Best of Twitter - Week of November 2, 2020
A friend asked me for a reference for why we did not increase the frequency further in CPUs and why parallelism was necessary to increase performance. This puts it quite bluntly (from arxiv.org/abs/1803.00254).
Researchers getting close to being able to account for most of the genetic determinants of height (currently, via 10,000 variable spots in the genome) Also, can predict height from DNA pretty well employing a "polygenic score." 1/3
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On this day in 2008: Tesla secures $40 million loan to avoid bankruptcy
Today, it’s the most valuable automaker in the world.
@JonErlichman That funding round completed 6pm on Christmas Eve in 2008. Last hour of last day possible, as investors were leaving town that night & we were 3 days away from bankruptcy. I put in all money I had, didn’t own a house & had to borrow money from friends to pay rent. Difficult time.
@vincent13031925 @JonErlichman I put in my last money, even though I thought we would still fail. But, it was either that or certain death for Tesla. Extremely difficult to raise money for an electric car startup (considered super quirky back then), while stalwarts like GM & Chrysler were going bankrupt.
La ameba vampiro. Es un protozoo, la Vampyrella lateritia que se alimenta extrayendo las células de otras, en este caso de un alga Spirogyra.
Una belleza. 😍🥰❤️🧛🏻
^ “vampire amoeba”
Did you know that biologists often call their scientific papers "stories"?
As they carry out experiments, they are building a story to tell.
To get in a top journal, it has to be a good story.
Adi Millman @AdiMillman