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    Bret Victor‏ @worrydream 25 Aug 2016
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    I've reached the point where I assume that any citation in any written work is, as likely as not, a misunderstanding.

    7:03 PM - 25 Aug 2016
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      2. Bret Victor‏ @worrydream 25 Aug 2016
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        (probably going to delete this tweet because I'm pretty sure it'll be misunderstood)

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      3. Bret Victor‏ @worrydream 25 Aug 2016
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        If you want a vision of the future, imagine a million tweets talking past one other, forever.

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      2. michael_nielsen‏ @michael_nielsen 25 Aug 2016
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        There is an amusing paper arguing (s'what plausibly) only 20% of cited papers have been read by citers http://arxiv.org/pdf/cond-mat/0212043.pdf …

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      3. Daniel Lemire‏ @lemire 26 Aug 2016
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        This serious observation lead us to writing this paper... http://arxiv.org/abs/1501.06587 

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      1. David Valdman‏ @dmvaldman 25 Aug 2016
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        had 4 citations in a draft. When my advisor revised it, it had ~40. Cites sadly don't mean references, they mean marketing.

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      1. Jesse Farmer‏ @jfarmer 25 Aug 2016
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        Wiio's Laws rule us all.

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      2. Ewout ter Haar‏ @ewout 25 Aug 2016
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        Let them be "strong misreadings" like Bloom's poets.

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      1. Nate Cull‏ @natecull 25 Aug 2016
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        I'm just a soul whose intentions are good Oh Lord please don't cite me in your book

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      1. Meekostuff‏ @Meekostuff 25 Aug 2016
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        Is that you, Nietzsche?

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