"Tweet id","Tweet permalink","Tweet text","time","impressions","engagements","engagement rate","retweets","replies","likes","user profile clicks","url clicks","hashtag clicks","detail expands","permalink clicks","app opens","app installs","follows","email tweet","dial phone","media views","media engagements","promoted impressions","promoted engagements","promoted engagement rate","promoted retweets","promoted replies","promoted likes","promoted user profile clicks","promoted url clicks","promoted hashtag clicks","promoted detail expands","promoted permalink clicks","promoted app opens","promoted app installs","promoted follows","promoted email tweet","promoted dial phone","promoted media views","promoted media engagements"
"1181307096089972738","https://twitter.com/gwern/status/1181307096089972738","@SilverVVulpes fox are you ok
(Elon might reply to you too someday. Ganbarre!)","2019-10-07 20:35 +0000","443.0","15.0","0.033860045146726865","0.0","1.0","5.0","1.0","0.0","0.0","8.0","0.0","0","0","0","0","0","0","0","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-"
"1181293776700096517","https://twitter.com/gwern/status/1181293776700096517","@davedixx @gdb You know that there's been like 6 other similar-scale (or larger) models trained since then, right? Conor's, skylion's, Grover, XLNet, CTRL, and Megatron (so far, off the top of my head).","2019-10-07 19:42 +0000","61.0","5.0","0.08196721311475409","0.0","1.0","1.0","3.0","0.0","0.0","0.0","0.0","0","0","0","0","0","0","0","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-"
"1181293398889816065","https://twitter.com/gwern/status/1181293398889816065","@gdb I think sometimes about when I reread old comments of mine I don't remember writing, and about reading the version of me from the GPT-2-117M we trained on our IRC channel logs. That would be a very spooky kind of gaslighting.","2019-10-07 19:41 +0000","635.0","11.0","0.01732283464566929","0.0","0.0","8.0","0.0","0.0","0.0","3.0","0.0","0","0","0","0","0","0","0","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-"
"1181204829424771073","https://twitter.com/gwern/status/1181204829424771073","@robkhenderson On the other hand, experimental results like https://t.co/3Gv9KgmAk4 suggest those people on the margin would've been better off going for it.","2019-10-07 13:49 +0000","725.0","30.0","0.041379310344827586","0.0","0.0","3.0","3.0","24.0","0.0","0.0","0.0","0","0","0","0","0","0","0","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-"
"1181015063366422528","https://twitter.com/gwern/status/1181015063366422528","@richardfuisz @ArtirKel @rivatez Yeah, beer, yogurt, kombucha, all these are easy. I use commercial Greek yogurt as a culture all the time. Surviving baking is a little more extreme.
While SF microbiome surely contributed to the original culture, I doubt it's important ongoing. Cultures are highly resilient.","2019-10-07 01:15 +0000","101.0","5.0","0.04950495049504951","0.0","2.0","1.0","0.0","0.0","0.0","2.0","0.0","0","0","0","0","0","0","0","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-"
"1181014730963599360","https://twitter.com/gwern/status/1181014730963599360","@GeorgeTyler1998 @ArtirKel @rivatez Only one way to find out. I'm sure it's not worse than whatever starter you're using now, at least.","2019-10-07 01:13 +0000","48.0","4.0","0.08333333333333333","0.0","1.0","3.0","0.0","0.0","0.0","0.0","0.0","0","0","0","0","0","0","0","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-"
"1181004784284905472","https://twitter.com/gwern/status/1181004784284905472","@SteveStuWill https://t.co/D4ldaGsOk0
There's a lot of competition, though, of all kinds of beverages and drugs. Plus internal fratricide: may simply be stealing market share from each other, rather than going into unusual places advertising to non-alcohol drinkers.","2019-10-07 00:34 +0000","665.0","11.0","0.016541353383458645","0.0","0.0","2.0","0.0","8.0","0.0","1.0","0.0","0","0","0","0","0","0","0","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-"
"1181003658256891905","https://twitter.com/gwern/status/1181003658256891905","@ArtirKel @rivatez Since a sourdough starter is just a trade secret and you agree to no contracts when you buy the loaf, it's not like they can stop you in any way, and you can keep buying loaves until it works. (How do you know you have Tartine's? Well, if it's delicious, who cares if it's not?)","2019-10-07 00:29 +0000","266.0","10.0","0.03759398496240601","0.0","2.0","5.0","1.0","0.0","0.0","2.0","0.0","0","0","0","0","0","0","0","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-"
"1181003412999229443","https://twitter.com/gwern/status/1181003412999229443","@ArtirKel @rivatez I wonder if one could pirate the Tartine sourdough starter? A loaf would contain trillions of yeast; even after baking for 30+ minutes, there's a chance at least *some* are still alive? (Yeast can be tough.) If you blenderize it & begin a new culture...","2019-10-07 00:28 +0000","864.0","14.0","0.016203703703703703","0.0","1.0","6.0","0.0","0.0","0.0","7.0","0.0","0","0","0","0","0","0","0","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-"
