JoFrhwld A great response to @neiltyson why a Linguist, not a Cryptographer, was the right scientific call in @arrivalmovie languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=31383
JoFrhwld "The tongue remains in continuous contact with the upper molars during speech, with only rare exceptions." Well wha… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
paulengelhard But to admit that would mean admitting the European model with its (gasp!) socialist tempering of capitalism works better than the US one.
paulengelhard By every avaliable metric, life in a wealthy European country, for the average citizen, is INFINITELY better than in Trump Country.
Fact.
paulengelhard ...health care, drug abuse, incarceration rates, recidivism, income equality, work/life balance, paid leave, general happiness...
paulengelhard Life expectancy, infrastructure, quality of life, education, social permeability, employment, crime, teenage pregancies, infant mortality...
ojahnn Wer meinen Bot-Workshop in Gent verpasst hat und sich dafür interessiert, kann übrigens auf der Webseite stöbern:… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
amanda_tessier The BEST ad I've ever seen pic.twitter.com/kOGxddL2IL
Facebook is no longer pretending it needs a reason to demand my attention. pic.twitter.com/ZZhaTnV9bY
ojahnn Today's phrasal earworms: Alternating between "Die Sonne geht auf und zu" and "And this is only earth, my dear, where UG is not given".
lojikil blessed are the computer scientists, for they shall never read the prior art in the field they're working in.
axios Nancy Pelosi at last night's Gridiron Dinner: axios.com/best-of-last-n… pic.twitter.com/gptyVJ7alD
SPIEGELCaptions Ausländer-Bar in Kabul: Niemand traut den Iranern
poolio Evolution is catching up to intelligent design for neural net architectures (94.6% vs. 96.7% on CIFAR-10):… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
asayeed Another superhero idea: American Girl(tm), she fights crime while adhering scrupulously to US constitutional rights and/or trademark law.
sarahjeong silicon valley is obsessed with solving problems that are clearly most efficiently solved with better public works