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Arthur Charpentier
freakonometrics
Demain matin, exposé aux aurores dans le cadre du groupe de travail https://modcov19.math.cnrs.fr/ , à Paris, sur "Analyse coût-efficacité de stratégies de contrôle épidémique"... ça sera l'occasion de revenir su
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Zero (they/their)
ZeroWrites
This is flawed on many levels and I'd love to unpack it, but I just deflated all my energy getting super irate at people wanting me to be nice to
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Alan Cole
AlanMCole
If having COVID in the past conferred no immunity at all, and you were just as likely to get it again as you were the first time, we would have
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Rajan Mehta
RealRajanMehta
A thread on the 2+2 thing. It’s a bit of a slow burn:In high school physics, you learn that acceleration due to gravity is -9.8 m/s^2. You can use that
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Kyla Scanlon
scanlon_kyla
MATHWe live in the age of infinite information.But having information doesn’t mean we know what to do with it. This is the main issue w how we are taught math.
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Sunny Pagare
19SunSunny
Just two words- Vande Mataram- by #BankimChandraChatterjee, who has his 182nd birth anniversary (June 26, 1838) today, tells a lot about we the IndiansThe idea of the ‘nation’ as a
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Neil Korotash 🚡
nkorotash
This is so upsetting. “Parent Choice” seems so innocent as does “back to basics” Math. It’s easy to get behind those sentiments right? Who could possible be opposed? They are
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🔥 Kareem Carr 🔥
kareem_carr
Wanted to share this thread from Tim Gowers on the “2+2=5” debate. As a Field’s Medalist he’s about as authorative as you can get on what math is.https://twitter.com/wtgowers/status/1290219038614798338 Trying to
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Carl T. Bergstrom
CT_Bergstrom
Enough book bullshit; back to COVID bullshit.There's an interesting quotation from John Ioannidis at @CNN.https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/02/health/gupta-coronavirus-t-cell-cross-reactivity-immunity-wellness/index.html I've commented el
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Steven Hail
StevenHailAus
An orthodox colleague sent me a math econ model this week. Simulating macro policy. In a model with no money. Barter essentially. That's basically what orthodox macro models are. My
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Galaxy Map
galaxy_map
A team of computer scientists are using Gaia-derived data and a supercharged travelling salesman algorithm called Concorde to compute minimal star routes. (See: http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/tsp/star/index.html). They've included my data
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Matthew Yglesias
mattyglesias
I’ve seen a bunch of epidemiologists snarking about negative oil prices being their chance to play amateur economist, but I think when weird stuff happens the views of smart outsiders
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johan | ACAB
pandesalt
A common misconception is that math as it is now or even an archaic version of it just burst into existence. Mathematics grew from what she said, this idea that
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Fullmetal Malcolm X
tristan__isaac
I wonder when the amount of overtime PPB has spent protecting their little clubhouse will exceed its assessed value as of 2019, assuming it hasn't already oops that's the real
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David Bauer
davidbauer
Wanna follow me down a little rabbit hole I discovered recently? On how Google amplifies one internet user's innocent math error.Let's say you want to know how much all the
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Francis Su
mathyawp
Dear @graciegcunning,Since @JoelChan86 @solidangles @hobbet and @mathillustrated all tagged me, I’ll take a crack at your first 2 questions: “how did they (mathematicians) know what they were looking for in
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