{"data":{"data":[{"created_at":"2020-11-27T23:17:38.000Z","text":"On a side note, I'm pretty sure I'm going to lose all my friends because I won't shut up about linear algebra these days. Even my housemates (except the math major) are sick of hearing eigen this and eigen that","id":"1332463622426124288"},{"created_at":"2020-11-27T23:17:37.000Z","text":"So spectral representation.... is just a change of basis in disguise!","id":"1332463621423632385"},{"entities":{"mentions":[{"start":0,"end":12,"username":"TaliaRinger"}]},"created_at":"2020-11-27T06:51:44.000Z","text":"@TaliaRinger A personal thought: if cephalopods figure out how to pass down knowledge from generation to generation, they will take over the world","id":"1332215512168865792"},{"entities":{"mentions":[{"start":3,"end":12,"username":"hardmaru"}]},"created_at":"2020-11-27T06:46:31.000Z","text":"RT @hardmaru: What would happen if computers never got any faster?\n\n“Once you deeply understand a system, it can do things that its designe…","id":"1332214202145116161"},{"created_at":"2020-11-26T20:33:31.000Z","text":"So I started learning linear algebra two years ago... but I think I'm starting to understand diagonalization and eigenbasis.\n\nSometimes the world is just so beautiful 🤧","id":"1332059935534944264"},{"created_at":"2020-11-26T04:40:06.000Z","text":"Most of the things I learned about linear algebra were taught much better outside of linear algebra class. What's up with that?","id":"1331820000001347584"},{"created_at":"2020-11-25T22:48:17.000Z","text":"My household spent the afternoon thinking of a physical interpretation for the dot product... Along the way we proved things we learned long ago like the law of sines, or why a triangle's exterior angle equals the sum of its opposite interior angles.\n\nThis is the best holiday.","id":"1331731460676579328"},{"created_at":"2020-11-25T04:23:46.000Z","text":"Something something the faster you think the more mistakes you can make.\n\nTwo wrongs don't make a right, but three rights make a left! https://t.co/Bg5jrPLQ1V","entities":{"urls":[{"start":135,"end":158,"url":"https://t.co/Bg5jrPLQ1V","expanded_url":"https://twitter.com/Neuro_Skeptic/status/1331240900329136129","display_url":"twitter.com/Neuro_Skeptic/…"}]},"id":"1331453502997016583"},{"created_at":"2020-11-24T23:17:21.000Z","entities":{"annotations":[{"start":16,"end":22,"probability":0.667,"type":"Product","normalized_text":"Twitter"},{"start":88,"end":94,"probability":0.5779,"type":"Product","normalized_text":"Twitter"}],"urls":[{"start":97,"end":120,"url":"https://t.co/NyOkfT6res","expanded_url":"https://twitter.com/CephWarden/status/1331255104742203394","display_url":"twitter.com/CephWarden/sta…"}]},"text":"If all I saw on Twitter were videos of cephalopods.... It would still be worth visiting Twitter. https://t.co/NyOkfT6res","id":"1331376389174538242"},{"created_at":"2020-11-21T22:09:04.000Z","text":"Me: \"oh it melted through the wire, that's pretty cool!\"\n\n*housemate looks at me*\n\nMe: \".... And pretty dangerous.\"\n\nHousemate: \"right?!\" https://t.co/qvNHTJkfbO","entities":{"urls":[{"start":138,"end":161,"url":"https://t.co/qvNHTJkfbO","expanded_url":"https://twitter.com/desmondcheongzx/status/1330272040620847104/photo/1","display_url":"pic.twitter.com/qvNHTJkfbO"}]},"id":"1330272040620847104"},{"created_at":"2020-11-20T23:49:23.000Z","text":"Gonna be honest, I've been seeing people meme about a \"monke\" of some sort and I have absolutely no idea what that's referencing.\n\nBut today I typed \"Monte (Carlo)\" and I chuckled to myself a bit.","id":"1329934900087099392"},{"created_at":"2020-11-19T23:26:27.000Z","text":"Also, apparently, must resist urge to start studying ODEs instead of studying for an immediate neural exam.","id":"1329566738158145536"},{"created_at":"2020-11-19T23:26:26.000Z","text":"Must. Resist. Urge. To. Update. Operating. System.\n\nAt least until after midterms.","id":"1329566737348632576"},{"created_at":"2020-11-19T04:36:36.000Z","text":"But that's life, as my friend tells me.","id":"1329282401856614400"},{"created_at":"2020-11-19T04:36:35.000Z","text":"I suppose all I can do now is to put them on my list of things to explore more carefully.","id":"1329282400854155265"},{"created_at":"2020-11-19T04:36:35.000Z","text":"Kinda wish I could redo freshman year... just so I can retake some courses that I didn't sufficiently appreciate the first time round.\n\nFlipping through old notes now and screaming at myself: \"Why didn't you pay more attention to this! This was good shit!!\"","id":"1329282399868506113"},{"created_at":"2020-11-18T02:01:27.000Z","text":"From a forum discussing character growth in a comic:\n\n\"They can't keep tripping over their own character flaws forever.