#Probability

Clément Canonne

ccanonne_

Also, neat trick related to the Poisson distribution ... if you take n i.i.d. samples from some discrete p, then the # times you see domain elem'ts are not independent

Evan LaPointe

evanlapointe

Everyone wants to feel heard. Listening takes time. If you want to move fast as a business, here's the secret:Build teams worth listening to.Here's how you do it, and what

Klavan Squarebeard, first of his name

SpencerKlavan

I didn’t expect to be quite this affected by coming to a state where they don’t wear masks anymore. I nearly teared up just looking the cashier at the gas

scott cunningham

causalinf

I am on a task force of local healthcare professionals and epidemiologists (don’t ask why someone thought I was competent enough to join something like that). I asked about false

𝗔nkeet

ankeetbajaj

1/8 Inspired to share one of my most intrinsic beliefs catalyzed by a tweet by @soniabhay6. Here goes: (thread) 2/8 There is an unsettling fact about our lives. That fact

Avinash Paliwal

PaliwalAvi

China hasn’t even begun prodding the Diphu Pass (unless it has & it’s not been reported). At the Myanmar tri-junction, this area witnessed heavy fighting in 1962 & is strategically

Samuel 👀

SamuelObe_

MENTAL MODELS: FallaciesFallacies based on illogical reasoning or unsound arguments are common. Spotting fallacies is a priceless skill.Here is a list of my top 15 fallacies (in no particular order)

Jordan Weissmann 🗽

JHWeissmann

In light of Nate Silver's viral tweet, here's a reminder that the electoral college has created a significant probability of minority rule for its entire history.https://slate.com/business/2019/09/electoral-college-republican-advant

Tim Dettmers

Tim_Dettmers

How can you successfully train transformers on small datasets like PTB and WikiText-2? Are LSTMs better on small datasets? I ran 339 experiments worth 568 GPU hours and came up

Aidan Regan

Aidan_Regan

Really enjoyed listening to @Paschald at the @iiea But it's obvious that politicians/policymakers don't fully understand what the @ecb is doing, and the effect of the multiple monetary policies they

Micheal OLainn

micheal_olainn

#Covid19 so little is actually known in scientific terms about Covid19 in terms of the fatality rate, the virulence, the infectivity, why different infected people have such different outcomes, the

Pete Clark #pmht

DoctorPete

THE WITHDRAWAL AGREEMENT FOR DUMMIESHere is a basic translation why the Tories want to rip up their internationally signed agreement.There were only ever 3 alternatives:1.Remaining members of common market &

Economic Man

EconomicManBlog

Now that the full horror of our choice for 2020 is before us, time for a little reminder of voting tactics.A thread. If you are in a blue state or

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lianhuaiwie

some confirmed news – there will still be a group– eliminated trainees not going back to dachang again– it’s true that they got their phones and had to contact their

angel of the supermarket💀

shannonmstirone

The collision probability of two defunct space objects is now more than 20%. This is bad. We’ve got too much stuff in space.https://twitter.com/eu_sst/status/1379828862478131201 This is so bad. It only takes

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quokkahoney

Notice how han says "WISH you back" not "need" or "want". By using "wish" he isn't putting any weight on the other person, the act to wish involves just the