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This piece takes Trumpism to be a total rejection of “traditional” GOP orthodoxy and does not reckon at all with how the Party laid the groundwork for Trump./1https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/worries-about-trump-and-a-bloodbath-a
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Thread (1/?): It's election day, which means millions of Californians will be glued to their screens, trying to relieve their anxiety by refreshing the results of...local ballot measures dealing with
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But... this. This is the most common reason that VCs pass. By far.And yes, you should take it personally. Because statistically, it's impossible that a big part of the reason
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.@GeorgeGascon has released his transition team. Unsurprisingly it's a roster of reformers and people outside the law enforcement community. Some highlights in this thread: Robin Steinberg, CEO of The Bail
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HISTORY THREADThis is Monte Melkonian, the strangest, most interesting man of the late Cold War.His story took him from suburban California through the Vietnam War, the Iranian Revolution, the Lebanese
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#Cenk #jimmydore ALL THIS IS TURNING ME OFF (THREAD) Hi, I'm a 50-year-old Black woman who has never missed an election at the local, state or federal level since I
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Today is #TheoryThursday !The most important question in all of Computer Science is probably whether P equals NP. That is, are all problems easy to validate also easy to solve?How
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THREAD ON SC-01This seat had been held by a Republican for almost 40 yrs. Counties consist of parts of Colleton, Berkeley, Dorchester, Beaufort, and Charleston.@RepCunningham won only 1 county of
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My post at @monkeycageblog applies a comparative perspective to US politics: breaking ties between politicians and armed actors can be hard - but monitoring, consistent enforcement, & political sanctions, ideally
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On January 27, Biden issued a detailed executive order (EO) that changed US course on climate policy across the board. The EO has so many elements that it’s easy to
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In case you missed my previous tweet, these are some of the machine learning courses of 2020 worth checking out. I added a deep reinforcement learning one and production ML
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Ideas for online assessments I picked up this summer:1. Ask students to show multiple representations: position/velocity graphs, motion diagrams, force diagrams, energy bar charts, etc. Maybe don't mandate which ones
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HadCRUT5 is out. You can find the paper and data here.https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadcrut5/ Sevenish reasons why you - a discerning scientist - might want to use HadCRUT5. THREAD 1: HadCRUT5 is based
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Hey, international friends. There are a few things I want you to know if you are watching our American presidential election this week. Things are a bit of a mess
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They canceled James Watson, but oh no SSC, the precious puling SSC, now that's _real_ oppression striking at the root of the scientific method. I might as well thread responses
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Under absolutely no circumstances are this field experiment and the associated paper ethically justifiable. Not even under utilitarian terms given the actual harm imposed on subjects. Households in an African
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