\"\n\nStrangely inspiring","id":"1328880970758492166"},{"entities":{"mentions":[{"start":0,"end":14,"username":"ASmallFiction"}]},"created_at":"2020-11-16T23:48:55.000Z","text":"@ASmallFiction When he peeked inside, he found that it was empty, and life continued to follow the status quo.\n\nHe thought, perhaps, someone had opened the box long ago.","id":"1328485229993086976"},{"created_at":"2020-11-16T05:32:09.000Z","text":"But then there was a flash and a short-circuit burned through the ground wire connecting the H-bridge to the arduino.\n\nIronic, considering that this project started off with a small explosion. It seems I haven't learned my lesson. (2/2)","id":"1328209219611463680"},{"created_at":"2020-11-16T05:32:08.000Z","text":"Been facing non-stop power issues with a robotics project. My natural solution was to keep scaling up to bigger and bigger batteries.\n\nTen minutes ago I plugged in the biggest one yet and let out an evil laugh as the dc motors on my robot spun faster than ever....\n(1/2)","id":"1328209216822185984"},{"created_at":"2020-11-16T03:38:51.000Z","text":"It's a little exhilarating with 14 people in line for TA hours and I'm trying to help a student debug their setup for a project that's due soon...\n\nme: Try typing \"kill &lt;id&gt;\"\n\nstudent: Ok... it says permission denied\n\nme, immediately and recklessly: sudo kill!!!","id":"1328180706137268224"},{"created_at":"2020-11-14T06:22:00.000Z","text":"As my old history teacher might say. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose. The more things change, the more they remain the same","id":"1327496989953716226"},{"created_at":"2020-11-14T06:20:50.000Z","entities":{"annotations":[{"start":31,"end":63,"probability":0.4389,"type":"Other","normalized_text":"The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye"},{"start":127,"end":135,"probability":0.9934,"type":"Place","normalized_text":"Singapore"}]},"text":"I've heard mixed reviews about The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye. But it's been pretty successful at making me imagine life in Singapore in the 20th century.... how far we've come since then... how much things haven't changed... And perhaps, how much we've lost...","id":"1327496696486637568"},{"created_at":"2020-11-14T06:15:37.000Z","entities":{"annotations":[{"start":264,"end":277,"probability":0.9538,"type":"Person","normalized_text":"Chan Hock Chye"}],"urls":[{"start":279,"end":302,"url":"https://t.co/MCF6t5R3xC","expanded_url":"https://twitter.com/desmondcheongzx/status/1327495381979189249/photo/1","display_url":"pic.twitter.com/MCF6t5R3xC"},{"start":279,"end":302,"url":"https://t.co/MCF6t5R3xC","expanded_url":"https://twitter.com/desmondcheongzx/status/1327495381979189249/photo/1","display_url":"pic.twitter.com/MCF6t5R3xC"},{"start":279,"end":302,"url":"https://t.co/MCF6t5R3xC","expanded_url":"https://twitter.com/desmondcheongzx/status/1327495381979189249/photo/1","display_url":"pic.twitter.com/MCF6t5R3xC"}]},"text":"\"Not that we should ever judge anyone, except by their goodness as a person. But as an artist, I think you can decide for yourself whether someone's work is good or not. Of course, it's not the easiest thing to do... separating all the ways of measuring a man.\" - Chan Hock Chye https://t.co/MCF6t5R3xC","id":"1327495381979189249"},{"created_at":"2020-11-13T23:16:48.000Z","text":"It's curious that whenever I have to do systems programming, the task always seems big and daunting.\n\nBut once I start coding and _relaxing_ into the system, it becomes an immensely enjoyable process. It feels as if you're inside the machinery, and nothing else matters.","id":"1327389985281101830"},{"created_at":"2020-11-12T03:33:00.000Z","text":".... Ok you got me there https://t.co/gfUohNGNiJ","entities":{"urls":[{"start":25,"end":48,"url":"https://t.co/gfUohNGNiJ","expanded_url":"https://twitter.com/engineers_feed/status/1326714233652973572","display_url":"twitter.com/engineers_feed…"}]},"id":"1326729683354996739"},{"entities":{"mentions":[{"start":0,"end":12,"username":"hearthrobjk"}]},"created_at":"2020-11-11T19:37:45.000Z","text":"@hearthrobjk Just following the PAP's directive: stop at 2. Have 3 or more if you can afford it","id":"1326610083195838468"},{"created_at":"2020-11-11T06:54:37.000Z","entities":{"annotations":[{"start":80,"end":84,"probability":0.7605,"type":"Product","normalized_text":"Linux"},{"start":98,"end":104,"probability":0.8268,"type":"Product","normalized_text":"Windows"}]},"text":"In an unexpected twist of events, my dual monitor setup works out-of-the-box in Linux, but not in Windows.","id":"1326418031510163457"},{"created_at":"2020-11-08T17:07:46.000Z","text":"Singaporeans should read this memorandum... https://t.co/ZLLbK2Sbwg","entities":{"urls":[{"start":44,"end":67,"url":"https://t.co/ZLLbK2Sbwg","expanded_url":"https://twitter.com/danbarker/status/1325142585401204737","display_url":"twitter.com/danbarker/stat…"}]},"id":"1325485173102796805"},{"entities":{"mentions":[{"start":0,"end":12,"username":"hearthrobjk"}]},"created_at":"2020-11-05T22:10:51.000Z","text":"@hearthrobjk Tbh late night/early mornings are the best time to code","id":"1324474285201772545"},{"created_at":"2020-11-05T18:18:55.000Z","text":"\"This brings up a basic philosophy of this course, which is not quite a truism but pretty close. If you can program it, there's a good chance you understand it.