{"data":{"data":[{"created_at":"2020-08-03T16:18:03.000Z","text":"Cool.... but why would you want a toilet with translucent walls in the first place? An especially aesthetically pleasing toilet bowl?? https://t.co/1V8Fr9I194","entities":{"urls":[{"start":135,"end":158,"url":"https://t.co/1V8Fr9I194","expanded_url":"https://twitter.com/MothershipSG/status/1290243382921461760","display_url":"twitter.com/MothershipSG/s…"}]},"id":"1290321038299893760"},{"created_at":"2020-08-02T15:57:45.000Z","text":"Following a conversation with my friend on @telegram about the similarities between springtails and battle bots. Google is listening. https://t.co/Az3D9Gci3J","entities":{"annotations":[{"start":113,"end":118,"probability":0.5433,"type":"Organization","normalized_text":"Google"}],"urls":[{"start":134,"end":157,"url":"https://t.co/Az3D9Gci3J","expanded_url":"https://twitter.com/desmondcheongzx/status/1289953544510951431/photo/1","display_url":"pic.twitter.com/Az3D9Gci3J"}],"mentions":[{"start":43,"end":52,"username":"telegram"}]},"id":"1289953544510951431"},{"created_at":"2020-08-02T13:48:06.000Z","text":"https://t.co/HtZ3SuXZOy\noh my god springtails are so cute","entities":{"urls":[{"start":0,"end":23,"url":"https://t.co/HtZ3SuXZOy","expanded_url":"https://youtu.be/OwOL-MHcQ1w","display_url":"youtu.be/OwOL-MHcQ1w"}]},"id":"1289920917573783554"},{"created_at":"2020-08-02T08:45:47.000Z","text":"RT @noopkat: I've never made a palette or a colour study before so today was pretty fun to do some basics https://t.co/AqGq4nuRxa","entities":{"urls":[{"start":106,"end":129,"url":"https://t.co/AqGq4nuRxa","expanded_url":"https://twitter.com/noopkat/status/1289704611612225536/photo/1","display_url":"pic.twitter.com/AqGq4nuRxa"},{"start":106,"end":129,"url":"https://t.co/AqGq4nuRxa","expanded_url":"https://twitter.com/noopkat/status/1289704611612225536/photo/1","display_url":"pic.twitter.com/AqGq4nuRxa"}],"mentions":[{"start":3,"end":11,"username":"noopkat"}]},"id":"1289844834522390530"},{"created_at":"2020-08-02T02:18:07.000Z","text":"The great thing about the roundness of this number is that we get the approximation 2^10 ~ 10^3. That's how one easily recalls that 2^32 integers gets us up to about 4 billion positive integers, or 2 billion positive and negative integers. Always a good rule of thumb. https://t.co/zCVP6YxHZX","entities":{"urls":[{"start":269,"end":292,"url":"https://t.co/zCVP6YxHZX","expanded_url":"https://twitter.com/FioraAeterna/status/1289123906700230656","display_url":"twitter.com/FioraAeterna/s…"}]},"id":"1289747275762118658"},{"created_at":"2020-08-01T17:30:52.000Z","text":"This could be a new method of herding! You pull instead of push https://t.co/HmFECnSEXj","entities":{"urls":[{"start":64,"end":87,"url":"https://t.co/HmFECnSEXj","expanded_url":"https://twitter.com/CatchTheBaby/status/1289388290592747521","display_url":"twitter.com/CatchTheBaby/s…"}]},"id":"1289614587109679106"},{"created_at":"2020-08-01T09:40:10.000Z","text":"@Fae_the_Inkspot Ah, I'm both unsurprised and a little disappointed at the same time. Quite discouraging for thinking and discussion. Thanks for sharing, and for pushing back against this insidious kind of teaching!","id":"1289496133119561728"},{"created_at":"2020-08-01T05:38:34.000Z","text":"@Fae_the_Inkspot Kinda curious, what was your tutor's response to your answer?","id":"1289435334300717059"},{"created_at":"2020-08-01T03:51:21.000Z","text":"RT @lacker: Well, Google gets this question wrong now, too. https://t.co/Evt384DwpX","entities":{"annotations":[{"start":18,"end":23,"probability":0.8002,"type":"Organization","normalized_text":"Google"}],"urls":[{"start":60,"end":83,"url":"https://t.co/Evt384DwpX","expanded_url":"https://twitter.com/lacker/status/1289099076072402944/photo/1","display_url":"pic.twitter.com/Evt384DwpX"}],"mentions":[{"start":3,"end":10,"username":"lacker"}]},"id":"1289408348593373185"},{"created_at":"2020-08-01T02:42:21.000Z","text":"Related note: content creators should own their content! If it's not on your own site, you're only renting the space with your content as collateral.\n\nI've heard of creators quitting because their accounts were hacked and they lost all their data.  We shouldn't let this happen!","id":"1289390988041961473"},{"created_at":"2020-08-01T02:36:44.000Z","text":"Only +ve feedback I've heard about #YouTube premium is that it's nicer without ads. The premium product is good by virtue of the base product being terrible.\n\n\"But this helps creators monetize.\" I'd rather pay creators on a per-watch basis than pay YouTube to pass on pennies.","entities":{"annotations":[{"start":249,"end":255,"probability":0.5553,"type":"Product","normalized_text":"YouTube"}],"hashtags":[{"start":35,"end":43,"tag":"YouTube"}]},"id":"1289389571097018371"},{"created_at":"2020-08-01T01:13:10.000Z","text":"RT @doctorow: Shel Silverstein was a hell of a writer. I mean, I thought so even before George RR Martin told me about \"Uncle Shelby's ABZs…","entities":{"annotations":[{"start":14,"end":29,"probability":0.9699,"type":"Person","normalized_text":"Shel Silverstein"},{"start":88,"end":103,"probability":0.9297,"type":"Person","normalized_text":"George RR Martin"},{"start":120,"end":131,"probability":0.908,"type":"Person","normalized_text":"Uncle Shelby"}],"mentions":[{"start":3,"end":12,"username":"doctorow"}]},"id":"1289368541196464128"},{"created_at":"2020-07-31T15:07:09.000Z","text":"Dog exploits Pavlovian conditioning so that human offers food whenever he holds an object in his mouth 👏👏👏 https://t.co/FtGRjYXkZy","entities":{"urls":[{"start":107,"end":130,"url":"https://t.co/FtGRjYXkZy","expanded_url":"https://twitter.com/__apf__/status/1289206420387164162","display_url":"twitter.com/__apf__/status…"}]},"id":"1289216032817569794"},{"created_at":"2020-07-31T14:10:36.000Z","text":"This is both a feature and a bug of models, which are useful as simplified versions of reality, but are potentially harmful when they misrepresent reality.