#Explanations

Response to an ex-friend, who responded to my concerns about trans activism with not a single question or clarification but "transwomen are women" and an offer to continue our friendship
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Summary of today’s gist: A thread 1. Even with the massive spread of sister Coro in the second wave of her coming, many Nigerians left the comfort of their homes
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The Kelly–Hopkinsville encounter (a.k.a. Hopkinsville Goblins Case, Kelly Green Men Case) was a claimed close encounter with extraterrestrial beings in 1955 near Kelly and Hopkinsville in Christian County, Kentucky, United
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Techcrunch. There be #DataVampires.I note the @DPCIreland has been investigating Verizon for a little over a year now https://www.independent.ie/business/technology/irish-data-protection-commissioner-opens-investigation-into-verizon-media-3
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Amazing thread. We’ve experimented and learned a ton over the last 7 yrs of @fortelabs online courses. Not only does the live cohort model produce better outcomes for students, it’s
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Been reflecting on wealth and success (in conventional sense, which may involve some combination of wealth, fame, accomplishment, historic impact, etc) lately.Both are things I am not personally very motivated
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Here's a hot and fresh #NYGRebuild on this lazy, cold Sunday. This is a LONG thread, but I strove to provide explanations and I showed my work. Follow along on
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Who likes React custom Hooks? Here are 8 that I found especially helpful or particularly interesting useInitialMount - returns whether or not the current render is the first/thread
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The medical and scientific community is concerned about damaging trust in vaccines and in science by taking risks responding to COVID-19. Instead, they damaged trust by failing to do so,
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[1 / N]Download Precinct data as PDF for Kent County, MIhttps://electionreporting.com/county/db3f9865-656b-4704-9429-bd38e726ab42 [2 / N]Copy paste the data to a text file. The Presidential data for precincts appears in the top
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ThreadI've been thinking about something that came up earlier:The demand that conservatives fight back.@realDonaldTrump fights back, but he's not trying to CONVINCE his opponents. He's destroying them for attacking him
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What is the role of network structure in shaping the grammar of languages?In a new paper with Antje Meyer and @shirilevari, we tested this question using a group communication experiment.
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Why did the (U.S. Capitol) Police fail to contain yesterday's insurrection? My thoughts on strategic and tactical police restraint and racism (a thread) (1/20) The media, policymakers and the police
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As 2020 wraps up I wanted to share my favourite cybersecurity/tech content, and content creators I've personally found this year.A THREAD 1/17 (no particular order)If you have any content creators/platforms
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Found a thread riddled with misconceptions and gross generalisations about atheism. Felt like pointing them out. [THREAD]https://twitter.com/VedicWisdom1/status/1302829312031125506 This is not a bit different from the childish anti-atheist
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People often ask me how to build better intuitions about different machine learning and deep learning methods. This is a thread about my experience (as an NLP Researcher) building better
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