Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS 🔥 @peterdrake@social.cleverlibre.org
- Siva Afi
- https://tgc.link/siva-afi
- Cascadia 9.0
- https://www.cascadia9game.org/
CS professor, game designer, and fire dancer ordinaire.
Joined Aug 2018
RT @cposnarky@twitter.com
HEY EVERYONE - NIXON’S FINALLY GOING TO PRISON!! #RogerStone
Broke: You said "literally" when you meant "figuratively".
Woke: People have been using "literally" to mean "very" for centuries.
Bespoke: Counter-misusing "figuratively".
"I figuratively just ate three burritos."
RT @qikipedia@twitter.com
The author Patricia Highsmith once smuggled 100 snails and a head of lettuce into a literary party in her handbag so she had someone to talk to.
(Image: Open Media Ltd)
RT @Emma_Lovato_@twitter.com
did you know...that if you do your reading before class, the lecture makes more sense???
RT @careecodes@twitter.com
UX Is My Passion 🥰
Disney+ presents: The Mitsubishian.
"Uber driving is a complicated profession."
RT @wispdx@twitter.com
📢 #WISPDXmixer2019 Sponsor Shout Out! 📢
@lewisandclark@twitter.com College is a new sponsor of our Mixer this year! They sponsored tickets for students and faculty to attend!
Thanks for supporting WIS PDX!
RT @mondomascots@twitter.com
Toilet-Kun, a toilet that has achieved sentience, teaches people in Yokohama City about bathroom procedures after disasters.
W local phone: *keeps me on hold for half an hour*
Me: *gives up*
W message to my phone in Oregon: Your order is ready for pickup ... in Manhattan.
Sigh.
Maybe I'm just not tech savvy enough to use their website, being just LITERALLY A COMPUTER SCIENCE PROFESSOR. /3
W website: Our records do not show Violet as a pet.
Me: *invokes online help chat*
W chat: We'll send out that prescription. Call this number to get your account straightened out.
W corporate phone: Oh, you need to talk to the local pharmacy. I'll transfer you. 2/
Me: Orders Violet's meds through the @Walgreens@twitter.com website.
W: The vet says you aren't their patient.
Me: You filled this one before.
W: Oh, you submitted it under your name. You have to give the dog's name.
*two weeks later*
Me: *tries to add dog's name to account* 1/
An @nbcsnl@twitter.com sketch where Werner Herzog declares a series of increasingly banal professions to be "complicated".
RT @cynthiablee@twitter.com
Sing it with me now: 🎶A software system that can only sort data along axses of the feature set you handed it is called a database, not ML. 🎶
The **entire purpose** of ML is to be smart enough to identify and sort on latent features. https://twitter.com/math_rachel/status/1191064500834750464
I did it! After years, I finally collected every #alphabear! Thanks to everyone who helped out and let me know if you need me to help get you over the finish line. @vintagepix@twitter.com @MartAdams66@twitter.com @kattmoon88@twitter.com
That's a midi-chlorian.
What?
WHAT.
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RT @randyhoyt@twitter.com
That's a Mandatory DeLorean. A Mandalorian is the "powerhouse" of the cell that handles cellular respiration. https://twitter.com/elizhargrave/status/1194443817279209472
https://twitter.com/randyhoyt/status/1194456938802765826
The Star Wars Holiday Special is conspicuously missing from @disneyplus@twitter.com.
new interocitor who dis
I detest this sort of activity in real life and in games. I want to make decisions that are meaningful (if only in terms of game outcome), not do something that can and should be automated.
Dammit, now I have to go EAT so I don't DIE.
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RT @metasynthie@twitter.com
Ahh but are “boring tasks” even better when pursued as an intrinsic good rather than for productive or necessary ends? See also “what am I knitting? A shapeless blob with …
https://twitter.com/metasynthie/status/1194331386204831745
RT @DemetriMartin@twitter.com
Names can be tricky.
- Siva Afi
- https://tgc.link/siva-afi
- Cascadia 9.0
- https://www.cascadia9game.org/
CS professor, game designer, and fire dancer ordinaire.
Joined Aug 2018
