#Github

Matvey Arye

cevianNY

The team at @MetricsVictoria recently published some benchmarks comparing their product vs. Promscale: https://valyala.medium.com/promscale-vs-victoriametrics-resource-usage-on-production-workload-91c8e3786c03 These benchmarks, like others

Casey Miller

caseymmiller

This started out as a personal project because I am continually shocked at the number of people walking around outside not wearing masks.https://www.latimes.com/projects/california-covid-19-masks-who-is-following-the-rules/ I started the pa

Thomas Steinke

shortstein

This is disappointing & bizarre.The InstaHide authors created a challenge & their system was broken. Instead of accepting this, they now say the challenge was not realistic enough. This is

Colin Angus

VictimOfMaths

This week @NatRecordsScot released new figures showing the extraordinary rise in drug-related deaths in Scotland has continued, with numbers doubling since 2013.As a non-expert, here's a few things I found

Deepti Gurdasani

dgurdasani1

I wrote yesterday about the spread of the UK B117 variant based on data up to the 13th Dec warning that it could become dominant across much of the UK

Folding@home

foldingathome

PAPER ALERTIntroducing DiffNets, a deep learning approach to identify structural features responsible for the biochemical differences between protein variants. This thread is about the work and our plans to apply

WaluigiBSOD

WaluigiBSOD

Instead of giving a look to actual leaked content in the #NintendoLeaks, I decided to give a look to a thing Microsoft Windows operating systems put into them: Thumbs.db files.They

mathfrak{Michael "Shapes Dude" Betancourt}

betanalpha

A short thread on what I think is particularly useful intuition for the application of computational statistics. Deterministic methods, like variational Bayes, utilize _rigid_ approximations. Ultimately these methods try to

Alexis C. Madrigal

alexismadrigal

As cases exploded in the U.S., I kept discounting them in my mind: "Well, treatments have improved. Maybe the death rate won't be nearly as high as the summer."Then I

Nick Carr

ItsReallyNick

So you want to talk about the massive software supply chain intrusion & the most carefully-planned, complex espionage I’ve ever helped uncover?Start here: https://www.fireeye.com/blog/threat-research/2020/12/evasive-attacker-leverages

Danielle Gamble ⚔️

ByDGamble

Here’s a thread on what you need to know about the data in The Blade’s housing investigationhttps://www.toledoblade.com/local/2020/12/05/toledo-lucas-county-public-housing-residents-brace-for-end-of-coronavirus-protections-evictions/sto

Miriam Huntley

iam_mir_iam

THREAD: Does bioinformatics need fundamentally different compute platforms? Lots of thoughtful innovation, but adoption is low. Need to balance solving a niche pain point with a domain specific solution, vs

Tarides

tarides_

We’re excited to contribute an important feature to the next #Tezos protocol proposal: first-class _sub-trees_ of the blockchain context. This feature has an interesting #OpenSource #OCaml history, dating back to

Julienne LaChance

JulienneLaChan1

I’m curious why RL people don’t spend more time thinking about collective behaviors (/swarm dynamics). We can drive a system with only a few simple, local rules – and watch

Dr Emma Hodcroft

firefoxx66

As far as I know, the #SARSCoV2 variant identified by Hancock today is defined by a spike mutation at position 501 N->Y & a double-deletion at positions 69/70.You can see

Karl Broman

kwbroman

10 fun facts about my paper with @kara_woo on Data Organization in Spreadsheetshttps://doi.org/10.1080/00031305.2017.1375989 1. The paper never would have happened without @JennyBryan's repeated arm twisting. She suggested the collabora

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