#Complexity

I've spent the last few days picking through Neil Ferguson's Covid model. Thread It contains 450 different parameters, each of which is either a single float or a float matrix.
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The most important thing I learned in college for programming was from a linguistics classWe took ordinary language and parsed it into syntax treesStart with the words in a sentence,
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As someone who is actually educated, a female and feminist. Let me go through a little and very generally what terrible writing of a female characters really is. A thread.
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Not sure why I care so much, but the bumpkins over at The Orthosphere keep deleting my rebuttal to a half-assed post they made on Gnosticism. A thread. Original article:https://orthosphere.wordpress.com/2020/01/02/stuart-holroyd-gnosticism-
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I'm *finally* reading Neoreaction a Basilisk. I'm 100 pages in but it suddenly occurred to me that a liveblog would be a good idea. I've been having thoughts at such
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1/3 Thread: I was glad to see the Russians publish their phase 1 data, previously I was critical for their lack of transparency after their public declarations following licensure of
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BREAKING: Senate reaches agreement on PPP deal for small businesses, providers, testing. Vote will be today.I will break it down here. Follow if interested. 1/ Total package now approaches $475
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Some PhD programs are suspending admissions, as advocated by many for years because of the lousy academic job market. The @chronicle says this will “help the programs devote funding to
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1/ Let’s talk cash flow. With the complexity of medical billing in the US, independent #PCP medical practices are likely just now feeling the real cash hit of the COVID-19
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Ideas for Final Semester CS ProjectsA long thread....#100DaysOfCode #DEVCommunity Android/Kotlin Projects->University app (syllabus, holiday list, GPA calculator, class time-table etc.)->Faculty Management app (attendance, calendar, o
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After witnessing the ordeal of setting up the AWS ALB ingress controller on EKS, I think there are a few important points that need to be made about running Kubernetes
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1/ Storing bitcoin private keys is really hard, and unfortunately every hardware wallet I've seen sucks. I'm looking forward to the wave of improvement that BIP174 (PSBT) is going to
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I've been teaching people how to start with machine learning for more than a year now.This is a thread with what I've learned and some advice if you are looking
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since we’ve gotten the most wonderful news that we are FINALLY getting the Percy Jackson adaptation we deserve, I’ve decided to re-read the series. a thread to document my experience
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What does the future hold for chronic disease #prevention research? New paper from @TAPPCentre @LucieRychetnik @leahmarksy @profaw out today in @anzjph https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1753-6405.13028 1/n This commentary is
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A Thread on Yuji Itadori and What Makes Him a Fitting Main Character for Jujutsu Kaisen Let's start with the obvious, Yuji Itadori despite lacking innate jujutsu abilities can beat
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