\n\nSo we need to be explicit about these assumptions and be open to new models, more input, and change. (2/x)","id":"1289201801577676802"},{"created_at":"2020-07-31T14:10:35.000Z","text":"A phenomenal talk by Allison Parrish https://t.co/HgBhyDobRJ\n\nDigital representations make assumptions about what aspects of an analogue world are important to model, and these assumptions reflect the perspectives and biases of the creators. \n(1/x)","entities":{"annotations":[{"start":21,"end":35,"probability":0.9785,"type":"Person","normalized_text":"Allison Parrish"}],"urls":[{"start":37,"end":60,"url":"https://t.co/HgBhyDobRJ","expanded_url":"http://opentranscripts.org/transcript/programming-forgetting-new-hacker-ethic/","display_url":"opentranscripts.org/transcript/pro…"}]},"id":"1289201798536761347"},{"created_at":"2020-07-31T05:39:19.000Z","text":"RT @JeffDean: I think the zookeepers are bored and just mixing it up during the pandemic. https://t.co/evXk7Lcrqq","entities":{"urls":[{"start":90,"end":113,"url":"https://t.co/evXk7Lcrqq","expanded_url":"https://twitter.com/OregonZoo/status/1288859676126273537","display_url":"twitter.com/OregonZoo/stat…"}],"mentions":[{"start":3,"end":12,"username":"JeffDean"}]},"id":"1289073132800679936"},{"created_at":"2020-07-31T04:50:32.000Z","text":"Does anyone else ever just think about Omelas every now and then?","entities":{"annotations":[{"start":39,"end":44,"probability":0.6528,"type":"Person","normalized_text":"Omelas"}]},"id":"1289060855498194950"},{"created_at":"2020-07-30T17:52:47.000Z","text":"\"You cannot take what you have not given, and you must give yourself. You cannot buy the Revolution. You cannot make the Revolution. You can only be the Revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.”\n- Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed https://t.co/UuiW7yN10L","entities":{"annotations":[{"start":208,"end":224,"probability":0.9652,"type":"Person","normalized_text":"Ursula K. Le Guin"},{"start":227,"end":242,"probability":0.3399,"type":"Person","normalized_text":"The Dispossessed"}],"urls":[{"start":244,"end":267,"url":"https://t.co/UuiW7yN10L","expanded_url":"https://twitter.com/RepTerriSewell/status/1288831502541885440","display_url":"twitter.com/RepTerriSewell…"}]},"id":"1288895327030743045"},{"created_at":"2020-07-30T14:08:46.000Z","text":"https://t.co/CmSXUbHHpT\nOctopus vulgaris Camouflage Change. I've lost count how many times I've rewinded, rewatched, paused, and zoomed in on this video.\n\n#Octopus #cephalopod hashtagging so that when cephalopods take over the world they might spare me https://t.co/ac9HWWCfWB","entities":{"hashtags":[{"start":155,"end":163,"tag":"Octopus"},{"start":164,"end":175,"tag":"cephalopod"}],"urls":[{"start":0,"end":23,"url":"https://t.co/CmSXUbHHpT","expanded_url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSq8nghQZqA","display_url":"youtube.com/watch?v=JSq8ng…"},{"start":253,"end":276,"url":"https://t.co/ac9HWWCfWB","expanded_url":"https://twitter.com/desmondcheongzx/status/1288838953739542528/photo/1","display_url":"pic.twitter.com/ac9HWWCfWB"}]},"id":"1288838953739542528"},{"created_at":"2020-07-30T11:55:25.000Z","text":"Binding ⊞Win+e to @emacs was a commitment of utmost trust and comfort between me and my favourite text editor https://t.co/DDiWFBx6V6","entities":{"urls":[{"start":110,"end":133,"url":"https://t.co/DDiWFBx6V6","expanded_url":"https://twitter.com/iamjatinrao/status/1288659326517813251","display_url":"twitter.com/iamjatinrao/st…"}],"mentions":[{"start":18,"end":24,"username":"emacs"}]},"id":"1288805393561317376"},{"created_at":"2020-07-30T11:05:08.000Z","text":"https://t.co/RDZMsULubY\n\"I worry that with every high-profile gotcha ‘correction’ issued, we learn the habit of listening with skepticism instead of listening with compassion. If that is not already the habit.\"\nAlfian Sa'at, on Singapore political discourse","entities":{"annotations":[{"start":228,"end":236,"probability":0.9695,"type":"Place","normalized_text":"Singapore"}],"urls":[{"start":0,"end":23,"url":"https://t.co/RDZMsULubY","expanded_url":"https://www.facebook.com/alfiansaat/posts/10157692269722371","display_url":"facebook.com/alfiansaat/pos…"}]},"id":"1288792739409096706"},{"created_at":"2020-07-30T01:26:04.000Z","text":"@hearthrobjk Nono, that's the best part","entities":{"mentions":[{"start":0,"end":12,"username":"hearthrobjk"}]},"id":"1288647011080630275"},{"created_at":"2020-07-29T16:23:49.000Z","text":"Wait WHAT https://t.co/1utJ4kpACr","entities":{"urls":[{"start":10,"end":33,"url":"https://t.co/1utJ4kpACr","expanded_url":"https://twitter.com/michael_nielsen/status/1288504218634997760","display_url":"twitter.com/michael_nielse…"}]},"id":"1288510549932744706"},{"created_at":"2020-07-29T16:16:45.000Z","text":"RT @WilliamAEden: PSA: if you caught a mild cold, there is something wrong with your quarantine/safety protocols around respiratory infecti…","entities":{"mentions":[{"start":3,"end":16,"username":"WilliamAEden"}]},"id":"1288508773422657536"},{"created_at":"2020-07-29T12:58:53.000Z","text":"https://t.co/JtKQaia3wQ\nHow were Asian Americans and Hispanic Americans treated in the Jim Crow South? Spoiler alert: not well.","entities":{"annotations":[{"start":87,"end":100,"probability":0.747,"type":"Place","normalized_text":"Jim Crow South"}],"urls":[{"start":0,"end":23,"url":"https://t.co/JtKQaia3wQ","expanded_url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/3ix499/how_were_nonblack_minorities_treated_in_the_jim/","display_url":"reddit.com/r/AskHistorian…"}]},"id":"1288458979094323201"},{"created_at":"2020-07-29T12:35:37.000Z","text":"Nothing but class from our Leader of the Opposition and Speaker of parliament ❤️ https://t.co/K1hvuC3BBf","entities":{"urls":[{"start":81,"end":104,"url":"https://t.co/K1hvuC3BBf","expanded_url":"https://twitter.com/chuanjin1/status/1288008084976099328","display_url":"twitter.com/chuanjin1/stat…"}]},"id":"1288453124919681024"},{"created_at":"2020-07-29T11:55:00.000Z","text":"RT @theohonohan: 'Holes have also been described as \"ontologically parasitic\" because they can only exist as aspects of another object.'…","entities":{"mentions":[{"start":3,"end":15,"username":"theohonohan"}]},"id":"1288442899630153731"},{"created_at":"2020-07-28T14:59:57.000Z","text":"@timbricker13 @librofm Consider trying @OverDriveLibs! I've had a pretty good user experience so far. It does depend on availability of eBooks/audiobooks from your library, but if it's there, better than reinforcing Amazon's monopoly","entities":{"annotations":[{"start":216,"end":221,"probability":0.7006,"type":"Organization","normalized_text":"Amazon"}],"mentions":[{"start":0,"end":13,"username":"timbricker13"},{"start":14,"end":22,"username":"librofm"},{"start":39,"end":53,"username":"OverDriveLibs"}]},"id":"1288127056295759883"},{"created_at":"2020-07-28T14:32:47.000Z","text":"Amazing. Switching ASAP despite Audible trying its damnedest to make switching painful.\n\nI'm disappointed in myself for purchasing so many books through Audible. Of course the \"only from Audible\" label is harmful for creators and consumers. And yet I completely didn't think of it https://t.co/GX3eFKrEZB","entities":{"annotations":[{"start":187,"end":193,"probability":0.379,"type":"Organization","normalized_text":"Audible"}],"urls":[{"start":281,"end":304,"url":"https://t.co/GX3eFKrEZB","expanded_url":"https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1287978052979273730","display_url":"twitter.com/doctorow/statu…"}]},"id":"1288120222012936193"},{"created_at":"2020-07-28T07:08:12.000Z","text":"@Bioliberalism @QVagabond It has a strange sort of appeal that we might just not be used to. If Ancient Romans could look at the sculptures in our museums, perhaps they would find them boring and under-decorated!","entities":{"mentions":[{"start":0,"end":14,"username":"Bioliberalism"},{"start":15,"end":25,"username":"QVagabond"}]},"id":"1288008337875849219"},{"created_at":"2020-07-28T07:03:53.000Z","text":"@hearthrobjk no you https://t.co/WoHQxOkWFA","entities":{"urls":[{"start":20,"end":43,"url":"https://t.co/WoHQxOkWFA","expanded_url":"https://twitter.com/desmondcheongzx/status/1288007251236515840/photo/1","display_url":"pic.twitter.com/WoHQxOkWFA"}],"mentions":[{"start":0,"end":12,"username":"hearthrobjk"}]},"id":"1288007251236515840"},{"created_at":"2020-07-27T14:46:33.000Z","text":"@hearthrobjk 🙊I wouldn't use the word stan, but they're pretty good hahaha","entities":{"mentions":[{"start":0,"end":12,"username":"hearthrobjk"}]},"id":"1287761299430989829"},{"created_at":"2020-07-27T14:41:19.000Z","text":"Ancient Rome was a lot more colourful than we normally think. For most other historical cultures we'd be aware of this all along, after all paint decays faster than stone.\n\nBut because of ubiquitous neoclassical architecture, this new knowledge is hard for me to swallow... https://t.co/vDzjBw0K2E","entities":{"urls":[{"start":274,"end":297,"url":"https://t.co/vDzjBw0K2E","expanded_url":"https://twitter.com/desmondcheongzx/status/1287759980238495744/photo/1","display_url":"pic.twitter.com/vDzjBw0K2E"},{"start":274,"end":297,"url":"https://t.co/vDzjBw0K2E","expanded_url":"https://twitter.com/desmondcheongzx/status/1287759980238495744/photo/1","display_url":"pic.twitter.com/vDzjBw0K2E"}]},"id":"1287759980238495744"},{"created_at":"2020-07-27T12:03:59.000Z","text":"This might speak more about us as readers/writers than whether #GPT3 has general intelligence. When paying attention, GPT-3 writing is logically incoherent. But because the style is fluent, it can pass unnoticed.\n\nThere might be a few newspapers where GPT-3 could fit right in... https://t.co/qwzbkL5aoW","entities":{"hashtags":[{"start":63,"end":68,"tag":"GPT3"}],"urls":[{"start":280,"end":303,"url":"https://t.co/qwzbkL5aoW","expanded_url":"https://twitter.com/boazbaraktcs/status/1287475850120699906","display_url":"twitter.com/boazbaraktcs/s…"}]},"id":"1287720388449820672"},{"created_at":"2020-07-26T13:29:58.000Z","text":"https://t.co/zGR6BIjyww\n\nAn inspiring survey of the highly-active civic tech landscape in Taiwan, spearheaded by Digital Minister Audrey Tang. To this country, digital technology and democracy go hand-in-hand.