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the future of climate communication is high agency, resilient, and pragmatic!! @stolerlyn and i have been working on a documentary on climate solutions that resonate with the excited, uninterested, and everyone in between

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girls only want one thing and it's a walkable city with mixed use development

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10 months

i think a noble reason to learn things is to have more surface area to make jokes about

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11 months

we ran a 200 person event and used embeddings to matchmake people based on their interests

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eating fruit the way christopher alexander intended

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a running list of life hacks if your brain works exactly like mine

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entropy is entropying

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bereal but you paste whatever is in your clipboard

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the feminine urge to squat heavy and become a highly proficient engineer

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Waterloo is quite experimental and surprisingly young (65 years). Some longtime profs joke that "Waterloo is at risk of becoming a real university". A SUPER interesting case study on institution design. My thoughts: 1. Co-op - Experiential design can't be beat. A month into our…

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Waterloo grads are unbelievably cracked software engineers. Has anyone written up an essay on what they’re doing there? Would be interested to read.

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1 year

it's not enough to just commit to the bit. you should push it to a branch too

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1 year

i brain dumped about sparkly people and how to find them

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@ansonyuu

7 months

i feel like i shouldn't gatekeep that doing a fake twitch livestream is actually a really fun way to get through dense papers + i highly recommend it

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@ansonyuu

3 years

babe are you okay?? you barely touched the 36287 think pieces in your tabs you said you were going to “read later”

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1 year

strong opinions tightly held

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4 months

we made a big collection of policy levers to help accelerate science & tech

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3 years

got this uber xxxl all to myself!1!

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7 months

the kids are gonna be alright btw

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one of the best pranks I've ever heard of pulled off (ofc) by @ansonyuu & co

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@ansonyuu

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no notes - time to hack!

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funding speedrun any%

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3 years

is this too niche

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@ansonyuu

5 months

really excited about my new standing desk!

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3 years

we rockin with this in 2021?

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25 days

AND WE PACKED IT

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11 months

what do i map these keys to

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@ansonyuu

2 years

i am once again Experimenting™️ with design styles and i dub this one contemporary industrial

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@ansonyuu

3 years

not sure why caring about beauty is portrayed as shallow when it is SUCH a high signal of intelligence if you’re able to curate good aesthetic taste (in music, art, fashion, food, etcetc)

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@ansonyuu

3 years

i think this tweet hit the perfect niche of numtot techies🥺 hello new friends!!

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2 years

in addition to weightlifting, it has been very fun to pick a random functional goal every month to tunnel vision on. keeping them all in once place🤠 1. bosu ball pistol squat

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3 months

resting perch state

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1 year

7 months apart!!

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@ansonyuu

6 months

this is how we learned that @JoanneZPeng 's new tab page is a countdown of how many sundays she has left

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petition for friends to do 5 min rapid fire slide deck updates on all the happenings in their lives and what they learned

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the unreasonable effectiveness of the team, a dream, and 300 posters

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1 year

you need to be source maxxing. escaping the ouroboros of content with old pdfs, esoteric html websites, and librarians that know a little too much. you need to be gathering intel from people hanging in parks.

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5 months

imma let you finish, but this is one of the best birthday cakes of all time

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@ansonyuu

2 years

rate my setup

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@ansonyuu

6 months

life, lately!!!

JC B

@JCBtaiche10

6 months

Quietly made history today… more details soon ⚡️ massive milestone and success for the @FuseEnergyTech team. Grateful for the incredible team that’s going to change the world and accelerate the transition to fusion energy ☢️ 🚀

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2 years

i am a staunch admirer of people who can defend their beliefs 3-4 layers of questioning down. especially when it’s the socially safe option that doesn’t usually prompts more discussion. a crisp high five to you

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@ansonyuu

3 years

@toth_charles +1 to that. also increased air pollution, water overconsumption, and socioeconomic disparities - all externalities that already exist, but are amplified by sprawl

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@ansonyuu

3 months

have always wanted to run a friend filtered matchmaking thing experiment dropping!! wingman your friends

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2 years

the highest honor is probably some medal but the second highest is when a friend asks you to review their work before they put it into the world. like aw??? this piece of your soul in the form of a google doc??

