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Steve Spalding
I build ideas and talk about the Internet all day long. I also write and publish stuff.
Steve Spalding
Intellectual laziness appears in the exact measure and to the exact degree that it will be maximally destructive.
Nov 12, 2014
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Steve Spalding
Intellectual laziness appears in the exact measure and to exact degree that it will be maximally destructive.
Nov 12, 2014
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Steve Spalding
Interesting story, almost *all* of the ENIACs first programmers were women. Men at the time thought the software beneath them.
Nov 11, 2014
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Steve Spalding
Seriously @
Groupon
?
http://gnome.org/groupon/
glad you decided to put the kibosh on this before it got out of hand.
Nov 11, 2014
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Steve Spalding
Seriously @
groupon
?
http://www.gnome.org/groupon/
glad to decided to put the kibosh on this before it got out of hand.
Nov 11, 2014
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Steve Spalding
RT @
RWW
: Raspberry Pi Reveals Tiniest, Cheapest Computer Yet, The Model A+
http://readwrite.com/2014...
by @
LaurenInSpace
Nov 10, 2014
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Zu from AOD
liked this
Steve Spalding
RT @
HistoryInPics
: Disneyland employee cafeteria, 1961
https://twitter.com/History...
Nov 10, 2014
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Steve Spalding
7/ At the least it would be better than believing we are magical calculating machines capable of understanding our interests over all time.
Nov 9, 2014
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Steve Spalding
6/ These are the tradeoffs we actually make in the real world, I think if we looked at them more explicitely we'd make better decisions.
Nov 9, 2014
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Steve Spalding
5/ "I want to maintain a healthy weight...for the next decade." "I want to have enough savings...to take me through my 50s..."
Nov 9, 2014
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Steve Spalding
3/ Most people would be hard pressed to even describe what their, "best interests," are and would find it impossible to maintain that def.
Nov 9, 2014
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Steve Spalding
2/ At best we are short term maximizers, due in part to the limitations of information, and imperfect ability to process that information.
Nov 9, 2014
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Steve Spalding
1/ I have never really understood why it's such a widely held belief that (most) people do things that are in their long term best interest.
Nov 9, 2014
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Steve Spalding
There is no such thing as bad decisions, merely collapsed waveforms.
#nonsensephysics
#quantumsomething
Nov 9, 2014
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Steve Spalding
RT @
NinjaEconomics
: XKCD's creator: Trying to thoroughly answer a stupid question can take you to interesting places
http://www.nytimes.com/2014...
Nov 9, 2014
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Steve Spalding
RT @
motherboard
: Exposing fraudulent research could be as easy as looking at language:
http://motherboard.vice.com/read...
https://twitter.com/motherb...
Nov 9, 2014
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Steve Spalding
RT @
LettersOfNote
: Jonathan Swift hated the word 'banter' in 1710, long before the Internet was fired up:
https://twitter.com/Letters...
Nov 9, 2014
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Steve Spalding
Beggers can be choosers, but they can't be wizards. This is intuitively obvious.
Nov 9, 2014
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Steve Spalding
RT @
ijustine
: This is awesome! Play @
CallofDuty
to help put
#1000vets
in jobs - join the @
CODE4Vets
Veterans Day Gameathon here:
https://www.crowdrise.com/veteran...
Nov 7, 2014
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Steve Spalding
RT @
motherboard
: Washington D.C.'s billion dollar dystopian fiction farm:
http://motherboard.vice.com/read...
https://twitter.com/motherb...
Nov 7, 2014
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Steve Spalding
RT @
NinjaEconomics
: The stark difference between what poor babies and rich babies eat.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...
Nov 7, 2014
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Steve Spalding
RT @
thegrugq
: ProTip: Don’t use 4square to checkin to the location you admin your darkweb drug marketplace
https://t.co/vaXz0qCAvS
https://twitter.com/thegrug...
Nov 7, 2014
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Steve Spalding
RT @
WolframResearch
: Computer-Based Math is a project focused on restructuring maths education. Connect with us on LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/company...
Nov 7, 2014
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Steve Spalding
It's Uber but for elective surgery...
#startup
#milliondollarideas
Nov 7, 2014
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Steve Spalding
It's probably a bad idea to define a "right" as something you want for yourself, but don't really care about for others.
Nov 7, 2014
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Steve Spalding
These days most existential crisis' are played out in forwarded emails.
Nov 7, 2014
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Steve Spalding
We might be surprised at how many of our greatest insights were born from Saturday morning television.
Nov 6, 2014
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Steve Spalding
RT @
elizalive
: correlation ≠ causation: Five Ways to Lie with Charts via @
NautilusMag
http://nautil.us/issue...
https://twitter.com/elizali...
Nov 6, 2014
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Steve Spalding
No one has ever understood anything from a white paper.
Nov 6, 2014
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Steve Spalding
RT @
jamescgibson
: "It might take you a few months or years to learn the mysteries. That’s fine. LISP won’t change."
https://t.co/gKIEsZuyIp
Nov 6, 2014
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Steve Spalding
RT @
poorstruggler
: starting my once a year project, if you want to lay claim/customize, LMK (example pic, all sold)
#art
#jewelry
-
https://twitter.com/poorstr...
Nov 5, 2014
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Steve Spalding
RT @
tarynoneill
: This is exciting, might need a fieldtrip to Stanford: Experimental Particle Accelerator Boosts Electrons On A Wave
http://www.popsci.com/article...
Nov 5, 2014
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