@kevsmith

I like building stuff. People are the most important thing. Leaders eat last. he/him.

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Heartsick & depressed over Highland Park and the status quo. What a country. What a time to be alive.
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Just discovered Emil Cioran. This is the first time modern philosophy has resonated. Red flag or sign of the times?
Most interesting fact I read today: "There has never been a reported case [of schizophrenia] in anyone blind from birth." (source: lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v43/n04/…)

Deborah Friedell · A Pie Every Night: Schizophrenia in the Family

For researchers interested in schizophrenia, the Galvins seemed like a bonanza: figure out why six of the twelve...

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Kevin Smith retweeted
Chuck Blake
@chuckblake24 Aug 2021
Intangible skills like knowing how to start and finish projects are hard to identify in interviews, but critical for job success. staysaasy.com/leadership/202… via @staysaasy #Tweet100

The Intangible Skills You Can’t Interview For

Many intangible attributes go into building a great company that are just as important as hard skills. Identifying and harnessing hard-to-measure skills allows you to capitalize on the most special...

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I feel like Douglas Coupland's version of Blade Runner would have the same vibe & aesthetic.
CBS Mornings
@CBSMornings19 Aug 2021
.@GayleKing and Mark Zuckerberg conduct their first-ever virtual reality interview in Facebook’s new "Horizon Workrooms," a VR app that allows coworkers to interact in virtual offices. cbsn.ws/2Wbue9S

Gayle King and Mark Zuckerberg conduct VR interview

OTOH, Epic gets access to detailed info they can use to inform their roadmap. See AWS' difficult relationship with providers on their platform.
Sounds like a double-edged sword to me. Epic gets access to detailed usage info to inform their roadmap. 1/2
Rajen Kishna@rajen_k19 Aug 2021
This is fantastic news for game developers using @unity3d and @UnrealEngine, who want to keep focus on building awesome game experiences rather than coding and maintaining back-end services. dev.epicgames.com/news/epic-…
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TFW you make it to the afternoon before the familiar emotional cocktail of despair and rage appears.
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Eastern NC's biggest hospital system cancelling some elective surgeries
Ginger Livingston@GingerLGDR18 Aug 2021
Vidant Health COO Brian Floyd said system is at capacity because of increased COVID cases and some elective surgeries are being cancelled.
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Dat E484K mutation tho.
Dirt naps are underrated.
Just overheard a ER doctor tell a patient “If you are concerned about C02 levels from a face mask, then our climate crises is really gonna make you lose your mind” – at South Lake Tahoe, CA
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Ummmm. Cool, I think?
CMDK - The Connected Music Protocol@cmdkone9 Aug 2021
For the first time ever, we can exchange entertainment value and monetary value, instantly, inside one non-degradable unit. Web3 changes everything. It’s time.
As a software developer, finding this fascinating. Apparently text search has completely replaced hierarchy among younger people as a means of accessing information and they do not understand the concept of a directory.
Dr. Saavik Ford@saavikford10 Aug 2021
Astro (especially astro ed) folks: we are finding a persistent issue with getting (undergrad, new to research) students to understand that a file/directory structure exists, and how it works. After a debrief meeting today we realized it's at least partly generational.
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Looking at case rate and variant frequency graphs is sobering. Data is for NC from covidactnow.org and nextstrain.org #GetVaccinated
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Oscillating between optimism and despair like a quantum particle.
I took a ~2.5 year break from Twitter. Looks like the place hasn't changed much.
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