“A feeling of pensiveness from eating soft fruit.” Product Data Scientist in fintech.
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NEW: big international Covid data thread, focusing on the contest between vaccines & variants
First to the UK, where things are looking very good. The vaccine effect is still crystal clear, with more than 10,000 lives already estimated to have been saved assets.publishing.service.go…
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"I'm not talking about you as an individual. This is about us as a society. This is about the collective socialisation of men that has led to some men becoming predatory & harmful towards women. And it's about what we can do, as men, to prevent our brothers becoming perpetrators"
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I honor you, @TheAmandaGorman.
Thank you.
#Inauguration2021
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I've reflected on it and this is my favorite tweet of all time
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Research from @londonpartners reveals London has cemented its role as Europe’s leading tech hub with $10.5bn of investment in 2020, a quarter of Europe’s whole VC investment, following a surge of non-European investors flocking to the capital @CityAM bit.ly/3oNsqxq
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we're listing places you can donate laptops and tablets for kids and students who need them at home during lockdown.
if your org distributes donated laptops, please message us and we'll share
#donateforstudents
#studentlockdown
(image borrowed from @LittleLivesUK )
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🚨Me shouting about 'zero rating' again (that's tech for 'no data charges for using education websites')🚨 @Ofcom reckon 1m kids do remote ed via mobile, 20% of households are struggling to pay for the data and 5% are cutting back on food and clothes to pay it. This is not ok
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A brief summary of the very precarious situation we are in now, and why we have a very narrow window to act in the UK. If we don't act now, it's likely the window for containing COVID-19 will pass- not just for the UK but globally. Here's why. Thread.
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There has been some great work on framing AI ethics issues as ultimately about power.
I want to elaborate on *why* power imbalances are a problem. 1/
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Me on a test, trace and isolate rant.
"We know what the solution is because we can see it in front of us. There's not a country in the world that has a successful herd immunity strategy; there are countries that have a successful Test, Trace Isolate strategy - why don't we do it?"
@chrischirp
Andrew Weeks retweeted
Japanese halloween is great for many reasons, but one of the greatest is the annual "mundane halloween" contest hosted by website @dailyportalz, where people dress up like mundane, everyday things.
Here is a thread of some of my favorites from 2020...
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Here's my @guardian piece carrying on the campaign to set up a new Epidemiology-Macro crossover quango doing regular forecasts and policy simulations for government. theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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The #COVID19 vaccine hype is so great I worry its hindering innovation/urgency for other novel approaches to stop spread. Particularly politicians who point and say “look, that’s what we’re doing”
A needed piece by @JeremyFarrar to bring us down to earth
theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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New BMJ paper by @trishgreenhalgh L, Bourouiba et al
Most useful is table, showing the relative risk of activities vs the same parameters identified in “A CIViC DUTY”: Crowding, Indoors, low Ventilation, Close proximity, long Duration, Unmasked, Talking/singing/Yelling
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Glam vibes! Read my inaugural existential advice column in the New Yorker @tnyshouts newyorker.com/humor/daily-sh…
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We urgently need to focus on ventilation. Six months into a respiratory pandemic, we're still not given sensible and practical guidance against short-range aerosol—airborne—transmission of COVID. I wrote about the science & what it means we should do now. theatlantic.com/health/archi…
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Hello! I'm excited to share a bit about what I've been working on. A few months ago @mattbrandwein and I started a company to build AI-driven storytelling tools. It's called Hidden Door, and you can follow along by signing up for our mailing list here: hiddendoor.co/
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"Clearly, air conditioning conditions," writes @mcmansionhell. "It’s how it managed to dominate and supersede (with planetary consequences) a wide variety of interesting and sustainable architectural alternatives devised during the maturing of modernism."
archpaper.com/2020/07/review…
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First Boston Dynamics spots in the hands of customers. Wow 😐. so many mixed emotions... youtube.com/watch?v=nkcKdfL7…
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People in ML please read.
