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Tom Nichols

RadioFreeTom

One of the things you learn when you examine "foxes" (broad knowledge) vs "hedgehogs" (deep but narrow learning) is that hedgehogs are often the wrongest people there are once outside

Z Bolay Buss

buss_patriarchy

Thinking more abt the whole CBT as glorified gaslighting issue & how one of the supposed “thought distortions” is “catastrophizing” but I haven’t seen the reverse “minimizing” labeled as a

Charles 🎉 Frye

charles_irl

1/hellathis by @daniela_witten is a masterclass in both the #SVD and in technical communication on Twitter.i want to hop on this to expand on the "magic" of this decomposition

Dimas

DreamOnShadows

These are my thoughts on Big O notation. I'll simplify as much as I can, but can't promise. Let's start with the general concept, then some Math and a couple

Mohammad Akbarpour

akbarpour_

Today is @ShengwuLi's birthday! An incredible coauthor! An excuse to write about our ECTA paper on "credible mechanisms."There, we made a theoretical prediction that in the online world, real 2nd-price

Tamás Görbe

TamasGorbe

Everyone knows that all circles are similar. But did you know that all parabolas are similar?The ratio of the red parabolic arc length and the blue focal parameter is√2 +

enthusiast

boarbarktree

t w i t t e r t h r e a d : POINTLESS TOPOLOGYPointless topology is beloved because of its absurd name, but what on earth is

James Lindsay, man of internet swagger

ConceptualJames

Unpopular opinion: The female officer in MN made a terrible mistake, and she should be held to account for it because mistakes like this are very serious. That should only

Alan Levinovitz

AlanLevinovitz

could there be a more racist assertion than the idea that *rationality* and *logic* are...”white”?genuinely shocked to find this is commonplace in anti-racist lit and discourse in addition to being

Moebius Stripper

moebius_strip

Do I, as someone with an advanced degree in pure mathematics, need to weigh in on the What Is 2+2, Can Anyone Really Say For Sure debate? Is this where

Macro Hive

Macro_Hive

At Macro Hive, we don’t just think about markets and economics only. We are also keen on self-improvement, wellbeing and fitness. We are delighted to share our best picks from

Jacopo Bertolotti

j_bertolotti

#PhysicsFactlet (273)A brief introduction to the calculus of variations.Trigger warning: lots of formulas manipulated the way experimental physicists do 1/ The simplest introduction to the calculus of variations is

Ajeet Bharti

ajeetbharti

"I beg to introduce myself to you as a clerk in the Accounts Department of the Port Trust Office at Madras... "The opening of the letter that changed 20th century

Tom Nichols

RadioFreeTom

This is like when people tell me about their friends who are engineers who are dedicated Trumpists. You can be skilled at something but in terms of emotional intelligence be

robinween

r_omulus

reading mdzs fic is like “Lan Wangji was the tallest and broadest man Wei Wuxian had ever seen. His eyes were molten gold and as such emitted light. “Mn,” he

Brennan Spiegel, MD, MSHS

BrennanSpiegel

When should a negative #COVID19 test be ignored? Let's say a doctor sees a patient w/ possible #COVID19. She highly suspects infection because patient has cough, chest pain, abnormal chest