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    1. John Backus‏ @backus Jan 11
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      20-somethings play a valuable ecological role in Twitter communities IMO: Discovering ideas/content for the first time, which older members will view as "classics", and enthusiastically sharing. Used to mess w/ my head ("others probably know this") but now I see it as a positive

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    2. John Backus‏ @backus Jan 11
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      I have a theory: The people that feign surprise ("You JUST learned about X?") are more often other 20-somethings looking to differentiate themselves as more in the know than others their age. Older members tend to either let newbies be or they appreciate a good resurfacing.

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    3. Noah Tye‏ @noahlt Jan 11
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      Replying to @backus

      You JUST realized this?

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    4. John Backus‏ @backus Jan 11
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      Replying to @noahlt

      I should have seen this coming

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    5. michael_nielsen‏ @michael_nielsen Jan 11
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      Replying to @backus @noahlt

      Heh. I feel very subtweeted.

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      michael_nielsen‏ @michael_nielsen Jan 11
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      Replying to @michael_nielsen @backus @noahlt

      Also, the funny thing about quality: most things are worth reading either 0 times (the great majority) or 100 times, IMO. Very few things are worth reading exactly once.

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        1. John Backus‏ @backus Jan 11
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          Right! That is why I was very excited about @posobin's HN classics site (plugging again: http://posobin.com/hn_classics/ ). I remember wanting a classic's feed while reading the "Let's ban new books" section of this @gwern essay https://www.gwern.net/Culture-is-not-about-Esthetics#lets-ban-new-books …

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        2. michael_nielsen‏ @michael_nielsen Jan 11
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          Replying to @michael_nielsen @backus @noahlt

          This is why resurfacing of gems is so valuable, IMO.

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        3. Noah Tye‏ @noahlt Jan 11
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          Replying to @michael_nielsen @backus

          also, the age-based social structure @backus illuminates provides a nice "real" reason for the resurfacing, which feels much better than, say, a script that sends you a classic to re-read every Tuesday.

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        2. Noah Tye‏ @noahlt Jan 13
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          Is there anything you've actually read 100 times? (Related: this article, which calls it "centireading" https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/feb/09/centireading-force-reading-book-100-times-great-idea … )

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        3. michael_nielsen‏ @michael_nielsen Jan 13
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          Replying to @noahlt @backus

          I've read some of my own writing 100+ times, in the course of revision. Otherwise, I'm not sure I've read anything that much. A few of the things I mentioned elsewhere in this thread are 30+, though.

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        2. Titus Brown‏ @ctitusbrown Jan 13
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          hmm. your tweet seems like it only needs to be read once. so it's perfect, I think?

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        3. michael_nielsen‏ @michael_nielsen Jan 13
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          Replying to @ctitusbrown @backus @noahlt

          Maybe you could read it 100 times, and report back? 😛

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        2. Dmitry Kislyuk‏ @dkislyuk Jan 13
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          Replying to @michael_nielsen @backus @noahlt

          What are some things worth reading >10 times?

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        3. michael_nielsen‏ @michael_nielsen Jan 13
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          Replying to @dkislyuk @backus @noahlt

          I'm sure that varies aa lot from person to person. A few things I've read > 10 times include large parts of Bhatia's book "Matrix Analysis", large parts of Carl Sagan's "Cosmos", James Gleick's book "Genius", "The Lord of the Rings", Carolyn Cherryh's "Cyteen", and many others

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        2. Guido Cimoli‏ @Guido_Ci Jan 13
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          Replying to @michael_nielsen @ctitusbrown and

          That is fairly impossible, if you do not read it how do you know is not worth it. Some times you can guess but most of the times you need to read it once before deciding is not worth re reading it.

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        3. michael_nielsen‏ @michael_nielsen Jan 13
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          It usually takes about 30 seconds to realize something is with high probability not worth reading. If the title is bad, if the first sentence is bad, if opening to a random page and reading a paragraph is bad... you need a v good reason not to go find a good book. Life is short

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