#Estimate

Lorren Eldridge

loreldridge

This is a good one for contract law students. *If* a particular clause was found to be a "penalty" and not a legit liquidated damages clause, English law did use

Kris Jones

Thekrisjones

Who's marathon world record was 'better' - Eliud Kipchoge, 2:01:39 in 2018 or Dennis Kimetto, 2:02:57 in 2014? A thread (1/13) Both performances were run in Berlin Marathon, in similar

Andy Summers

Summers_AD

Richard is effectively modelling here a capital gains tax that works on an accruals (instead of realisation) basis, which is not totally crazy, in fact what a lot of economists

Mrutyunjay Joshi

MrutyunjayNJ

November 7, 1966Parliament House, Delhi.It is long pending demand in India for a rule on complete Ban of Cow-Slaughter. Even the constitution mentions in it's directive principles.On this day, 1966

Graham Neary

GrahamNeary

Let me tell you a story. It's about six passenger flights from Wuhan that led to an unprecedented global disaster.These six flights help to explain why the entire world was

Adam Kucharski

AdamJKucharski

There are two main ways to estimate the reproduction number for SARS-CoV-2, and I'd like to discuss the one that doesn't get so much attention... 1/ Most reported R values

Jordan Crucchiola

JorCru

The quiet genius of Amanda Bynes raising her hand to God when she made her points in EASY A So discreet yet so POWERFUL. Like, don’t you ever under estimate

Lyman Stone 石來民 🦬🦬🦬

lymanstoneky

Time for my COVID graphs!First up, the graph I'm increasingly thinking is the best summary: average daily % growth over the previous week in deaths, confirmed positive cases, AND now

Ariel Karlinsky

ArielKarlinsky

@IHME_UW just released a report estimating excess deaths at about 2x total COVID deaths in the world. The details of the analysis are here: http://www.healthdata.org/special-analysis/estimation-excess-mortality-due-covid-19-and-scalars-repo

HJ Giles

HarryJosieGiles

How do you engage with online transphobia?Some questions for trans folk to think through. (A thread) (1) How much time do you spend arguing with transphobes on the internet? Write

Scott Adams

ScottAdamsSays

Thought experiment: If a bicycle cannot fly, is it a defective bicycle? I only ask because virus prediction models are being called defective based on the fact they do not

Prof Francois Balloux

BallouxFrancois

One intriguing aspect about the #COVID19 pandemic is that we still have no good idea about the virus' Infection Fatality Rate (IFR), and we don't even seem to be making

Value Investigator

value_invest12

I’m on a discount-to-NAV shopping spree. During crises, some listed investments fall way more than their underlying net asset values (NAVs). Value stocks, defined as those with the highest discounts

Gerg

Gergyl

A useful contribution. Reminder: There is nothing natively logarithmic about f' vs f (what they're ~plotting), unlike f'(t) vs t and f(t) vs t, which have have a fundamental logarithmic

Mark Hoofnagle

MarkHoofnagle

There is no evidence this is true. What is true, is that when surveyed, gun owners will recall many defensive gun uses. It is unclear if this is an artifact

Fatima Al Sayah

Fatima_AlSayah

1/ TESTING TESTING & MORE TESTING! Why the confirmed # of COVID-19 cases in Lebanon highly underestimates the actual # of cases? @mophleb @WHOLebanon @thehealthnerds #Lebanon #COVID19 #FlattenTheCurve #RaiseTheLine #healthNERDS