#Mathematical

Last week there was a debate about "2 + 2 = 5". Math ppl pointed out it's false in *standard* math, but could be true in other maths. Which—yes, BUT
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1/5 #COVID19 key concerns in : Today, in lieu of a daily in-person update to the media, I have issued a Monday statement you can read in full here:
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1/This thread will present my hypothesis that Q may be showing us how language itself is used to enslave and control society.Those aware of these fundamental flaws and ambiguity are
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WHY IS IT SO HARD TO KNOW WHAT TO DO FOR THANKSGIVING THIS YEAR AND WHY DON'T WE ALL AGREE? A data analyst's perspective. Thread. MANAGING CORONAVIRUS RISK
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There is evidence from other countries and previous epidemics that testing and tracing are key interventions early in an epidemic and even more as we start to get control in
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Jimin was known to hook up with people throughout college, so it wasn’t terribly surprising when the summer of his junior year, one of his summer flings presented him with
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Ok, we found something amazing and we demand you to come on a journey with us: A lot of our offices are like this.The usual depressing office furniture, the utilitarian
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I’ve never thought that one day, I’ll be making a thread about Akın’s “relationships”, but today I will especially after seeing people blaming Sandra for his award loss. First of
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Indian Knowledge Systems and how they have been suppressed and appropriated by the west. Knowledge systems were destroyed by Islamic invasions and they were distorted and even appropriated by the
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How much could potential biases in early data affect our current understanding of COVID-19? This question crops up a lot, so let's look at three crucial aspects of that early
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1/ Recently, I have been grappling with the question of what the role of cognitive neuroscience is supposed to be in understanding brain and cognition. What do we learn about
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Why do bacterial plasmids carry some genes but not others? Plasmids are less reliably inherited than the chromosome and genes are free to hop between plasmid and chromosome: so what
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Ideas for online assessments I picked up this summer:1. Ask students to show multiple representations: position/velocity graphs, motion diagrams, force diagrams, energy bar charts, etc. Maybe don't mandate which ones
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On Mar 24, we had ~800 #COVID deaths in the US. On Apr 4, when the count was at ~8,000, I predicted ~20,000 deaths by Easter Sunday, Apr 12.My prediction
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This 'investigation' rewrites history so much that it amounts to a lie. The central conceit is that the government was set on a herd immunity strategy while scientists and modellers
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