#Quantitative

Jordan Gauthier

drjgauthier

Sunday thoughts:During our training we physicians learn by rote hundreds to thousands of ultra-rare diagnoses with their associated clinical and biological signs. Comparatively, we spend limited time learning how to

Rai ling 🏴

Railing56

Why is the US stock market skyrocketing despite record unemployment, extreme uncertainty and people dying across the world? The answer is a combination of technical factors, contractual rebalancing of portfolios

Melissa K Sharp, MPH

sharpmelk

While I write my discussion I'm going to add to this thread. 1 #dissertation in numbers....3 years. 4 countries. 1 topic. The STROBE #reportingguideline (drop the bass :P) #phdlife #phdchat

Fatima Tokhmafshan (she/elle) 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈

DeNovo_Fatima

𝟏 A on: Reverse Transcription-quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-qPCR) currently used to detect #SARSCoV2 Cycle Threshold (CT) & what it means#scicomm #COVID19 𝟐 RT-qPCR is a common lab technique

Luke Shoveller

LukeLJB

FUN THREAD:I’ve read this, he’s right (about the book, not the quality of my notes in the margin). Here are some more thoughts about the alleged ‘slipperiness’ of ‘cultural capital’.

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

The categories we think of as discrete, bounded entities are most often continua, with broadly coherent centers and hairy, noisy edges that defy categorization.1/ Computers operate on binary states, but

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awakekgs

a thread on how i kept my grades up & got predicted all a* for my a levels (i am in year 12) while having an ed + depression +

Tarpin_Serrant

ChakTarSan

1/ Update #saccageparis : 19 Avril 2021 - Jour 32@Anne_Hidalgo et ses sbires n'ont eu cesse de répéter que les parisiens sont des gros dégueux, ce qui explique l'état de

Shravan Venkataraman 🔥🚀💰

theBuoyantMan

This is going to be a thread about **Moat** and **Competitive Advantage**. 1. Capitalists seek the highest returns possible. For any possible investment, you need to maximize the return on

Dr Ben Britton

BMatB

Together with a number of colleagues, I'm a co-author of a contribution to Quantitative Science Studies Volume 2, Issue 1 - which explores gender issues in physics... as I read

Noah Smith 🐇

Noahpinion

1/Here's my post on today's Econ Nobel Prize:https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-10-12/economists-are-starting-to-think-like-engineers?sref=R8NfLgwS 2/As my colleague @skominers wrote, this prize is well-deserved!https:/

Dan Hockenmaier

danhockenmaier

So much of what is written about growth is noise. Here are ten of the concepts I find myself coming back to over and over again 1/ The Hierarchy

Steam Ship

steamtug7

THREAD: How do we know that masks are effective? Want proof, to show mask-skeptic friends? Here's a thread full of evidence.It's medically unethical to do clinical testing in which we

Siegenthaler_Lab

SiegenthalerLab

I read two interesting s by @NeedhiBhalla & @mbeisen on outcomes of similar approaches to alter recruitment practices to reduce bias by the committee & increase diversity in the applicant

Jill Brennan

JillBrennanSLT

1/20 Here's a thread with recommendations for any #slpeeps thinking of doing introductory SLCN training for Youth Offending Services. Specific elements will depend on the commissioning YOS. I'm mostly passing

The Scribe of Waiyaki Way

TheSoWW

To buy or to rent?Caution: Very long thread.The war btwn buyers & renters has been long and exhausting. Frankly, I don’t expect it to be won today.The topic is controversial