I decided to stop lurking & take Twitter seriously around 6 months ago.

Grateful for a place to share ideas & to have grown from 900s to 7.1k since then.

Learned a lot about Twitter's algorithms over this period.

Sharing 1 tip to grow your Twitter per every 2 likes 📈 🐦

All your reach on social media is dependent on Network effects.

If you're below < 2k followers most of your tweets should be helpful replies to other larger accounts.

Don't be a "reply guy" tho. The audience of a large account can tell & the large account holder my block u.

When you borrow reach from a large account & someone clicks on your profile you should ->

Specify why people should follow you in your bio.
Give people a reason to follow you.

Titles & Social proof do help, unfortunately.

Good Format:
I Tweet About / Explore X
I Do Y
I Am Z

Your Pinned Tweet is the next possible point of converting someone into a follower.

Ideally, your pinned tweet should have a lot of social proof (likes) & summarize the essence of your bio & expand as a thread.

This is where you start to have an umbrella for your brand.

Each tweet you make should add value.

It should either:
1. Educate
2. Inspire
3. Entertain
4. Connect
5. Dispute

Autshumao (AKA Herri die Strandloper [beachcomber]) was a Khoe chief. Around 1630, he agreed to accompany a visiting ship to Bantam in Java where he learnt much about Europeans, including their languages, such as English and Dutch. (1/10)

On 6 April 1652, Jan van Riebeeck was received at the Cape by the Autshumao and his people. In the 8 months after van Riebeeck’s arrival, he built a fort on top of Autshumao’s settlement. (2/10)

This was van Riebeeck’s view of his hosts, recorded in his diary on 13 May 1656: “It won’t do to say they are merely wild savages… For the more they are known, the more impertinent they are found to be…” (3/10)

In 1658, all civil relationships between the Dutch and Khoe had deteriorated and war broke out when Autshumao reclaimed cattle that were unfairly taken from his people by the Dutch. (4/10)

In 1659, after losing this war, he and some followers became the first prisoners on Robben Island. The following year Autshumao and one other prisoner escaped by stealing a rowing boat, which got them to the mainland. (5/10)

Why is going to Washington DC the 6th of January bigger than many realize?

The answer is multi faceted like a precision cut gemstone.

Curious?

I was too. So I asked God. He's soooo good!

Wanna hear what he revealed?

Check this out.

1.

A recipe for slavery, regardless who is President:

1. Gates owns the WHO.

2. Gates controls info—YouTube censors videos that contradict WHO.

3. Gates & Bezos will change our diet & control food supply—by law (EAT Forum).

4. Bezos controls flow of goods.

Receipts below.

Wendy (?) Thread
1.I’ve been noticing some similarities over the last couple of days, enough that I’ll go ahead and start a thread on it.
It’s so cool how everything starts clicking together!

The most frustrating aspect of working in computational probability/statistics is that it's basically impossible to construct algorithms that actually return well-defined probabilistic quantities and this results in no end of chaos.

At best algorithms can return approximations with quantifiable error, but to understand when approximations are useful you have to learn enough math to understand the exact result and how the algorithmic approximation relates to that exact result. Many do not do this.

More commonly programmers project the heuristics that prove successful in other computing problems -- pattern matching, type consistency, unit testing, relying on compiler errors, etc -- but these test only the algorithm and not the relevance of the algorithm to a stats problem.

Unaware of these subtleties many end up conceptually replacing the algorithm for the output being approximated, assuming that algorithmic properties are inherent and well-defined features of the underlying probabilistic/statistical system.

Needless to say this generalizes...poorly. Even worse: without formal knowledge of what is being approximated the poor generalization performance itself is easy to ignore and naive applications drift ever so steadily away from any well-defined mathematical objective.

I'm about to say something some of y'all aren't gonna like: a thread

If you're gonna question the "motive" of a charity organization or those who are committed to helping them, DON'T GET INVOLVED. Especially when it comes to someone who has proven TIME AND TIME AGAIN how loyal he is to this cause.

The workout/gym community is hostile enough as it is, with people who are gonna judge you no matter how good you're doing for yourself or others. People avoid the gym because of this. MPC IS THE LAST COMMUNITY THAT NEEDS THAT.

If you don't like the charities that MPC is supporting this year, there's a very simple solution at hand.
Don't join. Don't give MPC your money. Move on.
Don't sit there and complain about it.

Go give to the charities you DO support. Go give to the causes you DO enjoy helping, or have a cause close to your heart.

@alshalloway Thinking of the current enterprise I work for, we have specialist in each team that we borrow for project,however, the problem is they say I’m a X specialist so call me when you have a story for me and that it is waste of time to participate in agile ceremonies for the project

I’m feeling stuck between a rock and a hard place in terms of the sheer number of people who still have no idea my book exists and the degree to which I feel like I can’t just keep shouting “hey my book!” over and over again without alienating the entire world. Thoughts?