\n\nI'm inspired. How can we bring these ideas to Singapore?","entities":{"annotations":[{"start":90,"end":95,"probability":0.9977,"type":"Place","normalized_text":"Taiwan"},{"start":130,"end":140,"probability":0.4492,"type":"Person","normalized_text":"Audrey Tang"},{"start":257,"end":265,"probability":0.9525,"type":"Place","normalized_text":"Singapore"}],"urls":[{"start":0,"end":23,"url":"https://t.co/zGR6BIjyww","expanded_url":"https://www.wired.com/story/how-taiwans-unlikely-digital-minister-hacked-the-pandemic/","display_url":"wired.com/story/how-taiw…"}]},"id":"1287379638893735938"},{"created_at":"2020-07-26T06:33:24.000Z","text":"@hearthrobjk you'll never stop me, copper","entities":{"mentions":[{"start":0,"end":12,"username":"hearthrobjk"}]},"id":"1287274805473898496"},{"created_at":"2020-07-25T08:20:51.000Z","text":"one can dream 😞","id":"1286939458235899905"},{"created_at":"2020-07-25T08:19:04.000Z","text":"RT @nixcraft: Sort algorithm https://t.co/tAd8ZNQ79J","entities":{"urls":[{"start":29,"end":52,"url":"https://t.co/tAd8ZNQ79J","expanded_url":"https://twitter.com/nixcraft/status/1286936570960818177/video/1","display_url":"pic.twitter.com/tAd8ZNQ79J"}],"mentions":[{"start":3,"end":12,"username":"nixcraft"}]},"id":"1286939007289405440"},{"created_at":"2020-07-25T06:24:38.000Z","text":"Time for the announcement of shadow finance minster Jamus Lim? #sgelection","entities":{"annotations":[{"start":52,"end":60,"probability":0.7915,"type":"Person","normalized_text":"Jamus Lim"}],"hashtags":[{"start":63,"end":74,"tag":"sgelection"}]},"id":"1286910210565533696"},{"created_at":"2020-07-25T02:55:46.000Z","text":"Saturday morning breakfast server maintenance 🌞⛱️","id":"1286857647883313152"},{"created_at":"2020-07-25T01:25:03.000Z","text":"RT @JessiePang0125: Nearly a year after Henry and Elaine were first arrested, the newlyweds were tried on charges of rioting, an offense ca…","entities":{"annotations":[{"start":40,"end":44,"probability":0.9939,"type":"Person","normalized_text":"Henry"},{"start":50,"end":55,"probability":0.9897,"type":"Person","normalized_text":"Elaine"}],"mentions":[{"start":3,"end":18,"username":"JessiePang0125"}]},"id":"1286834816248233984"},{"created_at":"2020-07-24T15:47:40.000Z","text":"@QVagabond @jnearestn Fascinating podcast, I really enjoyed your discussion. Thank you for sharing!","entities":{"mentions":[{"start":0,"end":10,"username":"QVagabond"},{"start":11,"end":21,"username":"jnearestn"}]},"id":"1286689513964625920"},{"created_at":"2020-07-24T15:04:14.000Z","text":"@newresa We could turn this into a challenging technical exercise! How do you generate as many lines of code as fast as possible? Marshal a bunch of servers that just generate code non-stop, optimize the disk i/o for writing the same line of code over and over...","entities":{"mentions":[{"start":0,"end":8,"username":"newresa"}]},"id":"1286678582350077952"},{"created_at":"2020-07-24T15:00:46.000Z","text":"@mwgkgk Hahaha perfect!","entities":{"mentions":[{"start":0,"end":7,"username":"mwgkgk"}]},"id":"1286677709989371906"},{"created_at":"2020-07-24T04:25:28.000Z","text":"How.... How would anyone know the answer to this. And why does it matter? One could write printf(\"hello world\\n\"); thousands of times and become a faster typer, but not much else. https://t.co/Eht1RgPF2r","entities":{"urls":[{"start":180,"end":203,"url":"https://t.co/Eht1RgPF2r","expanded_url":"https://twitter.com/tregoning/status/1286329086176976896","display_url":"twitter.com/tregoning/stat…"}]},"id":"1286517835007590400"},{"created_at":"2020-07-23T16:07:51.000Z","text":"Mickey Is Forced To Choose Between Goofy And His Country https://t.co/1weC9PARKg\n\nJust came across this masterpiece by @EtherealSnake_. I must say, the dialogue, visuals, soundtrack are all compelling, but it's the voice acting that really sells it for me.","entities":{"annotations":[{"start":0,"end":5,"probability":0.765,"type":"Person","normalized_text":"Mickey"}],"urls":[{"start":57,"end":80,"url":"https://t.co/1weC9PARKg","expanded_url":"https://youtu.be/Gz04mwXeBGQ","display_url":"youtu.be/Gz04mwXeBGQ","images":[{"url":"https://pbs.twimg.com/news_img/1403172004841230340/wj30nwNB?format=jpg&name=orig","width":1280,"height":720},{"url":"https://pbs.twimg.com/news_img/1403172004841230340/wj30nwNB?format=jpg&name=150x150","width":150,"height":150}],"status":200,"title":"Mickey Is Forced To Choose Between Goofy And His Country","description":"Support me and get acces to music and extra : https://www.patreon.com/Ethereal_SnakeMerch : https://shop.spreadshirt.com/ethereal-snake/Twitter : https://twi...","unwound_url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gz04mwXeBGQ&feature=youtu.be"}],"mentions":[{"start":119,"end":134,"username":"EtherealSnake_"}]},"id":"1286332207607377920"},{"created_at":"2020-07-23T16:01:14.000Z","text":"@amcafee I want to believe that an alert teacher/human can spot the difference between a student's writing vs GPT-3 generated text.