#Outliers

Helen Pluckrose has returned to Hermit Mode

HPluckrose

I get asked not to use the word "cis" often but I do because it is convenient in the same way that "heterosexual" is convenient even though it came into

Luca Dellanna

DellAnnaLuca

WE CAN LEARN MORE ABOUT LONGEVITY FROM THE ELDER THAN FROM THE ELDEST (thread)Yesterday, I read about a 392-years-old sharkMolson, in the thread below, correctly points out:- can be studied

Gary Cohn

Gary_D_Cohn

THREAD: As we worry about shortages w/ the Paycheck Protection Program for small businesses, we should think about how to guard against companies that are relatively unaffected by the crisis

Danny Boy

Care2much18

I'm sure this is a stupid idea but I did it anyway.I had a look at the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) published by Transparency International and compared coronavirus stats between

narayan devanathan

twinsighter

Yay! The #StormTheNorm podcast is at #6 in @spotifyindia's Top 100 Business & Technology podcasts: https://chartable.com/charts/spotify/india-business-technology… @Anisha21 and I started #StormTheNorm in 2019 BC (Before Covid-19)

Devan Fink

DevanFink

Random thought: Even if his career ended today, Joey Votto is a Hall of Famer. Votto has 1,866 hits and 284 home runs, both numbers that would suggest that he

Ramp Exotic

RampCapitalLLC

I want to play a game.Guess the closing price of the S&P 500 this week (EOD Friday 4/3/20).Closest guess without going over gets a $69 Amazon gift card from @TryGatsby

Mike MacFerrin, Glaciologist

IceSheetMike

Hey #SciTwitter/#StatsTwitter. My brain is quarantine-mushed, help me out. I'm tryna get reliable trendlines through data w/ measurement errors. See sample plot: Big outliers skew a linear regression, but a

Dr. Lavanya Vemsani Ph.D.

ProfVemsani

India is the first continent founded after Africa. India has the oldest female & male genetic lines. Continuous occupation since 80KYA. Agriculture originated 12YA separately in India. No migrations/population replacement.

Paul Johnston - @home / needing a new hobby

PaulDJohnston

Something I've noticed in tech: if you've worked at a big company and earned hundreds of thousands in stock, that doesn't make you any better than someone that hasn't. It

el gato malo

boriquagato

there seems to be a lot of grandstanding by the lockdown governors (who are almost invariably democrats as this issue has become distressingly partisan) but when one looks at red

fling posse struggle tweets 🐶🐟 @ project sekai

MakaHatsune

i had a blast here's some oc postssome dr oc ones that are outliers last one for now I LOCATED IT herehttps://twitter.com/MakaHatsune/status/1290032736095186944 digs

Dave D.

capt_neb

Until a couple years ago, Concordia was my favorite boardgame. Nowadays, whenever I consider playing it, I end up playing something else. I think it’s a great strategy game and

Rachel Y-C

DieSchweigsameF

Veritas is out and @forgingantiq are formulating some lessons we can learn by comparing the Gospel of Jesus’s Wife case with those many forgeries in the past. One thing we’d

COVID-19 Actuaries Response Group

COVID19actuary

Latest admissions and deaths data for English hospitals has been published.Daily admissions continue to increase exponentially. After a brief pause at 1000 a day, we saw 1,200 a day on

Beth Shelton

SheltonBeth01

Inclusion: a thread. (And picture)I recently worked w/ a company who offers a custom avatar in their software. They said everyone could make a replica of their own likeness. I