#Processing

Thread of super basic mental/emotional first-aid for anyone else struggling w panic/flashback/intense fear/hyperarousal.1. Butterfly hug/tap: place hands on opposite shoulders and tap one hand at a time, slowly. Bilateral stimulation
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Per ⁦@GaSecofState⁩, containers from under a table in Fulton County, GA were empty ballot containers, not suitcases full of ballots. Some workers left earlier in the evening than others bc
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Ai memorizes patterns. It doesn't generalize well.To generalize better, blend the results of a few Ai's. Google blends 8 deep learning results.One person is very wrong about the number of
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Thread: Reality BufferingYou get what you need, not what you want Reality operates parallel to a video gameThe game only loads the immediate environment you are inIt does not load
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A thread on the GOP's efforts to subvert democracy, undermine faith in our elections, and suppress the vote in future elections. How this very deliberate attack unfolded: While the GOP's
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I've had a few followers ask me my thoughts on the Sturgis study. It's gone viral because it tells a story the media likes ("bad" people got COVID for doing
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LONG THREAD: There's a simple algorithm Twitter could use to derank people with political stances they don't like. You might be aware of the recent "hack" (the "hacker" bought an
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A few thoughts on reports of a province-wide lockdown: 1) We have had a few times this fall in which β€œreports” have come out of what the province is considering,
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I know exactly who needs to hear this. Academics. *Clears throat*: checking and writing emails is work, thinking about your research is work, planning and delivering outreach is work,
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It’s time for T+2 to go. (1/9) Last week we saw the impact the two-day trade settlement period has on investors and ultimately the entire American financial system. Clearinghouse deposit
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$ASML is one of the most impressive companies I've come across - its tech may be mankind's greatest achievementIt seems to have an impenetrable moat$ASML is the ONLY company in
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Everything was done in pairs of Republican + Democrat and/or Independent. From greeting voters as they walked into our polling location to checking voters in to processing provisional ballots to
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Thought I'd do another ten papers thing, this time of psychology papers I've really enjoyed from 2020. Absurd to choose only ten of course but here goes... 1/11 #1
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#ADHD 101; things you may or may not have known were ADHD things (and yes I know some of these things can be connected to other diagnoses!)The well known:- chronic
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The Puzzle of Danish: a thread on taking linguistic diversity seriously to highlight the flexibility of human cognition. 1/n TLDR: Danish has an unusual speech opacity (consonant reduction). Danish native
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Quartz- solid composed of molecular units of silicon dioxide. Chemical composition of sand; used as an oscillator? Electric charges of the molecular unit line up to create a net electric
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