#Modeling

OK class, pencils down, eyes up front. Today we're going to explain excess deaths again since the @nytimes didn't do their jobs in a recent story that failed to explain
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Who reads preprints? Academics and...er... white nationalists?? https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3000860 "a framework for segmenting a scholarly article’s audience on Twitter...into granular, info
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I really enjoyed talking to grad students this week with @ajacfrost for @ASA_Religion's mentoring panel on "preparing for the market early in grad school." @ndrewwhitehead asked for some thoughts, so
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Huh, so I guess this means NTP is critical infrastructure for proof-of-stake chains?Related: Aanchal Malhotra, Isaac E. Cohen, Erik Brakke, and Sharon Goldberg's 2017 paper on "Attacking the Network Time
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A little tweet about social media. 1/ Social media is often touted as something bad. Something which bring up the worst in people. Cancel culture, bullying and bad behavior. Although
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The Covid grift being run by Dems and the media is uniquely loathsome in that they they encouraged and demanded the very social and economic shutdowns they are now decrying
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One of the most toxic practices in building teams is benchmarking. It’s not that you shouldn’t use things you observe as a yard stick, but cherry-picking your compares to justify
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How to hide that you're a mean ol' nasty supporter of direct and explicit instruction: A Thread.0/11 1. Tell everyone how you ask your students lots of questions - Rosenshine
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WOWThis is SO cool. I just tried a small meditative visual exercise using the IFS techniques described here and was able to call up unpleasant memories from childhood I almost
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1/ It’s been 1.5 weeks since I last posted an Oregon #covid19 trend threadIt’s been a pivotal stretch of time nation-wide as numbers, especially in hot spots, continue . It’s
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I saw earlier the same ideas in this op-ed coming from Nate Silver and the data bros types, so I'm disappointed to see Marcus promoting this. This thread is going
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Going to add some personal thanks here for the #marsvice team, Starting with @BobbyLontra for doing a Festive Dax and all the other amazing Character art throughout the year, Dude
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Reminder:Idiots protesting to "re-open the country" weren't tear-gassed, beaten, or pepper sprayed. These people showed up in many cases armed. Hell, the one photo shows the police ESCORTING them.https://www.google.com/amp/s/w
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1/ As @CaryKaracas and I have argued, maps were the lifeblood of the planning and prosecution of US Army Air Force raids against urban Japan. What I'm only now beginning
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1/ I want to focus on this segment, which has been touted as a great example of holding a Trump administration official to account on false accusations of voter fraud.
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Canada has shrunk as a nation. Our minds dulled by relentless propaganda, uninspiring leaders, a lazy media and an absent academic class. Those aren't my words but of a colleague
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