Tuesday, June 2, 2020

LA is still not burning

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I have great respect for the resilience of NYC journalists. If the New York Times were consumed in a great conflagration, I have  no doubt ...
Monday, June 1, 2020

A few points to consider when reading about Tesla (2020 edition)

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1. [ As previously mentioned ] Tesla's valuation has always depended more on the story than the fundamentals. Finally, it is essentia...
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Friday, May 29, 2020

University as a business

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This is Joseph François Furstenberg has comments on cuts at Johns Hopkins , including the high pay of leadership. The whole thing is worth...
Thursday, May 28, 2020

Q-ing theory

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For a long time now, we’ve been talking about conservative movement disinformation, and for almost as long (since 2015 at least) we’ve been ...
Wednesday, May 27, 2020

Believe it or not, this is actually an improvement over the NYT's 2016 coverage.

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Late to this, but trying to imagine comparable framing in other times or eras: “Bull Connor Plans Stronger Role in Who Gets to Vote”...
Tuesday, May 26, 2020

Pharmacoepidemiology in debate

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This is Joseph Andrew Gelman was discussing the Lancet article on the safety of hydroxychloroquine . He posited three possible outcomes: ...

Tuesday Tweets -- "NEW from Aristocratic Murderer: Columbo Not As Smart As He Thinks He Is"

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NEW from Aristocratic Murderer: Columbo Not As Smart As He Thinks He Is https://t.co/8dDiC52Bad — kathbarbadoro (@kathbarbadoro) May ...
Monday, May 25, 2020

More on journalistic context

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This is Joseph I want to follow up on Mark's post "The New York Times is incapable of learning part 4,234 -- Ignoring context is...
Friday, May 22, 2020

The New York Times is incapable of learning part 4,234 -- Ignoring context is not part of balance

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One of the scariest things for American democracy is that many of the reporters responsible for the overcoverage of Hillary's Email...
Thursday, May 21, 2020

The infection fatality rate is not a single number

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This is Joseph. So I was reading 2 preprints on covid-19 infection fatality rates (IFR). The first one concludes : Based on a systematic...
Wednesday, May 20, 2020

There’s about to be a huge business travel shaped hole in the economy and we need to start thinking about how we are going to fill it up.

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5/ Necessity gives rise to invention. Across the globe, companies are struggling to survive. They are learning what can be done remotely. ...
Tuesday, May 19, 2020

"In Georgia, either the numbers are being cooked, or they’ve accidentally fallen into the stew pot." -- a whole bunch of Tuesday tweets

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In Georgia, either the numbers are being cooked, or they’ve accidentally fallen into the stew pot. https://t.co/SGVLlbdIEi — Charles ...
Monday, May 18, 2020

Challenge Trials

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This is Joseph I am a bit late to the Challenge Trial debate for covid-19. Here is a great piece written by Thomas Lumley , who points out...
Friday, May 15, 2020

How did we get here?

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This is Joseph From public comments by the president of the University of Washington: As doctors, nurses, health professionals and rese...