#Exponential

Deepti Gurdasani

dgurdasani1

It's important that the media comment within their realm of expertise, and not mislead the public. A misleading thread critiquing govt predictions around the COVID-19 pandemic without a real understanding

Will Munny

RealWillMunny

I'm no medical expert or data scientist or any of that. But I have pretty good pattern recognition, and I cannot possibly see how we will get from 8K to

Filip Babovic

filipbabovic

Really good explainer on the complexity of corona:https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-its-so-freaking-hard-to-make-a-good-covid-19-model/ More here:https://medium.com/data-for-science/epidemic-modeling-101-or-why-your-covid19-exponential-fits-ar

Courtney Milan 🦖

courtneymilan

A good faith discussion would start with a discussion of models versus model parameters, so let’s do that!https://twitter.com/JohnCornyn/status/1248581686352318464 A model is generally a mathematical and/or computational method that is used

Jenny O'Meara

omearajen

This is such a great piece on numbers, how we perceive them, and how they impact us. Thanks ⁦@Radiolab⁩ for fulfilling my goal to experience curiosity, wonder and awe everyday

Cathie Wood

CathieDWood

Predictably, when @elonmusk announced at Battery Day last week that $TSLA would cut the price of a Model 3 to $25,000, several financial analysts panicked, downgrading the stock and/or cutting

Tivadar Danka

TivadarDanka

There is a mathematical formula so beautiful that it is almost unbelievable.Euler's identity combines the famous numbers 𝑒, 𝑖, π, 0, and 1 in a single constellation. At first sight,

Peter Todd

peterktodd

Thread on shocking exponential growth, yet still fails to understand exponential growth.If your small interventions fail to stop growth, ~everyone is infected anyway. Then your small intervention has a small

Cynthia Mulligan

CityCynthia

NEW: Ontario has 411 new #covid19 cases, a 6.6% increase (yesterday it was 8.3%)Hospitalizations: 691 - up 18 from yesterdayPatients in ICU - 257 - down 3 from yesterday Patients

Clay Travis

ClayTravis

Me vs the coronabros for the past month. (Guess who has suddenly gone quiet as their millions of death models collapse all around them?) I need to make “you don’t

Jurrien Timmer

TimmerFidelity

It was four months ago that I first wrote about bitcoin, and a lot has happened (and a lot has been learned) since then. So here is a refresh of

Earth United

EarthUnited1

Our website is finally live!We are running out of time and need to spread this message like a virus.We need as much help as possible.https://www.earthunited.global #EarthUnited #CommonLaw #GlobalLawfulRebellion If you want

Ron Bassilian (R)

Ron4California

Okay. Thread on scale, Coronavirus, and the big scary Twinkie.https://youtu.be/K__vKoNtHss Diseases have a lifecycle. Once the genie is out of the bottle, it’s assumed it runs through the entire population.

Dr Zoë Hyde

DrZoeHyde

Must read piece in the Medical Journal of Australia."Herd immunity" is a terrible idea, requiring 61% of pop. infected to protect remaining 39%.May be up to 9 undetected cases for

Motor City Muckraker

MCmuckraker

Michigan @GovWhitmer at press conference says the state is "still a good month" away from reaching the peak in coronavirus cases. "We are in for a tough four, five, six

Aram Zucker-Scharff

Chronotope

There's probably a pretty good column in this about how the hyper capitalism of the post-2005 markets is fundamentally inimical to most news organizations.https://twitter.com/kenvogel/status/1248258400779145218 The irony is that the newspaper