\n\n[long pause]\n\nOr at least it helps.\"\n\nSomehow the lectures in this applied math course make me very happy :)","id":"1324415915706982400"},{"created_at":"2020-10-26T17:27:48.000Z","text":"Why is this so relatable https://t.co/cEZkBlEKsL","entities":{"urls":[{"start":25,"end":48,"url":"https://t.co/cEZkBlEKsL","expanded_url":"https://twitter.com/Schnumn/status/1320724201104384000","display_url":"twitter.com/Schnumn/status…"}]},"id":"1320779172143370241"},{"created_at":"2020-10-24T02:39:55.000Z","text":"https://t.co/FUQKrJOnm9\n\nSo I decided to listen to some pokemon music on a whim... and how is this so good. It's so bittersweet and it actually makes me want to cry.\n\nI barely game these days... but this was a strong reminder of how transportive video games can be.","entities":{"urls":[{"start":0,"end":23,"url":"https://t.co/FUQKrJOnm9","expanded_url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mLcJTuXkGc&list=PL46A49E65817F8577&index=93","display_url":"youtube.com/watch?v=8mLcJT…"}]},"id":"1319830956463869953"},{"created_at":"2020-10-23T15:25:29.000Z","text":"I like to think about this in terms of distance between concepts\n\nClose = productive, because overlap allows us to think of one concept in terms of the other\n\nDistance = interesting, because the connection is non-obvious and hence why we even bother talking about it https://t.co/GDDE0KLUXU","entities":{"urls":[{"start":267,"end":290,"url":"https://t.co/GDDE0KLUXU","expanded_url":"https://twitter.com/Scientific_Bird/status/1319585099034316800","display_url":"twitter.com/Scientific_Bir…"}]},"id":"1319661229649072128"},{"created_at":"2020-10-23T05:05:26.000Z","entities":{"annotations":[{"start":8,"end":19,"probability":0.6004,"type":"Person","normalized_text":"Isaac Newton"}],"urls":[{"start":195,"end":218,"url":"https://t.co/tmQCPWgZlN","expanded_url":"https://twitter.com/jtannady/status/1319302197797150725","display_url":"twitter.com/jtannady/statu…"}]},"text":"\"If Sir Isaac Newton were to have found the inspiration for his laws of motion and gravity from a virtual apple falling from a virtual tree, he would have needed a controller like PIVOT.\"\n\nOmg 😂 https://t.co/tmQCPWgZlN","id":"1319505186080149504"},{"created_at":"2020-10-16T18:05:01.000Z","entities":{"annotations":[{"start":95,"end":106,"probability":0.9961,"type":"Person","normalized_text":"Stuart Geman"}]},"text":"\"A drunken person will always find their way home, but a drunken bird can get lost forever.\" - Stuart Geman on random walks","id":"1317164660303552523"},{"created_at":"2020-10-14T17:21:25.000Z","entities":{"annotations":[{"start":49,"end":56,"probability":0.651,"type":"Person","normalized_text":"Stirling"}]},"text":"Like a recurring character, or a murder mystery, Stirling's formula keeps reappearing when I least expect it","id":"1316428910586982400"},{"created_at":"2020-10-09T17:48:09.000Z","text":"Some big impacts from the pandemic:\n\n1. Increased future spending on medicine and related infrastructure\n\n2. Normalisation of remote work\n\n3. Millennials/gen Z-ers finally learn how to cook for themselves, or bake bread apparently","id":"1314623700105338884"},{"created_at":"2020-10-07T19:34:12.000Z","text":"Sources clarification: the comment came from the discussion, not the figure. The figure came from lecture notes","id":"1313925614710251522"},{"created_at":"2020-10-07T19:27:08.000Z","text":"That satisfying feeling when a small number of random variables quickly converge to a gaussian distribution 😌😌😌\n\nFrom a pleasant post-lunch discussion with my housemate on things such as the taylor series expansion and fourier analysis https://t.co/obCu5IDHRO","entities":{"urls":[{"start":236,"end":259,"url":"https://t.co/obCu5IDHRO","expanded_url":"https://twitter.com/desmondcheongzx/status/1313923836308529155/photo/1","display_url":"pic.twitter.com/obCu5IDHRO"}]},"id":"1313923836308529155"},{"created_at":"2020-10-01T15:07:11.000Z","text":"\"... bread sold by the fast food chain Subway contains so much sugar that it cannot be legally defined as bread.