#Measure

Carl T. Bergstrom

CT_Bergstrom

1. A short thread on Goodhart's Law and Campbell's law.When natural scientists take measurements of a macroscopic physical system, the system does not respond by changing its behavior in ways

Darusha Wehm

darusha

Whenever I see this come across my feed, I think of those of you for whom this is a kick in the teeth. I see you and you are great

Julien | MentalCodex

mentalcodex

If You Struggle Handling Criticism, Read This: The philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein has developed what @nntaleb called Wittgenstein’s Ruler. "Unless you have confidence in the ruler’s reliability, if you use a

Arvind Subramanian

arvindsubraman

Final *central* government revenue numbers for fiscal year 2019-20 for India released on Friday by Controller General of Accounts (CGA). Some confusion on their interpretation. Four take-aways 1/n 1. CGA

Holger Syme

literasyme

Finally catching up on #NotGranShax, and the conversation between @drlettycgarcia @noraj_williams and @emeramchugh is really highlighting the profound weirdness of how many Anglophone directors think. The whole notion of what

Rachel Laing

RachelLaing

Bry’s comments in this are maddening but also quite revealing of how deficient her knowledge is on land use and the Midway Community Plan, which came to council during her

Noah Haber

NoahHaber

Measure twice cut once (MTCO) is the solution if you want all 4 legs to be as close to 26" as you can. But that's not actually what you want.What

Osaretin Victor Asemota

asemota

Hypothesis:Money is a measure of scarcity of economic resources and not necessarily an indication of abundance. This is why the richest are not necessarily the happiest at every place. They

Beth Eyre

BethEyre3

I'm doing some productive procrastination. I want to hear about everyone's PhD research. In one tweet tell me about what you do! #AcademicChatter @OpenAcademics My research focuses on how neurovascular

Mark Kirstein

nonergodicMark

Thread on the Democratic Domestic Product DDP as an alternative to GDPIn this speech to @oecd_naec, Michael Higgins @PresidentIRL waves Goodbye 2 GDPand calls for a new different growth narrativeHiggins

Tom Rayner

RaynerSkyNews

Asked whether indirect imapcts of lockdown were fully considered, Whitty says "our view was the impact of secondary effects were likely to be relatively smaller than if we had not

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dishitarmy7

★ — some random and common sense questions to answer if you're bored — ★ 1. How Long Is A Fortnight? 2. True Or False : Wikipedia Is Written Only

Ottawa Public Health

ottawahealth

THREAD: MANDATORY MASKS. Please readPublic Health is about following evidence, so when we call for change, that change is the result of what our evidence is telling us. Lately evidence

Burak Nehbit

nehbit

While working on speeding up Aether, I recently discovered the Vue 'performance' mode, which outputs detailed info to Chrome perf devtools. After playing around this for a few days, here

George Peretz QC

GeorgePeretzQC

An under-reported aspect of the new NI protocol. Article 10 and Annex 5 apply the full panoply of EU State aid rules (the law; its application by the Commission and

Courtney G.

telegram620

Alright, I can’t take it anymore. Long political rant time. Let’s talk about the Metro Measure 26-218 #orpol (1/x) This measure would fund Metro area safety, transportation, and transit projects.