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Michael 英泉 Eisen ✓

@mbeisen · 37° 14′ 6″ N, 115° 48′ 40″ W · joined 01 Feb 2009

I science & try to make science open. Tweets do not represent my employer's views, but are always correct. My conflicts of interest https://t.co/77P0LDe6VR.

73 100Followers
13 123Following
78 011Posts total
270.2KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

@mbeisen This analogy doesn’t work. In pure math the proof isn’t the end product What OpenAI did was equal to HGTTG: asking the AI the meaning of life and it spitting out 42. It was completely useless. The actual value was all the theories and steps invented, used to get to th 1.1K views · 14 likes · 0 reposts · 6 replies Open on X →
@mbeisen But curing cancers is only a tool and proxy for achieving the primary goal of conceptual understanding and insight. That’s where it goes completely off the rails. 2.8K views · 20 likes · 0 reposts · 3 replies Open on X →
@mbeisen In the similar vein--but shifted to weavers at the onset of industrial revolution.. https://t.co/FL51732l7U 2.1K views · 14 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →
https://t.co/brpBPmhftd 229K views · 894 likes · 115 reposts · 76 replies Open on X →
Came across this very thoughtful entreaty.. https://t.co/dkJeFjs7Z4 https://t.co/8LjSPAPDjG
25.5K views · 108 likes · 14 reposts · 9 replies Open on X →
@mbeisen At least the committees of distinguished and now emeritus professors don’t have to bother themselves with these affairs, and the next generation now has the opportunity to pay poor governance forward 230 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →
after decades of feckless, mercenary navel gazing, academia has squandered the chance to control its own future 3.4K views · 40 likes · 6 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →
Pipevine Swallowtail https://t.co/n4YZq6RoJJ
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@mbeisen Did personal computers? Nuclear energy (weapons + power)? Synthetic biology? Free and end-to-end-open AI will make world better also. Alongside powerful technologies, humans have to organize ourselves so goodness wins. (But goodness cannot have a reductive / consensus 77 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →
I'll believe AI is making the world better when it comes up with a better way to package SD cards. 2.4K views · 10 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →
space is amazing https://t.co/rnXBTfmZKQ
Image showing Andromeda Galaxy (M31), M110 surrounding stars imaged from Cazadero, CA between 1 and 3 AM on July 10, 2022 with Skywatcher 130PDS and Nikon D850.
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Against accounts of the same size

11 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. ordinary reach for its size, weaker reaction than most.

Median views2 141this account924median for 10K–100K
Reach, %2.93%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K
Engagement, %0.72%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K
MetricThis accountMedian for 10K–100KRatio
Median views per post2 1419242.32×
Reach (views ÷ followers)2.93%3.62%0.81×
Engagement rate0.72%1.52%0.47×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

2.4K7 Sep
77
2.1K8 Sep
1.6K
3.4K
230
25.5K11 Sep
229K12 Sep
2.1K
2.8K
1.1K

Last 11 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.46%7 Sep
1.30%
0.28%8 Sep
0.84%
1.40%
0.00%
0.51%11 Sep
0.47%12 Sep
0.72%
0.83%
1.82%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.

What the audience does

Likes64.7%1 117 in total
Reposts7.9%137 in total
Replies5.7%98 in total
Bookmarks21.7%374 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

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