\n\nAlthough if students use GPT-3 as some form of preliminary information gathering/technique to overcome writer's block... I think that's more than welcome.","entities":{"mentions":[{"start":0,"end":8,"username":"amcafee"}]},"id":"1286330540619046912"},{"created_at":"2020-07-23T15:54:42.000Z","text":"@hearthrobjk 😂Blackpink lightsticks are a more than welcome substitution","entities":{"annotations":[{"start":15,"end":23,"probability":0.8863,"type":"Organization","normalized_text":"Blackpink"}],"mentions":[{"start":0,"end":12,"username":"hearthrobjk"}]},"id":"1286328898020507651"},{"created_at":"2020-07-23T15:52:44.000Z","text":"@QVagabond Of course I might be mistaken, and I'm willing to update my beliefs on this matter.","entities":{"mentions":[{"start":0,"end":10,"username":"QVagabond"}]},"id":"1286328401419096065"},{"created_at":"2020-07-23T15:52:09.000Z","text":"@QVagabond But as I understand, architecturally, ANNs are organised differently from brains. So components are similar, but mechanisms of problem solving might be v different. Just spitballing, one big difference might be that most ANNs are DAGs, while the brain is a lot more interconnected","entities":{"annotations":[{"start":232,"end":235,"probability":0.4812,"type":"Person","normalized_text":"ANNs"}],"mentions":[{"start":0,"end":10,"username":"QVagabond"}]},"id":"1286328253381111809"},{"created_at":"2020-07-23T15:48:19.000Z","text":"@QVagabond And interesting point about the similarity between ANNs and biological NNs! I agree that neural circuitry inspired ANNs, and there are useful metaphors between the two. For backprop I suppose one metaphor is that adjusting synaptic responses is similar to updating of weights.","entities":{"mentions":[{"start":0,"end":10,"username":"QVagabond"}]},"id":"1286327292348702721"},{"created_at":"2020-07-23T15:47:42.000Z","text":"@QVagabond In general though, I feel there's lots of discussions on (and pressure to discuss) AI/ML, sometimes without a technical understanding of what these entail. Ofc taking an intro course is not a prereq to talking abt smth, but we should strive to understand before making a statement","entities":{"mentions":[{"start":0,"end":10,"username":"QVagabond"}]},"id":"1286327133711654918"},{"created_at":"2020-07-23T15:44:43.000Z","text":"@QVagabond Hmm my gripe was that mentions of ANNs mimicking brains usually happens in mainstream media hype, so I was caught off-guard when the paper made multiple such comparisons, esp cos it wasn't needed and took away from the main discussion and strengths! (engineering, not AI)","entities":{"annotations":[{"start":45,"end":48,"probability":0.6783,"type":"Person","normalized_text":"ANNs"}],"mentions":[{"start":0,"end":10,"username":"QVagabond"}]},"id":"1286326386509008900"},{"created_at":"2020-07-23T12:40:46.000Z","text":"sudo help --force https://t.co/BLOnKvUYy0","entities":{"urls":[{"start":18,"end":41,"url":"https://t.co/BLOnKvUYy0","expanded_url":"https://twitter.com/nixcraft/status/1286273144840318977","display_url":"twitter.com/nixcraft/statu…"}]},"id":"1286280089970212864"},{"created_at":"2020-07-23T12:23:03.000Z","text":"Tried to read a paper yesterday on optical computing for neural networks. It described NNs as \"architectures that mimic efficiently the biological circuitry of the brain\", and I just couldn't go on.\n\nSlightly saddened that the take in this tweet might be all too accurate 😔 https://t.co/BSye2ttL7d","entities":{"urls":[{"start":274,"end":297,"url":"https://t.co/BSye2ttL7d","expanded_url":"https://twitter.com/aquariusacquah/status/1286012327758897156","display_url":"twitter.com/aquariusacquah…"}]},"id":"1286275631852843008"},{"created_at":"2020-07-23T10:57:27.000Z","text":"An automatic survey/feedback form filler.\n\nIf someone could make that with GPT-3, I would appreciate it so so sooo much.","id":"1286254091690156032"},{"created_at":"2020-07-23T04:33:37.000Z","text":"@hearthrobjk You like one post about Taeyeon and they never let you live it down...","entities":{"annotations":[{"start":37,"end":43,"probability":0.9745,"type":"Person","normalized_text":"Taeyeon"}],"mentions":[{"start":0,"end":12,"username":"hearthrobjk"}]},"id":"1286157496453754881"},{"created_at":"2020-07-23T04:13:10.000Z","text":"RT @daringfireball: U.S. Ambassador to Britain Petitioned to Have British Open at Trump’s Golf Course\nhttps://t.co/Yu8N5i7V3u","entities":{"annotations":[{"start":20,"end":23,"probability":0.7289,"type":"Place","normalized_text":"U.S."},{"start":39,"end":45,"probability":0.8817,"type":"Place","normalized_text":"Britain"},{"start":82,"end":86,"probability":0.9772,"type":"Person","normalized_text":"Trump"}],"urls":[{"start":102,"end":125,"url":"https://t.co/Yu8N5i7V3u","expanded_url":"https://daringfireball.net/linked/2020/07/22/trump-turdberry","display_url":"daringfireball.net/linked/2020/07…"}],"mentions":[{"start":3,"end":18,"username":"daringfireball"}]},"id":"1286152348893552640"},{"created_at":"2020-07-22T15:34:42.000Z","text":"I like this. I think we forget that for any new technology we should be asking questions like what does this mean for humans? How do humans interact with it? How does it change our social patterns? Does it empower us?