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Putting together a team for the Edutainment . I've got lots of experience with coding and education, some with @unity@twitter.com and game design. I'll need an artist, another designer, and a stronger Uniteer. Who's with me? @PIGSquad@twitter.com

RT @kareem_carr@twitter.com
lawyer: and what percent of time did you spend fitting the model?
me, a data scientist: 2%
lawyer: and the other 98%?!
me: cleaning the data
lawyer: CLEANING THE DATA!!!
judge: *gasp*
jury: *gasp*
audience:*gasp*
me: Well ya know what guys, I’m not super happy about it either!

RT @WeWontBuildIt@twitter.com
This is the second flyer that employees have been posting around our offices.

We are inspired by the actions of @wayfairwalkout@twitter.com workers and stand with Microsoft & Salesforce employees who have also spoken out against their companies' contracts with ICE.

RT @stevecheckoway@twitter.com
New crypto protocol participants from @pinkhairedcyn@twitter.com:
Alice, Bob: normal participants
Eve: Eavesdropper
Mallory: Malicious attacker
Buffy: Stakeholder

Every rainfall in August increases the chance that we'll be allowed to use real fire in the New Student Orientation show!

RT @blakeleyhpayne@twitter.com
I keep thinking about what the world would be like if we taught software engineers that building a technology is like getting a dog - it’s a lifetime commitment.

RT @CodeWisdom@twitter.com
“Programming is the art of doing one thing at a time” - Michael Feathers

RT @mhbaskin@twitter.com
If the exact intersection of your interests is graphic design and a deeply abiding hatred of partisan gerrymandering, then have I got the font for you:

RT @mikko@twitter.com
Rarely is anyone thanked for the work they did to prevent the disaster that didn't happen.

RT @jessesheidlower@twitter.com
Trend in onomastics: Male names become increasingly female, eventually hitting a tipping point. Names that were 100% male in 1900 that switched: Allison, Hilary, Kelly, Lauren, Lindsay, Michelle, Morgan, Shelby, Sydney, Tracy, &c.
Tipping-point stats at nameberry.com/blog/unisex-baby twitter.com/RebeccaBuxton/stat

RT @Rainmaker1973@twitter.com
This cotton candy guy's wizardry is actually a brilliant application of the dynamics of vortices in fluids bit.ly/2ogNFcW

(Oddly, the Android Twitter app doesn't seem to offer a way for me to associate descriptive text with the image. It's a photo of a book called Real Variables.)

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RT @kareem_carr@twitter.com
me: I discovered a new statistical law that says that all jokes on twitter are based on other jokes on twitter
friend: that’s really cool! what do you call it?
me: *slowly takes off sun glasses* regression to the meme

RT @qikipedia@twitter.com
The Rhind papyrus, an Ancient Egyptian treatise on mathematics, opens with the phrase ‘Directions for Attaining the Knowledge of All Dark Things’.

RT @qikipedia@twitter.com
Word of the day: FLYGSKAM (Swedish) — embarrassment over flying on planes due to the negative environmental impact of aviation; literally, a ‘flight shame’.

Today I learned (from this post) how to keep either file in a merge conflict. disq.us/t/7hz5c

RT @jbillinson@twitter.com
I’ve fallen deep into TikTok and I can’t stop watching this dog in a bow tie crushing its owner in an eating contest

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