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Bryce Adelstein Lelbach
blelbach
The latest revision of @INCITS/@isostandards COBOL comes out this yearThe goals of COBOL sound normal today:- Portable- Freely available- Designed by the communityIn 1959 it was radical & unprecedentedIt was
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Cory Doctorow
doctorow
You know how the Curse of the Monkey's paw works: a cursed object grants all of your wishes, but in the worst way possible: "be careful what you wish for."That's
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Amos Toh
AmosToh
1/ I wrote in @Wired that the rush to capitalize on #BigData to solve #COVID19 may lead to deeply unjust outcomes for people living in poverty and other marginalized populations.
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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨
Ciaraioch
Little series of cartoon #MiniMná for November, starting with Bernadette Devlin McAliskey, civil & human rights activist, shot by paramilitaries, slapped the Home Secretary when he claimed British soldiers on
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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
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Anthony J. Campbell ✍
AnthonyJCampbel
My notes on 'Life 3.0' by Max Tegmark (@tegmark)The absolute best book on AI!Here are the ~70 things I learned from the book. [ THREAD ] Had our
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Nome
NomeDaBarbarian
"Prehensile? Like they can move it a bit?"No, y'all. Like they can use it to scratch hard to reach places if nobody else is around to help.It's effectively Trunk 2:
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TinaLasisi
TinaLasisi
So this *finally* happened:https://twitter.com/TimWebster17/status/1331598518222524417?s=20 And now, I present to you a thread about the first paper from my dissertation and (bonus milestone) my first ever preprint! In this preprint, we
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Kaj Sotala
xuenay
Some people suggested I write a brief "twitter trailer" of my model combining enlightenment/Buddhist theory with predictive processing, so yeah that could be useful, let me try explaining a part
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Byzantine Emporia
byzantinemporia
A year after the Notre Dame fire, we still don’t know for sure what started it. An investigation has determined a likely cause, but there’s no direct evidence any which
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Irish History Bitesize!
lorraineelizab6
Thread: Blazing a Trail: Irish Women Who Changed the World! Based on my new wonderful book! @sarahwebbishere writer, @oneillustration illustrator, @OBrienPress publisher! @AnPostIBAS 2018 Children's Book of the Year (Senior)!
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Rose
ont_rose
I'm going to check every single school board website to see if they have a COVID reporting page. This thread will document that! #onted First up, Kawartha Pine Ridge. http://kprschools.ca/en/COVID19Reporting.htmleasy
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🖖 Christian Janeway 🖖
XianJaneway
"What is wisdom? Wisdom is just having more information than another person." Speaker claims Nehemiah 1:1-4 indicates Nehemiah used "data" to learn more about people. #PeopleYouMayKnow Paraphrase: After Nehemiah got
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sarah jeong
sarahjeong
Google v. Oracle, Supreme Court, Oct. 7, 2020. CSPAN livestream here, it's also on CSPAN radio:https://www.c-span.org/video/?469263-1/google-v-oracle-america-oral-argument love me my teleconference oyez oyez oyez I wrote a refresher yes
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paulkleinfancam
paulkleinfancam
In 1972 Paul Klein participated in a seminar on cable TV and "urban problems" alongside spook research outfits like RAND and MITRE. A thread on TV, urban pacification and the
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Nome
NomeDaBarbarian
You know how, in your foreign language classes, you would always flip through the dictionary to find the rude words?This is going to be kinda like that but for biology.You
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