Paul Cowan @funkwit

Melbourne⇒Sydney, HoE @ Big Picture Medical, ex-Google/Airtasker (though not speaking officially for ANY of them, duh, what is wrong with you?). He/him. Sydney, Australia Joined January 2008

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Paul Cowan @funkwit

2 months ago

I don't post much here, I know, and I never shill for people. But Claire Stapleton is one of the most delightful people to have ever passed through Google employment, and commands the English language like no one else. This is going to be a TREAT, I'm certain of it.

claire stapleton @clairewaves

2 months ago

hello x--just dropping into the famously calm, nourishing discourse here to say my book is out this summer. drama, death, executives, and mass revolt--with light romp energy--inside google. info + preorders below. love and light to all :)

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Paul Cowan @funkwit

2 months ago

@_thekennyshow @hasumpstuffedup @peteguley @philschultz11 @Upthemightypies How is this a bad take from @hasumpstuffedup ? He's explaining the rule and what the umpires are instructed. He didn't write the rule, and possibly doesn't even like it for all we know. If you think the rule sucks, that's the AFL's fault, it's not a "bad take" from him.

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Paul Cowan @funkwit

2 months ago

@Jeffersek6g @DomCometti So to be clear - if your daughter or sister or mum was (let's say) sexually assaulted in the coal mines, you'd believe that 'comradeship' should take precedence and no-one should say anything. Fascinating character you are.

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2 months ago

@Jeffersek6g @DomCometti Did a lot of war crimes in the coal mines did we?

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2 months ago

@EsdaileTon53863 @TheHarrisSultan @DrewPavlou I would have gone with "Note to SAS troops don't commit war crimes" but you do you mate

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Paul Cowan @funkwit

2 months ago

@JdubAndrew @Math_files The difficulty of proof isn't in proving that it will tend to TREND downwards. The difficulty is showing that there can never ever be a loop. One counterexample of a loop (A-B-C-...-A) would disprove, and your observation (though astute) does nothing to show that.

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Paul Cowan @funkwit

2 months ago

@aakashgupta "Google Assistant [was] trained on General American and Received Pronunciation English." This is simply untrue. Assistant was absolutely trained on Australian English specifically. I know because I was part of the training data and spent many hours providing samples.

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Paul Cowan @funkwit

3 months ago

@HestonChurchill @SSharkansky @Math_files I just regret my chosen example, because the reverse (increasingly long sequences of 0s, separated by single 1s, is the much more elegant 0.101001000100001 which is the infinite sum of 1/(10^1) + 1/(10^3) + 1/(10^6) + 1/(10^10) + ... which I think we can ask agree is much nicer!

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Paul Cowan @funkwit

3 months ago

@HestonChurchill @SSharkansky @Math_files Extremely silly but clear counterexample: 0.01011011101111011111... (that is, a number whose decimal representation is a sequence of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5... ones each separated by a single zero) is an irrational number but won't contain any sequence of two zeroes!

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Paul Cowan @funkwit

3 months ago

@timrud1 @matcoch I think YOU need to look up how sports tickets work, and how sporting attendances are reported, before being a smart-arse to someone when you're wrong.

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Paul Cowan @funkwit

4 months ago

@und675 @dollllfears @MrMediocrePass It literally says "use a registered psychologist, social worker or occupational therapist" in your screenshot. You're giving someone advice about psychology and therapy, when they are referring to psychiatry. They're different things, which even your own screenshot makes clear.

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Paul Cowan @funkwit

4 months ago

@realRick_AUS @gaymilkisgay Under Keating as treasurer? They peaked at about 17.5%. In that same time window, New Zealand's peaked at about 20.5%, and the UK's at over 16%. Amazing, Keating's influence, to have caused such high interest rates across all those countries. Unbelievable.

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Paul Cowan @funkwit

5 months ago

Denmark should simply delegate the power to Greenland to sign a mutual defence treaty with Afghanistan. We already know the US can't beat them. Problem solved.

Orla Joelsen @OJoelsen

5 months ago

Premier of Greenland 🇬🇱 statement this morning; This morning, I am both saddened and grateful 🇬🇱 Saddened, because during a press conference last night, the President of the United States once again expressed a desire to take over Greenland. With such statements, our country is

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Paul Cowan @funkwit

6 months ago

@McClarey2 @MFWitches It was almost exactly ten minutes from first shot fired to both perpetrators being dead or arrested. You're making shit up. You're right though, we should model our police response on the US, and aim for a clean crisp 77-minute takedown like Uvalde.

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Paul Cowan @funkwit

6 months ago

@flintaeroinc @MFWitches Oh yes, the inaction that resulted in one gunman dead and the other arrested in almost exactly ten minutes. As opposed to the crack response we see from US police forces, like where the Uvalde shooting was quickly and decisively ended in *checks notes* seventy-seven minutes.

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Paul Cowan @funkwit

6 months ago

@Poka741997 @BarackObama You don't think that maybe, just maybe, the former President of the USA has access to better and more accurate sources of information than you, J. Random Dickhead?

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Paul Cowan @funkwit

6 months ago

@Goosey30111568 If MY sister was either a liar or a fucking idiot, I would simply admit neither on public social media. But that's just me.

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Paul Cowan @funkwit

6 months ago

@CrimsonCrews @grok @aaronchaotic @AdameMedia Grok "losing credibility as a verifiable source" is like a sea lion "losing credibility as a possible principal dancer for the Bolshoi Ballet" or a handful of cold gravel "losing credibility as a source of protein". It's ludicrous that you think it ever had any.