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John D. Cook
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JohnDCook
Houston
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Consultant in applied math, statistics, data privacy
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John D. Cook
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We're a little behind schedule according to The Moat in God's Eye, 1974.
Still, the year is young. pic.twitter.com/nTRof7lyxC
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John D. Cook
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Postman died three years before the birth of Twitter.
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John D. Cook
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“The telegraph may have made the country into ‘one neighborhood,’ but it was a peculiar one, populated by strangers who knew nothing but the most superficial facts about each other.”
Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death, 1985
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John D. Cook
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Jan 31 |
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Got rid of a LOT of books last year. Just now was the first time I looked for a book that wasn't there.
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Science Tip
@ScienceTip
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Jan 29 |
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Gravitational attraction of stars and cows johndcook.com/blog/2018/03/2… pic.twitter.com/UTsARaoNYS
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John D. Cook
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"Familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth." -- Daniel Kahneman
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John D. Cook
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Someone, I think Francis Schaeffer, said that Marxism is a Christian heresy.
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John D. Cook
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Why would you clean a toddler's face? pic.twitter.com/Fy9uLvBWjC
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John D. Cook
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Jan 30 |
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This stuff works: amzn.to/2Oc2njc
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John D. Cook
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From Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs:
The architects wanted the windows to open. Jobs said no. He had never liked the idea of people being able to open things. ‘That would just allow people to screw things up.”
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John D. Cook
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First noticed this in the 90's. Companies were desperate for X windows (Unix GUI) developers, until they weren't.
Few people knew the tech. Those who did saw the writing on the wall. Nobody new had time to learn it before it went away. But there were applications to maintain.
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John D. Cook
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1999 was a good year to be a COBOL programmer, going out with a bang.
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John D. Cook
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You can make a lot of money supporting a dying technology, right before you're unable to make a dime.
Demand decreases in terms of number of customers, but increases in terms of intensity among those who need it.
Supply and demand both go to zero, but not at the same rate.
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John D. Cook
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Jan 30 |
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"Kindness is in our power even when fondness is not." -- Samuel Johnson
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tubelite
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I have skin in the game, you have sunk cost fallacy, he has Stockholm syndrome
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Daniel de Kadt
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Jan 28 |
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My wife and I never talk baby talk to our kid. We enforce academic seminar norms and jargon.
My child isn’t even 2 yet and can interrupt presenters on the first slide. Adults at family gatherings are shocked when my child asks a question that turns out to be more of a comment. twitter.com/TheBrometheus/…
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John D. Cook
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A swarm of locusts the size of Moscow
aljazeera.com/news/2020/01/2…
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John D. Cook
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Jan 29 |
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Updated my page that converts between frequency and pitch to tell you how sharp or flat a frequency is if it doesn't correspond exactly to a chromatic pitch.
johndcook.com/music_hertz_ba… pic.twitter.com/q4AhtHC4kU
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Micro SF/F stories
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Jan 28 |
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"You go inside the box," said the cat, "and because of quantum superposition, until you leave it, doctor Schrödinger is both alive and dead."
The cat stared into space for an indefinite time.
"But only once."
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Massimo
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This is one of five F-1 engines that lifted each Saturn V rocket off its launch pad. This is the heart of the engine, the thrust chamber. Two of the engines were discovered in 2012 off Florida on an expedition by Jeff Bezos bit.ly/2B5LIZe pic.twitter.com/uw1luywld4
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