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Anselm Eickhoff
ae_play
I’ve been talking to lots of smart and creative people about their note-taking setup lately.A few surprises:- many use plain text files & their default/favorite text editor- some use paper
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Your Daddy
ToyosiGodwin
A thread of things that should be normalized. Normalize frying the peel of plantain instead of the plantain. Normalize wearing slippers to official meetings. Normalize admitting when you're wrong. Normalize
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Meaghan Walker
slopclothes
I wish someone would tell these scientists about how we did this already in the 1970s and 1980s. It was even called Cliometrics.https://twitter.com/lottelydia/status/1194158496343822337 I have a weird relationship with Cliometrics
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Géraldine Woessner
GeWoessner
Presque un an.La nouveauté désormais, c'est qu'on sait avec certitude que :- Les glyphotests sont bidons.- L'étude de Séralini était fausse (il a fallut 15 millions d'€ d'argent public pour
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z
yoitszachtaylor
parts of our congress are completely ignorant. it has nothing to do with bipartisan aides or political views, i speaking on the business side. congress had the four biggest american
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Ben Golub
ben_golub
A thread on what we can learn about polarization of opinions from a simple behavioral network model.Remember the DeGroot model? It says you decide what to think tomorrow by taking
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Cory Doctorow
doctorow
To understand financialized snake-oil, you must understand Goodhart's Law: "Any measure can become a target." Goodhart's Law explains why something that works really well at the outset quickly turns into
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German Demidov
not_a_reptiloid
A long thread about the psychotherapy (is it the right name?)OKey, I can admit it, I have an anxiety problem. I am not formally trained in causal inference, but I
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Bodleian Libraries
bodleianlibs
With a strong and silent disposition, natural gravitas, and timeless good looks, the Bodleian Library is often head-hunted as a shooting location for film and TV productions.From battling queens to
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Sinead O'Carroll
SineadOCarroll
There's a weird social media thing happening with the Eamon Ryan story... that people want there to be a for/against, ideological divide. There shouldn't have to be. What's happening, IMO,
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liz gerard
gameoldgirl
OK, I’m going to regret this. But I’m going to throw this at you anyway.I haven’t listened to the news for 24 hours. I haven’t watched live TV. I haven’t
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Yossi Gestetner
YossiGestetner
I read the articles by @splcenter about @JackPosobiec. They try to sandbag him overA) getting 2 stories wrongB) a stuntC) Speaking at an event attended by a then-@DailyCaller writer.D) Having
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Stewart McDonald MP
StewartMcDonald
1/ FM @NicolaSturgeon entirely correct on independence and nuclear weapons. They will be removed from Scotland at pace but with safety as the uppermost priority. This will be an issue
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Julia Strand
juliafstrand
I recently found a massive error in one of my published papers. The main finding was the result of a programming bug and was, in fact, completely untrue. THREAD with
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Anne of Cleves🚶🏼♀️🚲🛴🚌
amtillie
I sold my car ~8 months ago. I still think its one of the best decisions I've ever made. I paid off some loans and I save about $130 a
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Michael Nielsen
michael_nielsen
When reading popular books in a field I'm often uncertain how to treat the evidence. I'm reading Haidt's "The Righteous Mind". Fascinating, and much agrees with my prejudices. But I
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