Tech topics (Oracle, Python)... some academia (mostly CS related)
Joined August 2015
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Jason retweeted
25 Jan 2023
This is the point where I usually start a rant but today I am surprisingly in good mood and just say "Woosah" like I learned from "Bad Boys" movies.
SR spent 7 days in 1st level and now after it was finally transferred it was rejected because it is "already too old" 😵💫🤣
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Jason retweeted
13 Jan 2023
started to learn how to cook to save money and now I just have an expensive hobby lmao
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Jason retweeted
22 Jan 2023
400 years of Timelines from 1606 to 2005. Mapping time is a powerful area of cartography - time as space and space in time. Over 300 examples in our collection can be seen at
davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet…
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Jason retweeted
23 Jan 2023
1. Most companies aren’t data driven
2. Because data literacy is hard
3. So most data teams are treated as cost centres
4. When you sell tools into cost centres you sell on cost savings
5. But most data vendors sell on value add
6. This doesn’t work
7. So they are sad
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reading journalist biographies of tech ceos is sort of like reading the work of medieval historians except rather than random passages praising the glory of god and the current monarch you have to deal with chapterly denouncements of meritocracy and paeans to HR deptartments
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Jason retweeted
23 Jan 2023
It's amazing how little you can do in a working, aging system, and for how long, until it finally causes high-profile problems, and conversely how much friction you get if you try to proactively improve it before it reaches the breaking point
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Jason retweeted
23 Jan 2023
I forgot about this and almost missed it, but if you're on the west coast you can still see it in the west: Venus maybe half a degree from Saturn, with a very young moon below it. Here's my shot from five minutes ago:
#astronomy
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Jason retweeted
22 Jan 2023
Why is the kettle boiling?
Material cause: The water molecules are moving too quickly to remain in liquid state.
Efficient cause: The burner transferred sufficient heat to the kettle.
Formal cause: I turned on the burner.
Final cause: I want coffee.
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Jason retweeted
20 Jan 2023
Ordered my 1st coffee at 10.30am, the 2nd one at 1pm. The Lebanese Lira lost value during that time, resulting in two different charges (the coffee price is pegged to USD) #Lebanon #inflation
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Jason retweeted
21 Jan 2023
Really excellent example of professors adopting thoughtful policies to teach use of AI in classrooms - acknowledgement of strengths and weaknesses and push for students to understand them relative to their everyday work.
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You know how supposedly dogs make eye contact w you while they’re going to the bathroom bc they are trusting you to look out for predators…and also ppl always talk ab how their dog follows them to the bathroom? Do u think it’s bc the dogs are like, “u got my back, I got yours”
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Jason retweeted
19 Jan 2023
Scenario: a team does 1 week of research to validate a decision, and ends up disproving their initial set of assumptions.
In output-based org culture, that team is now a week behind.
In outcome-based org culture, that team is now a week ahead.
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Jason retweeted
19 Jan 2023
If city lights were coloured by where the energy comes from 💡
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Jason retweeted
20 Jan 2023
One of the most intriguing features of modern android is that you can no longer turn off your phone using the power button. This is a really intriguing interpretation of the term "power button".
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“Getting fired from your job? There’s now a Google app for that.”
20 Jan 2023
Google NYC employees who arrived at the office early this morning stood in a line to test their badges-- if light turned red, it meant you had been laid off. if green, you were safe. 👎
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