\"\n\nOh no oh shit, it's cake isn't it. https://t.co/l0ZeL1Npeo","entities":{"urls":[{"start":150,"end":173,"url":"https://t.co/l0ZeL1Npeo","expanded_url":"https://twitter.com/ChannelNewsAsia/status/1311663551476498435","display_url":"twitter.com/ChannelNewsAsi…"}]},"id":"1311684089120985089"},{"created_at":"2020-10-01T05:05:49.000Z","text":"And then all of this converges in higher brain areas like the hippocampus. MapReduce anyone? https://t.co/bswiMNircI","entities":{"urls":[{"start":93,"end":116,"url":"https://t.co/bswiMNircI","expanded_url":"https://twitter.com/desmondcheongzx/status/1310754089035280386","display_url":"twitter.com/desmondcheongz…"}]},"id":"1311532750701297664"},{"entities":{"mentions":[{"start":0,"end":12,"username":"hearthrobjk"}]},"created_at":"2020-09-30T16:44:01.000Z","text":"@hearthrobjk Unfortunately we can't beat old age 😞","id":"1311346069637394433"},{"entities":{"mentions":[{"start":0,"end":12,"username":"hearthrobjk"}]},"created_at":"2020-09-30T02:58:08.000Z","text":"@hearthrobjk I sort of remember those kind of days. Not 2h but like, 6h of sleep per day, esp in jc. But I think I just didn't realise how much better I could've been functioning","id":"1311138232017530880"},{"entities":{"mentions":[{"start":0,"end":12,"username":"hearthrobjk"}],"annotations":[{"start":47,"end":53,"probability":0.6706,"type":"Product","normalized_text":"twitter"}]},"created_at":"2020-09-29T22:20:46.000Z","text":"@hearthrobjk also _what_ is going on with your twitter name","id":"1311068430003511302"},{"entities":{"mentions":[{"start":0,"end":12,"username":"hearthrobjk"}]},"created_at":"2020-09-29T22:20:26.000Z","text":"@hearthrobjk hahaha same (well minus the 2pm part), I actually try to wake up before 9 but that relies on my ability to sleep appropriately early","id":"1311068345156894722"},{"created_at":"2020-09-29T15:51:12.000Z","text":"Didn't notice it until I consistently I got enough sleep at night, but apparently I have terrible self-control when sleep deprived.\n\nAnd this lack of self-control extends to going to bed early, creating a loop.\n\nThankfully I had 8 hours of sleep, so this nonsense can stop.","id":"1310970389930139650"},{"created_at":"2020-09-29T01:31:42.000Z","text":"100 million photoreceptors produce 1 million axons worth of output that recruits over a billion cortical neurons.\n\nSounds a lot like cleaning the data a little before processing all of it on a massive distributed system.","id":"1310754089035280386"},{"created_at":"2020-09-28T20:04:05.000Z","text":"Neuroscientists geeking out about potential explanations for biblical stories https://t.co/xTFHPnWNZG","entities":{"urls":[{"start":78,"end":101,"url":"https://t.co/xTFHPnWNZG","expanded_url":"https://twitter.com/desmondcheongzx/status/1310671642058780673/photo/1","display_url":"pic.twitter.com/xTFHPnWNZG"}]},"id":"1310671642058780673"},{"entities":{"mentions":[{"start":3,"end":17,"username":"ASmallFiction"}],"annotations":[{"start":128,"end":133,"probability":0.6192,"type":"Organization","normalized_text":"Oracle"}]},"created_at":"2020-09-27T22:57:32.000Z","text":"RT @ASmallFiction: The night was cold. They watched the stars.\n\n\"Why are we here?\" he asked.\n\n\"To keep each other company,\" the Oracle said…","id":"1310352904142942209"},{"created_at":"2020-09-27T04:40:51.000Z","entities":{"annotations":[{"start":208,"end":214,"probability":0.9975,"type":"Place","normalized_text":"America"}]},"text":"Time seems to pass so fast these days because we don't seem to have 'events' to serve as points of reference in time.\n\nWhen I try to situate myself in time the most available reference is when I flew back to America, and that's quite a few weeks smooshed into one instant.","id":"1310076916569866240"},{"created_at":"2020-09-26T15:29:46.000Z","entities":{"annotations":[{"start":25,"end":29,"probability":0.4727,"type":"Person","normalized_text":"Brown"}],"urls":[{"start":150,"end":173,"url":"https://t.co/OJCgUPiGjQ","expanded_url":"https://twitter.com/computerfact/status/1309872745736482816","display_url":"twitter.com/computerfact/s…"}]},"text":"We have one professor at Brown who does this one demo of killing a terminal process every year... He takes an old laptop and slashes it with a katana https://t.co/OJCgUPiGjQ","id":"1309877835432112130"},{"created_at":"2020-09-26T14:36:40.000Z","entities":{"annotations":[{"start":0,"end":14,"probability":0.9961,"type":"Person","normalized_text":"Richard Feynman"}]},"text":"Richard Feynman: \"Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.