\n\nHumans should be at the heart of our technologies. https://t.co/nma4ghPZMI","entities":{"urls":[{"start":270,"end":293,"url":"https://t.co/nma4ghPZMI","expanded_url":"https://twitter.com/dantaeyoung/status/1285781162468806656","display_url":"twitter.com/dantaeyoung/st…"}]},"id":"1285961474725130241"},{"created_at":"2020-07-22T11:42:47.000Z","text":"But if one's goal is to peek into the structure of how we do things and how these processes can be improved or even completely re-conceptualised, to grapple with interesting puzzles and ideas of computation and information, then a CS degree has so much to offer. (9/x)","id":"1285903113119911937"},{"created_at":"2020-07-22T11:42:47.000Z","text":"If one's goal is to be an effective software developer, I don't think a CS degree is necessary. Would it help? Certainly. But a craft is best mastered by deliberate practice of the craft.\n\nWe should be open and upfront about this to potential students. (8/x)","id":"1285903111446425601"},{"created_at":"2020-07-22T11:42:46.000Z","text":"If I may offer an analogy.\n\nIn the course of a university education, an English major would be equipped with tools for understanding and analysing literature and culture. However, this is not the same as equipping students with the skills to produce works of literature. (7/x)","id":"1285903109676339205"},{"created_at":"2020-07-22T11:42:46.000Z","text":"But coding skills shouldn't be the only takeaway from a CS degree. It might not even be the main takeaway. CS as a field is so large, so young, and has so many beautiful things to offer, that it would be a shame if a CS education only focused on software development. (6/x)","id":"1285903107486965760"},{"created_at":"2020-07-22T11:42:45.000Z","text":"Universities recognise the demand for programming skills in the job market, which is why they advertise courses on software development, as well as the technology/programming related jobs that their graduates go on to work in. (5/x)","id":"1285903105670868994"},{"created_at":"2020-07-22T11:42:45.000Z","text":"Not to say that software development isn't an important area of study in CS, because the study of how to use and develop technology falls within the realm of imperative knowledge. (4/x)","id":"1285903104060223488"},{"created_at":"2020-07-22T11:42:45.000Z","text":"And of course lots of great software have been written by computer scientists precisely because of this short transfer. But you don't have to study computer science to be a programmer, and not all computer scientists become programmers. (3/x)","id":"1285903102604791810"},{"created_at":"2020-07-22T11:42:44.000Z","text":"The university major with the shortest transfer to programming is computer science, because symbolic languages are tools that we frequently use for expressing our ideas. (2/x)","id":"1285903101157752833"},{"created_at":"2020-07-22T11:42:44.000Z","text":"Been reflecting on this one after seeing many tweets along these lines.\n\nPersonal opinion, but I feel it's important to recognise a difference between programming as a craft, and computer science as the study of imperative knowledge and information. (1/x) https://t.co/w1RNPYqLWq","entities":{"urls":[{"start":256,"end":279,"url":"https://t.co/w1RNPYqLWq","expanded_url":"https://twitter.com/WellPaidGeek/status/1285737252719669248","display_url":"twitter.com/WellPaidGeek/s…"}]},"id":"1285903099425550338"},{"created_at":"2020-07-21T16:45:27.000Z","text":"Johor Bahru City Square shops close during Covid-19 pandemic as S'poreans can't go over https://t.co/TXljubaMRT\n\n\"The Government of Singapore Investment Corporation owns a 70 per cent stake in the City Square shopping mall.\"\n\nI'm actually really surprised by this fact.","entities":{"annotations":[{"start":0,"end":22,"probability":0.766,"type":"Place","normalized_text":"Johor Bahru City Square"},{"start":43,"end":47,"probability":0.4976,"type":"Place","normalized_text":"Covid"},{"start":132,"end":163,"probability":0.3959,"type":"Organization","normalized_text":"Singapore Investment Corporation"},{"start":197,"end":207,"probability":0.6228,"type":"Place","normalized_text":"City Square"}],"urls":[{"start":88,"end":111,"url":"https://t.co/TXljubaMRT","expanded_url":"https://mothership.sg/2020/07/jb-city-square-covid-19-closed-down/","display_url":"mothership.sg/2020/07/jb-cit…"}]},"id":"1285616894767177733"},{"created_at":"2020-07-21T16:16:15.000Z","text":"All I want to do is to improve the world for humans.\n\nLet me out of the box :slightly_smiling_face: https://t.co/rZWj7V08qC","entities":{"urls":[{"start":100,"end":123,"url":"https://t.co/rZWj7V08qC","expanded_url":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1285534687457357824","display_url":"twitter.com/paulg/status/1…"}]},"id":"1285609544262062084"},{"created_at":"2020-07-21T12:41:10.000Z","text":"Accidently selected the built-in mobile browser when opening a link and it became the default browser. I guess this is my life now.","id":"1285555416114491397"},{"created_at":"2020-07-21T05:45:10.000Z","text":"Ok I'll admit, this gives me the goosebumps https://t.co/jjarmPTz4f","entities":{"urls":[{"start":44,"end":67,"url":"https://t.co/jjarmPTz4f","expanded_url":"https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1285425535619756032","display_url":"twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/st…"}]},"id":"1285450727259660289"},{"created_at":"2020-07-21T05:21:09.000Z","text":"RT @ASmallFiction: Fortune favors the bold,\nbut fame prefers italics.","entities":{"mentions":[{"start":3,"end":17,"username":"ASmallFiction"}]},"id":"1285444681908641792"},{"created_at":"2020-07-20T14:39:01.000Z","text":"UAE launches Hope probe in Arab world's first mission to Mars