#Statistics

Linc

Linc_tw

This is a thread reviewing #Taiwan's #COVID situation evolution in 2020 by numbers. We discovered our 1st case on Jan 21st. Before 2021 started, a total number of 799 cases

Josh W. Comeau

JoshWComeau

For the past week I’ve been using the Xiaomi Redmi 8 as my main phone. It’s the most common “budget” smartphone in India.In some ways, this thing is shockingly good.

Ryan Emma

ryandangeremma

Looks like someone just looked up the wikipedia page. People like Gerry don't understand historical analogies like this because they do not understand history. Kristallnacht was not just an isolated

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nadhirawho

Something that I keep seeing come up is confusion and concern about @geo3550’s anti-policing platform, #DisarmDemilitarizeDefund. The question “who will keep us safe if there are no police” might seem

Adam Kirk Edgerton

AdamKirkEdge

on why annual test scores this year are important to researchers and not necessarily practitioners. No judgment, just an explainer. First, longitudinal data systems have been built at great cost,

Eunjoo Han • 한은주 🇰🇷🏳️‍🌈

HeyEunjoo

Fuckit. Yesterday's events were an extreme, but let me remind folks that Whiteness permeates everything in this country with the same level of toxic entitlement. The creative industry is no

Tesla Prophet

ProphetTesla

Plug in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEVs) have turned out to be a wildly successful strategy for automobile manufacturers.In Europe, for all the press pure Electric Vehicles get, PHEVs are now

Richard Geldreich

richgel999

A key texture/image compression tip:How you compute PSNR/SSIM is *crucial*. Check, double check, and then triple check that you've done it right. If you're doing it on the GPU, implement

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declamare

just because NHS hospital intensive care capacity isn’t technically “full” doesn’t mean that coronavirus patients are getting the level of care they normally wouldgovernment data available here shows this (thread)https://www.gov.uk/

The Sharing Scientist

ScienceShared

The @ONS have (rightfully) received a lot of praise throughout the pandemic. But the publishing of Long COVID data without a comparator group is poor use of statistics - Floating

Jonathan Melody

rabomeo

"There will be time to smell the roses Jonathan"That one of the very first lessons my mentor taught meThere are 3 groups of person's in this world.1. Those who watch

tante

tante

So. We hear a lot about bias these days, especially about bias in "AI". But while bias in "AI" systems is real and a problem, the narrative hides a bigger

Russ

RussInCheshire

Dan Hodges thinks Boris didn't deliberately lie. Let's examine the record1. Spread the lie about EU law on straight bananas2. Spread lie about EU banning prawn cocktail crisps3. Invented lie about EU

mathfrak{Michael "Shapes Dude" Betancourt}

betanalpha

During Timnit's excellent talk (which you can watch below) the question of whether or not the process of statistical inference, and indeed a scientific method, can be objective and I

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

nntaleb

It is remarkable that you have idiots like this "Prof" @BallouxFrancois who conflate additive risks with multiplicative ones (fat tailed), a mistake your grandmother wouldn't make.https://twitter.com/BallouxFrancois/status/129

Ope Bakare

iAmFlygerian

I belong to the school of thought that believes that one’s level of talent is only about 10-20% a contributing factor to being successful in the music industry... I strongly

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