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+# Papers of Note
+
+On Slack:
+
+> [Ben W](https://twitter.com/bwarren24):
+>
+> What are people's favorite CS papers?
+
+* Perlman, Radia (1985). "An Algorithm for Distributed Computation of a Spanning Tree in an Extended LAN". ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review. 15 (4): 44–53. doi:10.1145/318951.319004.
+
+* The related Algorhyme, also by Perlman.
+
+* Guy Lewis Steele, Jr.. "Debunking the 'Expensive Procedure Call' Myth, or, Procedure Call Implementations Considered Harmful, or, Lambda: The Ultimate GOTO". MIT AI Lab. AI Lab Memo AIM-443. October 1977.
+
+* What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic, by David Goldberg, published in the March, 1991 issue of Computing Surveys. Copyright 1991, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc.
+
+* RFC 1925.
+
+* The above-cited Thomson NFA paper on regular expressions.
+
+* The Eight Fallacies of Distributed Computing.
+
+* HAKMEM is another good one. It's _dense_ but rewarding.
+
+* Kahan, William (January 1965), "Further remarks on reducing truncation errors", Communications of the ACM, 8 (1): 40, doi:10.1145/363707.363723
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+# Why Twitter? Survey
+
+I [asked](http://twitter.com/derspiny/status/835317524480811008)
+
+> Twitter frens! Why do you use Twitter?
+
+I got some answers:
+
+> everyone I think is cool is good at it
+- [@angusiguess](http://twitter.com/angusiguess/status/835318098156716032)
+
+> mostly to rant pointlessly about computers. also to annoy @jdiller and to follow @SwiftOnSecurity
+>
+> also for creative and hilarious seasonal username changes.
+- (a locked account)
+
+> i'm pretty shy and prefer the intimacy of plausible deniability and public speaking to actually leaving my house.
+- [@aeleitch](http://twitter.com/aeleitch/status/835322188643336192)
+
+> it's _the_only_ popular social network with good API access and a commitment to users retaining IP ownership of what they post.
+- [@gnomon](http://twitter.com/gnomon/status/835335715043098624)
+
+> natural selection of interesting URLs
+- [@letoams](http://twitter.com/letoams/status/835343447640981508)
+
+> It's where I learn about tech, politics and other issues; more than any other place. It's also where I interact with said things.
+>
+> I also have a lot of people I'm close to here, but in a way that doesn't fit into Facebook.
+- [@jkakar](http://twitter.com/jkakar/status/835345823219118080)
+
+> bitching. Side eye. Drunk posts.
+>
+> oh. Also cats.
+- (another locked account)
+
+> interesting content slot machine
+- [@blagh](http://twitter.com/blagh/status/835374149740728320)