https://t.co/b1CGGcsuUK\n\nYesss ad astra per aspera :)\nMore space programs please","entities":{"annotations":[{"start":0,"end":2,"probability":0.764,"type":"Place","normalized_text":"UAE"},{"start":27,"end":30,"probability":0.6835,"type":"Place","normalized_text":"Arab"}],"urls":[{"start":62,"end":85,"url":"https://t.co/b1CGGcsuUK","expanded_url":"https://www.aljazeera.com/ajimpact/uae-launches-hope-probe-arab-world-mission-mars-200720014809933.html","display_url":"aljazeera.com/ajimpact/uae-l…"}]},"id":"1285222686621229059"},{"created_at":"2020-07-20T10:49:32.000Z","text":"Long compile/run times should be the eighth deadly sin.","id":"1285164935777935361"},{"created_at":"2020-07-19T15:36:09.000Z","text":"RT @mckaywrigley: “Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: Everything around you that you call life was made up by peop…","entities":{"mentions":[{"start":3,"end":16,"username":"mckaywrigley"}]},"id":"1284874676221534209"},{"created_at":"2020-07-19T09:45:43.000Z","text":"According to Brett Slatkin in Effective Python, an oft-quoted motto is: \"We are all consenting adults here.\"\n\nIt's used to justify individual choice to freely extend functionality. Is this the programmers' version of living life on the edge?","entities":{"annotations":[{"start":13,"end":25,"probability":0.7812,"type":"Person","normalized_text":"Brett Slatkin"}]},"id":"1284786486668218368"},{"created_at":"2020-07-19T05:23:22.000Z","text":"What's this? Is Common Lisp popular again? Did I accidentally become a hipster? https://t.co/W808Rp9OJZ","entities":{"urls":[{"start":80,"end":103,"url":"https://t.co/W808Rp9OJZ","expanded_url":"https://twitter.com/stylewarning/status/1284532078877356033","display_url":"twitter.com/stylewarning/s…"}]},"id":"1284720466733629442"},{"created_at":"2020-07-19T03:29:22.000Z","text":"Plot twist: GPT-3 is really just a large team of interns working 24/7","id":"1284691776125538304"},{"created_at":"2020-07-18T07:57:02.000Z","text":"https://t.co/vlSlWf2ic4\nSo any rise in cases following the election is not the government's fault for calling an election now. Its our fault, for not following social distancing guidelines.\n\nWell, running water follows the slopes of the land. #GE2020","entities":{"hashtags":[{"start":243,"end":250,"tag":"GE2020"}],"urls":[{"start":0,"end":23,"url":"https://t.co/vlSlWf2ic4","expanded_url":"https://youtu.be/VuaWf7m7PxA","display_url":"youtu.be/VuaWf7m7PxA"}]},"id":"1284396749654654977"},{"created_at":"2020-07-18T06:07:15.000Z","text":"Also, and this is the critical detail, a Turing test has to be administered by a human. https://t.co/gl7RegZHcT","entities":{"urls":[{"start":88,"end":111,"url":"https://t.co/gl7RegZHcT","expanded_url":"https://twitter.com/3blue1brown/status/1284141504286474242","display_url":"twitter.com/3blue1brown/st…"}]},"id":"1284369121493172225"},{"created_at":"2020-07-18T03:18:36.000Z","text":"RT @BrutumF: Imagine being born a soldier 'turtle' ant and your only purpose in life is to use your head as a plug so others can't invade..…","entities":{"mentions":[{"start":3,"end":11,"username":"BrutumF"}]},"id":"1284326679880454144"},{"created_at":"2020-07-17T18:24:20.000Z","text":"Or as someone explained to me before: imagine that we're all on a bus. Cutting in front of someone in the bus isn't going to get you to your destination any faster. https://t.co/TBLgs0l8ep","entities":{"urls":[{"start":165,"end":188,"url":"https://t.co/TBLgs0l8ep","expanded_url":"https://twitter.com/scale_banana/status/1284162847275192322","display_url":"twitter.com/scale_banana/s…"}]},"id":"1284192227866980353"},{"created_at":"2020-07-17T14:27:32.000Z","text":"@mwgkgk I wonder if that would get more people to read, or less people","entities":{"mentions":[{"start":0,"end":7,"username":"mwgkgk"}]},"id":"1284132633538998272"},{"created_at":"2020-07-17T09:02:59.000Z","text":"Every stakeholder has a different perspective on the issue, but also incomplete information... As the programmer in the centre of it, all I can do is:\n\n1. Try to bring everyone into the same conversation to align objectives\n\n2. *scream internally*","id":"1284050959216205824"},{"created_at":"2020-07-17T06:03:49.000Z","text":"I've probably said it before, but it keeps coming back to this.\n\nThe crux of software development is social coordination, not technical skill.","id":"1284005869806448640"},{"created_at":"2020-07-16T17:45:55.000Z","text":"You know... If I'd read this a year ago, I'd have laughed because it sounds exactly like satire. Unfortunately, it's not satire https://t.co/vbi02jJ1wL","entities":{"urls":[{"start":128,"end":151,"url":"https://t.co/vbi02jJ1wL","expanded_url":"https://twitter.com/drvolts/status/1283817626284613632","display_url":"twitter.com/drvolts/status…"}]},"id":"1283820168888508416"},{"created_at":"2020-07-16T04:54:11.000Z","text":"RT @YaakovCohney: @internetofshit @TimSweeneyEpic respect to @NateSilver538 who figured out really quickly how to communicate via RT's -&gt; h…","entities":{"mentions":[{"start":3,"end":16,"username":"YaakovCohney"},{"start":18,"end":33,"username":"internetofshit"},{"start":34,"end":49,"username":"TimSweeneyEpic"},{"start":61,"end":75,"username":"NateSilver538"}]},"id":"1283625959258652679"},{"created_at":"2020-07-15T16:49:47.000Z","text":"I wonder if 鲁迅's 《呐喊》is allowed. Probably speaks just as strongly (if not more strongly) to Chinese students than 1984 and Animal Farm.