James Porter @complexview

Software developer and data scientist. Expect Tweets about tech, productivity and education. See my website for more. amimetic.co.uk London Joined March 2009

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God @TheTweetOfGod

2 years ago

In an ideal scenario the President of the United States and the worst person in the world would be two different people.

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Fascinating data from an IMF economist on the lasting, mostly positive effects of the explosion in remote work during the pandemic: • Preliminary data shows that US couples who both work from home at least one day a week have 0.3 to 0.5 more children (!!!) due to greater childcare flexibility • WFH peaked at 60% of working days during lockdowns, but has now settled to about 25%, which is still 5x versus pre-pandemic • Surveys from across US, Europe, and Asia show that employees value WFH at about 8% of their salary (as in, they value being able to work remotely the same as an 8% raise), which makes sense given commuting takes up about 10% of working hours • ~2 million more disabled people are working versus pre-pandemic, largely due to the flexibility of WFH • Prime-age female employment has risen 2% faster than equivalent male employment since the pandemic, likely due to flexibility WFH allows • Office capacity is down 50% since pre-pandemic, suggesting much commercial office space will need to be repurposed • Commute traffic volumes in US and Europe have fallen by 10%, causing morning commute traffic to move 2-3 mph faster and pollution to drop • Studies show roughly no impact on productivity, since positive and negative effects offset each other on average • Impact of fully remote work, which been adopted by about 10% of workers, on performance depends greatly on how well it’s managed and what kind of position it is Link to article below 👇

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Jonathan Chait @jonathanchait

2 years ago

The notion Trump is a dangerous authoritarian isn't partisan. It's been expressed at unprecedented levels by his own former staff. nymag.com/intelligencer/…

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Kent C. Dodds 🏹 @kentcdodds

2 years ago

Also of note, there are studies which suggest that people are very bad at understanding whether a particular teaching style is contributing to their learning and retention. Learners typically prefer learning which feels easy. Unfortunately true learning is not easy.

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James Porter @complexview

2 years ago

@iquilezles @_chenglou There is a shortcut for that, though not exactly discoverable: double towards bottom of circle.

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Work Chronicles @_workchronicles

2 years ago

Back in the day, we never slept

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Information is Beautiful @infobeautiful

2 years ago

If you are aged 30 or more, then 50% of all human fossil fuel emissions happened during your lifetime. (by @‌neilrkaye)

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Matt DesLauriers @mattdesl

2 years ago

First release of @texel/color—a minimal and modern color library for JavaScript. 🎨 Features: - extremely fast - extremely compact - oklab, p3, rec2020, a98rgb, prophoto, srgb + more - gamut mapping + wide gamut support Repo → github.com/texel-org/color

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Chris is paranoidly optimistic @ctopherrun

2 years ago

@doctorow Boy, you’re going to feel real silly once you see the slick intuitive UI that is created by professional designers.

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Soren Iverson @soren_iverson

2 years ago

Starbucks surge pricing based on how hot it is outside

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Maho Motoyama @mahomotoyama

2 years ago

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David J Carr @djc1805

2 years ago

Microsoft says meeting time has TRIPLED since 2020: typical workers are spending 57% of their time communicating [meetings, calls] with others: 'Today, knowledge work is, quantitatively speaking, less about creating new things than it is about talking about those things.’

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Thrones Updates @ThronesUpdates

2 years ago

Voting for a President in America be like "choose one"

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Kyle McDonald @kcimc

2 years ago

google's emissions are 13% higher this year due to AI investments. i really want to take this seriously, but then i remember that bitcoin is still doing at least 3x more damage 😩😩😩 theguardian.com/technology/art…

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Kyle McDonald @kcimc

2 years ago

it's just absurd that, for a few years, there was this thing called ethereum that did as much environmental damage as ALL OF GOOGLE and then it got quietly converted into using almost zero energy. and we still have another system doing far more damage that refuses to change.

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Soren Iverson @soren_iverson

2 years ago

United option to see your plane's days since last incident

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kishimisu @kishimisu

2 years ago

I found a copy of my work labelled as « impressive AI generation » and without any attribution… I created this animation for my shader coding tutorial a year ago: youtu.be/f4s1h2YETNY

Hamish Kerr @hamish_kerr

2 years ago

I keep asking Claude to do unreasonably difficult things and it just keeps doing them first try

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Work Chronicles @_workchronicles

2 years ago

Heads up.

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Noah Giansiracusa @ProfNoahGian

2 years ago

I’m once again reminded that if “alignment” really is a thing, then we probably need to solve it for capitalism before we have a chance of solving it for AI.

BuccoCapital Bloke @buccocapital

2 years ago

Paul Graham wrote an essay in 2010 about how the best founders are naughty because they break the rules Then he has an interesting anecdote about Sam Altman... Interesting lens through which to view why OpenAI keeps showing up in the news for doing obviously bad things