Tweet Archive 2020 09
RT @cononeilluk: Quick question is it more patriotic to play a song in parliament or to pay taxes in the country you reside in ? Anyone ? J…
Forest Pokémon keep spawning in Cambridge because they haven’t updated the servers since the city was built.
Replying to @roice713
Can we animate it with a hyperbolic translation from left to right, so it looks like the air is flowing past the airfoil?
Oh, this is even better than I’d imagined! Thanks @roice713
Not at all how air flows of course but still lovely. https://twitter.com/TilingBot/status/1302653244016136192
Replying to @gregeganSF
Remind me which side we’re on now?
Replying to @DuneNews
And everyone under the sun is in Dune..
RT @ZenoRogue: Non-Euclidean geometries are subtle, but if you see a figure with five right angles, you know that you are in some weird pla…
RT @RobFathauerArt: Iterated polyiamonds, with scaling factors of 1/2, 1/3, and 4/4.
RT @Ceremona: So here’s something fun. I got curious what a string of random binary numbers would look like if you used it as a crochet pa…
Replying to @RoyalAstroSoc and @jgreaves6
How do we know that there isn’t a different molecule that absorbs at that wavelength?
Replying to @hamish_todd
Sorry for deleting. Reposted as a reply here: https://mobile.twitter.com/tim_hutton/status/1305529099067314176
RT @cliodiaspora: As a German I have often asked myself how a country can fall. My country of birth fell far beyond the deepest abyss. How…
Oh no. https://twitter.com/gregeganSF/status/1306565923671736320
Replying to @astraughnomer
Nice try Venusians.
Replying to @gregeganSF
With instant coffee granules the fizz you get with microwaved water is really useful - it makes a crema layer on top which improves the flavor. Sometimes it fizzes too much and overflows though, so use caution.
Replying to @Ahr0n2
There’s a Ready+Houdini readme here: https://github.com/GollyGang/ready/tree/gh-pages/Scripts/Houdini
But I don’t use Houdini so I haven’t tried it. Please open an issue if you have questions or want more documentation or tutorials.
RT @motoyaman6: これも箱です📦
Replying to @amiewatersmusic
Spider: Ugh these settings are all wrong… The bass is way too heavy… Got to fix that reverb… Well that’s better, gotta go now, can’t help with the playing lol. Laters.
A hugely important and subtle point. For every algorithm we deploy, we need to consider very carefully the damage it could potentially do.
E.g. YouTube’s recommendations accidentally radicalising millions.
E.g. That soap dispenser failing to work for dark skin. https://twitter.com/polotek/status/1307779472326758400
A beautiful video. https://youtu.be/yAv5pLO37mE
Our reaction-diffusion software Ready was just cited in a Nature paper. Thanks to Mikhail Kryuchkov. https://github.com/GollyGang/ready https://twitter.com/RTB_HRoss/status/1306611494281383940
Replying to @Ceremona
Reminds me of SkyKnit: https://aiweirdness.com/post/173096796277/skyknit-when-knitters-teamed-up-with-a-neural
Replying to @Ceremona
Which is one of the funniest things I’ve ever read.
The fundamental flaw in neoliberalism. https://twitter.com/paulkrugman/status/1308377497617289217
“Do you want to know who can make it through weirdness better than anybody, probably?
Weirdos.
That’s right, weirdos — we’ve got this. Maybe we’re good at it, even. We’re figuring it out.” https://t.co/fd8Cz67RBS
RT @KidsWriteJokes: Giraffe walks into a bar…. Barman - why the long neck?
Replying to @gregeganSF
First Man (2018) is another 10 on this scale, and the interplay between the absolute professionalism and the high risk environment is UTTERLY TERRIFYING.
RT @GeorgeMonbiot: Power is not self-correcting. Extreme wealth is not self-correcting. It doesn’t all “work out well in the end” … Unles…