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A friend asked me to look at their code, and *Holy Mother of God!* He works for a medium-sized company. They are building some sort of internal CRM. They've been vibe-coding some of the new features. They are professional developers. Most, I assume, know what they are doing,…

Divya Deshmukh beats Koneru Humpy in tiebreaks to become the FIDE Women's World Cup Champion 2025 - and become India's 88th Grandmaster! In the all-Indian Finals which went to tiebreaks, Divya defeated Humpy 1.5-0.5. The first Rapid game ended in a draw, and the next one Divya…

We conducted a study on 3691 people to empirically test 40 claims about IQ (including claims made in academia and by the general public)! Here are some of our most important findings (see the link at the bottom of this thread for all 40 results): 🧵

Time flies like an arrow Fruit flies like a banana. Vs. Time flies like an arrow Fruit flies like a banana. What's the difference? The former's actually a pun indented.

Twitter is cool because you can figure out what's going on in the world through memes instead of watching the news

Today I learned that, in Switzerland, people build architectural ladders on buildings—just for their cats.

How many can you count in this single photo ? There are 2X + in reality. Now imagine travelling on this road (100m stretch) on foot or two wheels in dark. This is Bavdhan, in front of a school. Indian Model International School.

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X/Twitter's "What's happening?" is starting to be more of an exclamation rather than a question or invitation.

I wish there was a similar increase in Metallurgy (and relook at it as Material Science). A well designed Mat Science branch can benefit us immensely in the future! (While I enjoy what I do now, a part of me yearns for what could have been - if I had continued further down the…

Wasn’t exactly trembling with fear about solving, after all my standard first guess gave a good start Wordle 1,496 4/6* 🟨⬜⬜🟨🟨 ⬜🟨🟩🟨⬜ 🟨⬜🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Making a restaurant reservation in different accents 😂 © madshadz

The think-say gap creates confusion. The say-do gap destroys credibility. Both kill companies. @alignbydesignin

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: Only the stupid steal from the rich. The clever steal from the poor. The law usually protects the rich. -Carsten Jensen, author (b. 24 Jul 1952)

“in 2015 all of Alphabet’s revenue added up to $75B. YouTube and Cloud alone ended 2024 at an annual run rate of $110B”

leaving out the years that he worked at AMD and LSI is a great eg of how a lionizing narrative works. it creates the impression of superhuman genius, which confers a valuable aura that has material impact on morale, negotiations, etc. Similar to “Singapore was a fishing village”

Yes. Writing is not a second thing that happens after thinking. The act of writing is an act of thinking. Writing *is* thinking. Students, academics, and anyone else who outsources their writing to LLMs will find their screens full of words and their minds emptied of thought.

The phrase "to wing it" meaning "to improvise" comes "from theatrical slang, originally meaning [to play a role without properly knowing the text] (either by relying on a prompter in the wings or by studying the part in the wings between scenes)" x.com/qikipedia/stat…

Earlier in this thread, I had said that I couldn't find a reliable source for the etymology for the Marathi dambis and dambrat (from the British officers' "damn beast" and "damn rat"). Well, this source seems reliable... x.com/dhavalkulkarni…