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    Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 4 Nov 2019

    Interesting game to play with kids: do back of the envelope calculations about what percentage of sentences have ever been said (on Earth), and encourage them to invent short sentences that probably never have been.

    5:05 AM - 4 Nov 2019
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    • Harshit Taneja Moonlanding Sloth yadda yadda etc. JamesonLaw Nathan Black Mahdi Sanjai kutty ✨ Jarred K Caleb Lamptey
    29 replies 27 retweets 444 likes
      1. James Miller‏ @JimDMiller 4 Nov 2019
        Replying to @paulg

        Test if kid can predict coin flips. Agree in advance how many he has to get right to show he has psychic powers.

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      2. John Adolph‏ @AmericaJohnLine 4 Nov 2019
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        0%. But coming up with short sentences should be fun.

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      3. John Adolph‏ @AmericaJohnLine 4 Nov 2019
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        Or do you put constraints on the sentence content?

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      1. Brian Dolan‏ @bd2k 4 Nov 2019
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        Grammatically correct, or just word groupings?

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      2. Peter Suzman‏ @Biomaven 4 Nov 2019
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        Sentences less than some length? Otherwise it’s 0% that have ever been said. You can play a similar game with google hits on a word - ask for two words where the hit on the combo much lower than on the individual words

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      3. John Adolph‏ @AmericaJohnLine 4 Nov 2019
        Replying to @Biomaven @paulg

        You can get to infinite in a pretty short sentence: [Name/a thing] met [name/a thing] in [place]. @Biomaven met @paulg in Buckingham Palace. We’ve reinvented Mad Libs.

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      1. Pipò  🧢‏ @delucious 4 Nov 2019
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        iOS? or Android?

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      2. The Other Side‏ @guelo 4 Nov 2019
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        I voted for Trump but some of the criticism of him is valid and concerning.

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      1. Tyler A. Young‏ @TylerAYoung 4 Nov 2019
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        There’s a Carlin bit about this. (NSFW.)https://youtu.be/w9vOknq0uys 

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