\"\nI've long accepted this idea for physics. Idk why it took so long, but I now see that it also applies to biology","id":"1309864471624642560"},{"created_at":"2020-09-25T19:51:34.000Z","text":"In meditation, trying to force yourself to feel a certain way is an impossible and frustrating exercise. But somehow taking the cognitive actions to acknowledge and accept feelings, without judgement, also allows them to be let go. https://t.co/hcZ8Ma2kJX","entities":{"urls":[{"start":232,"end":255,"url":"https://t.co/hcZ8Ma2kJX","expanded_url":"https://twitter.com/JamesClear/status/1309579633470459904","display_url":"twitter.com/JamesClear/sta…"}]},"id":"1309581331240812544"},{"entities":{"mentions":[{"start":3,"end":15,"username":"MarlonSIX60"},{"start":17,"end":26,"username":"elonmusk"}]},"created_at":"2020-09-25T15:07:37.000Z","text":"RT @MarlonSIX60: @elonmusk Both the position and momentum of an elementary particle.","id":"1309509869867880448"},{"created_at":"2020-09-22T03:05:06.000Z","text":"In a neural systems class, the professor keeps mentioning that contrast is the most interesting thing for the brain. i.e. the brain is most stimulated when there is change.\n\nThis simple idea sounds like it explains many things about our behaviours.","id":"1308240879979843584"},{"entities":{"mentions":[{"start":0,"end":12,"username":"hearthrobjk"}]},"created_at":"2020-09-12T17:14:10.000Z","text":"@hearthrobjk you're very welcome","id":"1304830674533314563"},{"created_at":"2020-09-12T02:07:08.000Z","text":"Reminds me of the same collective behaviours from schools of fish and flocks of birds taking cues from each other https://t.co/SJPT8aSvmX","entities":{"urls":[{"start":114,"end":137,"url":"https://t.co/SJPT8aSvmX","expanded_url":"https://twitter.com/biolocousb/status/1297403469096198144","display_url":"twitter.com/biolocousb/sta…"}]},"id":"1304602413844901888"},{"created_at":"2020-09-12T01:59:38.000Z","text":"As much as I love programming and computer science, it's surprisingly refreshing to take a science course again after so long!\n\nIt's extremely satisfying  to see how all the bits and pieces of the world come together.","id":"1304600524696809473"},{"created_at":"2020-09-11T03:32:52.000Z","text":"So it's obv good to do the readings bef lecture. But today a prof presented the most compelling reason I've heard:\n\nIf you don't read the book before the lecture, then you're sitting ducks for whatever garbage is thrown at you. Reading the book allows you to be your own person.","id":"1304261602208886787"},{"created_at":"2020-09-08T21:29:31.000Z","text":"Growing up in a country where it's forever summer, I'm used to wearing the same clothes year-round. But now that I have to deal with changing seasons... I suddenly realise I've accumulated a ridiculous amount of clothes.\n\nHow did this happen? Am I the bourgeoisie now???","id":"1303445384874864645"},{"entities":{"mentions":[{"start":0,"end":7,"username":"mwgkgk"}]},"created_at":"2020-09-08T18:58:26.000Z","text":"@mwgkgk And another big benefit is that other people are familiar with the interface. I never realised this would be so important until I started doing more pair programming. Emacs-bindings tend to be a roadblock in these situations. So I do see the benefits to using vs code instead","id":"1303407365656662021"},{"entities":{"mentions":[{"start":0,"end":7,"username":"mwgkgk"}]},"created_at":"2020-09-08T18:54:55.000Z","text":"@mwgkgk But I also agree that vs code also comes with everything you'd want and more. The remote collaboration functions are also going to be increasingly important in the coming months.","id":"1303406478301319169"},{"entities":{"mentions":[{"start":0,"end":7,"username":"mwgkgk"}]},"created_at":"2020-09-08T18:52:55.000Z","text":"@mwgkgk So emacs has given me everything I needed, although I do agree that hacking elisp gets idiosyncratic (but also slightly endearing) at times.","id":"1303405976398241793"},{"entities":{"mentions":[{"start":0,"end":10,"username":"QVagabond"}]},"created_at":"2020-09-08T18:43:28.000Z","text":"@QVagabond Heh, I'm stealing \"vim in the sheets\".\n\nHonestly vim-style editing is great, if only my emacs muscle memory stops dictating how I type everything. Parents should talk to their kids about editors before someone else does","id":"1303403599477833732"},{"created_at":"2020-09-08T03:06:12.000Z","text":"I never thought I'd see the day when someone decades older than me would suggest that I use visual studio code instead of emacs.\n\n2020 is a strange year indeed","id":"1303167727872475137"},{"created_at":"2020-09-07T05:30:05.000Z","text":"Moved into a new apartment... And for some reason my new bed defies classification into the traditional taxonomy of bedding sizes. Who would do such a thing???","id":"1302841548082741249"},{"created_at":"2020-09-06T11:58:10.000Z","text":"And I guess I've become _that_ person who tweets about old thinkpads","id":"1302576826301243392"},{"created_at":"2020-09-06T11:57:39.000Z","text":"It's a 10-year-old laptop model, the 5th year since I received it. And every time I pick it up it feels just like a heavy brick.