Best of Twitter - Week of February 7, 2022
Alexey Guzey@alexeyguzey
I used to sleep the normal 7.5 hours a day. Over the last 180 days I have slept an average of 5 hours 57 minutes per day.
So, after 2 years of experimentation and occasional deep dives into the scientific literature, here are my theses on sleep:
guzey.com
Theses on Sleep - Alexey Guzey
4:49 PM · Feb 10, 2022
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QC@QiaochuYuan
@alexeyguzey re: sleepiness indicating the boringness of the environment, ime it goes deeper than that. sleepiness can become a psychological defense against many uncomfortable emotions and "boredom" is often hiding one or more of these
5:57 AM · Feb 11, 2022
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^ matches my experience
Royal Statistical Society@RoyalStatSoc
Today we release the findings of our survey of MPs, testing their statistical skills (a thread)
rss.org.uk/news-publicati…
9:03 AM · Feb 11, 2022
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Royal Statistical Society@RoyalStatSoc
We asked a sample of MPs the same simple probability question we asked them ten years ago - if you toss a coin twice, what is the probability of getting two heads?
9:04 AM · Feb 11, 2022
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Royal Statistical Society@RoyalStatSoc
This time round, around half of respondents (52%) gave the correct answer of 🥁 25%
This is a likely improvement from when we polled MPs in 2011, when 40% of respondents gave the correct answer
9:06 AM · Feb 11, 2022
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Charles Brenner, PhD@CharlesMBrenner
in 1997 David was a postdoc with Lenny Guarente & published a very nice paper showing that SIR2 extends the number of times a yeast mother cell can produce daughter cells by controlling formation of ribosomal DNA circles doi.org/10.1016/S0092-…
Brandon Ghaeli ⚡️ @heyitsmebrandon
@CharlesMBrenner Where there is money, there will be misinformation. Enjoying the balance of your tweets vs. Sinclair. Can you explain the peer review process? Curious how/why it has failed on some of his articles as you point out.
4:43 PM · Feb 13, 2022
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^ thread about David Sinclair 🤔
Ben (hiring 65/∞ teammates)@benskuhn
In my experience, they *are* near-universally effective—for example, my top piece of perf feedback from reports is that our 1:1s are very useful—but this updates me that that’s not the default and perhaps even my “care a lot” advice in benkuhn.net/11 is insufficient.
benkuhn.net
The unreasonable effectiveness of one-on-ones
2:41 PM · Feb 8, 2022
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Benjamin Todd@ben_j_todd
There's $1bn+ available for these anti-pandemic megaprojects:
1. Int early detection centre
2. Actually good PPE
3. Rapid & broad antivirals & vaccines
4. Bioweapons watchdog
5. Self-sterilizing buildings
6. Refuges
If you might help, fill out the form:
forum.effectivealtruism.org
Concrete Biosecurity Projects (some of which could be big) - EA Forum
12:33 PM · Feb 9, 2022
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Alexander Kruel@XiXiDu
What one year of progress can look like in machine learning.
5:23 PM · Feb 10, 2022
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Milan Cvitkovic@MWCvitkovic
milan.cvitkovic.net
The Goals of Neurotechnology
2:21 AM · Feb 9, 2022
6 Reposts · 25 Likes
Thinkwert@Thinkwert
Thankful that we humans are not vulnerable as well to cleverly designed bait that hacks our pattern-recognition abilities and reward systems.
1:30 AM · May 20, 2021
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