#Computational

The Disordered Cosmos by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

IBJIYONGI

Meet Professor Barbara Williams, the first Black American woman to earn a PhD in astronomy/astrophysics. She earned her PhD in 1981 from University of Maryland. She retired from doing radio

Calling BS on Silicon Valley's AI dudebros

ai_calling

1/11 Wanna learn machine learning? Stop following "influencers" who sell snake oil for self promotion. There are plenty of incredible scientists, engineers, and professors who've made a lot of materials

Ming Zhao

FabiusMercurius

Jim Simons’ Playbook: the King of Quant90% of active managers fail to beat the market, but Medallion boasts >40% annualized returns, 98.5% in '00 & 82.4% in '08.What gives?Hint: it's

Ame

RainAfterDark

Oyasumi Punpun Interpret this as you may. You could say it's a non-score. Rating sites treat a zero rating as such. And it is half true in this case. This

Zero HP Lovecraft 🦅🐍

0x49fa98

“You've got to believe in something... the problem is there's more than psych truth... there's a need for the numinous"Tom identifies an important puzzle: whatever shall we make of faith?https://twitter.com/tomxhart/statu

Ale `Scinawa' Luongo

scinawa

Hello #quantum and #MachineLearning friends. I would like to finally share with you https://quantumalgorithms.org an open-source set of lectures notes on quantum algorithms, with a particular focus on machine learning

cancerconnector

CancerConnector

Something I’ve been thinking and talking about a lot during this #COVID19 pandemic is how seemingly small differences are being magnified in likely long-lasting ways. A THREAD (mostly about academia,

Conor Ruzycki

caruzycki

Quick note: as others have pointed out, plexiglass barriers like the ones to be used tonight in the VP debate (and ones that I've seen used in restaurants in Edmonton

R for the Rest of Us

rfortherest

In my Going Deeper with R course (https://rforthe.rest/deeper ) I post links to resources to help people learn more on topics. Here are some in the data wrangling and analysis section.

Andy Matuschak

andy_matuschak

This is a thoughtful new review of the “interactive explanation” milieu: https://distill.pub/2020/communicating-with-interactive-articles/. I’m a friend of the format—I’ve written articles like this myself—but I worry it’s tra

Chris Combs

DrChrisCombs

Great question from @Geopilot on this @pilliarscreatio post: why does the exhaust plume impinge on the aft portion of the Saturn-V first stage in the photo below? Let’s talk supersonic

Berna Devezer

zerdeve

I want to highlight some non-mainstream work on reproducibility, open science, replication crisis, meta-science by women. Reading and drawing from a diverse set of authors and ideas will help push

Dr. Angela Rasmussen

angie_rasmussen

This type of reporting on #SARSCoV2 #COVID19 #coronavirus makes my blood boil. There is no evidence that the dominant strain is such because it is "more contagious"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-05-05/mutant-coronavirus-has-e

Michael Lombardo

mvlombardo

Pleased to share our latest work showing how autistic men versus women may be differentially affected by the intrinsic balance between excitation and inhibition in social brain circuitry.https://elifesciences.org/articles/55684 Excita

Mar Hicks

histoftech

“Mathematical fairness is not the same as justice.” —@merbroussard author of Artificial Unintelligence, keynoting @SocHistTech @hssonline joint annual meeting online, and starting out with the example of the algorithmic grading

Quinn Dombrowski

quinnanya

.@elotroalex Computation is universal in the sense that it's a machine that should be able to predict or encompass all other machines. Input/output, say this thing = that thing, evaluate