems so to all but the technocrats in our times.

Mel Conway

conways_law

MEMOTO:My peers in journalism and the social sciences(e.g., @anelsona @sarahkendzior @carolecadwalla @adamgopnik @craigunger @TimothyDSnyder @RBReich @profcarroll)FROM:Someone who earned advanced degrees in physics and mathematics 60 years

Black Dragon Games

BlackDragonCan

I see a lot of bashing of early edition D&D around here, but I wonder how familiar people actually are with the game. 1e AD&D has a lot of rules

Ryan Muller

cicatriz

learning and teaching on YouTube, a thread https://twitter.com/conaw/status/1340351181516754945 (Disclaimer: though I work on education stuff at Google, these opinions are my own as an outside observer of YouTube) 1. Backing

Osita Nwanevu

OsitaNwanevu

So, this is going to be a long thread of material that I won't comment on very specifically, but that I think might offer useful historical context for some of

ChainLinkGod.eth

ChainLinkGod

1/ Welcome to a deep dive thread into our latest @SmartContent777 articleI'll explore the God Protocols and how #Chainlink is the last piece of the puzzle to making it a

L'Oreille Musicale 🔲

0reilleMusicale

[THREAD] sur @snohaalegra Snoh Aalegra : ces onze lettres nous évoquent instantanément douceur et apaisement. Aujourd’hui, nous partons à la découverte de son univers et retraçons son parcours afin de

Chenoe Hart

chenoehart

I’ve been challenged to spontaneously tweet 100 different opinions about experimental methods in architecture. This is occurring at the suggestion of @vgr, who is promoting this kind of exercise as

Michael Bolton

michaelbolton

1) Since it's Friday, OF COURSE the big little idea arrives unbidden, to be consigned to weekend Twitter. However... several unrelated conversations are leading to some epiphanies that help to

foone

Foone

what do you think the chances are that a denial-of-service exploit in a government website has been fixed in the 9 years since you last confirmed it existed? there's a

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