#Measure

Little percolating thread-thought on the mystery of platform—specifically why giant social media followings don’t necessarily translate to giant book sales. I welcome your feedback along the way ... Obviously a
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Took some folding tables into town this morning. Daughter was having a yard sale. She told me about her trip the day before. Her & husband went a little over
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1/ Ok, so I promised today we’d talk about lasers in astronomy. What do we need them for? Are they dangerous? Do they come in different colors? With how many
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Are the polls understating the number of Republicans?Probably not.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/29/upshot/polls-political-party-republicans.html In Times/Siena polling last month, registered Republicans were 12 percent likelier to respond
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We’ve been in Munich for more than a month now, and I want to share some of my observations of life under corona here versus in Virginia. The entire time
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It’s criminal that LeRoy Butler @leap36 has yet to be inducted into the HOF, and here’s why (a thread) Butler was a first team all pro 4 times (1993,
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Led by donkeys:In the eyes of the world’s media, Britain – a “Plague Island” led by a man who thinks “optimism is a substitute for hard truths and proper management”
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The sword dance video is a shining example of my favorite thing about Yoongi that has been really prominent in his contents lately. He loves showing us that he isn't
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What bothers me the most is that coach had a desire to get Foles and play him over the guy who carried the offense to serviceable in 2018 only because
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It’s true. I started my PhD over in a new lab/field 4.75 years in....profs kept telling me time lost was a drop in the bucket of a scientific life. This
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1/The continued news about a certain MOC from GA generates a lot of "oh my well that's just so wrong"But an article (h/t @whitneymnz) from 2020 seems to show acceptance
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I've been thinking about this really good @zeynep piece and . . . philosophy of science. 1/https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/07/why-arent-we-talking-more-about-airborne-transmission/614737/ There's an argument in philo
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RESPECT OTHERS1. A teacher in France had his throat slit by an 18-year-old Chechen boy. The killer was angered by the teacher showing a caricature of Prophet Muhammad. The teacher
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People are asking how tallies like 306 electoral college votes measure up historically with other US presidential elections. So here they are, for all the major candidates since 1900:[Note that
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This is a really great question.If we understand the effect of UBI and the economy, we should be able to loosely estimate how high UBI can go without beginning to
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Want to understand the *index* of a vector field V? Take a little circle around where V vanishes. At some point θ (blue), look at the unit vector V/|V| (orange).
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