#Mathematical

General Theorist

GeneralTheorist

I can’t claim to be an expert on the Fed. But what the heck, everybody's clever nowadays. Here are some random thoughts by an outsider on the Powell speech. And

Rebecca L. Spang

RebeccaSpang

People fantasizing about what they would do with a lot of money often say, “When I win the lottery…” #MoneyAtoZ is at its midpoint; today we hit the jackpot.L is

Dylan Morris

dylanhmorris

You've heard a lot about "flattening the curve". @fernpizza, @jplotkin, Simon Levin, and I have a new preprint showing you the (provably!) most efficient way to do it! But as

James Lindsay, man of internet swagger

ConceptualJames

In light of this, a few people have asked me to elaborate on if math is created or discovered. My answer to this is "both," and it's complicated. Mathematics, however,

Sophie Hill

sophie_e_hill

Harvard will continue employing David Kane, who has never published in a statistics journal and has a history of making basic stats errors, as Preceptor of Statistical Methods.This isn't just

Tim Harford

TimHarford

So, Rule One: SEARCH YOUR FEELINGS.What we believe, or refuse to believe, is strongly influenced by our emotional reaction. A lot of the statistical claims we see aren’t just data:

Artem Chernikov

archernikov

Saharon Shelah and number 4, a thread. Shelah is an incredibly prolific mathematician working mostly in mathematical logic who has (co-)authored around 1500 papers so far. His other superpower is

Brian Riedl 🧀

Brian_Riedl

MEGA-THREAD: @mattyglesias competently summarizes the "Debt no longer matters, so relax & add more" case. But these arguments - common on econ Twitter - dismiss two key realities:1) Baseline debt

Michael J Barany

MBarany

A couple more thoughts on this bit of advice in response to @extremefriday 's call for suggestions for overhauling her department's math history course.Confining non-Western traditions to the past is

RapperPandit ↗️

RapperPandit

#LostHistory1947 Partition is not Only 2MillionDe@ths, but Colossal Destruction of DharmaLost Places of Pakistan:-Prahladpuri: Place of Lord Narasimh Avatar-Shaktipeeths: Where the Brain&Righthand of MaaShakti fell-Learning Centers: Sha

Akshat | Sarafina stan account

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BLACK HOLES! A thread about the most fascinating and the most mysterious objects in the Universe! We will encounter their history, origin, how do they work and what happens if

Pasquale "Pat" Scopelliti

ThyConsigliori

2 October 2020 #MAGAanalysis #CoronaVirus#IStandWithTrump The virus China sent has found its greatest target. Some of you may recall that earlier this year, I mapped out a sequence of steps

Zero HP Lovecraft 🦅🐍

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The quokka is a meme animal that lives on Bald Island on the SW coast of Australia, where it has no natural predators. If you visit this island, it will

Blaze Maximus | Astrologer

AstroByMax

Moon and the Unconscious The Moon is one of the vital points in the chart, because it is one of the lights. What does it mean for a planet to

History Under Your Feet

HistorifyToday

Today is the birth anniversary of iconic scientist Richard Feynman, if there was some one I would call a maverick, it is him. defied the stereotype of a scientist, being

James Ward

JamesWard73

HI thread Mark II: after I tweeted last week about Herd Immunity (HI), quite a lot of people got in touch to point out that my model was either over-estimating