💥💥💥Situation Update, Dec. 29th – Extensive evidence of foreign interference in the US election is now surfacing.

Today’s Situation Update for Dec. 29th covers the new outpouring of extensive evidence of foreign interference in the US election.

What were the big energy and climate surprises of the Trump era? Four years ago, I described the most plausible arc for US climate policy under Trump (it was a boring, safe bet) but expected there'd be unexpected developments too. So how about a look back? https://t.co/1Valz4eTEg

1) The pandemic was a huge surprise, obviously, though maybe it's too early to say how that will affect the energy/climate landscape. So far, it’s put a brake on U.S. fracking and induced Europe to pledge staggering sums on hydrogen. Maybe global CO2 emissions have peaked, idk.

2) The growth of battery storage on the US grid has, I think, been a surprise. This interview with @jburwen does a nice job of laying out the truly staggering changes in the storage landscape since 2015, driven by falling costs and some key policy changes.

3) The impact of the IPCC report on 1.5°C was surprising to me. I often wondered what'd happen once it became clear that the world was unlikely to stay below 2°C. Instead, the climate community and world leaders rallied around an even more aggressive, harder to hit target!

4) It was not obvious that Trump's retreat from climate action would spur states, cities, companies, other nations to make even more aggressive net zero pledges of their own. But that’s what happened—those pledges have really proliferated at a scale that’s been surprising to me.

🇺🇸🇺🇸Rep. Gohmert sues Pence to grant the Vice President the authority to save the republic from a rigged election.

Since it all comes down to what Congress decides to do on Jan. 6 concerning the legitimacy of the Dec. 14 Electoral College vote, Trump-supporting Republicans like

NEW: @SidneyPowell1 in radio interview w/ @toddeherman when asked what her "Elevator Pitch" to the Supreme Court would be "The very night of the election many people saw something that they had never seen before in the history of our elections. They saw votes being changed on

2/ the screen in front of them, going from President @realDonaldTrump to @JoeBiden. On top of that, the morning after the election, even that night, the voting stopped. They stopped counting in multiple districts at the same time before the vote got to 270 electors for President

3/ Trump. That's never happened before. The only time votes have ever stopped being counted in this country on election night was when the Broward County problem developed over the Hanging Chad's in one county in FL. So for FIVE states to stop counting on election night is

4/ absolutely UNPRECEDENTED. And they did it because the vote count for the electoral college was about to hit [+ go over] 270 for President @realDonaldTrump, because of the massive outpouring of votes for him that night. By the next morning, multiple mathematicians had contacted

5/ me and told me they knew the algorithm that had been run to change the votes. It was that obvious to people with mathematical expertise. It is a mathematical impossibility for 100's of thousands of votes to show up for VP Biden alone, and to have been injected into the system

I'm on break, it's almost New Year's, and I can't do any more book proposal revisions today so I'm going to tweet about stuff I like. I was inspired by @erikhane's tweet about Pilot V5 pens (the only good pen).

Best pen: Pilot V5 pen in black. It not only has a great glide, but the ink really sinks into everything from a legal pad to a nice cotton paper. I got into them after I started collecting stationery and needed something better than ballpoint. Now they're the only pen I use.

Speaking of which, what's the best notebook, you ask? It's the Moleskine Classic Softcover notebook in black, with RULED PAGES.

Best coffee preparation method: black French press coffee. I want coffee that tastes somewhat muddy but not as muddy as Turkish coffee (which is also good, but not something I usually have).

Best pajamas: L.L. Bean tartan flannel pajamas. Some of the ONLY pajamas that come in petite, tall, and plus sizes!!!

Some thoughts on episode 53 of #Hercai

Love,that is not real,has no passion. Its fire turns into embers, it doesn’t not smell. The day, the night, the moon&year burn without sun, light, comfort&sleep.
Ömer Hayyam

#Reyyan #Miran #ReyMir #EbruŞahin #AkınAkınözü
#HercaiThoughts

1
PRAISE
The praise in this episode goes foremost to Ebru because she portrayed Reyyan so realistically like a woman who truly lost her unborn child. I was in awe and pain watching her along the episode, all her breakdowns and tears were so real.
#Hercai

2
Of course also Akın took his part and did his part masterfully, but he rightfully was the one who stood aside in this specific episode that needed to be about Reyyan’s pain and thus concentrated on Ebru.
#Hercai

3
And last but not least, if I say thank you to something that B gave us this year, then it’s to have Ali as our director. Also in this episode we saw the artistic eye behind every shot and I loved it.
#Hercai

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OVERALL COMMENT
I don’t know who wrote ep. 52 but ep. 53 was going strong once more on symbols: roses, stones, fire and trees were incorporated and especially the ReyMir dialogues were written very well. I truly loved every ReyMir scene.
So let's get into it.
#Hercai