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Sam Tsimikas, MD

Lpa_Doc

Saturday Morning Class #3: Saturday Morning Class #3: Lp(a) and the questionable paradox of longevity in centenariansOK got this done today, here it is: 1/16 First, it is well established

Sam Trabucco

AlamedaTrabucco

Alameda won't be participating in this, but it does present a chance to explain how we think about the value of man vs. machine in our trading.https://twitter.com/FTX_Official/status/1265128296217370625 People hear that

Laura Henderson

SixandLaura

1/ The k value, the dispersion of the R0 among cases, is low in SARS-cov-2, as it was in SARS 110-20% of cases cause 80-90% of new infections. *7/10 cases

Christian Althaus

C_Althaus

There is increasing interest in superspreading for COVID-19, not least due to an excellent article by @kakape on the topic 1/9https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/05/why-do-some-covid-19-patients-infect-many-others-whereas-most-don-t-spread

Jesse Walden

jessewldn

In crypto, user-ownership can help drive network growth faster than any Web 2 growth hacking tricksBut nailing an effective ownership distribution is one the biggest challenges (and opportunities) for teams.Best

Yardley Yeadon

MichaelYeadon3

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.26.20080911v3.full.pdfThe operational false positive rate of the widely used PCR test is so large that ALL the mass testing data since June should be flushed. Think of cities & areas

Mostly Borrowed Ideas

borrowed_ideas

1/ Thread: Is Cricket a game of skill or luck?Cricket is the only sport I have religiously followed since childhood.You don’t have to understand Cricket to be able to follow

Scott Hechinger

ScottHech

The @ManhattanDA charged this man being punched in the face with violent felony assault on the cop. The claimed injury was the *swelling to cop’s fist.* Read that again. Take

Daisy Christodoulou

daisychristo

Today we're publishing the results of a NESTA-funded research project we carried out in 2019-20 to compare assessing primary writing with Comparative Judgement (CJ) and the Teacher Assessment Framework (TAF).

Kevin Carey

kevincarey1

1/ Higher education is in enormous financial trouble. You might think "free college" is the solution. In the 2020 @Monthly College Guide, I argue that's wrong -- and propose what

James Bejon

JamesBejon

THREAD: Daniel’s Date of Composition (2nd Ed.).Historically, the vast majority of Bible commentators took the book of Daniel to represent the memoirs of a 6th cent. exiled prophet (named Daniel).In

stable lender

investing_guy

If the media wants to scare the shit out of ppl concerning mortgage lending standards tightening. Please also tell them if ppl don’t abuse the forebearance system this doesn’t have

man is human

EarthManat

1/11 Is Geothermal energy + Lithium extraction sustainable & green & clean?5 independent scientific studies and much more will help you to answer this question, Thread: 2/11Is Geothermal energy +

Sander Wagner

sanderwagner

Starting a thread summarizing Coronavirus research.Disclaimer: I am not an epidemeologist and studies are being produced very quickly and on often sketchy and problematic data. I will try my best

Darren 🥚 🐣 🕊️

ReformedTrader

1/ Crowding and Factor Returns (Kang, Rouwenhorst, Tang)"We construct a direct measure of factor strategy crowding that is based on CFTC aggregate positioning. Crowding measure has a strong negative predictive

Kyle

realcommonking

Here is my investment universe. The highlights mean a change occurred in the last year. Grey = new addition, Green = upgrade, Red = downgrade. The portfolio model is weighted