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"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts — for support rather than illumination." —Andrew Lang (1844-1912)

Beigetreten Mayıs 2008
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Evgeny Morozov
Evgeny Morozov@evgenymorozov·
If you are a curious about The Syllabus: we had a Dutch journalist (@mauritsmartijn) spend four days with us (in Calabria!) right before the launch in September. His long feature is now online (so far only in Dutch but translation tools will help you!) decorrespondent.nl/10577/de-belan…
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Have I Got News For You
Have I Got News For You@haveigotnews·
New series, new theme tune. (Thanks @Darren_Dutton) Have I Got News For You returns this Friday, 9pm on BBC One.
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@EnglishGibson A certain kind of German is probably familiar with the Latin phrase (I've noticed there are a few phrases that are 'understood' in Germany, but generally translated in English) e.g. pluralis majestatis
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Johnny Germanic@EnglishGibson·
Why has it taken almost two decades of living in Germany to be exposed to the phrase “innocent till proven guilty”?
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Lauren Gawne
Lauren Gawne@superlinguo·
Instead of 'parental leave' I'm going to put 'trained a neural net to recognise the English language' on my CV for 2019. (xkcd.com/2173/)
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@EnglishGibson Yes, yes, very nice but *what do they rhyme with?!* 😅
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Johnny Germanic@EnglishGibson·
Scones – with Dr. Oetker’s Crème double as a substitute for clotted cream.
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Susie Dent
Susie Dent@susie_dent·
The original meaning of 'deadline' was a line marked in the earth around a prison: if an inmate went beyond it, they were liable to be shot.
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Dr Kareem Carr
Dr Kareem Carr@kareem_carr·
Statisticians: Machine learning is just regression! Computer scientists: Wow! That's so cool! What's regression? S: ... CS: Oh wait. You just said. it's machine learning! Statistics is so much easier than I thought! S: Arrrrrrr! CS: R? You guys should really switch to python.
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Vrij Nederland
Vrij Nederland@vrij_nederland·
.@arnonyy sticht zijn eigen geloof. Zijn derde videopreek gaat over werk. 'Eerst gaat de mens naar school, waar hij leert om te leren, zeggen ze. Maar al snel komt de aap uit de mouw: hij leert om een baan te vinden.'
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@leppert Set it to English: understand Trump's tweets
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James Melville 🚜
James Melville 🚜@JamesMelville·
“And I said to her, if you give the EU £40 billion, I will let you borrow an embroidered cloth that depicts the French beating the English. And she said yes!”
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@jana_bacevic Who is that inclusive?! I hate Searle
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@jana_bacevic What’s a theory bro in this/ your context?
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@evgenymorozov Wait wait- I thought Google (Translate) were the bad guys?! -Sorry, couldn’t help myself.
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@maribst That’s the dangers of thinking for you.
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