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New example of possible ethnic profiling when determining recidivism risk. This time in the Netherlands. #recidivism #prediction #AI #OxRec #ethnicprofiling @random_walker @mireillemoret @fborgesius @PopTechWorks Determining recidivism risk
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As of today, there have been 320 deaths from the coronavirus in Ireland, and 9,875 deaths in the UK. Ok, ok, but the UK has a ginormous population, right? Especially
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Reasons disabled and chronically ill folks will continue to die en masse, not from COVID19:- All non-life threatening emergency medical appts, surgeries and procedures are being cancelled (including things like
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Mathematically speaking, it looks like this is now baked in. And when the healthcare system is overwhelmed, the fatality rate for COVID spikes. We are going to lose a lot
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1/15 Bitcoin vs. gold—betting on the fastest horse (a review of Paul Tudor Jones' bitcoin forecast from last year)A thread 2/15 In Paul Tudor Jones’ May 2020 investor note,
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A paper which I would recommend reading. But it slightly annoys me, even though I agree with it. One might get the impression electrolyte limitations in battery electrodes have not
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Ok...So this is conventional criminological wisdom but the story on the ground is more complicated. Property crime has not gone down over the last twenty years. It has just moved
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It's been 8 days since I have been diagnosed with COVID-19. Here is my honest assessment of the disease/pandemic and all the information/mis-information around it. It all started with my
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I promised a thread on higher education a week ago. I wanted to include hard data, so sorry for the delay. Spoiler alert: Higher education has for the last decade
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Our paper on sex-based differences in the clearance of asymptomatic P falciparum infection is out!! We found that females cleared these infections ~2x faster than males in our cohort in
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FOOD FOR THOUGHT 20200830In all of our analysis we are using a volume projection for Tesla that deserves further examination 1. It is driven by observing Tesla’s historical growth 2.
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The biggest push-back I get on this kind of statement is from relatively upper-middle class liberals, whom I don't think are fully aware of their privilege. They demand "civility" &
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The Covid-19 pandemic has been traumatic for New York City. But just how traumatic, by historical standards? @foxjust turned to health records that date back to 1804 to find outhttps://trib.al/0ZhrSp8 
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Some thoughts on American Tower Corporation, which is up 34,664% or 38.41% CAGR from the lows of 2002 till today. AMT is REIT and a leading independent owner, operator and
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(TINY THREAD) I want to explain in a bit more detail the reason there was concern about the (now disproven) claims made by the IHME authors last week that last
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A lot of factors in the market, and especially in it’s relation to politics, suggest to me that this time inflation will be the next big problem to hit. Not
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