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FACT: Buying books and reading books are two different hobbies.

Fun fact! Baby elephants are born weighing ~250 pounds, making them the world’s biggest babies, right next to the people who complain that CSS isn’t really coding

Is anyone I know with $50M ready to just Do the Damn Thing already? All of the pieces we need are right within reach.

Fun fact: updating to iOS 13 made my phone vibrate a semitone higher. Went from D to D#. These are the things I notice.

The barista at my neighborhood coffee shop just told me he thinks math is the “humanities of the sciences.”

I’m not a big fan of the commonly seen *, **, *** system for denoting p-values on graphs. Let’s embrace 21st century symbology and do better: p < 0.1 p < 0.05 p < 0.01 p < 0.001 p < 0.00000001

To get kids interested in math we should replace “theorem” with “hot take”: The Pythagorean Hot Take Fermat’s Last Hot Take Godel’s Incompleteness Hot Take The Fundamental Hot Take of Algebra

[at the police station] "what is this man charged with" "bayesianism" "does he have any priors"

Apologies for the delay in replying to your email. I was performing a Wick rotation and lost some time in the complex plane; I have since recovered it by rotating back but now my workspace has become imaginary. I will respond when I am back in the office, if I ever find it again.

If you ain't down with fractals, I feel bad for you, son I've got 99 problems, and 99 smaller problems inside of each one

Snowflakes are a good example of the fact that thermodynamic entropy isn't the same as "order" as perceived by humans. The snowflake has higher entropy (2nd law) than the water + air system that formed it, even though it looks far more organized. https://twitter.com/ZonePhysics/status/1160843941857648640 …

Let's tour reality: ⟵ Our galaxy 10²⁰ 10¹⁹ 10¹⁸ . . . . . . . . . . 10⁷ ⟵ Our planet 10⁶ . . 10³ 100 10 ⟵ Us (≡1) 0.1 . . . 10⁻⁵ ⟵ silk 10⁻⁶ . . . 10⁻¹⁰ ⟵ Atoms 10⁻¹¹ . . . 10⁻¹⁵ ◌ ⟵ Atomic nuclei 10⁻¹⁶ . . 10⁻¹⁹ · ⟵ Protons and neutrons

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!

Our smartphones are 120 million times more powerful than the computers that guided Apollo 11. That has enabled us to progress from moon landings to cat videos.

Let's talk about peeing in space. Several people, in response to my NY Times essay, have said that women couldn't go into space because we lacked the technology for them to pee in space.