"1180964489388285953","https://twitter.com/gwern/status/1180964489388285953","@devonzuegel @zooko @rsnous Even with the 1% rule, there's still too many who want to put their thumbprint on something: https://t.co/zyPeaiNk4A","2019-10-06 21:54 +0000","823.0","52.0","0.06318347509113001","0.0","0.0","7.0","2.0","40.0","0.0","3.0","0.0","0","0","0","0","0","0","0","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-"
"1180692978001678336","https://twitter.com/gwern/status/1180692978001678336","@collision @patrickc DATE:
WAITER:
ABSOLUTELY NO ONE:
PATRICK: ""...Did you know median per capita income in this census tract is fully ????? percent of what it would be if American productivity progress had continued its pre-1971 growth trends¡ª""","2019-10-06 03:55 +0000","5581.0","234.0","0.04192796989786777","0.0","0.0","90.0","57.0","0.0","0.0","87.0","0.0","0","0","0","0","0","0","0","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-"
"1180684932164804608","https://twitter.com/gwern/status/1180684932164804608","And that subreddit has been deleted as well, so here's a link to the main BigQuery export of DNM-subreddits' comments: https://t.co/FxCbj0y18G","2019-10-06 03:23 +0000","13139.0","252.0","0.019179541822056473","5.0","0.0","27.0","22.0","110.0","0.0","88.0","0.0","0","0","0","0","0","0","0","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-"
"1180612629594869763","https://twitter.com/gwern/status/1180612629594869763","@ArtirKel @Miles_Brundage I dunno, I've played a fair bit of both chess and Go and I struggle to think of anything except the very most abstract concept of a 'two player game where you take turns' which really transfers.","2019-10-05 22:36 +0000","518.0","8.0","0.015444015444015444","0.0","1.0","0.0","0.0","0.0","0.0","7.0","0.0","0","0","0","0","0","0","0","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-"
"1180600372009717761","https://twitter.com/gwern/status/1180600372009717761","@Miles_Brundage As always, ""AI is whatever we can't do yet.""","2019-10-05 21:47 +0000","406.0","5.0","0.012315270935960592","0.0","0.0","1.0","0.0","0.0","0.0","4.0","0.0","0","0","0","0","0","0","0","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-"
"1180600267005292545","https://twitter.com/gwern/status/1180600267005292545","@ArtirKel @Miles_Brundage I don't see why you would expect finetuning to be all that useful there (beyond maybe initial CNN layers). Chess players do not become great Go players or vice-versa. E. Lasker, for example, never became more than a mediocre Go player, and had no speedup over a kid.","2019-10-05 21:46 +0000","457.0","7.0","0.015317286652078774","0.0","1.0","0.0","2.0","0.0","0.0","4.0","0.0","0","0","0","0","0","0","0","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-"
"1180548048268808193","https://twitter.com/gwern/status/1180548048268808193","@tailcalled The typical mind fallacy is terrifying indeed: https://t.co/4CWjTkqpRK","2019-10-05 18:19 +0000","114.0","2.0","0.017543859649122806","0.0","0.0","0.0","0.0","2.0","0.0","0.0","0.0","0","0","0","0","0","0","0","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-"
"1180547759860006912","https://twitter.com/gwern/status/1180547759860006912","@0K_ultra Yes, inner voice/monologue is another one of those I've compiled in my list: https://t.co/BEVFZwNwwW https://t.co/rkPRBTo5pU https://t.co/5lfdXnyyUn https://t.co/iHlvPCXsQ3","2019-10-05 18:18 +0000","340.0","20.0","0.058823529411764705","0.0","0.0","2.0","3.0","15.0","0.0","0.0","0.0","0","0","0","0","0","0","0","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-"
"1180508521957335042","https://twitter.com/gwern/status/1180508521957335042","@KirkegaardEmil @samsaragon Doesn't have to be general. I wouldn't expect the phonological loop to help with reaction time, or crystallized knowledge like vocab. But it could help with some things involving manipulation of items in short-term or working memory (as RAPM stresses) by enabling 'chunking'.","2019-10-05 15:42 +0000","291.0","3.0","0.010309278350515464","0.0","0.0","0.0","0.0","0.0","0.0","3.0","0.0","0","0","0","0","0","0","0","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-"
"1180309149424508928","https://twitter.com/gwern/status/1180309149424508928","@brianchoffman I think '90s kids will appreciate it the most. The Rotten Library was kind of like a snarkier Wikipedia pre-Wikipedia, wasn't it? Nowadays you can find anything on WP, but harder to find that sort of writing back then.","2019-10-05 02:30 +0000","264.0","3.0","0.011363636363636364","0.0","1.0","0.0","0.0","0.0","0.0","2.0","0.0","0","0","0","0","0","0","0","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-"
"1180305645284798467","https://twitter.com/gwern/status/1180305645284798467","I've made a mirror of the https://t.co/kGlrLn4sWz Library:
