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nick

TheNickAttack

what follows is my THE CIRCLE SEASON 2 reaction thread... i hope it finds you well... i have waited for this day my whole life... EPISODE 1: god i love

Gianfranco Bertone

gfbertone

The time that Einstein set to discover "dark energy", and almost discovered "dark matter" instead. THREAD In 1921, Einstein was pondering the question of whether the universe is spatially

𝓡𝓮𝓰𝓲𝓷𝓪 𝓐𝓻𝓪𝓷𝓮𝓪

Saerix

Thread:Prometheus, son of the Titan lapetus, stole fire from the Gods.But what is fire in this context? Surely, he didn't just steal a torch from the Halls of Mt. Olympus?His

Elspeth Kirkman

Karminker

There’s loads of chatter about the mind bending ramifications of conditional probability for COVID testing... but where else does the Rev Thomas Bayes’ ghostly hand touch our lives? #BeGayDoMaths

🇨🇦 Bill Comeau Crush the Curve 📉

Billius27

About targeted #Covid19 restrictions and "fairness".When we zero in on a small population like some regions, the odds of seeing a particular type of outbreak in a particular type of

abhishek

abhishec_s

Some thoughts on Life Insurance:These are simplistic views, possibly full of errors. Please point them out -(thread) Insurance penetration at about 2%-3% is touted as the reason for growth potential

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

J.D. Morancy

solarrsystem

Alright, let's talk about teleportation. We've seen it in science fiction, Star Trek being one of the most notable examples, but what about our own reality? Is it possible to

The Medical SHO

admit_medics

The Hogwarts School of Medicine: meet the staff Albus Dumbledore BSc PhD FRSProfessor of PhysiologyHead of the Medical SchoolOften speaks in riddles. His motto of ‘help is on hand for

Jessica Watson

drjessicawatson

How can GPs help ensure #covid19 #antibody tests are used wisely? 100,000 (or is it 200,000?) tests a day is only useful if we get the right test, for the

Esteban J. Quiñones, Ph.D.

estebanjq3

This seems like as good a time as any to reflect on THAT TIME my economics professor tried to use a cautionary tale about a graduate student committing suicide for

Anton Hilado

anton_hilado

Representation Theory and Fourier Analysis: A Thread1/n Representation theory is a way of studying group theory by turning it into linear algebra, which in many cases is more familiar to

M. P. McCune

MPMcCune2

The bell tolls once for each year she's lived, and with each peal Agnes' spirit rises. But when the bell ringer stops at sixty-five, the almost #angel floats downward. "I

Karthik

karthiks

One class of people who have become loud of twitter of late is what I call the "testing mafia". Every time someone tweets some covid-19 related news that seems mildly

Yarin

yaringal

I often get questions about what it’s like to do an undergrad at Oxford @CompSciOxford. I didn’t do my own undergrad here, but I do find it a lot of

ChristosArgyropoulos

ChristosArgyrop

Let's analyze the dialysis case from yesterday. We need to know : a) the SAR (Secondary Attack Rate) of COVID19 for household transmission (pt had largely sheltered in, so could