Best of Twitter - Week of February 1, 2021
Seeing people talking about 1M Quest 2 headsets sold. Here's a @recroom slack msg π
"The actual number is prob more like 2-3M Quest 2s in Q4. We saw 1M *new* Quest users in the past 3 months. Guessing our attach rate is 40% or lower. We def haven't gotten to all of them yet"
People talk about alienation in the work process, but maybe not knowing about how the economy works and not observing a full picture is actually good for the mental health of workers, because it's a highly inhuman eldrich process and there is no escape, heh.
Ethan Mollick @emollick
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What causes people to make a sanity check is when they learn that the features of their organization are not, in fact, part of a Grand Plan, but rather socially constructed, random, & in flux. The highlighted quote says it all.
Official link (paywalled): pubsonline.informs.org/doi/abs/10.128β¦
keep thinking how incredibly dumb the brain must be for it to just totally refuse to do a task only to get super excited about it the moment that task is subdivided into 10 random smaller tasks
"It is still common, for example, to see research studies in cancer, neuroscience, metabolism and other fields where young animal models (such as 4β6 month old mice) are used to study disease processes that almost exclusively occur in old people."
Matt Kaeberlein @mkaeberlein
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Actually many more use 8-12 weeks mice. Not only is this not representative for age-related diseases, there is plenty of regenerative potential at these ages in mice and certainly does not translate well to clinical trial in humans .
Martin Borch Jensen @MartinBJensen
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@bhushanlab Agree. Have been trying to get folks to understand this for a while. Much of, maybe most of, βspecies differencesβ in fundamental processes is a mismatch of ages and environmental exposure between young mouse models and aged human tissues.
University students from low- and middle-income countries:
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Interview with a #LockBit #ransomware operator: Over the course of several weeks, we conducted multiple interviews that gave us a rare, first-hand account of a ransomware operatorβs cybercriminal activities. Read the full report here cs.co/6011HdW65
^ wow, this is like real-life Joker or something:
For something invented so long ago, microwaves still seem weirdly futuristic to me. Your food just magically heats up really quickly
You might have heard that China promotes its leaders based on GDP growth. When I collected my own data on this, I found a null result. Then I replicated the literatureβturns out, it's all wrong.
Quarantined section
Risk ratio of B117 updated to 1.65 (95% confidence interval is 1.21-2.25) in latest technical report (thats 65% higher mortality).
And now for the bad news. *sigh*
It looks like #B117, the more transmissible variant first detected in England, has now picked up the E484K mutation as well. That is the one linked to evading SOME immunity in SAfrica and Brazil.
h/t @_b_meyer
^ thread
The time-honored βyes, we made an error that reverses our results, but we found another error that shows we were right all along...β https://t.co/cmtf0OUpMM
Health Nerd @GidMK
^ a lengthy discussion of a paper about school-closures during covid