https://t.co/SLqXpDAVJq
(Discussion: https://t.co/oGdHlnoJA2 )","2019-10-05 02:16 +0000","6479.0","297.0","0.04584040747028863","1.0","3.0","20.0","6.0","257.0","0.0","10.0","0.0","0","0","0","0","0","0","0","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-"
"1180305361980596224","https://twitter.com/gwern/status/1180305361980596224","@HenryKrinkIe @ByYourLogic I've put up a mirror at https://t.co/SLqXpDAVJq","2019-10-05 02:15 +0000","79.0","3.0","0.0379746835443038","0.0","0.0","1.0","1.0","0.0","0.0","1.0","0.0","0","0","0","0","0","0","0","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-"
"1180278774631415808","https://twitter.com/gwern/status/1180278774631415808","There's an SDAM subreddit now: https://t.co/9fasbbVPd8 because of course there is, why didn't it occur to me to search for it immediately.","2019-10-05 00:29 +0000","4918.0","157.0","0.03192354615697438","1.0","2.0","16.0","6.0","123.0","0.0","9.0","0.0","0","0","0","0","0","0","0","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-"
"1180248930120065024","https://twitter.com/gwern/status/1180248930120065024","@BVLSingler @CSERCambridge But they're not entirely wrong, are they? The headline does demonstrate how much the image of the Terminator dominates public perception: want to know what CSER does? You can sum it up as 'Terminator studies' and expect the newspaper-reading public to understand instantly.","2019-10-04 22:30 +0000","575.0","4.0","0.006956521739130435","0.0","0.0","1.0","2.0","0.0","0.0","1.0","0.0","0","0","0","0","0","0","0","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-"
"1180246757147582464","https://twitter.com/gwern/status/1180246757147582464","Refs on SDAM lack of long-term memory: https://t.co/lJuOqigVyW https://t.co/gJ7Rkuj5Jz https://t.co/zL6xcc2RvU https://t.co/tqcNEl4zIb https://t.co/O8OGa5dIn5 https://t.co/lghVF5LMXe","2019-10-04 22:22 +0000","6282.0","92.0","0.014645017510347023","2.0","1.0","12.0","5.0","71.0","0.0","1.0","0.0","0","0","0","0","0","0","0","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-"
"1180246754849181698","https://twitter.com/gwern/status/1180246754849181698","Oh my god, there ??? people without any qualia of long-term memory: ""Severely Deficient Autobiographical Memory"" syndrome. And they say the exact same thing as aphantasics/anosmics/color-blind: https://t.co/epmJwhxGGP","2019-10-04 22:22 +0000","12724.0","313.0","0.024599182646966363","32.0","10.0","124.0","44.0","5.0","0.0","98.0","0.0","0","0","0","0","0","0","0","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-"
"1180211165345001472","https://twitter.com/gwern/status/1180211165345001472","@zackwhittaker I wonder if that reflects the tech stack of the campaigns in general? Are all the Google users on Linux stacks?","2019-10-04 20:00 +0000","1617.0","1.0","6.184291898577613E-4","0.0","1.0","0.0","0.0","0.0","0.0","0.0","0.0","0","0","0","0","0","0","0","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-"
"1180175384261939201","https://twitter.com/gwern/status/1180175384261939201","@SteveStuWill Looks like Twitter messes this one up by recompressing it or something. Original: https://t.co/Oj1XXew1gw","2019-10-04 17:38 +0000","548.0","23.0","0.041970802919708027","0.0","1.0","0.0","2.0","19.0","0.0","1.0","0.0","0","0","0","0","0","0","0","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-"
"1180161816854503425","https://twitter.com/gwern/status/1180161816854503425","September links: https://t.co/u4TklelgGy","2019-10-04 16:44 +0000","4879.0","129.0","0.026439844230375077","0.0","0.0","15.0","0.0","110.0","0.0","4.0","0.0","0","0","0","0","0","0","0","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-"
"1179947544010473472","https://twitter.com/gwern/status/1179947544010473472","@konradzolna @DeepMindAI I found the TRAIL part of the paper very difficult to read. It describes the constrained optimization as focusing on 'meaningful behavior' but then just drops in a bunch of equations and moves on. (But what does all of that mean?)","2019-10-04 02:33 +0000","878.0","8.0","0.009111617312072893","0.0","1.0","1.0","6.0","0.0","0.0","0.0","0.0","0","0","0","0","0","0","0","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-"
"1179877519027249152","https://twitter.com/gwern/status/1179877519027249152","@jmhessel @yoavgo You could look at the history of progress curve in BLEU for WMT, look at the GPU count in each, guesstimate at number of labs/researchers actively working on the problem, and back out a 'marginal researcher-GPU' trendline and see how many years +3.2 BLEU is.","2019-10-03 21:54 +0000","114.0","2.0","0.017543859649122806","0.0","0.0","0.0","0.0","0.0","0.0","2.0","0.0","0","0","0","0","0","0","0","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-"
"1179860140197060608","https://twitter.com/gwern/status/1179860140197060608","@NeilLewisJr @StuartJRitchie @tuckerdrob Even more related - it doesn't: @StuartJRitchie et al (2015): https://t.co/lEhfUj76Ur","2019-10-03 20:45 +0000","1365.0","154.0","0.11282051282051282","0.0","0.0","7.0","7.0","135.0","0.0","5.0","0.0","0","0","0","0","0","0","0","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-"