\n\nBut the moment I boot it up and start typing on it, my old Thinkpad T410 immediately feels like home.","id":"1302576694864359424"},{"entities":{"mentions":[{"start":0,"end":7,"username":"_hueyl"}]},"created_at":"2020-09-06T00:18:32.000Z","text":"@_hueyl Hmm, yeah I see the tradeoff","id":"1302400755798810625"},{"entities":{"mentions":[{"start":3,"end":17,"username":"ASmallFiction"}]},"created_at":"2020-09-05T23:11:14.000Z","text":"RT @ASmallFiction: \"Is there disappointment in my future?\" he asked.\n\n\"Some,\" the fortune teller said.\n\n\"Aw.\"","id":"1302383821757861888"},{"entities":{"mentions":[{"start":0,"end":7,"username":"_hueyl"}]},"created_at":"2020-09-03T04:13:55.000Z","text":"@_hueyl But what if say an innocent person, under pressure by the police and without a lawyer present, misspeaks and implicates himself with the crime.","id":"1301372831284908032"},{"created_at":"2020-08-31T15:17:00.000Z","text":"Took awhile for my brain to process how this was possible. But very impressive https://t.co/We9zO9KzGC","entities":{"urls":[{"start":79,"end":102,"url":"https://t.co/We9zO9KzGC","expanded_url":"https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1300410582219321345","display_url":"twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/…"}]},"id":"1300452535371591681"},{"entities":{"mentions":[{"start":0,"end":7,"username":"_hueyl"}]},"created_at":"2020-08-31T10:41:00.000Z","text":"@_hueyl Hmm but wouldn't this also pressure people into speaking without first consulting a lawyer? Seems risky even if the person in question is innocent","id":"1300383078905389061"},{"created_at":"2020-08-31T10:24:09.000Z","text":"Reading about fast axoplasmic transport whereby materials from the soma of a neuron are quickly transported to an axon terminal at a speed as fast as 1m/day.\n\nAm I the only one who finds this diagram unbelievably cute? https://t.co/4PqlafBeys","entities":{"urls":[{"start":219,"end":242,"url":"https://t.co/4PqlafBeys","expanded_url":"https://twitter.com/desmondcheongzx/status/1300378837209894914/photo/1","display_url":"pic.twitter.com/4PqlafBeys"}]},"id":"1300378837209894914"},{"entities":{"mentions":[{"start":3,"end":13,"username":"wongmjane"}]},"created_at":"2020-08-29T02:29:15.000Z","text":"RT @wongmjane: I think brain-computer interface can be very beneficial for medical purposes (if clinically proven useful)\n\nBut it is also a…","id":"1299534550364635136"},{"created_at":"2020-08-23T03:56:50.000Z","text":".\n          What if I\n      wrote a\n tweet th\nat kind                      of\n looks like\n    pacman if \n         you squint https://t.co/hrr5d37Qvz","entities":{"urls":[{"start":125,"end":148,"url":"https://t.co/hrr5d37Qvz","expanded_url":"https://twitter.com/antilibrary_vk/status/1297205679111811073","display_url":"twitter.com/antilibrary_vk…"}]},"id":"1297382262611128320"},{"entities":{"mentions":[{"start":0,"end":12,"username":"hearthrobjk"},{"start":13,"end":22,"username":"whyreene"}]},"created_at":"2020-08-21T15:36:09.000Z","text":"@hearthrobjk @whyreene It's ok, I'm here for the kpop","id":"1296833478500130816"},{"created_at":"2020-08-19T13:50:22.000Z","entities":{"annotations":[{"start":32,"end":39,"probability":0.5668,"type":"Organization","normalized_text":"Facebook"}],"urls":[{"start":237,"end":260,"url":"https://t.co/Yjr3Ntu67l","expanded_url":"https://twitter.com/koujaku/status/1295831194450317313","display_url":"twitter.com/koujaku/status…"}]},"text":"Also important to remember that Facebook has done experiments on user emotions before, and probably still do. The amount of influence they can have on you through an immersive experience like VR is far greater than through a smartphone. https://t.co/Yjr3Ntu67l","id":"1296082080921608194"},{"created_at":"2020-08-19T13:00:40.000Z","entities":{"annotations":[{"start":47,"end":52,"probability":0.6439,"type":"Organization","normalized_text":"Google"},{"start":166,"end":172,"probability":0.6416,"type":"Place","normalized_text":"Gotland"}],"urls":[{"start":270,"end":293,"url":"https://t.co/diYCT5BqiB","expanded_url":"https://twitter.com/desmondcheongzx/status/1296069571850334209/photo/1","display_url":"pic.twitter.com/diYCT5BqiB"}]},"text":"Seems like Swedes are holidaying as per usual. Google keeps pinging me about a review that's suddenly getting thousands of views in a few days.