#Functional

U.S. Considers Granting Immunity to #SaudiArabia Prince #MBS in attempted extrajudicial killing and actual killing. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/22/us/politics/mbs-saudi-immunity-trump.html Such approach would be based on the "equal
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Here’s something I’m going to give you. Take it or leave it, but it’s where I’m at and I don’t want to be a hoarder.You need to start living your
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As I read Raghuram Rajan’s “The Third Pillar-How Markets & the State Leave the Community Behind” can’t help but reflect on how some communities (read villages / towns) work to
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DTC 27 is live. Here’s what’s cooking Andrea Wagner, design manager for Facebook Shopping, chats functional vs emotional brand stories Functional: “We made this product, it does what
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Take a moment to consider radicalization as being either endogenous or exogenous. Endogenous radicalization: you radicalize yourselfExogenous radicalization: circumstances radicalize you. White supremacists, nazis, q, boomers, billionaires
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Much similar to the worldly system of governance the totality of the perfect system of the Universe is incomplete without these four divisions; Tauheed (Uniqueness), Prophet Hood, WALAYAT and IMAMATE.
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Clinical studies have found impaired glucose homeostasis & ketoacidosis in COVID-19 patients - begs the question: does COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2 cause diabetes? We get closer to finding an answer with our new
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A thread about harmful stigmas surrounding addiction, written by someone affected by them: First and foremost: no one (and i mean NO ONE) “chooses” to be addicted to any drug
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People hate to hear it but no, Trump is not a fascist. No major historian of classical fascism who has been asked by reporters if Trump is a fascist has
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Really enjoyable* lunchtime teaching today with the team, discussing Covid19 and older people (and problems they face)These were our thoughts*although as you will see what we discussed was not cheery
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I've been thinking lately about how some popsci has promoted this harmful view that quantum mechanics (QM) is esoteric, mysterious, and fully understood only by a select few physicists. Let
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I just got the booster of the of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine this morning and I’m here to report I got the boost in the SAME arm as the prime.
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#SubtweetAlertSystemtaking your kid’s door is never good parenting.You’re telling your kidthey have no right to their bodiesno right to privacyanyone with more power can violate their space& force them to
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I think part of the problem must be that at every encounter (whether ER, hospital, specialist, or primary care), the doctor’s job is either diagnose and treat you, refer you,
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A short thread:It amazes me how many crucial ideas underlying now-popular semiparametrics (aka doubly robust parameter/functional estimation / TMLE / double/debiased/orthogonal ML etc etc) were first proposed many decades ago.I
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With global spread, national border closures seem like a pretty facile solution to hypothetical more infectious variants that haven’t emerged yet or been imported. Int’l travel isn’t a selection pressure
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