"1179837117440114690","https://twitter.com/gwern/status/1179837117440114690","@natfriedman Rereading https://t.co/RtbK2AHRUC & https://t.co/yNytUTn0zI reminds me how good they & _Close to the Machine_ were. (Also of how Salon didn't suck back then.)","2019-10-03 19:14 +0000","8893.0","68.0","0.0076464635106263355","1.0","0.0","11.0","0.0","51.0","0.0","5.0","0.0","0","0","0","0","0","0","0","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-"
"1179834978424774656","https://twitter.com/gwern/status/1179834978424774656","@NoamJStein ""My likes serve...in the following way: anyone who understands me eventually recognizes them as nonsensical, when he has used them¡ªas steps¡ªto climb beyond them to bluecheckdom. (He must, so to speak, throw away the ladder after he has climbed up it.)""","2019-10-03 19:05 +0000","1868.0","41.0","0.021948608137044967","1.0","0.0","13.0","23.0","0.0","0.0","4.0","0.0","0","0","0","0","0","0","0","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-"
"1179795091684302855","https://twitter.com/gwern/status/1179795091684302855","@EthanZ Mirror: https://t.co/ThR74sn34R","2019-10-03 16:27 +0000","317.0","5.0","0.015772870662460567","0.0","0.0","0.0","0.0","5.0","0.0","0.0","0.0","0","0","0","0","0","0","0","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-"
"1179602559151017984","https://twitter.com/gwern/status/1179602559151017984","@Meaningness I'm not sure about that. Contact between Tibet and Europe was very sparse. (They're still debating whether Hume was influenced or not.) The combination of 'red is maximal contrast' and 'red inks are very cheap & easy to make' explains parallel evolution of sacred rubrication.","2019-10-03 03:42 +0000","702.0","7.0","0.009971509971509971","0.0","1.0","1.0","0.0","0.0","0.0","5.0","0.0","0","0","0","0","0","0","0","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-"
"1179600807123177472","https://twitter.com/gwern/status/1179600807123177472","@albrgr @InsidePhilanthr The all in Mastercard shares seems suspicious. What responsible charity puts all its assets into a single stock rather than an index or something? I assume the cynical explanation here is that it's a way to lock up shares indefinitely and prop up the price for insiders' benefit.","2019-10-03 03:35 +0000","744.0","4.0","0.005376344086021506","0.0","1.0","3.0","0.0","0.0","0.0","0.0","0.0","0","0","0","0","0","0","0","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-"
"1179597490733105152","https://twitter.com/gwern/status/1179597490733105152","@tophtucker You joke about the shock collar but I know of someone who was trying that. (Semi-inspired by the Pavlok.) They thought it might be working...","2019-10-03 03:22 +0000","2175.0","12.0","0.005517241379310344","0.0","1.0","3.0","6.0","0.0","0.0","2.0","0.0","0","0","0","0","0","0","0","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-"
"1179597167402590208","https://twitter.com/gwern/status/1179597167402590208","@anniefryman @fulligin @timhwang now you too know my sorrow","2019-10-03 03:20 +0000","244.0","12.0","0.04918032786885246","0.0","1.0","3.0","1.0","0.0","0.0","7.0","0.0","0","0","0","0","0","0","0","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-"
"1179595133655883776","https://twitter.com/gwern/status/1179595133655883776","@anniefryman @fulligin @timhwang I saw this one as a kid and it *still* haunts me: https://t.co/FQwnf4brln","2019-10-03 03:12 +0000","194.0","35.0","0.18041237113402062","0.0","1.0","2.0","0.0","30.0","0.0","2.0","0.0","0","0","0","0","0","0","0","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-"
"1179591031853060096","https://twitter.com/gwern/status/1179591031853060096","@LauraDeming People have done this in citation analysis by tracing copying of bibliographic errors (https://t.co/JzjZ69v56D), which indicates they didn't look it up or check the citation details: eg https://t.co/NbN61BPDRq estimates ""only about 20% of citers read the original.""","2019-10-03 02:56 +0000","939.0","15.0","0.01597444089456869","0.0","2.0","4.0","6.0","1.0","0.0","2.0","0.0","0","0","0","0","0","0","0","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-"
"1179583245379411969","https://twitter.com/gwern/status/1179583245379411969","@antonhowes @ArtirKel @nayafia That makes sense for things which can be incremental. Start a novel, if it doesn't work out, fine. But I don't know how that'd work for many other subscribed things like the Dictionary or Arabian Nights.","2019-10-03 02:25 +0000","621.0","3.0","0.004830917874396135","0.0","0.0","0.0","0.0","0.0","0.0","3.0","0.0","0","0","0","0","0","0","0","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-"
"1179582440488275968","https://twitter.com/gwern/status/1179582440488275968","@anniefryman It raises so many thought-provoking questions.