\n\nThe restaurant is on Gotland, an island that's commonly visited as a tourist destination by Swedes during the summer months. https://t.co/diYCT5BqiB","id":"1296069571850334209"},{"created_at":"2020-08-18T16:43:55.000Z","text":"A side note: unfortunately, this Tweet was not designed to last.","id":"1295763366066057216"},{"created_at":"2020-08-18T16:43:54.000Z","entities":{"annotations":[{"start":0,"end":9,"probability":0.9858,"type":"Person","normalized_text":"Jeff Huang"},{"start":213,"end":227,"probability":0.994,"type":"Person","normalized_text":"Tim Berners-Lee"}],"urls":[{"start":47,"end":70,"url":"https://t.co/dOj0LMbX7M","expanded_url":"https://jeffhuang.com/designed_to_last/","display_url":"jeffhuang.com/designed_to_la…"},{"start":256,"end":279,"url":"https://t.co/cYK17otbPx","expanded_url":"https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI","display_url":"w3.org/Provider/Style…"}]},"text":"Jeff Huang's manifesto for preserving content (https://t.co/dOj0LMbX7M) is so energising to read in a time where the personal side of the web feels like it's slowly being buried.\n\nI got nostalgic vibes of reading Tim Berners-Lee's \nCool URIs don't change (https://t.co/cYK17otbPx)","id":"1295763362794463232"},{"entities":{"mentions":[{"start":3,"end":14,"username":"JamesClear"}]},"created_at":"2020-08-16T14:46:21.000Z","text":"RT @JamesClear: Good decision making has surprisingly little to do with the moment of decision.\n\nAt that point, it's too late. Your brain m…","id":"1295009003857035264"},{"created_at":"2020-08-14T17:41:53.000Z","text":"Is this an intentional loophole for the British to colonise the island?\n\nPerhaps a moot point either way, because the treaty was altered in 1823, then cancelled in 1824. Despite an earlier agreement that these arrangements were \"never to be broken\". (3/x) https://t.co/xMdrn1Fgte","entities":{"urls":[{"start":256,"end":279,"url":"https://t.co/xMdrn1Fgte","expanded_url":"https://twitter.com/desmondcheongzx/status/1294328403923877888/photo/1","display_url":"pic.twitter.com/xMdrn1Fgte"}]},"id":"1294328403923877888"},{"created_at":"2020-08-14T17:41:52.000Z","entities":{"annotations":[{"start":219,"end":227,"probability":0.7152,"type":"Place","normalized_text":"Singapura"}]},"text":"The rest of the treaty mainly discusses the establishment of a factory or factories on the island, and the accompanying compensation and protection. 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(1/x) https://t.co/OjKJwkv6RR","id":"1294328398039269379"},{"entities":{"mentions":[{"start":3,"end":17,"username":"ASmallFiction"}],"annotations":[{"start":49,"end":53,"probability":0.4944,"type":"Other","normalized_text":"Ouija"}]},"created_at":"2020-08-13T05:17:03.000Z","text":"RT @ASmallFiction: The kids were scared when the Ouija board moved on its own.\n\nBut why did it move so immediately? Did a ghost just hang a…","id":"1293778571828187142"},{"created_at":"2020-08-11T04:27:59.000Z","text":"Very nice. I especially liked how this overrides our top-down reading patterns https://t.co/8yqqhVjMid","entities":{"urls":[{"start":79,"end":102,"url":"https://t.co/8yqqhVjMid","expanded_url":"https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1292770195434504195","display_url":"twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/…"}]},"id":"1293041449886507009"},{"created_at":"2020-08-09T13:47:49.000Z","entities":{"annotations":[{"start":135,"end":143,"probability":0.9081,"type":"Place","normalized_text":"Singapore"}]},"text":"Driving downtown, I see the city lit up with massive skyscraper-sized displays of red and white. In this moment, I'm truly amazed with Singapore. Happy National Day :) 🇸🇬","id":"1292457557378785280"},{"created_at":"2020-08-08T15:22:42.000Z","entities":{"annotations":[{"start":58,"end":66,"probability":0.4983,"type":"Person","normalized_text":"Wild Rice"},{"start":91,"end":99,"probability":0.9789,"type":"Place","normalized_text":"Singapore"}],"urls":[{"start":0,"end":23,"url":"https://t.co/spMTAkp3xh","expanded_url":"https://vimeo.com/ondemand/merdeka","display_url":"vimeo.com/ondemand/merde…"}]},"text":"https://t.co/spMTAkp3xh\nMerdeka/獨立/சுதந்திரம் produced by Wild Rice discusses stories from Singapore's history that are missing from schools, and brings into question what goes into our national narratives.\n\nIf you liked the Bicentennial experience, then you need to watch this.","id":"1292119049749401601"},{"entities":{"mentions":[{"start":3,"end":14,"username":"ctrlshifti"}]},"created_at":"2020-08-08T11:08:09.000Z","text":"RT @ctrlshifti: found out that you can take socialist quotes and replace the word \"capitalism\" with \"javascript\" and they still work just a…","id":"1292054992002531328"},{"created_at":"2020-08-07T16:50:55.000Z","text":"Had zero expectations for movies based on national service, so I never watched. But damn, this is terrible in terms of values, terrible in terms of entertainment, and terrible in terms of the image we present of our army. Why are there so many of these? What's wrong with