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RNesrudin

1. As always, the people at @Wazemaradio are engaging in accurate & truth reporting, which is exactly what we need, especially in a desperate time such as this one. We

Sumit Middha

bioinfosm

Great to see @MayoClinic work on #COVID2019 with this antibody IgG IgM test coming up .. seems to have @US_FDA EUA done with Cellexhttps://www.biospace.com/article/fda-approves-1st-covid-19-antibody-test/?TrackID=16 #COVID19 #SARSCoV2 for good measur

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HormetcAesthetc

1/ Thread: Hormesis 101. Hormesis is a biphasic dose response organisms have to environmental agents/stressors. It is biological proof that the Nietzschism, "Was mich nicht umbringt macht mich stärker" —arguably

Julien | MentalCodex

mentalcodex

If You Struggle Handling Criticism, Read This: The philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein has developed what @nntaleb called Wittgenstein’s Ruler. "Unless you have confidence in the ruler’s reliability, if you use a

Sahil Bloom

SahilBloom

Noise Bottleneck 101With the media in election frenzy, it has become increasingly difficult to find the signal amidst all the noise. We encounter a classic @nntaleb "noise bottleneck."But what is

Vibin

VibinByDesign

[Thread] Nassim Taleb's 17 best one-line wisdom.@nntalebbot @nntaleb @TalebWisdom 1. The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary. 2. Atheists are just modern versions of religious

Simon DeDeo

SimonDeDeo

Great paper by Douven on IBE (vs Bayesianism). An ergodicity argument against Bayes à la @ole_b_peters and @nntaleb—Bayes may be "optimal", but only because it does well on exponentially unlikely

NIDHAL SELMI - نضال السالمي

imleslahdin

It's a physics based simulation. Assuming population movements dynamics to be similar (at least in aggregate) to those of billiard balls bouncing on a flat frictionless table.https://twitter.com/BarackObama/status/1239267360739074048 More simulat

Patrick Parfrey

PatrickParfrey

Rightly so. Whatever you have been fed previously by WHO about masks being ineffective was a lie. Here’s the evidence collated by @naval https://twitter.com/naval/status/1241157415262814208?s=21 https://twitter.com/patphelan/status/124401073371478835

Ivan M Kurnia ن

ivanmkurnia

Just finished reading a journal titled “Less than Ten—Surgeons with amputated fingers”, published in 1982 and it’s glorious.I especially love the optimistic tone of the writing compared to today’s hypersensitivity

Joe Norman

normonics

Short twitter lesson on the connections between Antifragility and Requisite Variety:Living systems must be able to respond to the variety of their environment in order to survive. 1/9 For instance,

Thiyagarajan Maruthavanan (Rajan)

mtrajan

@nntaleb ideas are important for us & future generations. Yet his ideas are not easy to understand. Not for kids. They are summarized on the internet, but in no place

Sahil Bloom

SahilBloom

Lindy Effect 101With Bitcoin's return to the spotlight, debates on its long-term viability are raging. Its proponents contend @nntaleb's Lindy Effect says the technology is here to stay.But what is

Christopher Govender

Chris_Cal_

"I often create something I know not how. Surprised by the result, I jump do it again. " "Say anything," he said. "You can't make a mistake when you improvise.""What

Hunter

terra_astra

1/ I’ve spent the last several years deeply studying primary #education, it’s history, it’s philosophies, it’s practice. It has huge problems, as we all know intuitively and objectively. The single

Littlefoot

LTF_01

I used to also think academia served something of a civil function, sort of like monasteries in the Middle Ages. The ivory tower a sort of Sacra di San Michele,