Best of Twitter - Week of August 31, 2020
you, dumb: RCTs show these wellness benefits do absolutely nothing.
me, an intellectual, waving around observational study: please continue to pay for the half-marathons I would already be running.
nytimes.com/2018/08/06/ups…
mRNA is roughly 10x heavier and 10x larger than the protein it encodes for. Amazing.
From the mind-blowing book Cell Biology by the Numbers from @MiloLabWIS and Rob Philips
book.bionumbers.org/which-is-bigge…
keep thinking about how my friends lives have split into “moved in with partner” or “lives with parents again” just based on their relationship status in february, and it’ll impact our whole life trajectory
When @elonmusk sold Paypal (and cashed $165m), one of the first things he did was cold call a rocket expert (Jim Cantrell).
Below is the text of the greatest cold outreach ever.
junk data is not just noise but disproportionately where interesting claims come from
npr.org/sections/ed/20…
I love that someone actually did this experiment. Rings true to my own experience
paulgraham.com/colleges.html
#GPT3 from @OpenAI showed an emergent ability in large neural language models for rapidly acquiring and using new words.
We develop an agent that does this in a simulated 3D environment.
arxiv.org/abs/2009.01719
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<<“Thirteen Misunderstandings about Natural Selection,” by Laith Al-Shawaf, Kareem Zreik, and David M. Buss>>
What healthcare choices do doctors make when they are patients?
New @nberpubs by Gruber, Frakes,& me. Thread.
Summary: in a range of behaviors doctors & non-doctors act similarly, including use of low value care & med adherence. Implications below
nber.org/papers/w26038
^ ~hanson vibes~