#Scale

Asteroid

AlessandraAster

The last five years have seen an aggressive campaign to get rid of sex-segregated spaces and services, through the introduction of gender neutral spaces, or opening up female spaces to

The Cosmist Insurrection, Inc. ™

yungneocon

Kind of funny how capitalism will take actually well documented practices like intermittent fasting, intermittent sleeping, &/or the Mediterranean diet, which when tied to social rituals & moderation, work amazingly

Egan

EganPeltan

Something is awryThe @Stanford #CampusCompact has been in the works since at least July 22ndStanford Faculty Senate Chair @StearnsLab did't see the text of the #CampusCompact before enrollment holds were

Paul Kedrosky

pkedrosky

This is thoughtful and correct.https://twitter.com/tracyalloway/status/1353854240960040961 One way to think about much of what's going on in the world—from /wsb, to populism, to Q—is the collapsing cost of coordination & organiz

Fatima Hassan

_HassanF

Can the media rather also interview and question the front runner vaccine companies please, about pricing, access, advance orders and tech transfer or pooling- we dont need to really know

Kevin DeGood

kevin_degood

1/ Let's talk about what we mean by sustainable development. The Soleil Lofts in Herriman, UT (greater SLC) offer a perfect example of why a narrow definition that looks only

macrocephalopod

macrocephalopod

Some thoughts on how big market making firms (eg Jane Street, Susquehanna, Optiver) are structured. Note I have not worked at any of these firms so this is not based

Nick Cammarata

nickcammarata

Excited to share a new paper, Curve CircuitsWe reverse engineer a non-trivial 50k+ parameter learned algorithm from the weights of a neural network and use its core ideas to craft

Jacque Wernimont

profwernimont

I get asked a lot about why people aren't responding to the growing COVID counts, so a thread hypothesizing why it's hard for some to "see" that COVID is real

Nathaniel Tapley

Natt

Always enjoy the part of the free speech scale when commentators who've spent the last half a century arguing that the only real liberty is negative liberty (freedom from government

Lon Harris

Lons

Some SPOILER-y thoughts about The Mandalorian finale I will almost definitely regret tweeting about but nonetheless feel inclined to share:I was a fan of everything in Season 2, and found

Jeffrey Shaffer

HighVizAbility

I don't think the scale is the issue here. These are sparklines, not line charts, meant to add context. The problem is there isn't anything to add context to. Start

Matteo Lisi

mlisi6

New paper out! We developed a new method to study confidence in perceptual decision-making without requiring explicit rating scales, and found clear deviations from Bayesian accounts of subjective confidence.https://www.nature.com/articles/

Adam Kucharski

AdamJKucharski

A few people have asked "do new variants mean vaccines won't work"? Important to avoid simple categories of 'works' and 'doesn't work'. Some variants may alter the extent of protection

Vietnam Vet Memorial

VVMF

On July 1, 1982, Frederick Hart was selected to design the Three Servicemen Statue. Hart was a well-known and respected sculptor whose team had placed third in the open design

Chris is playing Yoda in Jedi, The Last 🦋

reylochriso

TROS still would not be a good movie if Rey got the parentage you wanted, if Ben lived, if Rose got more screentime. It's a fundamentally hollow and broken story

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