It's another "actually, insane people perceive reality more accurately" episode
Neuroskeptic @Neuro_Skeptic
^ thread
"[in] group who read the information on a logarithmic scale...only 40.66%...could respond correctly to a basic question about the graph (whether there were more deaths in one week or another), contrasted to 83.79% of respondents on the linear scale."
Consider: millions of years ago our antecedents gave a massive sacrifice of their left hemisphere.
We lost a tremendous amount of short term memory and replaced it with Broca’s, Wernicke & the phonological loop.
But why?
So we can—talk.
Thus chimpanzees can do this—we can’t:
^ hmmmmm thread
On International Day of Women/Girls in Science, my map shows STARK differences in % of female researchers across Europe
HIGHEST %:
🇲🇰MKD 52.3%
🇱🇻LVA 52.2
🇱🇹LTU 51.6
🇷🇸SRB 50
LOWEST %:
🇳🇱NLD 25.8
🇨🇿CZE 26.8
🇫🇷FRA 27
🇩🇪DEU 28
#womeninscience #dataviz #DataScience #maps #rstats
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…
^ I feel like I’m including this tweet for the 3rd time in the last year but I just keep returning to it over and over - such a perfect example!
A new invasive brain computer interface was able to decode imagined handwriting in real time and allow for fairly fast text entry, pretty awesome for paralyzed people hopefully this becomes hardened into a product
Sergey Stavisky @sergeydoestweet
^ video from Two Minute Papers
What does it take to generate multiple cell states? To find out, we designed and built "MultiFate", a synthetic circuit that generates multistability in mammalian cells. biorxiv.org/content/10.110… . Work from brilliant student @RonZhu2015 w/ @jesusdelrio_7 and @jgojalvo.
Never trust any .xlsx file created by a lawyer. The first draft of your {pro forma cap table, acquisition waterfall, etc} almost certainly has major flaws.
Twemex is now available in public beta! ✨
Try the browser extension that makes Twitter a better memex--a place for exploring interesting ideas and people:
^ this extension is really good. My favorite functions are: (1) showing user’s most popular tweets when visiting their profile; showing most popular quote-tweets of a tweet currently open
It's late stage something when a brand's tweet comments are all other brands plus the state of Israel and the NHS trying to be funny.
Quarantined section
Swedish gov has consistently warned ppl over dangers of masks. Few ppl wear masks, and municipalities have banned them from workplaces. What?! Yes, it's all true, and the direct result of government anti-mask messaging. We explain how we got there.
^ ??????????????
This blog series is a goldmine.