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William Herold
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Software engineer, bibliophile, & cat dad located in #seattle
Voilà: Francis GagnonThe Art of Insight by @albertocairo is already one of the most awaited book in the field. This review by @frankelavsky only makes it more so.
I often think about who the "dataviz community" is. I often feel I miss 90% of it when I discover some dashboarding community, some book and author I've never even heard about. I think this book might open some new horizons.
https://www.frank.computer/blog/2023/08/art-of-insight-review.html
If you know me, you know that I’m a poor typist, sometimes with hilarious consequences. I just accidentally wrote “uwu” style comments
A friend once said New Order lyrics are so simple it's like they were written by a child, but Temptation is the only song that made me break down & cry twice, once when I was falling in love, and again when someone I loved died. So maybe children know a thing or two about lyrics.
My working theory is there's a fixed percentage of any population ready to hate a minority group, but it really doesn't matter which minority, they just need to be told who is on the menu.
Maria PopovaOn beloved Peter Rabbit creator Beatrix Potter's birthday, her little-known scientific studies and illustrations of mushrooms, which mycologists use to this day to identify species https://t.co/kjTklrhCag
When teaching at CalTech in the 1930s Oppenheimer was interested in the occult & went to communist gatherings. His brother was friends with Jack Parsons, so they likely met. It seems that Aleister Crowley was at least tangentially present at the birth of both the US space and nuclear programs.