#Metric

Matt Hartings

sciencegeist

Riffing off of @DrRubidium's thread here with one of my own.https://twitter.com/DrRubidium/status/1299347935461867521 We (the royal we ... not just me and some other people) decide what is excellent and what is

dan nguyen

dancow

I mean I fucking hate when the NYT does things like publishing that anonymous official’s “resistance” bullshit open. But it is extremely weird trying to divine qualitative conclusions about “obsession”

Blockfyre

blockfyre

1) We charted several progress indicators for Ethereum against its price development since its genesis.Besides other factors, the following 4 indicators have caught our interest the most.We feel comfortable to

Prof Francois Balloux

BallouxFrancois

Another meta-analysis based on 5 RCTs (5,577 patients) suggesting HCQ was associated with a ~24% [~3%-41%] reduction in a 'compound metric' of #COVID19 infection, hospitalisation and death. No serious adverse

Nicholas Carter

NicholasDCarter

Livestock production is often said to be responsible for only 4.2% of total U.S. GHGs. This is an EPA figure so many assume it's accurate.But this calculation doesn't account for

Adam Kucharski

AdamJKucharski

I think the below modelling output provides a useful illustration of how to evaluate forecasts. A short thread... 1/https://twitter.com/globalhlthtwit/status/1303011885348990976?s=20 First, let's be clear about difference between a '

Alex Berenson

AlexBerenson

1/ Okay - I promised an answer, so here goes, quickly.For several reasons it is not true that "COVID-19 has killed more Americans in six weeks than the flu does

Trinh Quyen Truong

trinhqtruong

I’m really tripping over this essay prompt: “Who is a refugee?”Should I just attach a photo of the denizens of Utica, NY Also I don’t know who needs to hear

Restore Scotland

RestoreScot

Yesterday, on @MarrShow, the interview with @AndrewMarr9 and @NicolaSturgeon threw up a number of disturbing facts and was a potent reminder that the SNP are weakening, rather than strengthening, the

Alasdair Rae

undertheraedar

When I'm doing talks about data, particularly averages, I like to use some extreme examples - like taking the average height of Muggsy Bogues and Manute Bol (6'5", google it),

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hello05311

LANGUAGE LEARNING THREAD//It's quarantine time and everyone's looking for things to do so I thought I would compile a thread on learning languages. I'm now conversational in 3 entirely dissimilar

Taliesin Jaffe

executivegoth

2020 is almost over and I feel I have something to get off my chest: I didn't get better. I didn't get healthier in mind or body. I didn't create,

George Mack

george__mack

"How to Operate" is one of my favorite lecturesKeith Rabois (@rabois) breaks down OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCEThe principles are taken from the experience helping build Square, LinkedIn and PayPalThey are timelessHere are

el gato malo

boriquagato

one of the key questions today is "does social distancing work to stop covid deaths?"i've done a lot of work on this in recent months.the answer looks to be an

*puts on flower crown, falls into a faerie circle*

Klezmerstyle

fun fact: as a child I assumed lb stood for "little babies," and that a little baby weighed exactly one lb so apparently it actually comes from the Latin phrase

Sean Carroll

seanmcarroll

Roger Penrose won the Nobel Prize for showing that black holes are an almost-unavoidable prediction of classical general relativity. Let's take a peek into what that entailed. 1/n Einstein wrote