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Sean Kross @seankross.com · 3d

“People should learn what selection bias is.”

“Would you Quintus? Would I?”

Sean Kross @seankross.com · 3d

With the score tied at the end of regulation in this matchup between Juilliard and Cal Arts, this game is headed for oeuvretime.

Sean Kross @seankross.com · 3d

If you understand how 9/11 led to the Ellen DeGeneres Show getting cancelled then you understand causal inference.

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Sean Kross @seankross.com · 6d

One of my favorite lines from Holly Dolly is: “Chocolate covered peanuts - unshelled. That’s the expensive kind!”

Sean Kross @seankross.com · 9d

Designing Data-Intensive Applications is Infinite Jest for software engineers.

Sean Kross @seankross.com · 11d

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Assumptions

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Sean Kross @seankross.com · 12d

I’ll never forget @jennybryan.bsky.social dropping “if it hurts, do it more often” after doing a dozen pull-ups at GitHub headquarters.

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Sean Kross @seankross.com · 13d

No way.

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Sean Kross @seankross.com · 14d

I wonder if ChatGPT wrote The Plan.

Sean Kross @seankross.com · 15d

There’s a Cardi B lyric that’s codified in federal law.

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Sean Kross @seankross.com · 18d

Micromanaging up

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Sean Kross @seankross.com · 23d

Ten years of pizza rat

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Sean Kross @seankross.com · 25d

This is a cognitive science joke

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Sean Kross @seankross.com · 29d

Shiny for Python for Humans for America

Kelly Bodwin @kellybodwin.com · Sep 15

It begins.... 😆

#positconf2025

A screenshot of the Posit Conf app, showing a warning that the two selected sessions have a schedule conflict.

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Sean Kross @seankross.com · Sep 15

This is a conclave Aldo.

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Sean Kross @seankross.com · Sep 12

Sean Kross @seankross.com · Sep 10

Omg Dan this is incredible: www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-r...

A Recounting of the Iran-Contra Affair in the Authentic Verbiage of the Period.

1. On the morning of his first day of duty at the National Security Council, Deputy Director Oliver North strode confidently into the reception are...

www.mcsweeneys.net

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Sean Kross @seankross.com · Sep 8

A phone with an insert coin slot

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Sean Kross @seankross.com · Sep 5

True terror is to wake up one morning and realize that ChatGPT is running the country.

Sean Kross @seankross.com · Sep 2

Swirl still works! It just hasn’t been updated in a while.

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Sean Kross @seankross.com · Aug 31

Micro donutzillas

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Sean Kross @seankross.com · Aug 31

Can I get the recipe? I will bake this immediately.

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Sean Kross @seankross.com · Aug 28

Love Island is the inverse of the Gulag Archipelago.

Sean Kross @seankross.com · Aug 28

The good news is your Jekyll site is now building successfully. The bad news is every time you built it, your computer requires a tiny little drop of blood.

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Sean Kross @seankross.com · Aug 23

Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Gregor Samsa was to remember that distant afternoon when his father found himself transformed in his bed into a monstrous vermin.

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