#Exponential

James Lindsay, man of internet swagger

ConceptualJames

So... here we are three weeks later, and I'm not writing this nine days early to tell you the good news.We haven't passed these predictions (which were by my model

jonstokes.com

jonst0kes

Mathematically speaking, it looks like this is now baked in. And when the healthcare system is overwhelmed, the fatality rate for COVID spikes. We are going to lose a lot

WhatWouldSnidelyWhiplashDo?

DailyDoodle1962

Yesterday, May 26, the http://worldometers.com website documented more than 100,000 Americans who died of Covid-19. I write this thread as a way of describing to anyone who might read this

Stat Arb

quant_arb

Back to the quant topics:Microstructural fair value!Let's dive into it:1/n The usual approach is to take the midprice which is just the average between the best bid and ask. This

Trevor Bedford

trvrb

This is a thread about how to interpret the seemingly sudden appearance of #COVID19 across the much of the US in the past week with some back-of-the-envelop calculations for number

Bulama Bukarti

bulamabukarti

Yesterday, @KNSMOH announced 12 new cases & first Covid-19 death in Kano. This rises total cases to 21 and makes Kano the 3rd state in Nigeria. This for a state

Pete Wharmby

commaficionado

I have a summary of why it is that poor people suffer so much, even in the UK.I call it my Bin Bag thesis.So, well off folk seem to find

Chris "in 2020 reality is spoopy enough 👻" DeLeon

ChrisDeLeon

we'll be fine all we need is for Americans to:-care about people besides themselves-understand long articles or graphs about hospital logistics-listen to domain experts-comprehend exponential growth so they won't downplay

Arvind Gunasekar

arvindgunasekar

A report by COV-IND-19 Study Group dated 22/3 had predicted "In the absence of any intervention,India can expect to see an exponential growth...predicted cumulative cases on 31/3 is 379,on 15/4

Akshat | Sarafina stan account

star_stufff

i want to take you on a tour of large numbers, small and large. i mean wayy too large, just so we can loosen up our sense of the universe.Stay

zkSync

zksync

1/ The ZK vs optimistic rollups debate is about to end.zkPorter, an engine for mass crypto adoption, is coming with EVM-enabled @zksync 2.0 this August. It will reshape the entire

Sara Danner Dukic

saradannerdukic

It’s difficult to get our minds around exponential growth because it’s largely invisible to us, even though we’re surrounded by it in our daily lives. (Mold grows exponentially. And yeast.

St. Rev ☯️🏴😻

St_Rev

I really want this to be true -- I had that vicious bronchitis in January -- but I really doubt it.I also don't want it to be true, because I

Maya Mikdashi

mayamikdashi

some small context for people who follow #Lebanon news less: Lebanon relies on imports for almost everything, including food and medicine/medical supplies. This is the largest & busiest national port

Fan Screening

FanScreening

I might change how the tweets are counted in the following weeks.Currently the program filters a few things, then goes through the actual tweet text and I am only counting

Ethan White

ethanwhite

Someone in my university IT department just sent an email about a data access outage, to a list that no one seems to know existed, that appears to have thousands