#Models

Matthew Salganik

msalganik

If hundreds of scientists created predictive algorithms with high-quality data, how well would the best predict life outcomes? Not very well. Fragile Families Challenge: paper in PNAS w 112 authors

DRE

dlatl32

Imma continue this thread, maybe it will help y’all out.Might be all over the placeDL no matter how masculine you are is still an attraction to men, and assuming we

H i s t o r yK E

HistoryKE

#HistoryKeThread: At one time in our history, a firebrand politician bestrode the politics of a part of Kenya like a colossus.Some called him Mashamba. No, not the one you may

Antiokhos in the East

AntiokhosE

Being thinking about coins and coloniser/colonised identities a bit today. Coins of Greco-Bactrians in today’s Afghanistan are famous for their size and quality - like this glorious gold stater of

Malcolm 🙃cean

Malcolm_Ocean

Hot niche take:Kegan's stages are universal only because everyone is universally afflicted with a dysfunction related to left hemisphere fixation.In a culture where this wasn't so, there would still be

Vik Duggal

vikdug

I am intrigued by one person media companies. After now successfully running a one person consulting business, I'm curious what else one person can do in business.@DruRly shared @stewfortier's essay

Alexandros Marinos

alexandrosM

Tesla is continually misunderstood by markets & media because it's hard to model a feedback loop that cuts across functional silos in excel. Linear models and systems thinking are oil

Will Smith¿

YaBoiWillSmith2

My 1st listen review of 2014 forest hill drive by j. Cole (my first ever music review) Track 1-Intro 6/10With a simple calming and relaxing piano, raw and emotional lyrics

Anders Sandberg

anderssandberg

New paper out by Andrew E. Snyder-Beattie, me, Eric Drexler and @mbbonsall about how the timing of evolutionary transitions on Earth suggests intelligent life is rare: https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/ast.2019.2149 There is life

Taylor Owen

taylor_owen

If you are lucky in life, you get to meet someone as powerful, smart, generous and urgently important as @mariaressa. In a new ep. of the #BigTechPodcast @dskok spoke to

☽ Rho ★ woobifying all my favorite villains 🦋

rhodanum

It's not even June and this fucking nuclear-waste is already being put on my TL.I'd have just blocked, but then I saw this individual attacking and demonizing the split attraction

Isabelle Westbury

izzywestbury

There is a real lack of female representation in our sports coverage rnow & I think it’s a big problem.(Yes, even when there is no sport. Especially because there is

elvis

omarsar0

The overuse of the sentiment analysis use case in NLP education can mislead students into thinking that text classification is all you can do with machine learning & NLP.If you

Shannon Morse wears a mask and you should too!

Snubs

Last year after Tekthing ended, I started taking a long, hard look at my career. Who is my audience? Where do my passions align? What kind of brand do I

xian franzinger barrett

xianb8

I'm for school choice. I think every community has the wisdom and agency to shape public schooling for all students. "School Choice" as in the forced choice model promoted by

magitweeter

magitweeter

(market design for the “marketplace of ideas”: a thread)So. I have a day job, which is researching game theory(the mathematical modeling of human interaction, so to speak)and it's rare that