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RT @ASmallFiction
It was a dirty job, he thought, but somebody had to do it.

As he walked away, he wondered who that somebody might be.

Pleased to report that the Good Omens TV series is in fact good

RT @Virtual1nstinct
@eigenrobot the true point of no return: gpt 3 generated conspiracy theory iceberg

Also why are monitors still so expensive? Is it just because everyone uses laptops now so there's very little demand for cheap monitors?

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I can sort hard drives by price per gigabyte. Why can't I sort monitors by price per square inch?

Also I'm in Coventry until then, if someone nearer there wants to meet up in the meantime

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I'm back in the UK! Landing in Glasgow next Wednesday, looking forward to actually meeting my coworkers face to face 😀

A horrifying winged creature that haunts the streets of Silicon Valley at night, striking fear into the hearts of software developers. The Mythical Man-Moth

RT @alexeyguzey
New essay: Issues with Bloom et al's "Are Ideas Getting Harder to Find?" and why total factor productivity should never be used as a measure of innovation guzey.com/economics/bloom/

Key takeaways:

Maximian: the empire is falling apart, we need to come out of retirement and resolve this constitutional crisis!

Diocletian:
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RT @geraldstratfor3
I do love a nice cabbage i wish i coould give you all one cheers
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RT @the_aiju
major point of confusion about the concept of a ‘function’ is that it’s really (at least) three concepts in a trenchcoat

1. Programmer
2. Project manager at a pharmaceutical company
3. Housewife, also worked at a daycare
4. Translator and fiction author
5. CS grad student
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RT @hisotalus
Out of interest:
1. What did your dad's dad do for a living?
2. What did your dad do?

3. What did your mum's mum do for a living?
4. What did your mum do?

5. What do you do?
twitter.com/hisotalus/status/1

Eg, if we say a closed subset of X is {f(x) = 0} for some continuous (in the above sense) f: X --> R, is it true that functions are continuous iff preimages of closed sets are closed?

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When doing analysis with infinitesimals, we can define continuous functions as those that preserve infinitesimal distances. But this only works for maps between manifolds - is there a good way to recover a full topology?

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