us?? https://t.co/gLxCvWtGEl","entities":{"urls":[{"start":277,"end":300,"url":"https://t.co/gLxCvWtGEl","expanded_url":"https://twitter.com/sharanvkaur/status/1290797759788748800","display_url":"twitter.com/sharanvkaur/st…"}]},"id":"1291778861718368257"},{"created_at":"2020-08-07T05:29:52.000Z","entities":{"annotations":[{"start":13,"end":18,"probability":0.3984,"type":"Product","normalized_text":"Google"}],"urls":[{"start":100,"end":123,"url":"https://t.co/S9bDpnVDIc","expanded_url":"https://twitter.com/desmondcheongzx/status/1291607468674433030/photo/1","display_url":"pic.twitter.com/S9bDpnVDIc"}]},"text":"I don't know Google.... I'm not exactly raring to start a video call every time I open my email.... https://t.co/S9bDpnVDIc","id":"1291607468674433030"},{"created_at":"2020-08-05T11:20:25.000Z","text":"Also did not realise there's been attempted/suspected suicides by migrant workers during this stressful period for them. Why is this not featuring larger in our everyday mainstream media and conversations??","id":"1290970911856668673"},{"created_at":"2020-08-05T11:18:34.000Z","entities":{"annotations":[{"start":34,"end":50,"probability":0.7903,"type":"Organization","normalized_text":"The Straits Times"}]},"text":"Note, the accompanying picture on The Straits Times website has since been updated to a foreign worker getting a swab test. Everything else still holds.","id":"1290970448809746437"},{"created_at":"2020-08-05T11:18:33.000Z","entities":{"annotations":[{"start":53,"end":61,"probability":0.7414,"type":"Place","normalized_text":"Singapore"},{"start":115,"end":123,"probability":0.9513,"type":"Place","normalized_text":"Singapore"},{"start":137,"end":148,"probability":0.8934,"type":"Place","normalized_text":"Orchard Road"},{"start":257,"end":265,"probability":0.3687,"type":"Place","normalized_text":"Singapore"}],"urls":[{"start":0,"end":23,"url":"https://t.co/4EEKimUoU5","expanded_url":"https://www.facebook.com/alfiansaat/posts/10157708039932371","display_url":"facebook.com/alfiansaat/pos…"},{"start":270,"end":293,"url":"https://t.co/wtBtVFTxpd","expanded_url":"https://twitter.com/desmondcheongzx/status/1290970445462687746/photo/1","display_url":"pic.twitter.com/wtBtVFTxpd"}]},"text":"https://t.co/4EEKimUoU5\n\"While the headline... says ‘Singapore reports 908 new Covid-19 cases’, the photo... is of Singapore shoppers on Orchard Road. There is an emergency in the migrant worker dorms and Singaporeans are out shopping.\" -Alfian Sa'at\n\nAiyo Singapore... https://t.co/wtBtVFTxpd","id":"1290970445462687746"},{"entities":{"mentions":[{"start":0,"end":14,"username":"Rainmaker1973"}]},"created_at":"2020-08-04T13:58:12.000Z","text":"@Rainmaker1973 Not saying this experiment is invalid... But I would definitely pull both arms back if someone stabbed the table in front of me","id":"1290648233287593989"},{"created_at":"2020-08-04T13:52:53.000Z","entities":{"annotations":[{"start":53,"end":58,"probability":0.4574,"type":"Organization","normalized_text":"Google"},{"start":104,"end":109,"probability":0.7201,"type":"Organization","normalized_text":"Google"},{"start":258,"end":263,"probability":0.4723,"type":"Product","normalized_text":"Google"}],"urls":[{"start":266,"end":289,"url":"https://t.co/mLUd7Hc3XF","expanded_url":"https://twitter.com/Firsou/status/1289990140341809153","display_url":"twitter.com/Firsou/status/…"}]},"text":"Next question: would other companies recognise these Google Career Certs? Or are people locked into the Google hiring cycle by taking this course?\n\n(I don't believe a CS degree is needed to be a SWE. Just wondering if this move disproportionately advantages Google) https://t.co/mLUd7Hc3XF","id":"1290646896206389250"},{"entities":{"mentions":[{"start":3,"end":18,"username":"daringfireball"}],"annotations":[{"start":20,"end":37,"probability":0.9722,"type":"Person","normalized_text":"Nathan J. Robinson"}],"urls":[{"start":87,"end":110,"url":"https://t.co/8jmYDMNz6i","expanded_url":"https://daringfireball.net/linked/2020/08/04/truth-is-paywalled-lies-are-free","display_url":"daringfireball.net/linked/2020/08…","status":200,"unwound_url":"https://daringfireball.net/linked/2020/08/04/truth-is-paywalled-lies-are-free"}]},"created_at":"2020-08-04T06:19:49.000Z","text":"RT @daringfireball: Nathan J. Robinson: ‘The Truth Is Paywalled but the Lies Are Free’\nhttps://t.co/8jmYDMNz6i","id":"1290532876987928579"},{"entities":{"mentions":[{"start":0,"end":12,"username":"hearthrobjk"}]},"created_at":"2020-08-04T06:18:18.000Z","text":"@hearthrobjk I mean there's so many better ways to do it. I'll also have constant paranoia that it's a one-way mirror while I'm in the toilet or smth","id":"1290532493767012352"}],"meta":{"oldest_id":"1290532493767012352","newest_id":"1332463622426124288","result_count":100,"next_token":"7140dibdnow9c7btw3t509vfnndc60vr1ijw4l9d1ybsi","previous_token":"77qpymm88g5h9vqkluldps0hlbz5si4be6ggfx4n13b5k"}}}