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Doug Cutting retweeted
Nobody will remember:
- Your salary
- Your fancy title
- How busy you were
- How many hours you worked
People will remember:
-Your general body plan if you're buried in an anoxic environment in a subsiding sedimentary basin & get exposed by erosion again in the geologic future
Doug Cutting retweeted
Feel like someone on #EnergyTwitter should be responsible for posting a version of this every day.
Lets always prioritize the most important battles!
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Anne Cottrell leads the six-way race for Napa County District 3 supervisor, with John Dunbar in second, according to early returns posted at 8 p.m. Tuesday. napavalleyregister.com/news/…
Doug Cutting retweeted
Discourses around "teaching machines to be ethical" are frankly just a distraction, and one grounded in fantastical ideas about "AGI".
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A great essay (as always from @doctorow) on the competing philosophies in the blockchain/P2P space, that of "global redundancy" and "subsidiarity". Permissioned ledgers e.g. @hyperledger are much more about the latter. but are conflated with the former doctorow.medium.com/a-useful…
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Our World in Data is participating in Google Summer of Code this year! If you’re finishing studies and interested in doing some open source hacking with us, please check it out.
summerofcode.withgoogle.com/…
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We can do away with time entirely if we constrain our programming model. The Sun Eventually Rises. (And Sets). The order is immaterial if your operations are order-insensitive. Might as well happen concurrently.
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I spent too long working on @heatpumpchic this weekend looking for pictures of heat pumps. It turns out procrastination applies to side projects too.
Anyway, here's a 🧵 of heat pumps that look like George Clooney 1/
Doug Cutting retweeted
Some said an open-world experience this immersive wasn’t possible. But it’s already here. And you don’t even need silly VR headsets.
Introducing, ✨Icelandverse✨
#icelandverse
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New 🗞from @NPR and @jeffbradynews — why we can’t wait any longer to talk about your gas stove. Why does @RockyMtnInst care about stoves? Yes, for climate but also for your health. Climate orgs can & should care about both. npr.org/2021/10/07/101546060…
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👀👀Energy Star updates most efficient criteria — goodbye, fossil appliances. energystar.gov/products/spec…
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If contractor fears are not slain, the electrify everything campaign will grind to a screeching halt.
greentechmedia.com/articles/…
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"Clean electrification is the entrée. Everything else is a side." @drvolts breaks down climate policy in this podcast special. volts.wtf/p/on-climate-polic…
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I think the Big Data and AI hype bubbles are more identical than Karpf is even acknowledging here - they're literally the same movement, split by a rebrand. I don't think the Big Data hype bubble really deflated, it just changed names.
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Doug Cutting retweeted
The key element of success in those banks was that the fintech industry is exceedingly data-driven, and they live & breathe data products.
Even then, it can be a struggle to get folks across biz groups to agree on standard schemas.
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Let's talk about why cryptocurrency is the single factor that created the ransomware plague that is ravaging our healthcare system and public infrastructure. (1/) 🧵
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⏰🍳Wake up call: Gas stoves are a powerful contributor to the climate crisis and major source of indoor air pollution. on.nrdc.org/3vGjvkn