Like: ""where is that cable going"".","2019-10-03 02:22 +0000","484.0","11.0","0.022727272727272728","0.0","1.0","1.0","7.0","0.0","0.0","2.0","0.0","0","0","0","0","0","0","0","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-"
"1179578950357540865","https://twitter.com/gwern/status/1179578950357540865","@dpentecost So if red on white bg/black fg is fine, what is the equivalently contrasting color for white fg/black bg?","2019-10-03 02:08 +0000","152.0","2.0","0.013157894736842105","0.0","1.0","0.0","0.0","0.0","0.0","1.0","0.0","0","0","0","0","0","0","0","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-"
"1179578633314344960","https://twitter.com/gwern/status/1179578633314344960","@sainieh It's not even consistent! The second one looks fine, it's the first one which looks awful. And they both are like 0.5MB anyway and really didn't need any compression (I run advpng/pngnq on all my PNGs in the first place).","2019-10-03 02:07 +0000","170.0","2.0","0.011764705882352941","0.0","0.0","2.0","0.0","0.0","0.0","0.0","0.0","0","0","0","0","0","0","0","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-"
"1179565035800186882","https://twitter.com/gwern/status/1179565035800186882","Open question: as red appears to be the ??????????? ????????? ???????? color (https://t.co/DS7b9fxdoF), can red profitably be employed in dark mode to make up for issues? User reaction to red (https://t.co/EPnk54DC1n): ""looks like a vampire blog"".? https://t.co/7qF4dhpVrs","2019-10-03 01:13 +0000","6292.0","202.0","0.032104259376986646","1.0","9.0","15.0","0.0","62.0","0.0","5.0","0.0","0","0","0","0","0","110","110","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-"
"1179563310070603778","https://twitter.com/gwern/status/1179563310070603778","- eg https://t.co/0iM0b7fGPM https://t.co/VFZ4VcYEQC
- Berlin Kay: red first color named after B/W: https://t.co/FZsv0MPAKN
- Tufte: Bryne's primary colors (black/red/yellow/blue) maximize contrast: https://t.co/4dGalDNxU0
Perhaps red just maximally contrasts with B/W pages?","2019-10-03 01:06 +0000","4756.0","47.0","0.009882253994953743","0.0","0.0","2.0","0.0","30.0","0.0","15.0","0.0","0","0","0","0","0","0","0","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-"
"1179558464059854848","https://twitter.com/gwern/status/1179558464059854848","@ESYudkowsky Something something ultrafinite recursion: https://t.co/wdRaRJW9tx","2019-10-03 00:47 +0000","1506.0","102.0","0.06772908366533864","1.0","0.0","11.0","5.0","77.0","0.0","8.0","0.0","0","0","0","0","0","0","0","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-"
"1179551734265454594","https://twitter.com/gwern/status/1179551734265454594","@goodfellow_ian @dwf If you believe barriers are a good thing, it's not hard to say 'I fully and without qualifications endorse these barriers, which are an actual solution, and strongly encourage the administration to implement additional solutions as well.' Instead of... what you have been saying.","2019-10-03 00:20 +0000","1325.0","24.0","0.018113207547169812","0.0","3.0","1.0","10.0","0.0","0.0","10.0","0.0","0","0","0","0","0","0","0","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-"
"1179550725275373568","https://twitter.com/gwern/status/1179550725275373568","@goodfellow_ian @dwf Really? Because saying something is 'not an actual solution' sure does sound like 'you shouldn't do it', and neither of you chose to correct it in several tweets beforehand, although you had plenty of time to police and call out other Twitter users for disagreeing with you.","2019-10-03 00:16 +0000","1915.0","53.0","0.027676240208877285","0.0","3.0","8.0","14.0","0.0","0.0","28.0","0.0","0","0","0","0","0","0","0","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-"
"1179549902440976386","https://twitter.com/gwern/status/1179549902440976386","@goodfellow_ian @dwf I don't see it as sad at all. I see it as sadder that people will take letting perfect be the enemy of better to the extent of encouraging suicide.","2019-10-03 00:13 +0000","1191.0","43.0","0.03610411418975651","0.0","2.0","5.0","5.0","0.0","0.0","31.0","0.0","0","0","0","0","0","0","0","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-"
"1179549105930096641","https://twitter.com/gwern/status/1179549105930096641","@dwf You criticize it and advocate not doing something which will save kids' lives, kids like those dear friends. All those bridge jumpers were also dear friends of people, not 'body counts'.","2019-10-03 00:09 +0000","429.0","8.0","0.018648018648018648","0.0","1.0","3.0","2.0","0.0","0.0","2.0","0.0","0","0","0","0","0","0","0","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-"
"1179548781626499074","https://twitter.com/gwern/status/1179548781626499074","@GabeNicholas @logic_magazine How exactly did they buy 'thousands' of ether in 2014 and are still at subsistence level? The 2014 ICO was $0.3, and it's now $180. That's a return of like $180k for each of those thousands.
Maybe you should've pushed them harder on how 'profitable' their daytrading/mining is.","2019-10-03 00:08 +0000","480.0","2.0","0.004166666666666667","0.0","0.0","0.0","2.0","0.0","0.0","0.0","0.0","0","0","0","0","0","0","0","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-"
"1179540495577604097","https://twitter.com/gwern/status/1179540495577604097","@marcoJcosta @s_r_constantin @deadalnix Indeed, doesn't have anything to do with 'intent to live'. It's about self-control and the long-term and maturing humanity.
