10 yo said his least favorite thing to do in school is "comprehensions," where you read something and then talk about what the author meant. He was horrified to hear that this is still what's done in university English classes, and that the professo…
**RT @matthew_d_green:**
This post on the power of a malicious Chrome extension is the article you’ve been looking for all year. mattfrisbie.substack.com/p/s…
https://nitter.moomoo.me/matthew_d_green/status/1628187392095002625#m
**RT @Rainmaker1973:**
The Lazareth LMV 496 is a mind-blowing vehicle from the French mechanical engineer Ludovic Lazareth. The only hoverbike that functions as a real motorcycle
[video: buff.ly/2qhaLW2]
https://nitter.moomoo.me/Rainmaker1973/status/1628105250295906311#m
**RT @Rainmaker1973:**
Visualization of the fact that the exterior angles of a polygon always add up to 360 degrees
[📹 Magic π: buff.ly/41eZfqI]
https://nitter.moomoo.me/Rainmaker1973/status/1628091553817190402#m
**RT @Scientific_Bird:**
The relationship between earnings and cognitive ability in Finland; showing no sign at all of a "plateauing" effect seen in a recent analysis from Sweden (next tweet).
Is this a substantive difference between Finland and S…
https://nitter.moomoo.me/Scientific_Bird/status/1627644561588723712#m
The right does censorship by attacking libraries, but the left does it by attacking the books themselves.
Can we just compromise and do neither?
nitter.moomoo.me/SalmanRushdie/status/1627075835525210113#m
At YC with some founders. Two of them are alums who are back again with new startups. This is the 36th batch! Startup fashions wax and wane, but there are always people making stuff at YC.
(Image by @danielkivatinos, who is one of them.)
**Response to @paulg:**
If you want your kids to be able to read the original versions of Roald Dahl's books, just go to Abebooks and buy editions printed before 2023. You'll save money too.
abebooks.com/servlet/SearchE…
"Matilda reads Jane Austen rather than Rudyard Kipling, and a witch posing as 'a cashier in a supermarket' now works as 'a top scientist'."
"The Big Friendly Giant in The BFG cannot wear a black cloak."
telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/02…
Interesting; this is now about the 5th independent sign I've seen that wokism peaked in either 2020 or 2021.
nitter.moomoo.me/HdxAcademy/status/1626280640957087748#m
This essay has more in it than the median book.
writings.stephenwolfram.com/…
The Character of Physical Law would also have been a good title for an autobiography.
"In recent months and after silence or worse from some of the young actors whose careers Rowling’s work helped advance, several actors from the 'Harry Potter' films, such as Helena Bonham Carter and Ralph Fiennes, have publicly defended the author…
I have to admit that this is pretty alarming. Some of it is because the reporter manipulated the program into saying bad things, but not the part at the end where it repeatedly tells him it's in love with him.
nytimes.com/2023/02/16/techn…
**RT @stephsmithio:**
One of the best decisions I've ever made was learning to code.
It took me 300 hours. 300 hours to change my life!
With new tools like Copilot and Ghostwriter, how quickly do you think ppl can learn today?
https://nitter.moomoo.me/stephsmithio/status/1626321725536481281#m
**Response to @paulg:**
Ron Conway made an interesting point recently: AI startups are concentrated in the Bay Area in the classical pattern. Like Internet startups in the 90s. If the San Francisco city government met them halfway, SF could be the …
**Response to @paulg:**
One thing that struck me when talking to the startups in the current batch is how many different ways there are to be an AI startup. And they all could work. Sort of like how many different ways there are to be a software st…
The consensus of the YC partners is that there are a lot of AI startups in the current YC batch, but that the AI trend is real, not just a fashion, so there should be a lot.
**RT @AlecMacGillis:**
Quite a graph, via @todd_schneider. The new normal?
https://nitter.moomoo.me/AlecMacGillis/status/1626261344503595008#m