Shared today on Twitter

@unixbigot @yow_oz LOL. I knew you were secretly a Hermione.


@unixbigot I’ll be there too!


@yarrcat I’m the same – I have crappy veins. The last time the Red Cross lady said, “you officially don’t have to try anymore.”


@yarrcat I was both relieved and sad that she let me off the hook.


@johnallsopp Happy birthday! Were we going to catch up this week? I’ll buy you a birthday coffee. 😀


Now is Not the Time to Criticize the Galaxy Note 7 – HA. I laugh so I do not cry. https://t.co/qybDyr5nag


@AbstractCode @yow_oz Me! Well, I’m speaking too. 😀


@AbstractCode @yow_oz Haha, my talks tend to get shunted to the “weird but amusing” slot at the end of the day. 😀


@mobywhale @GGDSydney Have fun! I’m sorry I’m going to miss it. 🙁


@mattallen It’s like witchcraft. You now know my true name.


Tonight’s meetup: #sydneyai at the gorgeous @BCGDV offices. Thanks @TeremTech for organising! https://t.co/IRQIj29skM


Ian Heddle from Zomojo starts his talk on computational complexity by going all the way to the ancient Greeks. #sydneyai https://t.co/Q1lLWxkpca


Organisers of meetups: please publicise a hashtag for your events! I’m just makin’ this stuff up and it’s disappearing into the void.


WOW. Zomojo’s homegrown genetic algorithm machine. @nemshilov will be jealous. #sydneyai https://t.co/5pqilpNgsx


Ian’s advice for getting into machine learning: STEP 1. LEARN PYTHON. #sydneyai


Final tip: make sure you have a way to halt your machine learning algorithms. Otherwise you’ll be up for a very big AWS bill. 😂 #sydneyai


Another day, another @alexboudreau chatbot talk. 😂 #sydneyai https://t.co/mM2gw7x6gi


Poor @alexboudreau just had to say “Parsey McParseface” in a tech talk with a straight face. Ugh. The worst, @googledevs. #sydneyai


Thankfully @alexboudreau says current state of AI is still really far from Westworld territory. #sydneyai https://t.co/XX6g7VO9HE


Intuition is the reason that human GPs won’t be replaced by chatbots. @alexboudreau #sydneyai


Bold prediction from an audience member that Esperanto will reemerge as the language of chatbot interaction in the future. 🤔 #sydneyai


@walkingadvert Awwww! Waves at @SerriLaw @lucykbain & Ellen!!


@FrankCharlton Do you know about @RHoKSydney? Talk to @AlexGilleran. 🙂


@FrankCharlton Except duh, you’re not in Sydney. But RHoK is international!


@FrankCharlton Maybe you should start one. My friend @lemon_lime is in Seattle – he might help.


@lemon_lime I just saw this, and it took me five seconds, and then I LOLed. 😂


RT @robertnyman: Really enjoying the moment, standing in the middle of a lot of great Philippine web developers!

Pic by @cellofoodiegeek a…


Small thrill seeing @baconmeteor’s talk from @webdirections linked on good ol’ @metafilter. https://t.co/uV8UfKHSHE


Still life entitled “We Need a Real Vase” https://t.co/lakr8SeY5b https://t.co/IGSe2W979F


RT @NASAhistory: #Congratulations to Margaret Hamilton. Will be honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom tomorrow for writing Apollo…


@MichelePlayfair Heh. My real birthday is in March. That was the JOINT birthday. 😂


@stephenlead HORROR. (Why are you sending it to me? Don’t blame me for this!)


@stephenlead It’s a fair cop.


@mattallen @stephenlead They had those at Canva once. Along with the Toffee Apple. They’re both terrible.


A friend back in Indiana asked me to recommend toys/games to intro his 6yo & 3yo girls to coding. 😍 Maybe the world isn’t 100% horrible.


@TheRealBnut Goldiblox, Scratch, and the Hour of Code website.


@quamen Goldiblox, Scratch, and the Hour of Code website


@sebastianparis I saw that too! Can’t remember what it was called…



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