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Jeremiah Johnson

JeremiahDJohns

Is the US education system more on par with France or Uzbekistan?A thread on how 'social indexes' are calculated and why you should be cautious about using them. And how

Kyle Bogosian 💡

KyleBogosian

An AI diversity/ethics researcher/activist was fired after threatening to resign from Google during a spat over a paper she was writing. I won't discuss the drama and the paper hasn't

Secret Capital

SecretCapital_

Carvana Case Studyby @scuttleblurb x @AndrewRangeley this was excellent - a thoughtful and balanced thesis, Includes: overview of the problem $CVNA solves, how they delight customers, their competitive advantages, unit

Joan Donovan, PhD 🦫

BostonJoan

While this piece is deeply troubling for different reasons, one thing stands out: it is not polite to take credit for an entire field of research mostly developed by women

Laura McConnell

LauraFMcConnell

Thread: emotional dysregulation & strategies to support children regulate. Dysregulation is common among Autistic & ADHD children, but many children who have experienced trauma are dysregulated too. These points explain

Daniel Edelstein

Turtlestein

THREAD 1/Tropes that Armenian churches in Karabakh are 'all' Albanian & that Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh only got there and/or became a majority in the 1800s under the Russians is ahistorical

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vexwerewolf

I join in with the "fuck 4E" jokes quite a lot, but my actual feelings on 4E - while still negative - are more complex than "it was just bad."I

Cory Doctorow #BLM

doctorow

In 1997, the Clinton administration created the "1033" program, whereby the Pentagon gave away its "surplus" equipment to local law enforcement agencies, leading to the nationwide militarization of America's cops.1/

Farhana Sultana, Ph.D.

Prof_FSultana

PSA: faculty please stop teaching the thoroughly-refuted & debunked misconceptions of Hardin, Malthus, Diamond. That is all. Thank you for coming to my TED talk. Crowdsourcing info may help folks.

Kieran 🚀 2021 goal: Build a SaaS with #nocode

nocodelife

In 2021 my primary goal is to build and launch a SaaS (software-as-a-service) with no-code tools.Here's what I'm betting on and why... I spent the last 15 months launching at

emilwallner

EmilWallner

Machine learning portfolio tips1. Good ideas come from ML sources that are a bit quirky.- NeurIPS from 1987 - 1997- Stanford’s CS224n & CS231n projects- Twitter likes from ML outliers-

Mike Dunford

questauthority

Litigation update: ParlerAlthough proof of service has yet to be filed, Amazon filed their response to Parler's motion for a temporary restraining order. It's short and looks like it's a

Joe Wells

josephcwells

I just got an email from @JamesClear saying Atomic Habits is 56% off on Amazon. The wisdom to cost ratio is at an all time high. These are some of

Lyman Stone 石來民

lymanstoneky

In terms of YoY change in monthly deaths, the three biggest post-WWII death spikes in the United States are December 2020, April 2020, and August 2020. Holiday interruptions mean recent

RajiAiyer

RajeAiyer

Points to ponder about Shahjahan1. Shahjahan was a cruel king. On becoming the king, Shahjahan imprisoned his step mother Nur Jahan. He sent brother Shahryar to the gallows. He had

Emily Cureton

emilycureton

The week Oregon tightened restrictions, and daily CV19 deaths hit an all time high, 50+ Republican state lawmakers and county officials asked Democratic Gov. Kate Brown to let locals decide

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