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@ansonyuu

2 years

wordle's impact on the cultural zeitgeist is bringing back fun websites that only do one thing and i am so here for it

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3 years

texts like these

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1 year

a transition i like from our documentary

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4 months

a lot of you would fold in this situation

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@ansonyuu

1 year

one of my fave things i've done with friends is offering to be a Student as a Service™️ if they are self-studying something i will be the resident novice! we meet periodically and they distill everything they learned that week. forced deliverables + tutelage. a win-win

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@ansonyuu

2 years

digitally native web3/crypto applications are great but for initiatives emulating irl human experiences, i would personally much rather see efforts redirected to stewarding the world we already live in. eg. funding physical public goods, coordination problems for climate

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@ansonyuu

2 years

shoutout to dumplings for helping an entire generation of first gen asians feel like they're still actually in touch with their culture this lunar new year

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@ansonyuu

4 months

with great power (individual freedom from a disintegrating social fabric) comes great responsibility (making new annual traditions with your friends)

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@ansonyuu

3 years

an app that lets people make money by having conversations with people isolated in quarantine, call that lonelyfans

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@ansonyuu

11 months

repo here! a shoutout to @CohereAI for having awesome documentation

GitHub - ansonyuu/matchmaking: Embedding space of names clustered based on their interests using...

Embedding space of names clustered based on their interests using the sentence-transformers all-MiniLM-L6-v2 model - ansonyuu/matchmaking

github.com

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2 years

seeing a github issue w the exact problem ur facing :)))) seeing this as the last message in the thread :(((((

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should have known to expect the unexpected with the @newdemos_ team

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@ansonyuu

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we discovered a raspberry pi that will connect to the web for you

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@ansonyuu

8 months

arielle wrote about my childhood and How To Raise an Anson and i cried reading it!!

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1 year

seeing a movie title screen i like and bringing it back to my figma file like a little rat (here's the link )

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3 years

the twitter cold dm to discord server to picking grapes in your backyard pipeline

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@ansonyuu

2 years

when american friends ask me how it's going in canada i'm gonna send them this video from my walk

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2 years

going to nyc anyone want anything

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10 months

there are a few archetypes to fear and a well educated jester is one

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@ansonyuu

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dj set but it's just me yapping at you about energy infrastructure

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- running mystery events by joss - anomaly detection for power grids by anson - knowledge graphs for research by brooke, elijah - stories of extraordinary homes by wilbur - computers made from NANDs by yash - immersive slideshows using VR by justin and so much more...

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1 year

this felt important

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1 year

my camera will not leave my hand. i will practice everywhere i go. my camera will not leave my hand. i will practice everywhere i go. my camera will not leave my hand. i will practice everywhere i go. my camera will not leave my hand. i will practice everywhere i go. my camera w-

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11 months

public recording studios don't work around my class times so i turned my closet into a voiceover booth LOL

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6 months

there is absolutely something in the water in waterloo these days and you will see if on full display at our symposium

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3 years

thinking about how my dad buys silly little tropical fruits to lure us back home to spend time with him

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4 months

clear, written communication is the lindiest culture carrier a huge effort by the team, our notes on gathering well!!

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we made a toolbox on how to hold life-changing events

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1 year

doing some very quick sticker designs for an upcoming symposium

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@ansonyuu

5 months

i know the zeitgeist has moved past "everyone should code"-isms but it's cool to have to consistently intuit the form of something as natural as information cs ideas are contagious because it is a subject of analogy. once you see a tree, a heap, etc you see it everywhere.

