#Magnitude

Alan Cooper

MrAlanCooper

In the latter years of the 1980s Bill Gates saw IBM as his archenemy. He planned his assault on that company brilliantly. He partnered with them to develop mission critical

Bill Braniff

BraniffBill

(1/10) Hate and bias crimes are a national security issue (THREAD) (2/10) @START_UMD ‘s Domestic Rad team (follow @RaD_UMD) has produced BIAS, a 1st-of-its-kind representative dataset on perps of hate/bias

Ali Velshi

AliVelshi

1/9This week, Republican Rep. @Jim_Jordan of Ohio used a tightly edited clip of my reporting as part of the Bill Barr hearing. He made it an example of the media

Claudia🌴🐾🌵

ct_la

[From today's WaPo, no link because trump's horrible mug]Put yourself in Fauci's shoes.No really, try.Pretend your field of expertise and experience is crucial to saving lives right now and that

Asha Rangappa

AshaRangappa_

So my plague reading list includes this book, by @J_A_Lockwood, on the locust invasion in the U.S. in 1875. It’s really good. And believe it or not, I got this

Ben Jacobson

bjacobso

Facebook, and perhaps all social platforms, should introduce a “dislike” button. If even only experimentally.Let me explain why— a thread... 1/15 Don’t get me wrong: a like button was a

Yassine Elmandjra

yassineARK

Bitcoin is the most compelling monetary asset to emerge since gold.As the birth of a new asset class, it could scale more than an order of magnitude to the trillions

Julie Ann Justo

julie_justo

Multicollinearity. Confusing concept, but common issue to watch for w/ regression. Disclaimer, I'm just a clinician, but here's how I explain it --> Redundancy. If you have 2 covariates essentially

William Dalrymple

DalrympleWill

The Diwani- the document that handed over the three richest provinces in India to the East India Company, 1765. Later, the British dignified the document by calling it the Treaty

Scribulatora

Scribulatora

Our government is not going to get everything right. Programs of this magnitude are going to have holes and come to life cumbersomely and awkwardly. There is no way around

John Roberts

john_actuary

A summary of some key points from @ICNARC's latest weekly update on COVID patients in ICU, on behalf of @ActuaryByDay and @COVID19actuary. New admissions have now risen to 3129 since

St. Rev ☯️🏴😻

St_Rev

This seems important, and there's a related point that I've only seen mentioned once, in a comment thread on an econ blog.Discussion of R0 tends to treat it as a

Prateek Waghre

prateekwaghre

As we gear up to get back to work at 9 AM after a long weekend. Remember that we have unrestricted internet access. Meanwhile, 30th May will mark 300 days

Dan Rosenheck

DanRosenheck

Data on visits to doctors for "influenza-like illness" imply covid-19 has spread 200x faster than official US data show. Counterintuitively, if true, this would be good news. New in @TheEconomist

FlexLoci

FlexLoci

Queue-Ran 2.0 [1:1]Chapter Name Tharak-un Nisa:"Beautiful women shalt only desire the Rinda's discipline Abdul, and try to wineth him by entering into his DM, for Al Aaah, the most merciful,

Indo-Pacific News

IndoPac_Info

Thread: Mao's Great Leap Forward 'killed 45 million in 4 years' - Mao Zedong, founder of Communist China, qualifies as the greatest mass murderer in world history, an expert who