(Covered a little in https://t.co/efhO2HsKZu & https://t.co/cMsItzw8wX )","2019-10-02 23:35 +0000","112.0","2.0","0.017857142857142856","0.0","0.0","0.0","0.0","1.0","0.0","1.0","0.0","0","0","0","0","0","0","0","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-"
"1179525161701249026","https://twitter.com/gwern/status/1179525161701249026","@TWLiterature Well, none of the vampires sleep so Rip presumably sleeps no more than anyone else, although I don't think the anime discusses what they all *do* do between WWII and attacking England - wait, was this a question about _Hellsing_ or behavioral genetics","2019-10-02 22:34 +0000","113.0","1.0","0.008849557522123894","1.0","0.0","0.0","0.0","0.0","0.0","0.0","0.0","0","0","0","0","0","0","0","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-"
"1179515952112848897","https://twitter.com/gwern/status/1179515952112848897","@drderringer Sorry, the best I can offer on violence/aggression is that it's heritable, polygenic, and too much of the literature is candidate-genes or underpowered: https://t.co/23Izc1wHDI","2019-10-02 21:58 +0000","767.0","18.0","0.02346805736636245","1.0","2.0","4.0","1.0","9.0","0.0","1.0","0.0","0","0","0","0","0","0","0","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-"
"1179431180954951680","https://twitter.com/gwern/status/1179431180954951680","@dwf So you criticize a proven solution for reducing 'body count' (what a remarkably cold dismissal of all those people alive now because of nets - just 'body counts'?) because it won't solve literally everything about life or education.","2019-10-02 16:21 +0000","898.0","27.0","0.030066815144766147","0.0","1.0","7.0","2.0","0.0","0.0","17.0","0.0","0","0","0","0","0","0","0","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-"
"1179428536463085568","https://twitter.com/gwern/status/1179428536463085568","_Spatial Ability: Its Educational and Social Significance_, Smith 1964 https://t.co/o1999HTwNO https://t.co/SBCfYfgiVg https://t.co/B6YqL58L0T","2019-10-02 16:10 +0000","3651.0","20.0","0.005477951246233908","0.0","0.0","0.0","1.0","16.0","0.0","3.0","0.0","0","0","0","0","0","0","0","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-"
"1179427292197658635","https://twitter.com/gwern/status/1179427292197658635","@dwf My understanding was that they actually are an 'actual solution', as many suicides are impulsive, and adding barriers to hotspots like bridges does not displace suicide but reduces them, and this was well known: https://t.co/WJRN3BCHkN https://t.co/MKBIYuEAxg","2019-10-02 16:05 +0000","2397.0","108.0","0.04505632040050062","0.0","2.0","16.0","10.0","13.0","0.0","67.0","0.0","0","0","0","0","0","0","0","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-"
"1179425147494830081","https://twitter.com/gwern/status/1179425147494830081","@ttmariemia @zooko @ZcashFoundation @ElectricCoinCo No, you'd have the ZEC (which sit long-term in a static address/contract, increasing their vesting rights every day), and then tap into your ZEC *without moving them* by getting a loan from someone else to do any other stuff - possibly to buy unencumbered ZEC, even.","2019-10-02 15:57 +0000","173.0","1.0","0.005780346820809248","0.0","1.0","0.0","0.0","0.0","0.0","0.0","0.0","0","0","0","0","0","0","0","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-"
"1179240615822925824","https://twitter.com/gwern/status/1179240615822925824","@climatebrad @GernotWagner Am I reading this paper correctly, that they assume zero effect of carbon taxes on economic growth and no opportunity cost?","2019-10-02 03:44 +0000","459.0","1.0","0.002178649237472767","0.0","0.0","1.0","0.0","0.0","0.0","0.0","0.0","0","0","0","0","0","0","0","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-"
"1179187019706183680","https://twitter.com/gwern/status/1179187019706183680","@jschauma I don't think he said. My prejudices are that it probably was a *nix. (I can't imagine a Windows box running unattended for that long, not when dating from that era.)","2019-10-02 00:11 +0000","106.0","4.0","0.03773584905660377","0.0","1.0","0.0","1.0","0.0","0.0","2.0","0.0","0","0","0","0","0","0","0","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-"
"1179186417404174337","https://twitter.com/gwern/status/1179186417404174337","@dbweissman So you don't actually know.","2019-10-02 00:08 +0000","101.0","6.0","0.0594059405940594","0.0","1.0","0.0","3.0","0.0","0.0","2.0","0.0","0","0","0","0","0","0","0","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-"
"1179186178362413056","https://twitter.com/gwern/status/1179186178362413056","@mendel_random It is not a major problem, and it's incredibly obscure other than as a cliche example. I asked for real examples, not obscure diseases. And H pylori infections may be heritable, but >0.8 as I asked? I rather doubt that. These are the best you can do?","2019-10-02 00:07 +0000","414.0","10.0","0.024154589371980676","0.0","1.0","4.0","2.0","0.0","0.0","3.0","0.0","0","0","0","0","0","0","0","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-"
"1179182785493393409","https://twitter.com/gwern/status/1179182785493393409","@andy_matuschak My notes on 'anti-spaced repetition': https://t.co/jD4SsY6VBW
Also musings on how to optimize new vs rewatchs for movies: https://t.co/2sUIDUSaPK","2019-10-01 23:54 +0000","475.0","38.0","0.08","0.0","0.0","5.0","1.0","24.0","0.0","8.0","0.0","0","0","0","0","0","0","0","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-"
"1179168256369840129","https://twitter.com/gwern/status/1179168256369840129","@devonzuegel I am very basic and always recommend the Noguchi Museum. I visit whenever I can when I'm in the area. (Over the years, I admire more and more Noguchi's efforts at doing all of sculpture and architecture and furniture and garden & interior design according to his vision.)","2019-10-01 22:56 +0000","2775.0","45.0","0.016216216216216217","1.0","0.0","25.0","7.0","0.0","0.0","12.0","0.0","0","0","0","0","0","0","0","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-"
"1179136599839379458","https://twitter.com/gwern/status/1179136599839379458","@pjrvs HN suggestions: https://t.co/V1WD5RP2vn","2019-10-01 20:50 +0000","723.0","40.0","0.05532503457814661","0.0","0.0","1.0","0.0","39.0","0.0","0.0","0.0","0","0","0","0","0","0","0","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-"
