#MATH

Zach Parolin

ZParolin

In a paper forthcoming at Nature Human Behaviour, we track school closures during each month of the pandemic for nearly every school in the U.S. (100k+). Our results show large

Scott Maxwell

Scott_Maxwell

There’s a disturbing theme in a string of stories this weekend:Florida’s governor and his administration have trouble telling the truth.And they're willing to spin facts and conceal public records to

Quoth the Raven Nevermore

LadyRaven3

.Due to long-standing underinvestment in education, the United States is tragically witnessing a decline in workforce quality.In the 2015 Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) test, 15-year-old American students ranked

Dan Rose

DanRose999

I got my first real job in '99 on the biz dev team at Amazon. Like most first jobs, it was a combination of hustle and luck. I had no

Sanjay Srivastava

hardsci

Were you taught that you cannot interpret a main effect in the presence of an interaction? That interactions "supersede" main effects? That you have to use hedging language like, "the

Derek Carty

DerekCarty

/THREAD "Should I play Davante Adams at $9,000 this week?" The case in favor is obvious: dude's a boss. Top raw play on the slate. Has destroyed this year. You

Wide Right & Natty Lite

WideRtNattyLt

Here’s a thread of our favorite bad Tweets about the Cyclones for your viewing pleasure: Hassel was so closehttps://twitter.com/hassel_chris/status/1345530027115483138 A dynamic terrible take father-son duohttps://twitter.com/donhassel/st

Eniko

Enichan

I realized sampling multiple octaves of noise per step is way too computationally intensive so I gotta first cache my perlin noise by unwrapping the 3D perlin noise that lies

simine vazire

siminevazire

I’ve always been baffled by reports that large proportions of reviews contain offensive or demeaning language. I know it happens and it is never ok. But I’ve seen 1000s of

Calling Bullshit

callin_bull

A couple of months ago, an almost unfathomably bad paper was published in the Journal of Public Health: From Theory to Practice. It purports to prove—mathematically—that homeopathy will provide and

Dan Merica

merica

Over the last six weeks, I traveled to MI, WI, NC, FL and AZ to talk to voters in key regions about how they are approaching the election.The stories, taken

Adam Davidson

adamdavidson

This is why I think Trump is doing more than tax avoidance. This is from financials for the Aberdeen property. It's one page from one year, but tells a story

David Burge

iowahawkblog

Today: "wow, the polls were pretty far off, maybe we should have taken them with a grain of salt."Next Tuesday: "Here's Nate Entrails with a deep dive analysis of the

capitalismandfriedman

capitalismandf1

So many people make the mistake that it is either culture OR genetics that is the answer for why some ancestral groups excel.The real answer is that each CULTURE selects

Luca

LucaAmb

1/21) Wear your math seatbelt, it's time for another differential geometry thread! We'll talk about multivectors and the the cross-product, two concepts linked by the mysterious Hodge star operator!As usual,

ロコちゃん - hereticalupdate.substack.com

RokoMijicUK

Researchers make terrible futurists. Really. Why? Several reasons:(1) Because they spend their days trying to solve really hard problems. They experience 99.9% "hard" and "it doesn't work yet". This induces

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