John Cummings

Hearing disturbing rumors that some of these protestors on the picket line are professional actors

from time to time I think about this post, which I think remains in the top 0.01% of everything I have ever read

I think that's an SPQR code

Between 1890 and 1950, the average GPA at Harvard was 2.5. In 1960, it hit 3.0. Today, it's 3.8. ht @david_perell

/^1?$|^(11+?)\1+$/ This Regular Expression written in Perl checks whether a number is Prime. 🤔

Tears of the Kingdom is about how rotations in 3D space are non-trivial

finally, the last digit of pi:

What Wikipedia did: we stood strong for our principles and fought to the Supreme Court of Turkey and won. This is what it means to treat freedom of expression as a principle rather than a slogan.

Goniurellia tridens is a species of fruit flies. Each wing is transparent and bears a precisely detailed image of an ant-like insect. While flying, the ants appear to walk and deter predators. [source: buff.ly/3I4SPCx] [📷 P. Roosenschoon]

How the world has evolved over the last century in terms of: - Child mortality - Life expectancy - GDP - Women's education - Basic water source - Basic sanitation [charts by @toddrjones]

You can now use #VR to learn piano for free by @MagicKeysVR #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #AR #VirtualReality #AugmentedReality cc: @ronald_vanloon @pascal_bornet @marcusborba

The great thing about the explosion in the growth of administrators at colleges and universities is how it's freed up the faculty to really focus on teaching and research.

I’m starting to get the same feeling in my stomach about “rubric” that I get from “evidence-based.” A bad feeling.

On learning to write better fiction through playing a classic puzzle game electricliterature.com/how-playing-my…

last night I met a thief who stole the end of the year Basho

MARTIN SCORSESE eating pasta and pizza with his parents and discussing his early movies. Too much swearing, apparently.

Meet the 2023 U.N. Human Rights Council. Members now include: 🇨🇺 Cuba 🇶🇦 Qatar 🇨🇳 China 🇸🇩 Sudan 🇪🇷 Eritrea 🇩🇿 Algeria 🇸🇴 Somalia 🇻🇳 Vietnam 🇵🇰 Pakistan 🇰🇿 Kazakhstan 🇧🇩 Bangladesh I wish I were making this up. I'm not. Today, 70% of UNHRC are non-democracies. Happy New Year.

Bertrand Russell: “The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich”: