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Robot mathematician, probability plumber, chip monk, etc.

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we should use the symbols from chess notation for commenting code ! good code !! surprising code ? bad code ?? code where you lose data !? interesting code (non-judgemental) ?! dubious code (judgemental) ⌓ better code than the compiler produced □ the only code available


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You shouldn't store currency in floats, but that's just my $0.02000000000000000042


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When I heard about Russell’s paradox, I was unable to contain myself.


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A great question from Pete Winkler's CoM talk tonight. "Flip" means toss the coin (each side lands up with equal probability)...

WWMGT's tweet image. A great question from Pete Winkler's CoM talk tonight.

"Flip" means toss the coin (each side lands up with equal probability)...

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he went to the king with a chessboard and said "put one transistor on the first square, and then every 18 months put twice as many transistors on the next square"


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i alphabetized the alphabet

rfglenn's tweet image. i alphabetized the alphabet

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All the basic trigonometric identities in one figure

fermatslibrary's tweet image. All the basic trigonometric identities in one figure

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I don't know who needs to hear this but year "n" is a leap year iff   gcd(80, n) > gcd(50, n)


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two computer engineers walk into a bar one says, i'll have a float the other says, make mine a double


3 ~ Apple 22/7 ~ Pecan 333/106 ~ Blackberry 355/113 ~ Marionberry


ln(640320³ + 744) / √163


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At every party, there are two people who have the same number of friends present.


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My uncle (111 M) gifted me (50 M) a ring before leaving to go travelling. A close family friend (2,019 M) told me to destroy the ring due to problematic associations with the jeweller who made it, but the ring is precious to me and I would feel guilty throwing it away. AITA?


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An AI machine given 8,000 cats’ names and then instructed to come up with its own suggested the following: Cheesemonger, Lilith the Vamp, Mr. Sinister, This Guy, Funky Moe and You’re Telling A Lie.


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From Netscape to Internet Explorer to Chrome: Watch the rise and fall of the world's most-used desktop web browsers. #dataviz youtube.com/watch?v=es9DNe…


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If I was in charge of the Batman movies I would do a brief scene where it's implied there is a Batman in every city in America, each of varying skill. For example, the one in Grand Rapids is locked in his car


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A thread of medieval lions who would rather not: This one is 1000% done with everyone's shit today. (Clermont-Ferrand, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 84, f. 27r)

erik_kaars's tweet image. A thread of medieval lions who would rather not:

This one is 1000% done with everyone's shit today.

(Clermont-Ferrand, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 84, f. 27r)

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