James Porter @complexview

Software developer and data scientist. Expect Tweets about tech, productivity and education. See my website for more. amimetic.co.uk London Joined March 2009

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God @TheTweetOfGod

11 months ago

In an ideal scenario the President of the United States and the worst person in the world would be two different people.

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Fascinating data from an IMF economist on the lasting, mostly positive effects of the explosion in remote work during the pandemic: • Preliminary data shows that US couples who both work from home at least one day a week have 0.3 to 0.5 more children (!!!) due to greater…

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Jonathan Chait @jonathanchait

11 months ago

The notion Trump is a dangerous authoritarian isn't partisan. It's been expressed at unprecedented levels by his own former staff. nymag.com/intelligencer/…

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Kent C. Dodds ⚡ @kentcdodds

12 months ago

Also of note, there are studies which suggest that people are very bad at understanding whether a particular teaching style is contributing to their learning and retention. Learners typically prefer learning which feels easy. Unfortunately true learning is not easy.

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Work Chronicles @_workchronicles

a year ago

Back in the day, we never slept

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Information is Beautiful @infobeautiful

a year ago

If you are aged 30 or more, then 50% of all human fossil fuel emissions happened during your lifetime. (by @‌neilrkaye)

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Matt DesLauriers @mattdesl

a year ago

First release of @texel/color—a minimal and modern color library for JavaScript. 🎨 Features: - extremely fast - extremely compact - oklab, p3, rec2020, a98rgb, prophoto, srgb + more - gamut mapping + wide gamut support Repo → github.com/texel-org/color

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Chris is paranoidly optimistic @ctopherrun

a year ago

@doctorow Boy, you’re going to feel real silly once you see the slick intuitive UI that is created by professional designers.

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Soren Iverson @soren_iverson

a year ago

Starbucks surge pricing based on how hot it is outside

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Maho Motoyama @mahomotoyama

a year ago

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David J Carr @djc1805

a year ago

Microsoft says meeting time has TRIPLED since 2020: typical workers are spending 57% of their time communicating [meetings, calls] with others: 'Today, knowledge work is, quantitatively speaking, less about creating new things than it is about talking about those things.’

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Superhero Base @superherobase

a year ago

Voting for a President in America be like "choose one"

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Kyle McDonald @kcimc

a year ago

google's emissions are 13% higher this year due to AI investments. i really want to take this seriously, but then i remember that bitcoin is still doing at least 3x more damage 😩😩😩 theguardian.com/technology/art…

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Kyle McDonald @kcimc

a year ago

it's just absurd that, for a few years, there was this thing called ethereum that did as much environmental damage as ALL OF GOOGLE and then it got quietly converted into using almost zero energy. and we still have another system doing far more damage that refuses to change.

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Soren Iverson @soren_iverson

a year ago

United option to see your plane's days since last incident

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kishimisu @kishimisu

a year ago

I found a copy of my work labelled as « impressive AI generation » and without any attribution… I created this animation for my shader coding tutorial a year ago: youtu.be/f4s1h2YETNY

Hamish Kerr @hamish_kerr

a year ago

I found a copy of my work labelled as « impressive AI generation » and without any attribution… I created this animation for my shader coding tutorial a year ago: youtu.be/f4s1h2YETNY

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Work Chronicles @_workchronicles

a year ago

Heads up.

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Noah Giansiracusa @ProfNoahGian

a year ago

I’m once again reminded that if “alignment” really is a thing, then we probably need to solve it for capitalism before we have a chance of solving it for AI.

BuccoCapital Bloke @buccocapital

a year ago

I’m once again reminded that if “alignment” really is a thing, then we probably need to solve it for capitalism before we have a chance of solving it for AI.