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2 months

not a single original experience

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Find someone who looks at you the way our University of Waterloo intern looks at a component he’s been waiting a week to arrive

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3 years

my friend recorded this without me realizing and it is the most blissful 11 seconds ever. i am embarrassingly soft rn

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someone asked me for my 2024 predictions

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8 months

ok TIL by experimentation that if you scan an LCD screen, the image becomes greyscale! > liquid crystals act as "shutters" for the pixels to display RGB > device backlight illuminates it to display colors > printer's scanner is brighter than the device backlight > ∴ no color!

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@ansonyuu

2 years

this is your sign to go romanticize sitting in an empty train car

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8 months

keeping track of all the random terms i've started to use in day to day

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3 years

if you think you can hurt me, this was my dads reaction to us winning at the biggest hackathon in canada LOOL

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1 year

the group chat doesn't want my 2007 archival C-SPAN clips

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3 years

journal entry from 6 months ago vs today!! always cool to feel yourself growing into someone past you would have smiled at

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much of socratica is built to answer this question: what if you could build an environment with social incentives that bring the best out of people?

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over the last few months, we've been curating our favourite projects from weekly socratica sessions in waterloo! here's a glimpse of them: - grid security systems - auto hair clippers - waterloo watercolour art - robotic arms - cultivated seafood and 30+ more demos!

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we are one engineering disney princess away from solving the electrician shortage. she will make all her furniture and the kingdom's control systems will synchronize to the sun. her sidekick will be a label maker.

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1 year

our playbook is now being used in nyc, waterloo, and vancouver weekly to run coworking sessions for high effort passion projects!

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3 years

YALL the conversations under this tweet are so lovely and funny as hell. i've learned so much from reading them

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UMM so that's a wrap on registrations but the waitlist is open!! wtf. truly.

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if you give an engineer a camera...

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There’s a lot of interesting work currently being done in the world of infrastructure — batteries, clean energy, new drug breakthroughs, supersonic flight. Occurs to me that it would be great to have a Margaret Bourke-White-like figure capturing it all. Anyone doing this?

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3 years

who called them mind altering drugs and not a remix to cognition

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4 months

one of my fave graphs ever is this hour by hour graph of GPS accuracy error before/after the US gov turned off selective availability. civil/commercial nav systems could be FAR far worse than the quality we enjoy today

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have always wanted to run a friend filtered matchmaking thing experiment dropping!! wingman your friends

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2 years

isabella stewart gardner knew what she was doing when she devoted an entire room to her friends' paintings & writing

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3 years

for thousands of years, civilizations have been using material to sew and bind fabrics together. i wanted to share how they do it a thread 🧵

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6 months

a jacky-ism is that he will present impossible problems with the same demeanor as simple ones and sit there for 10 minutes as you try to figure out set subtraction in CRDTs before telling u that "nobody has done it yet". rude. but hilarious.

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@ansonyuu

5 months

just the team doing team things

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hacker culture is so back yesterday, 450 ppl registered to see 25+ incredible demos, ranging from alternative proteins to self balancing robots to songwriting

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3 years

version control in figma is really just copying your current frame and pasting it a little to the left until hell freezes over

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7 months

@clayhaight spatial brain go brrrr

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3 months

on co-parenting baby ideas

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11 months

@DavidSHolz most definitely. i think giving people another axis to match on is the goal vs displacing natural social draws to max on excuses to talk to new people, we also gave little assignments on nametags! eg - find someone that speaks 4 languages - guess their sibling order - etc

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3 years

the time off you get after the second dose is called a vaccation

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2 years

it is a truth universally acknowledged that a company in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a gen-z intern to take free rein of their social media accounts

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3 years

guy who says please & thank you to smart home devices to have their goodwill during the ai uprising

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2 years

free idea: substack called “cautionary fails” that walks through case studies of large scale tech/policy flops and how to avoid in current day

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rebranding from an extrovert to social with chinese characteristics

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