"1179136210293477376","https://twitter.com/gwern/status/1179136210293477376","@jamesjyu @nayafia @antonhowes https://t.co/toeoPEHxbs !","2019-10-01 20:49 +0000","338.0","9.0","0.026627218934911243","0.0","0.0","1.0","1.0","7.0","0.0","0.0","0.0","0","0","0","0","0","0","0","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-"
"1179132885435060225","https://twitter.com/gwern/status/1179132885435060225","@ArtirKel @nayafia @antonhowes (You see this transition very starkly in _The Paris Review_ interviews when you go from the earliest 1910s-1920s authors to contemporary authors. More recent authors are flattered, confused, and grateful if anyone publishes their shorts at all. Certainly not cash cows.)","2019-10-01 20:36 +0000","444.0","3.0","0.006756756756756757","0.0","0.0","1.0","0.0","0.0","0.0","2.0","0.0","0","0","0","0","0","0","0","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-"
"1179132533197418496","https://twitter.com/gwern/status/1179132533197418496","@ArtirKel @nayafia @antonhowes They did survive in SF for decades beyond that. SF authors would follow a path of writing shorts, getting a first novel, then publishing anthologies with backcatalogue. Now the SF short market is gone, and you get started with novels (ideally trilogies). ???","2019-10-01 20:34 +0000","281.0","1.0","0.0035587188612099642","0.0","0.0","1.0","0.0","0.0","0.0","0.0","0.0","0","0","0","0","0","0","0","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-"
"1179132227969531904","https://twitter.com/gwern/status/1179132227969531904","@ArtirKel @nayafia @antonhowes Publishing economics are confusing. For example, short stories. They used to be *huge*. Not just Dickens but writers like Fitzgerald made their name (and literal fortunes) by selling short stories. Now they are notorious as the most guaranteed money-losers short of poetry.","2019-10-01 20:33 +0000","4185.0","32.0","0.007646356033452807","2.0","4.0","9.0","4.0","0.0","0.0","13.0","0.0","0","0","0","0","0","0","0","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-"
"1179130713880383489","https://twitter.com/gwern/status/1179130713880383489","@nayafia @antonhowes Yes, it's interesting how that comes up all the time back then. Samuel Johnson's Dictionary, or special limited editions like Burton Watson's _1001 Arabian Nights_ (https://t.co/Xc4GyDijU3) (Note, incidentally, the rubrication/typographer's red in the title page samples.)","2019-10-01 20:27 +0000","847.0","3.0","0.0035419126328217238","0.0","1.0","0.0","0.0","2.0","0.0","0.0","0.0","0","0","0","0","0","0","0","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-"
"1179114400235606026","https://twitter.com/gwern/status/1179114400235606026","@rictic @united I assume they are trying to implement DRM. There were 2 or 3 media entries which didn't require the app, and they were of course obscure TV things I'd never heard of. Everything you'd actually watch required the app.","2019-10-01 19:22 +0000","323.0","1.0","0.0030959752321981426","0.0","1.0","0.0","0.0","0.0","0.0","0.0","0.0","0","0","0","0","0","0","0","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-"
"1179113991941046278","https://twitter.com/gwern/status/1179113991941046278","@mendel_random H. pylori is now heritability? You're trotting out PKU, really? And myopia doesn't even satisfy my question in the first place. All I asked was 3 examples of things like childhood obesity which are highly heritable and also solved by policy. Why is it so difficult to name 3?","2019-10-01 19:20 +0000","574.0","22.0","0.03832752613240418","1.0","1.0","7.0","1.0","0.0","0.0","12.0","0.0","0","0","0","0","0","0","0","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-"
"1179113438875996160","https://twitter.com/gwern/status/1179113438875996160","@jschauma We asked him how it was on the Internet at all (he never said WWW, just Internet), and he didn't know. Strange, but it's a big world, and there are lots of examples with somewhat smaller ages, so...","2019-10-01 19:18 +0000","94.0","1.0","0.010638297872340425","0.0","1.0","0.0","0.0","0.0","0.0","0.0","0.0","0","0","0","0","0","0","0","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-"
"1179112961593544704","https://twitter.com/gwern/status/1179112961593544704","@dbweissman So your first example is not an example (fatal infectious disease heritabilities are usually <0.8 for obvious reasons on both sides), and your other two examples are very rare monogenic diseases. Do you think that supports the claims being made for things like childhood obesity?","2019-10-01 19:16 +0000","136.0","1.0","0.007352941176470588","0.0","1.0","0.0","0.0","0.0","0.0","0.0","0.0","0","0","0","0","0","0","0","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-"
"1179112430565302279","https://twitter.com/gwern/status/1179112430565302279","@JProtzko @rubenarslan @dbweissman @drewhalbailey The average long-run net effect of that seems to've been fairly small. (The randomized experiments you might be thinking of have outliers and were selected for heavily deficient regions.) And that was a century ago in the US now.","2019-10-01 19:14 +0000","181.0","4.0","0.022099447513812154","0.0","0.0","0.0","4.0","0.0","0.0","0.0","0.0","0","0","0","0","0","0","0","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-"
"1179111740631584768","https://twitter.com/gwern/status/1179111740631584768","@dbweissman Longevity comes to mind. If we were fighting some sort of life-history tradeoff or programmed aging strategy, it'd be doomed. But it seems to be largely just noise and not particularly influenced by either shared environment (hinting at lifestyle) or genes. So, senolytics etc.","2019-10-01 19:12 +0000","76.0","0.0","0.0","0.0","0.0","0.0","0.0","0.0","0.0","0.0","0.0","0","0","0","0","0","0","0","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-"
"1179104543814098946","https://twitter.com/gwern/status/1179104543814098946","Another good one: @united Airlines has removed TVs from chairs. Makes sense, saves weight, tablets/phone screens as good/better.
You stream movies over a captive WiFi, of course.
...but you need to install a United 'app'.
...and you can't install it over their WiFi.
