#Analysis

Thread: Today, NIST released a study on facial recognition of masked faces, finding face masks increased error rates from as low as 0.3% to between 5% & 50%. More usefully,
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When Trump brags about his supposedly growth-boosting deregulatory agenda, this is the kind of thing he's talking aboutIf your business model depends on pumping soot into the air, I can
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My wife (The good lady data scientist her indoors) has done an analysis of Ireland's peformance in the most recent PISA results. They do not bode well for the future
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My ocean carbon people: Anyone else feeling overwhelmed by, among other things, the sheer number of air-sea CO2 flux-related studies this year? I'm loving it but OMG I can't keep
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Are you confused about why it is that sometimes nuclear costs seems to increase even though nothing has changed? Alright then. Prepare thyself for a #thread on possibly one of
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DHSC has published the results of its trial of lateral flow tests – the one it is going with for mass testing is the Innova antigen assay. A thread (and
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This is racist pseudosciencehttps://twitter.com/CJR/status/1273011468728807424 The word "ethnic" means "relating to a population subgroup... with a common national or cultural tradition"The notion that the people we call
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Can capitalism solve its crises? Is innovation possible without the public sector? Why can’t politicians solve basic problems? And what’s wrong with shareholder value?Was great to speak to @MazzucatoM about
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THREAD:  It is a complete myth that Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera started the Stonewall riots, & thus the transgender community is responsible for Pride/LGB rights. This false claim has
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A thread on Trend-lines // What are trend-lines?Trend-lines are support and resistance lines which are formed by connecting Important swing points.The beauty of using them is that We can use
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I grew up in an Italian household where everyone loudly disagreed, and I listed to quite a bit of sports talk radio in NY. As "uncivil" as both of those
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Are house prices in a bubble that's about to burst? As strong as the property market is right now, experts are worried that it won't last.Mortgage broker @Coreco sums it
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A very warm welcome to the first plenary session of #IEPA12 featuring Prof Patrick McGorry @PatMcGorry from the University of Melbourne: His talk is entitled: “The Next Stage for Early
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Kim Ng has been named General Manager of the Miami Marlins, becoming the first female GM in MLB history.From intern to GM, and an abundance of challenges in between, her
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My latest report - on how #COVID19 is affecting violence against women and girls in Nigeria - is here: http://www.sddirect.org.uk/media/2062/vawg-helpdesk-q311-nigeria-impact-of-covid19.pdf.Short thread follows... 1/n VAWG was widespread in
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Rust Belt Trend Thread - PA Focus1) Refer to my Pinned Thread as a starting point if you are picking me up now.2) Once again, the purpose of my content
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