#Mathematical

Look, I don’t want to be THAT GIRL again. But did anyone but me notice that all of these tributes, every one of them, is from a dude?https://twitter.com/benorlin/status/1249309732185280512 Yes, Conway
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Australian women leading the response to the Covid-19 crisis; A THREAD.1) Prof Sharon Lewin; brilliant HIV researcher working on a cure, and the inaugural director of The Peter Doherty Institute
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Bible study discussion thread: covers Leviticus 25:1-7, the seventh year rest, also called the sabbath year and shmita, in view of a) farming and gardening standpoint, and b) shadow and
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More fascinating stuff from @thesundaytimes on the Government's strategy for dealing with the virus. Well worth a read. Damning on the delays in imposing lockdown (1/5)https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/three-weeks-of-dither-and-de
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A short thread on herd immunity.Herd immunity is an incredibly important concept. It suggests diseases can be eliminated without everyone having immunity. If you want to eliminate an established disease
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This is so important and I wish there were more levers to get there. We've done assessment of online medialit (as has Sam) and I've learned more from three sentence
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Ah well, that's a bummer... This is a plot of some preliminary data from a series of simulations I ran to test some analysis... the curve should show 1 direction
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Yesterday, following a challenge, I was directed to this study that suggested screening for breast cancer could save lives."All‐cause mortality versus cancer‐specific mortality as outcome in cancer screening trials: A
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This poll seems to have amused some people and annoyed others: my guess is that the former mainly voted "No" or "It's complicated" and the latter mainly voted "Yes". Interestingly,
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I wonder kailan mabibigyang pansin ang “TECHNOLOGY” sa strand na STEM or it happens na sa ICT talaga dapat magtungo ang aspiring developers and programmers, pero what about the data
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Today someone asked me my thoughts on the utility of game theory for national security #wargaming. My thoughts are that there is none. Also, anyone who conflates the two is
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Devastating @thesundaytimes indictment of Johnson's handling of the coronavirus crisis, including a description of how, in neo-Stalinist style, his 2 March video message was later doctored, with the words "go
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THE WEIGHTED EFFECT OF PREDISPOSITIONS.What is going to kill you? Focus on that.In life outcomes, predispositions (can) have a disproportionate effect - a flare for art, extreme strength, aggression, a
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The mathematical model used to adjust A levels aligns grades with the past performance of the school. This means that kids who do well in schools with a poor record,
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I really wish the TWO unproduced screenwriters with overlong scripts I’ve worked with recently could see the overwhelming evidence that people, including industry people, do choose to not watch/delay-to-never-watch overlong
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This is such sick gaslighting. They keep moving the goalposts and pretending that nothing can change the outcome. Not true! #TestingTestingTestingDr. Birx predicts up to 200,000 coronavirus deaths in America
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