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Incunabula

incunabula

A heartstoppingly beautiful 15th century Timurid Qur'an copied on Ming Dynasty gold-painted colored paper, is coming up for auction @ChristiesInc in London on 25th July. Estimate $780 000 - $1.2m.

10-K Diver

10kdiver

1/Get a cup of coffee.In this thread, I'll help you understand the basics of probability distributions and random variables. 2/Imagine that you run an insurance company.Every year, you write a

Michael Mac

michaelmcmanu

'Catch 'em, kill 'em, dump 'em'https://lifebasedlearningforum.com/2020/11/21/what-is-to-be-done-with-super-trawlers/ Ravished oceans: A trilogy: part one: A Fishy Tale. Preparing children for tomorrow’s world today

Michael Lopez

StatsbyLopez

Shortly, NFL teams will be voting on an alternative to the onside kick – a 4th-and-15 scrimmage play. Ironing out the equity of an onside kick alternative is notably more

Jerm

mynameisjerm

The data keeps confirming that COVID-19 is barely worse than the flu.On 19 May, Dr John Ioannidis (et al) published their review of global cases, which found lethality ranging between

bsgc

beainstomb

dear bsgc,I hope you guys all know how wonderful you are. As of today (in bst. my impatient ass isn’t waiting till midnight for y’all to see this.), it has

alexrjl

lxrjl

Two weeks after the last thread seems like a good time to evaluate how Twitter is going and whether it's valuable.I don't think Twitter is actually helpful for making me

Adam Kucharski

AdamJKucharski

Recent estimates (including our analysis led by @timwrussell: https://www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2020.25.12.2000256) have suggested 0.5–1% of COVID-19 infections may potentially be fatal overall. Some have interpreted this

Manindra Agrawal

agrawalmanindra

@stellensatz @Ashutos61 @Sandeep_1966 @shekhar_mande Starting a new thread for India. I updated India curve last on 14th with suggested peak at ~190K. Past few days have breached this value massively.

Hayley Geyle

Hayley_Geyle

Our latest research from the @TSR_Hub is now available online early in #PacificConservationBiology: “Big trouble for little fish: identifying Australian freshwater fishes in imminent risk of extinction.” https://www.publish.csiro.au/pc/

Tharindu Jayasinghe

j_tharindu

Earlier this year, we reported the discovery of V723 Mon as a non-interacting black hole-giant star binary. Given how unique this system is, we dubbed the ~3M☉ BH candidate 'The

Kathleen Chu ⬙

inquisitivekath

I attended #AsiaFinanceForum where central banks and regulators in Asia gathered at the Asian Development Bank in Manila last week. See the thread for what was discussed and my takeaways.

Andrew Noymer

AndrewNoymer

Let's talk influenza and COVID mortality (again!).THREAD.People keep bringing this up so I'd like to put this to bed once and for all (I hope).It is often said there are

A. Tsai

drdrtsai

1/ New paper! "Social distancing to slow the U.S. #Covid_19 epidemic", led by Mark Siedner (@MGHMedicine @MonganInstitute @GlobalHealthMGH @mgh_id @AHRI_News) & @harlingg (@UCLGlobalHealth & @AHRI_News), w/ Zahra Reynolds, Rebecca G

A. I. Adamu

isasquare

Morning guys! So continuing on the Artificial Intelligence discussion.How far have we gone, on having intelligent systems? I'll explain in this thread.Have ur Cup of coffee and be my guest....

Nicole Van Groningen, MD

NVanGroningenMD

I am concerned by a recently-cited statistic that “94% of #COVID deaths had underlying medical conditions,” which seems to be used as “proof” that the detrimental effects of COVID are