William Mitchell

@gemfinder

Orange County, CA
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  1. Retweeted
    Feb 23

    Can't be repeated enough: if you're worried about America's economic interest, focus more on automation/education than trade protectionism

    167 replies 2,093 retweets 4,415 likes
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    Feb 2

    3825 years later, economists haven't yet figured out what Babylonians did: debt has systemic effects (hence on others), self-harm doesn't.

    It's amazing how many people think you should have the right to kill yourself, but no right to borrow money at high rates of interest.
    35 replies 236 retweets 550 likes
  3. Feb 3

    Thorp, who also wrote card-counting manual Beat the Dealer, spotted Madoff as a fraud in 1991, was shocked to see it run 17 more years.

    Great interview with Ed Thorp, founder of the first quant hedge fund.
  4. Feb 3

    Great interview with Ed Thorp, founder of the first quant hedge fund.

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  5. Retweeted
    Jan 31

    The Data That Turned the World Upside Down | Motherboard via

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    Jan 4

    I just wanted some water...

    737 replies 34,970 retweets 61,225 likes
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    Jan 2

    This is how a Fourier series works

    55 replies 4,066 retweets 7,582 likes
  8. Retweeted
    19 Dec 2016

    Dozens of journalism NGO's could use your $$$$. None have had as big an impact with as small a staff as :

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  9. 20 Dec 2016
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    So the centerpiece of future education is trusted accreditation of knowledge, unbundled from campus and courses @jitepper

  10. 20 Dec 2016
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    Thus MIT's $200k 4-year tuition mainly just proves you took and understood the free courses @jitepper

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  11. 20 Dec 2016
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    For example, you can complete much of an MIT degree online for free @jitepper

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  12. 20 Dec 2016
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    Yet concurrently, the Web collapsed the cost of distributing info. Self-education is now free in many disciplines. @jitepper

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  13. 20 Dec 2016

    College tuition for many years rose much faster than the marginal benefit of attending. @jitepper

    Interesting data in here on how the benefits of going to college haven't increased much since 1990s
    4 replies 2 retweets 5 likes
  14. 20 Dec 2016

    Centerpiece of future education: trusted accreditation system for the self-taught, unbundled from physical campuses

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  15. 19 Dec 2016

    Zerohedge's domain name is registered to a Bulgarian address.

  16. Retweeted
    2 Dec 2016

    A new study says 85 percent of the US manufacturing jobs lost from 2000 to 2010 were due to technology not trade

    50 replies 485 retweets 302 likes
  17. Retweeted
    14 Dec 2016

    Woah: Paper -> Math -> Graph with your cell phone

    37 replies 2,358 retweets 3,515 likes
  18. Retweeted
    22 Oct 2016

    The problem with AI demos is that they work perfectly and have done for 50 years. The proof was always the task that wasn’t in the script.

    11 replies 144 retweets 232 likes
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    1 Sep 2016

    Must Read: Magical Thinking cc:

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  20. 5 Aug 2016

    Driven entirely by coal price? Compare to Australian thermal coal 2008-present:

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