Nick Berry

There will be a celebration of life for Nick Berry in Seattle on Saturday 1pm-4pm. If you knew Nick well and would like to attend please contact @ianmercer for further details.

Nick Berry passed away peacefully at home on Saturday October 8th after a long battle with cancer. If you have any happy memories of Nick, please DM this account and we will forward to his family.

@samhallsbarker @CardColm The log10 button label does not follow convention

@izkirk Hey, twins is more efficient than two sequential serial births ...

If you ever feel guilty about wasting time remember that Jason and the Argonauts made their first stop on Lemnos and stayed there long enough for Queen Hypsipyle to bear Jason twins before Heracles reminded him about the quest for the golden fleece so have that sofa day king

@StatsInTheWild To answer, we need to know the time of day you were born as well as the two time zones

@MathforLove @openmiddle @robertkaplinsky datagenetics.com/blog/march3201…

I thought this problem was already on @openmiddle, but I couldn't find it. If not, might be a fun one to include! @robertkaplinsky #iteachmath #mtbos

Perimeter Puzzle What is the ratio between the perimeter of a circle to that of a square that touch as shown in the diagram? datagenetics.com/blog/july12022…

@Rainmaker1973 Nice photos, but bogus science explanation. The temperature is not so cold that the tea instantly freezes. It's because the air is so dry, it instantly evaporates. datagenetics.com/blog/february3…

This iconic picture taken by Michael Davies near the Arctic Circle in 2015, shows us what happens when you hurl a thermos of hot tea at -40°C [source, full story: buff.ly/2Ge5CGa]

Thanks @GoDaddy for moving me to a new server, but not bothering to update the DNS so my site goes down! Also, now none of the MySQL accounts used by web pages autheticate. This has to rate 0/10 for customer service. Shame on you.

@Reverend_Lyn @elonmusk @teslaownersSV @Twitter If that is the case, then that is fraud.

@DataGenetics @elonmusk @teslaownersSV @Twitter I'm guessing that it has to do with advertising. We're the deliverable on the platform, so more accounts = more leverage for existing advertisers and more incentive for new ones. It hurts them to mass eject thousands of accounts and they'd need to do it daily with replacements.

Twitter deal temporarily on hold pending details supporting calculation that spam/fake accounts do indeed represent less than 5% of users reuters.com/technology/twi…

@Reverend_Lyn @elonmusk @teslaownersSV @Twitter I think that's disingenuous. Asking for the TWTR process kills two birds with one stone. It will find out if they actually have a rigorous process (or just estimate and pull a number), but also raises the question, if they can identify fake accounts, why leave them up?

@DataGenetics @elonmusk @teslaownersSV @Twitter That would be logical and make sense. He seems constitutionally incapable of that.

@elonmusk @teslaownersSV @Twitter Maybe you could ask for the exact process that TWTR uses to generate their <5% number, and confirm assumptions made at each stage, and validate? After all, if they are standing proud by that number, one would hope they have a rigorous process.

@teslaownersSV @Twitter Ignore first 1000 followers, then pick every 10th. I’m open to better ideas.

Can planting a tree make a difference? datagenetics.com/blog/april2202…

@pickover On a clearer picture, #4 and #5 are the same nugget cut in half :)

Mathematics and numbers in our lives. This photograph, widely circulating on the Internet, relates to counting.

Guessing from three boxes in one try. datagenetics.com/blog/april1202…

@haltakov Current implementations of NFT are snake oil. Not a single company in the space is addressing even the most fundamental issues. They just vitriolically slam the poster and do not address the issues as the tryvto scam people out of money. It's all greed, not incentives/effects

This thread was motivated by the following article. I'm a big fan of @DataGenetics and his blog, but I think he misses the point on NFTs and games. It is not about the exact models and gameplay. It is about the new incentives and network effects. twitter.com/DataGenetics/s…

Imagine you are playing a fantastic game 🕹️ It's super interesting and you are hooked up. You are really good at it. You even bought some virtual items to progress faster. And then the developers pull the plug. The game is dead. Everything's gone. Except, it may not be... 👇

@haltakov and propose how some of those problems can be solved before trying to reap benefit from them. Saying the world will be better once we cure cancer is great, and world hunger is solved, gets no arguments. The devil is on the details

@haltakov Just because something sounds good to have, it does not mean it is technically possible. For example the world would be better with antigravity engines, cold fusion. teleportatiom... Some things are easy to say but hard (possibly impossible) to do. Read through the article again

I just watched the opening ceremony of the #WinterOlympics It was like being on the Small World ride at Disney, but with real people.

@Tamschi_ thx. fixed

NFT gaming is snake oil. datagenetics.com/blog/january12…