#Testing

Leah Douglas

leahjdouglas

I just opened my Sunday NYT to see a full page ad from @SmithfieldFoods accusing its “critics” (e.g. the press, at least in part) of spreading “false narratives,” “misinformation,” and

Noah Smith 🐇

Noahpinion

1/Coronavirus Tweets from the Experts, 4/25/2020https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/lists/coronavirus 2/Manufacturing capacity is an underrated constraint on vaccine availability. When evaluating vaccine candidates, make sure to look at how quickly they&#

L 🤺

SomeBitchIKnow

In 2012, Minneapolis eliminated 4 out of 5 psychological tests used to screen applicants for the police academy. The tests were dropped despite a federal study of the MPD showing

TheValuesVoter

TheValuesVoter

A lot of people focused on the number of people who were infected and who died from Coronavirus, especially when the number was low. And didn’t focus on the more

Pete Hodgson

ph1

The most common feature-flagging pain I hear of is "feature flag debt" - stale flags clogging up your codebase with conditionals and dead code. Uber just open-sourced Piranha, an internal

Natalie Buske Thomas

buske_natalie

So, now stores have a looping Social Distancing message on sound system, in addition to marked floors for where the cattle peasantry must stand, in addition to numerous Social Distancing

Tim Hogan

TimInHonolulu

1. I'm generally a @NicolleDWallace fan but she, like many of the media, especially those who lived the lie during the time they were participants in a white supremacist org

Matthew Kobach

mkobach

It’s time for another @fast content strategy update. This week I’m sharing how our paid strategy complements our organic strategy (a thread). First, some context: Our product (Fast Checkout) let’s

Peter Kolchinsky

PeterKolchinsky

Aptly named Sputnik V, Russian “approved” vaccine is like old Soviet rocket tech that only got cosmonauts into orbit but lacked the sophistication to get them to the moon like

Daniel Kaufman

Yozarian22

Magic the Gathering development demonstrates how weak expert review is compared to crowdsourcing. A thread: 1/5 Wizards of the Coast releases new MTG sets every couple months or so. They

Shannon Young

SYoungReports

I've never seen Twitter users circle the wagons around Mexican govt data like it has around official statistics on the COVID-19 outbreak. It's especially intense today after the NYT published

Natalie E. Dean, PhD

nataliexdean

EPI 101 thread on sensitivity and specificity, plus its application to #COVID19 screening. For those who want a refresher!The way we summarize the accuracy of a test (such as RT-PCR

zack!

aoihatesyou

thread of my edits lol and my insta @ is bbeanstew so yeah eyestrain warning lmao! killua birthday edit for a friend (^｡^) i was testing something lemme

Ankur

Ankur4BJP

1/42 THREAD:The #ChineseCoronaVirus pandemic is a high risk-high impact situation, for India as for the rest of the world. The risk is singular - that the virus may spread across

magdalena osumi 💁🏼‍♀️

jt_mag_os

The Japanese government was expected to make some decisions this week regarding easing restrictions for some foreign residents stranded abroad due to Japan’s strict entry restrictions. I know people have

Kaitlyn Wells Axson 👩🏽‍💻🐱🐶📱

KaitWells

The folks at @Poynter are collecting the published obituaries of the journalists and media employees who’ve died because of the coronavirus. https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2020/the-journalists-and-colleagues-weve-lost-to-the-coronavirus/ Email