Slide explaining PageRank
Presented my PageRank slide that I thought was hilarious. Sparse chuckles. Peer review is brutal 🧪
www.cs.toronto.edu/~ming/unsupe...
Marie Curie: teaches to survive, conducts groundbreaking experiments in a leaky shed, while raising an infant.
Hollywood: let’s make a “classic” about how much plantation owners suffered during the Civil War and call it female resilience.
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Some real data, not fake numbers from a right-wing shill:
Ireland’s GDP per capita used to be just over half of the UK’s. Now it’s more than twice as high.
(Yes, GDP isn’t the whole story—but this stark contrast couldn’t have happened without Brexit.)
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The good old pre-globalization days, when America had less income inequality because everyone was poorer.
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Pretty sure these hyper-elaborate skincare routines are scams (and bad for the environment).
Also: telling women they need to spend this much time and money on skincare is bad for their career growth and for feminism.
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AI doing the important work — automating scammers out of their Academese fortresses 🧪
This site’s design is riddled with rookie mistakes:
1. Large empty spaces
2. Jarring font size contrasts
3. No title hierarchy
4. Zero border padding
Basically what happens when you ask an abstract "artist" to design something practical.
In my Chinese primary school, we learned about Marie Curie fighting sexism in science. Meanwhile, Hollywood sold girls the dream of being fashion designers — a borderline scam of a career path.
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My bf drew our plushie kids 🐧🐻❄️🐸🐑🐶🦕 playing in the pond for our anniversary 🩷
#art
5 years ago, I wrote about how blood diamond monopoly De Beers tried to kill lab diamonds by undercutting them with cheap, low-quality lab diamond jewelry: www.cs.toronto.edu/~ming/422_es...
That plan failed. Miserably. 🥳
🧪 #EconSky
See also: Bitcoin miners
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Now that money laundering via crypto is legal, it turns out we don't need elongated head sculptures to remind us of our existential crisis after all.
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Word is, the same Chinese sweatshops churning out LV bags also make their counterfeits — and the replicas are actually better made.
🧪 #EconSky
Gotta love how Hermès didn’t even try to make their condo-priced bags less dull.
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Worth noting: My dad’s parents were illiterate serfs. He was the top student in his "primary school"—one grade, one teacher with barely any education.
Easy for a eugenicist to look at this data point and say, "See? Even their brightest is this dumb. They’re meant to be peasants forever."
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My dad scored ~70 on a primary school IQ test. He later ranked in the top 30 out of 1M in one of the hardest Gaokao exams and has been a VP at multiple Fortune 500 companies.
Whenever people say IQ tests are fair and objective, I just tell them this story.
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👩🏻🔬🧪 #Civ7
Website screenshot
A "world-renowned" designer with a website that looks like a 9th grader’s first CSS project.
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Yet in a bitter twist of fate, just as Memphis blacks achieved a measure of justice in the workplace, the largest employers closed their doors in search of cheaper labor elsewhere, in the process shredding the stable working class and increasing the number of the working poor. When Firestone and International Harvester left town in the 1980s, white workers blamed black activists--didn't the unions drive these plants out?--and dismissed the devastation that deindustrialization wrought on black community and family life.
American factories shut down when Black workers unionized and demanded equal treatment.
Makes you wonder if those high-paying factory jobs only existed because they depended on exploiting minorities.
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Americans who brag about their high-paying unionized factory jobs pre-globalization conveniently ignore how those white-led unions shut Black workers out—forcing them into low-wage jobs, sweating in 100-degree heat without even electric fans.
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Next up: oil dealer explains why spills are actually good for marine life. 🧪
Poverty Rate for Black Individuals: 1959-2021
Some heart-warming data: Decades of civil rights reforms significantly reduced the poverty rate of Black Americans.
🧪 #EconSky
Global income distribution in 1800, 1975, and 2015
Economists know it, but politicians rarely say it—globalization massively reduced global inequality.
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The least believable part in the Exodus story
Bf's company is producing a cartoon about the Aztecs, with all the dialogue in Spanish.
Bf: The Aztecs didn't speak Spanish. It was the Spanish colonizers who massacred them that did.
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Luxury brands sell $57 sweatshop bags for $2,800, yet Temu and Amazon get all the hate for selling cheap clothes.
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The Challenge of Overcoming Antibiotic Resistance in Carbapenem-Resistant Gram-Negative Bacteria: "Attack on Titan"
Weebs in academia🧪🦠
🔗 doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms11081912
#anime #aot
He contributed nothing to blockchain technology—just a convicted fraudster.
One of Forbes' judges is Cathie Wood—best known for saying she started an investment fund to "fulfill the will of God" and for being the worst fund manager of the past decade.
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