#Hypothesis

TIL albino redwoods may not actually be parasitic, but rather could share a mutualistic relationship with the neighbors they siphon off of.Here’s how that hypothesis goes:https://twitter.com/britobrien_/status/1013256969992302592 First of
Read more
I haven't even gone to bed last night yet and today's bullshit coronavirus story is already here, courtesy of @pbleic.Elsevier's journal _Medical Hypotheses_ brings us a paper entitled "The use
Read more
A sensible null hypothesis for B2B products is that the customer doesn’t really need your product, will not pay for it, and will not deploy or use it. Starting from
Read more
1) Hypothesis: hyperscale cloud co’s alternate annually between spending on data centers (real estate, buildings) and compute/network/storage (CPUs, GPUs, Accelerators, Memory, HDD, etc.) to fill those data centers based on
Read more
Ok so I claim that doing mathematics constructively obscures ideas which, to me at least, feel natural. Let me illustrate with a simple example: a locally open set is open.
Read more
1/ This is quite the paper on masks, published in @BMJ_Open in 2015: a randomized trial (the gold standard, yadda yadda) of 1600 health-care workers showed those wearing masks were
Read more
What I don’t get about the ‘I’m leaving Labour because its current leadership doesn’t represent me any more” people is this: if Corbyn had ever taken that attitude, then you’d
Read more
1/ A tweetorial on false positives & transposing the conditional!Or why interpreting type 1 error can be so confusing.This is a common topic that overlaps in medical testing, data reporting,
Read more
Thread on Female Sexuality:A brief overview of my views on the dichotomy between the 'whore' and 'maiden' archetype, partially inspired by tweets by @SweetQueenAnna and general observations about the nature
Read more
On Ava Duvernay: What is happening to these Black people in their journey to mainstream success that is making them.....like that?My hypothesis: you actually *can't* climb to certain levels of
Read more
Traditionally, people learn new gait patterns via extensive practice walking in a new environment or in response to instructions from a clinician. In our new preprint, we asked: could people
Read more
The "mysterious" spike in female paedophiles glinner is chatting shit about is actually the result of policy starting in 2015 taking women sex offences more seriously. This was notified at
Read more
Can-can the Jack Johnson experiment be over, already? We have enough data. The hypothesis of "Jack Johnson is good, actually" has been proven absolutely false. Please, lord, just end this
Read more
Again, you are *attributing* the bending of the curve to lockdown. If in fact millions of ppl there had already acquired COVID-19 (a hypothesis shared by many renowned scientists), lockdown
Read more
This article @insidehighered w it’s title claiming that COVID is “tanking” women’s productivity as indicated by decreased journal submissions has been popular on my feed. A few notes, from reading
Read more
Calling the Wuhan Lab hypothesis a priori racist is reason to disqualify you as a scientist. Period. The end. There is no more.If you somehow KNOW that this didn’t happen
Read more