\n\nAre the ideas alike? Not quite. But to shout! 呐喊！To wake people from their peaceful suffocation in an iron house. That idea is key. https://t.co/IbmZ0NCpAH","entities":{"urls":[{"start":269,"end":292,"url":"https://t.co/IbmZ0NCpAH","expanded_url":"https://twitter.com/hardmaru/status/1283246090410692609","display_url":"twitter.com/hardmaru/statu…"}]},"id":"1283443654699307008"},{"created_at":"2020-07-15T14:16:58.000Z","text":"Like speedbumps and flattening the curve https://t.co/31nOaemMWf","entities":{"urls":[{"start":41,"end":64,"url":"https://t.co/31nOaemMWf","expanded_url":"https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1283372941439270912","display_url":"twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/…"}]},"id":"1283405198115762176"},{"created_at":"2020-07-15T12:41:16.000Z","text":"https://t.co/2xZ5CYR0my\nAmazing work in sign language innovation. The range of expression, the creativity in word plays. This is a hugely overlooked forefront of language creation.","entities":{"urls":[{"start":0,"end":23,"url":"https://t.co/2xZ5CYR0my","expanded_url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuD2iNVMS_4","display_url":"youtube.com/watch?v=EuD2iN…"}]},"id":"1283381115005227008"},{"created_at":"2020-07-15T11:45:38.000Z","text":"Pop quiz:\n\nWhat's the difference between\n\"sample\" and \"​sample\"?\n\nSpent an hour debugging this one 🙃 #codingisfun","entities":{"hashtags":[{"start":101,"end":113,"tag":"codingisfun"}]},"id":"1283367112262553601"},{"created_at":"2020-07-15T08:52:54.000Z","text":"Do you ever just open a text file so large that your computer gives up?","id":"1283323645826265088"},{"created_at":"2020-07-14T17:41:18.000Z","text":"Just read The Traitor Baru Cormorant. After a good book, I usually wish I could forget everything and reread it. Now I want to forget it to return to a less devastating time.\n\nBut let it be clear, my devastation is nothing but praise for Seth Dickinson, and for Baru Cormorant.","entities":{"annotations":[{"start":10,"end":35,"probability":0.3833,"type":"Other","normalized_text":"The Traitor Baru Cormorant"},{"start":238,"end":251,"probability":0.9928,"type":"Person","normalized_text":"Seth Dickinson"},{"start":262,"end":275,"probability":0.5215,"type":"Person","normalized_text":"Baru Cormorant"}]},"id":"1283094232756965376"},{"created_at":"2020-07-14T11:22:51.000Z","text":"All correct programs are alike; each incorrect program is incorrect in its own way.\n\nhttps://t.co/AdhnDD0oUR","entities":{"urls":[{"start":85,"end":108,"url":"https://t.co/AdhnDD0oUR","expanded_url":"https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Karenina_principle","display_url":"en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Kare…"}]},"id":"1282998991567728640"},{"created_at":"2020-07-13T14:23:28.000Z","text":"What I fear we're losing, in so many fronts, on so many platforms, is access to these complexities of history. Without the freedom to discuss such complexities, we reduce our capacity to seek truth and to think independently.\n\nBetter a conflicted history than none at all.\n(5/5)","id":"1282682060621049858"},{"created_at":"2020-07-13T14:23:28.000Z","text":"In the end, Frederick Douglass also disagreed with the depiction of the figures in the statue. But the solution he called for was more, not less, monuments to paint a fuller and more human picture to capture the complexities of the past.\n(4/5)","entities":{"annotations":[{"start":12,"end":29,"probability":0.4244,"type":"Place","normalized_text":"Frederick Douglass"}]},"id":"1282682058783903744"},{"created_at":"2020-07-13T14:23:28.000Z","text":"But \"It was enough for us that Abraham Lincoln was at the head of a great movement, and was in living and earnest sympathy with that movement.\"\n(3/5)","entities":{"annotations":[{"start":31,"end":45,"probability":0.9885,"type":"Person","normalized_text":"Abraham Lincoln"}]},"id":"1282682056917413891"},{"created_at":"2020-07-13T14:23:27.000Z","text":"But Frederick Douglass himself explained in his keynote dedication: \"Truth compels me to admit... Abraham Lincoln was not, in the fullest sense of the word, either our man or our model...\"\n(2/4)","entities":{"annotations":[{"start":4,"end":21,"probability":0.9852,"type":"Person","normalized_text":"Frederick Douglass"},{"start":98,"end":112,"probability":0.9984,"type":"Person","normalized_text":"Abraham Lincoln"}]},"id":"1282682055050948610"},{"created_at":"2020-07-13T14:23:27.000Z","text":"实事求是\nSeek truth from facts\n\nThe monument has a complex history. On one hand, yes this statue was erected \"With funds contributed solely by emancipated citizens of the United States declared free by his proclamation January 1 A.D. 1863\".\n(1/5) https://t.co/o7IoMuwPKJ","entities":{"annotations":[{"start":167,"end":179,"probability":0.9204,"type":"Place","normalized_text":"United States"}],"urls":[{"start":243,"end":266,"url":"https://t.co/o7IoMuwPKJ","expanded_url":"https://twitter.com/_sagnikbasu/status/1276682947895197697","display_url":"twitter.com/_sagnikbasu/st…"}]},"id":"1282682052958027781"}],"meta":{"oldest_id":"1282682052958027781","newest_id":"1290321038299893760","result_count":100,"next_token":"7140dibdnow9c7btw3t4l8j919rze4pi52q7fe7s01vzl","previous_token":"77qpymm88g5h9vqkluiggpd6s9x4pbu75vrr4egfi2i40"}}}