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Jan 22 • 10 tweets • 5 min read

i love chrome custom search engines and i want you guys to love them too. below is a quick custom search engine tutorial and then some examples of custom search engines that i use a lot

currently you find custom search engines by going to settings -> search engines -> manage search engines. then you can add custom ones by writing down appropriate keywords and URLs, which will usually end in something like "?q=%s"; the %s is the search term

then you type the keyword into the URL bar and then type the search term. like this:

@visakanv

1. custom twitter searches - "tw" searches all of twitter, "tq" searches my own tweets, "tvv" searches @visakanv's tweets, "tmo" searches @Malcolm_Ocean's tweets. this is a key part of my QT game b/c it minimizes the # of keypresses to find a tweet

https://twitter.com/QiaochuYuan/status/1262242637047721984

"twf" searches tweets from everyone i follow (that's "&pf=on"), for when i want to find a tweet but can't remember who wrote it

"tm" searches my mentions (by searching for tweets addressed to me but not written by me), for when i want to check replies from people i don't follow. this is also a version of the mentions tab that strips out likes which should just exist already smh

2. "et" searches etymonline.com for the etymology of a word. really nice for when i'm just having idle thoughts about the etymology of a word, again saves keypresses

3. lol i actually completely forgot i had this one but "lib" searches library genesis. nice

4. "yt" searches youtube. i don't know how to describe how much more accessible this made the mental motion "i wonder if i can find a youtube video about..."

5. "oeis" searches the online encyclopedia of integer sequences. this is only useful when i'm doing a specific kind of math and at no other time but it's really nice and simple to have around. i have a few other math searches, for wolframalpha, stackexchange, and my blog

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Jan 23

when i’m in a good mood i find extremely dumb things funny, like just repeating the word “bnuuy” to myself (it’s still funny i just checked). also recently i’ve found myself doing silly voices or straight up quoting lines from old cartoons. yesterday it was “return the slab”

i would like to get really good at impressions i think. i probably won’t put in the time but it would be nice to have

https://twitter.com/qiaochuyuan/status/1355322128468336643

this shit is just permanently seared into my mind might as well use it i guess

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Jan 23

[guy whose youtube home page has been showing him a lot of gravity falls clips lately] maybe i should rewatch gravity falls

wtf it expires on hulu in 9 days

okay that's fine that's just how long i have to binge it then

were there really only two seasons??? what?????

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Jan 23

i've written a lot of stuff implicitly and explicitly critical of (bay area) rationality and the (bay area) rationalists on here so to balance that out karmically here's a thread of stuff about rationality and the rationalists that i appreciate

1. my first rationality workshop taught me that it's possible for me to think about and solve my problems. idk if this sounds really basic or what but it was a totally new idea to me at the time (fresh out of college) and an important foundation for everything else later

2. rationality and the more serious rationalists have a deep respect for Truth that i've always really appreciated. that's maybe one of the things that drew me to them the most, even if we probably disagree in a lot of ways about what "Truth" means and how to search for it

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@QiaochuYuan

Jan 22

https://twitter.com/QiaochuYuan/status/1484979513339437056

once you've got custom twitter searches set up you'll also want to learn a few of twitter's search operators. these are weirdly poorly documented (the documentation i found has ones i don't think work anymore) but here are the ones i personally use to search tweets faster

https://twitter.com/QiaochuYuan/status/1484979513339437056

1. from:username searches tweets from a user, that's how the custom searches for my own tweets and visa's tweets above work. to:username searches tweets to that user. you can combine them to look for a specific interaction if you remember who was involved. example:

2. min_faves:N restricts searches to tweets with at least N likes. at least that's the theory; in practice it doesn't seem to be exactly N, idk what's going on with that. use this to find popular tweets or at least filter out unpopular ones. example:

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Jan 22

did you know brit marling from the OA is a real person and you can just look up interviews of her talking about shit like why she left goldman sachs whenever you want it's nuts. she talks pretty much the way you'd expect her to having only watched the OA

2:57: "i was also just sad. y'know? like i would go home from work and sometimes just cry. and it wasn't just, like, a few tears, it was the kind of existential crying that like -

it was heartbreak."

"i was heartbroken that - you brought this up earlier, the idea of like,

when does a kid lose their imagination?
when do they let go of that wild unbridled thing
and become the broken-in horse?
that was the moment for me."

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Jan 22

a friend sent me this clip of andrew garfield talking about his vocal training and i liked it so much i am going to transcribe what he's saying, lightly cleaned up, so you can all read it (but please just listen to the clip)

"well, it's vulnerable. going back to the vulnerability conversation, i found it to be... another chamber of my self, that i didn't know was there, that i was pretty scared to know existed."

"i had a great teacher, a great woman called liz kaplan, who basically does what you do, what you just said. it's not about imitating, it's not about being a singer, it's about unveiling *your voice*. how your soul is expressed through your voice."

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