Tuesday, April 14, 2020

Tuesday Tweets (now actually on Tuesday)

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Those antibiotic-resistant viruses are the worst. https://t.co/McjkdW6M23 — Mark Palko (@MarkPalko1) April 10, 2020 From Vox : D...
Monday, April 13, 2020

A reply to Tyler Cown's questions on Epidemiology

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This is Joseph. Tyler Cowen had a critique of epidemiological disease models. Based on the list of issues , I think he is critiquing the I...
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Yes, Covid-19 will finally bring knowledge work practices into the Twenty-first Century -- a rerepost

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I realize I've been dipping into the archives a bit too often as of late (the rerepost is definitely a sign things have gotten out of ha...
Friday, April 10, 2020

The challenges of bicycling commuting

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This is Joseph. I was struck by how cluttered the bike lanes are in this video of discussing business practices during bicycle commuting: ...

Quarantine Viewing part whatever week this is

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Continuing to fill in gaps in my musical education. We lost the great character actor Allen Garfield this week. Lots of great mov...
Thursday, April 9, 2020

Of course, the economist can never view the world through the innocent eyes of the epidemiologist either...

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This piece by Noah Feldman really challenged a lot of my preconceptions. The upshot of these different worldviews is that, on the whole, ...
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Wednesday, April 8, 2020

Tuesday Tweets -- One for Gelman, a hydroxychloroquine collection, and a covid miscellanea

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Hi @ItupevaAgora I saw this https://t.co/4TGmbX3PDu , have you seen this? https://t.co/nCf4x7mPQI — Nick Brown (@sTeamTraen) April 6...
Tuesday, April 7, 2020

Chait on Trump and Lysenkoism

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I've been thinking about doing a post on Lysenkoism , but Jonathan Chait beat me to it and in more detail. TThere are, however, a few po...
Monday, April 6, 2020

Hospital beds

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This is Joseph This is a blog post from 2014 (so it was written long before the current era of covid-19). Note the shrinkage in hospital b...
Saturday, April 4, 2020

How we got here repost

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Thursday, May 30, 2013 The (ongoing) War on Data I know we've been through this before , but from the New York Times (via ataxing...

How we got here repost

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Tuesday, January 20, 2015 The War on Data Continues Andrew Gelman and I wrote a piece for the ASA a while back called " The War o...

About to revisit this in a big way

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Sunday, November 4, 2012 Strauss and the war on data The most important aspect of Randianism as currently practiced is the lies its a...
Friday, April 3, 2020

You know all those films you've been pretending to have seen?

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This might be a good time to check a few off of you list. If you have a library card (and everybody should have a library card), there's...
Thursday, April 2, 2020

Credit where credit is due (not to mention blame)

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It is growing more and more obvious that the propaganda and disinformation from Fox and other conservative media outlets has done tremendous...
Wednesday, April 1, 2020

Don't make me invoke Liberty Ships again

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Picking up (in a slightly less pissed-off mood) from Monday's rant . Everyone by now knows that, we need to both flatten the curve and...