#Magnitude

Hannah Davis 🦈

ahandvanish

I don't usually do these kinds of posts, and I hope that everyone understands my intentions are good here.But. In a data deficient landscape like that of #longcovid, one bad

David Fisman

DFisman

Asked by a friend to comment on the reasonableness of the IHME forecasts for Canada (30+k deaths by Feb). (https://covid19.healthdata.org/canada?view=total-deaths&tab=trend). The IHME model is impressive... And again, based on the

Jacob F Kirkegaard

jfkirkegaard

As an early adopter of the "Hamiltonian Moment" description of what has recently happened in the EU with the new FR-DE proposal and now the EUR750bn @EU_Commission pplan that now

Fr. Patrick Behm...Jimmy G is still my quarterback

FrPBehm

A few random thoughts on corona...a vaccine isn’t a 100% guarantee. The flu vaccine doesn’t come close to 100% effectiveness. Eventually, we're going to have to transition to some semblance

BVDDY

BvddyCorleone

This week was... interesting. The election turbulence that some were predicting finally materialized. The most notable day of the week, IMO, was Wednesday: stocks sold off by more than 3.5%,

Jen Campbell

jenvcampbell

THREAD.I want to preface this post by acknowledging the magnitude of Chernobyl. It was and is the world’s biggest nuclear disaster. It has killed hundreds of thousands of people and

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oshaprapranurse

Asthenozoospermia (or asthenospermia) is the medical term for reduced sperm motility. Complete asthenozoospermia, that is, 100% immotile spermatozoa in the ejaculate, is reported at a frequency of 1 of 5000 men. It is a

Siqi Chen

blader

I worked for a startup called Powerset in 2007 that tried to build something like this. We spent $100M and it was bought by MSFT to become Bing in 2008.A

Ryan Frederick

ryanfred

Every Easter, this verse (John 1:5) enters my mind first.God didn't have to intervene. He didn't have to send His Son to overcome darkness. And he didn't have to humble

Trevor Makal

MakalMakal

I just saw a post about "If a fart can make it through underwear and a pair of jeans, how can a mask made of cloth save you from covid?

Dan Goldberg

DGoldbergAQ

(THREAD) Important caveats about the recent NO2 decrease articles circulating on NYTimes and CNN (and maybe elsewhere). Personally, I think these articles are a bit deceiving and here’s why… https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/03/22/climate/coro

Eric Seufert

eric_seufert

My @mobiledevmemo post for Monday is a deconstruction of FB's IDFA announcement and advertiser FAQ from last week. One interesting tidbit from the FAQ: FB is killing user list uploads

Daily Suffragist

DailySuffragist

Renounce: To give up, to resign, to surrender; esp. to give up in a complete and formal manner. Laura Clay ran the Kentucky Woman Suffrage Assoc. from its founding in

Professor Philip Nolan

President_MU

We face difficult decisions if we are to suppress again the spread of SARS-CoV-2, and different voices should be heard. However, such contributions should be grounded in the facts, and

Matt Edgar

mattedgar

Truth be told, this week I got a tiny bit tired of explaining that "agile" and "waterfall" are not equally valid delivery styles, but radically different theories of how things

tedfrank 💉

tedfrank

The 95% confidence levels of the UW model are so wide as to be worthless for planning, even if one buys its Procrustean guesses for assumptions about the effectiveness of