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    Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 22 Apr 2018
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    Wikifaking: using just-in-time Wikipedia look-ups to appear more informed than you actually are in conversation. Feels like there ought to be a programming analogy. Late binding? See also: Planck knowledge vs chauffeur knowledge and chess-postman.

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    • Tango Juliet Khalooo Vos Savant 🤔 rpf gk Sachin Benny Dan Grover StubbornLights Rahul Ramchandani sonya! supposedly?
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      1. mtraven‏ @mtraven 22 Apr 2018
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        I came up with the term "googlectual" for someone who uses this strategy back in 2005. https://omniorthogonal.blogspot.com/2005/11/attention-deficit.html …

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      1. 𝚁𝚘𝚋 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚎𝚜‏ @robertskmiles 23 Apr 2018
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        My grandfather was a prof. He used to tell me "you don't have to know, you just have to know how to find out". For him that meant going to the library but it's more true now than ever

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      1. Joe Newstrom‏ @JoeNewstrom 22 Apr 2018
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        The programming analogy involves Stack Overflow for sure.

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      1. Thyag Sundaramoorthy‏ @thyagjs 22 Apr 2018
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        Thyag Sundaramoorthy Retweeted 60 Minutes

        This MIT guy is already on ithttps://twitter.com/60Minutes/status/988197017603264512?s=20 …

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        Arnav Kapur, a student in MIT’s Media Lab, has developed a system to surf the internet with his mind. He silently Googled our questions and heard the answers through vibrations transmitted through his skull and into his inner ear. pic.twitter.com/aN76Jn4AHv
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      1. QuaranCat  😷‏ @nonmouse 22 Apr 2018
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        Just in time information delivery

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      1. Dan listens to the world changing‏ @danlistensto 23 Apr 2018
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        late binding is close but seems more like monkey-patching/duck-punching to me

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      1. Lukas Neville‏ @lukasneville 22 Apr 2018
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        So basically Alexa, but human

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      1. Andrew Reid‏ @reid_dc 23 Apr 2018
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        Programming analogy has to be lazy evaluation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazy_evaluation …

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      2. Visakan Veerasamy‏ @visakanv 22 Apr 2018
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        I have literally intiated relationships with people by googling the answers to their twitter/FB queries, lmao

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      3. Visakan Veerasamy‏ @visakanv 22 Apr 2018
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        Visakan Veerasamy Retweeted Visakan Veerasamy

        Cheap way to earn gratitude from friends/acquaintances in a minute or five:https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/978884369233346562?s=19 …

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        Visakan Veerasamy @visakanv
        Someone in a groupchat once asked if anybody had any background in information theory. I said I was familiar, and then improvised my way through the conversation with absolutely no background in it whatsover. "If I remember correctly" = I googled it 10 seconds ago, lmao pic.twitter.com/H9WDLX0DIb
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