#Mathematical

Kit Yates

Kit_Yates_Maths

As epidemiology seems to be taking over the news I thought I’d provide a little glossary of phrases that are appearing in the media in the context of the #COVID-19

The DM Reporter

DMReporter

AGENDA: The Daily Mail is not a newspaper. It is the covert communications wing of the Conservative Party. They cherry-pick opinions that form a narrative of support for the government

Laurie Rubel

Laurie_Rubel

(thread) So @YehCathery and I wrote recently about what it could mean to #queer mathematics (Oh the men trolling me are going to love this), in a chapter in a

Max

Max08013598

#CLST6 #LookCloser10 Before we were all trapped in our housees, I was lucky enough to visit the excavation of the Domus AureaIt serves as a perfect example of the complexity

Natalie Wolchover

nattyover

Confusion surrounds the nature of time. The physicist Nicolas Gisin argues that the problem is mathematical. In recent papers, he claims that math with finite numbers describes a universe in

Ben Spielberg

BenSpielberg

Economics instruction in the United States consists largely of empirically unsupported political theory masquerading as mathematical fact. I very much appreciate this admission from the economics profession’s defenders that introductory

👑 Alex

Alexsemerdjian

Remember when I asked what A+ A is? A or AA or something else? Still no satisfiable answer If A=A / B=B / C=C and A+B+C=ABCThen whats A+A? A because

MacKenzie

Smackenziekerr

Bill Gates talked about using vaccines to control population growth, here is the unedited 2010 TED Talk video plus the transcripthttps://techstartups.com/2021/10/06/bill-gates-talked-using-vaccines-control-population-growth-unedited-2010-t

James Lindsay, man of internet swagger

ConceptualJames

Here we go again.I'm so annoyed with amateur hour at philosophy moving the ball for radicals, and you should be too.https://twitter.com/kareem_carr/status/1298991910636453888 "Is math real?" is the wrong question. Someone in

Magic8Ball

Magic_Octo

Based on the current lifespan of team rosters and the format of our scene’s tourneys, a simple “power ranking” for the top 30 - 50 NA teams would honestly be

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wooseokzi

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Scruffy Paladin

mongward

I'm preparing the campaign pitch document for my unfortunate players and as I arrived at the third option I got the dumbest idea for a mechanic that is suitable for

Allen Cheng

peripatetical

A thread about epidemic modelling, prompted by calls to "release the modelling" and the MJA paper. #COVID19 Disclaimer: I'm an epidemiologist and ID physician. I have published the occasional mathematical

Sarah Otto

sarperotto

1/n I've been asked a few times about the math in this recent Science paper, so here's a thread to help unpack it: A mathematical model reveals the influence of

Dimas

DreamOnShadows

These are my thoughts on Big O notation. I'll simplify as much as I can, but can't promise. Let's start with the general concept, then some Math and a couple

Marc Lipsitch

mlipsitch

Two of these scientists, @SunetraGupta and @MartinKulldorff, have long been my friends. But I think they are dead wrong without a demonstrated plan for how such shielding would work. There