Whups.","2019-10-01 18:43 +0000","6039.0","66.0","0.01092896174863388","1.0","1.0","18.0","3.0","0.0","0.0","43.0","0.0","0","0","0","0","0","0","0","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-"
"1179103476791558144","https://twitter.com/gwern/status/1179103476791558144","@jschauma I was recently told by someone that scanning the Internet, they'd found a server in Pakistan that had been up for ~30 years. Apparently it turned out it had been drywalled-in and never turned off, so... Solid-state machines can be remarkably reliable.","2019-10-01 18:39 +0000","91.0","1.0","0.01098901098901099","0.0","1.0","0.0","0.0","0.0","0.0","0.0","0.0","0","0","0","0","0","0","0","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-"
"1179088158098673665","https://twitter.com/gwern/status/1179088158098673665","@dbweissman @rubenarslan I wouldn't. What policies solved height and what height crisis was there that those were trying to solve, exactly? So it's not even 1 example.","2019-10-01 17:38 +0000","192.0","2.0","0.010416666666666666","0.0","2.0","0.0","0.0","0.0","0.0","0.0","0.0","0","0","0","0","0","0","0","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-"
"1179087846113759232","https://twitter.com/gwern/status/1179087846113759232","@dbweissman @rubenarslan @mendel_random And they are equivocating on what 'environment' means. In the strict technical term, yes, perhaps 'environment' did increase childhood obesity. It does not then follow that *any* policy interventions are affecting the relevant 'environment'.","2019-10-01 17:37 +0000","83.0","7.0","0.08433734939759036","1.0","0.0","2.0","0.0","0.0","0.0","4.0","0.0","0","0","0","0","0","0","0","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-"
"1179087246546407424","https://twitter.com/gwern/status/1179087246546407424","@rubenarslan @dbweissman Let's try it this way. If high heritability is irrelevant, and 'environment' so easily modified, then it should be easy for you to name 3 examples of traits with high heritabilities (say >=0.8, like height or intelligence), which have been solved by standard policies. Can you?","2019-10-01 17:34 +0000","418.0","12.0","0.028708133971291867","0.0","3.0","2.0","1.0","0.0","0.0","6.0","0.0","0","0","0","0","0","0","0","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-"
"1179086702960353281","https://twitter.com/gwern/status/1179086702960353281","@dbweissman @rubenarslan @mendel_random There obviously isn't any working long-term solution, or they would have simply pointed it out yet, and we wouldn't have childhood obesity as a problem now. Which is why it's such a telling example against these speculations.","2019-10-01 17:32 +0000","101.0","2.0","0.019801980198019802","0.0","1.0","0.0","0.0","0.0","0.0","1.0","0.0","0","0","0","0","0","0","0","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-"
"1179084702898118658","https://twitter.com/gwern/status/1179084702898118658","@dbweissman @rubenarslan It's the same endless equivocation on (nonshared) environment as being affected by hypothetical interventions when convenient, while all actual policy interventions which are feasible or implemented fail on average. eg developmental noise doesn't mean vending machine taxes work.","2019-10-01 17:24 +0000","146.0","5.0","0.03424657534246575","0.0","1.0","1.0","0.0","0.0","0.0","3.0","0.0","0","0","0","0","0","0","0","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-"
"1179084287582314496","https://twitter.com/gwern/status/1179084287582314496","@dbweissman @rubenarslan Not in the least. Look at https://t.co/oJVAHUEOfw It's the same motte-and-bailey as ever. 'Policy interventions fail, especially with high heritability.' 'Ah, but heritability doesn't mean immutability - we could *imagine* interventions which do work! Check and mate.'","2019-10-01 17:22 +0000","505.0","15.0","0.0297029702970297","1.0","3.0","6.0","2.0","1.0","0.0","2.0","0.0","0","0","0","0","0","0","0","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-"
"1179080282789552132","https://twitter.com/gwern/status/1179080282789552132","@rubenarslan @mendel_random ""Policy interventions, comrades, have never truly been tried.""","2019-10-01 17:07 +0000","157.0","5.0","0.03184713375796178","0.0","1.0","2.0","1.0","0.0","0.0","1.0","0.0","0","0","0","0","0","0","0","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-"
"1179072063161733122","https://twitter.com/gwern/status/1179072063161733122","@fluk @5auth Remember that the SR1 forums were left up deliberately.","2019-10-01 16:34 +0000","66.0","1.0","0.015151515151515152","0.0","0.0","1.0","0.0","0.0","0.0","0.0","0.0","0","0","0","0","0","0","0","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-"
"1179072003573256194","https://twitter.com/gwern/status/1179072003573256194","@fluk @5auth Some people will be! You also can learn a lot from PMs and contacts, not to mention metadata like timing or shared PGP keys. You can use it for censorship, emphasizing FUD, or tracking people long-term. Lots of things you can do if you run a DNM forum.","2019-10-01 16:34 +0000","187.0","8.0","0.0427807486631016","0.0","2.0","2.0","4.0","0.0","0.0","0.0","0.0","0","0","0","0","0","0","0","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-"
"1178828772147159041","https://twitter.com/gwern/status/1178828772147159041","@5auth All of that is consistent with him now being flipped, of course. And only the last one indicates it's him at all rather than someone pwning his computers (charitably assuming he didn't write it down).","2019-10-01 00:27 +0000","4568.0","33.0","0.007224168126094571","1.0","1.0","9.0","11.0","0.0","0.0","11.0","0.0","0","0","0","0","0","0","0","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-","-"
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