#Model

Learning Technology

learningtech

When I was on staff in higher ed (before I became a freelancer), I had a near-infallible method for determining if faculty would make effective partners in implementing new instructional

Dr. Claire Lee 🎃

Claire_Lee

So glad you asked, this is a really interesting feature of #neutrinos!Neutrinos are weird for a number of reasons. They're fermions (particles of matter), but unlike all the rest of

David Grabowski

DavidCGrabowski

New OpEd in @washingtonpost @ml_barnett and I discuss the COVID-19 crisis in nursing homes and how our historic underinvestment in nursing homes has magnified the problem. We're getting what we

Berna Devezer

zerdeve

Reading Godfrey-Smith’s (2006) The Strategy of model-based science. Similar to Weisberg (whose ‘Who is a modeler?’ I tweeted about yesterday), GS treats models and model-building as characteristic of one particular

Zach 🐷🇮🇹

zrau

Donning my actual "academic training" hat, despite the ever-growing knowledge base on COVID-19, it's probably difficult to limit the amount of uncertainty inherent to playing football in an ongoing pandemic.

DNA Learning Center

DNALC

It’s “DNA Day” EVERY day here at the DNALC! This year since we’re all at home, we want to celebrate National DNA Day (April 25) with you. We're hosting a

Jonathan Ellis

argusjellis

Let me tell you about an email I got this morning from the @govkristinoem senior adviser, Maggie Seidel, recently of Wash D.C. But before I do, first, a little about

Rhiannonny 🐰✨

Rhiannonny

How to hobby on a bad day.. whether you’re having a bad day physical health wise, or mental health wise, I’m putting down my best tips (tried and tested) for

Dmitry Kobak

hippopedoid

Did you know that the optimal ridge penalty λ in linear regression can be *negative*? It's always strictly positive when n>p. Or when cov(x)=I. Or when true β is random.

Samboni Zamboni💖💖👻

SamboniZamboni

Oh dear. So like the big theory about the social role of illness is based in the functionalist model (which is outdated and sociologists hate and is only really taught

Neurodivergent Rebel 🧠 🏳️‍🌈

NeuroRebel

I believe untraumatized Autistic people exist, though many are likely undiagnosed because the diagnostic manuals used to determine if a person is Autistic is a weakness model - based on

Martyn L

IPA_Gangs

THREADI applaud any effort to promote a policing career within the BAME community but really cannot help but think that to many this story is counter productive. All the talk

SMSD Watchdogs

SmsdWatchdogs

Our latest FB post: Burger King lets you “have it your way” in order to customize your dining experience to satisfy your personal tastes. Similarly, the Johnson County Health Department

Jon Deeks

deeksj

BMJ Editorial @bmj_latest on why Moonshot is scientifically unsound. with Tony Brookes and @AllysonPollock has just been published herehttp://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/bmj.m3699#Moonshot @UoB_IAHR @unibirm_MDS 1/10 Moonshot plans uses point

Aaron Rupar

atrupar

Trump has jokes: "The models show hundreds of thousands of people are going to die and you know what I want to do? I want to come way under the

the notorious D.O.G. 😷🇺🇲

DogOfPoasts

I'm late to the party on this, but the IHME model is apparently just trend extrapolation, and relatively crude 70-year-old laurel-resting full prof trend extrapolation at that https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/03/29/the-second-derivativ