Monday, May 10, 2021

Virus Consulting

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 A nice cartoon accompaniment to our recent thread (see here , here , and here ) From XKCD
Friday, May 7, 2021

When it comes to pandemic defeatism, even New York Times Music wants to get in on the act

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Picking up from our previous post . "Epidemiologists say" suggests a consensus, but they base this on quotes from one guy. pic.t...
Thursday, May 6, 2021

Perspective

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This is Joseph Mark has been on a roll with his covid-19 posts of the last two days . One thing that I really want to reinforce is that we ...
Wednesday, May 5, 2021

"Well, maybe one will come up"

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For some reason over the past year and a half, this clip has come to mind frequently.
Tuesday, May 4, 2021

Perhaps cultivating learned helplessness is not the best strategy for fighting the pandemic

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I'm pressed for time so I'm just going to crack open this topic. While right wing media is spreading anti-vax propaganda and engagin...
Monday, May 3, 2021

Josh and the toasty warm take

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Following up on a comment by Andrew Gelman, I was going to open this post with a discussion of hot takes, but going through the Twitter f...
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Friday, April 30, 2021

Sometimes it's useful to stop and think about what really fast progress looks like

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That last post got me thinking. Over the past dozen or so years, autonomous vehicles have made impressive advances, but it's important t...
Thursday, April 29, 2021

The fact that I could probably pass off a ten year old post on AVs as new suggests that the technology may not be advancing quite as fast as initially promised

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In all seriousness, when you look back at periods of ubiquitous revolutionary advances (late 19th/early 20th centuries, the postwar era), yo...
Wednesday, April 28, 2021

Bitcoin and cryptocurrency as modern gold

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This is Joseph There has been a lot of discussion about bitcoin as a currency . There is a general concern that the value can jump around. F...
Tuesday, April 27, 2021

"None had ever performed such wonderful things in so short a time"

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A hardy perennial  from Mackay's Extraordinary Popular Delusions. On the 29th of May, the stock had risen as high as five hundred, and a...
Monday, April 26, 2021

It actually takes some effort to devise arguments this conventional and this wrong

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It is rare that you come across a comment that is so ill-informed in such an informative way. Environmentalism is supposed to be pain ...
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Friday, April 23, 2021

‘The pastrami must be amazing’

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It says something about 2021 that when I read about a scam that drove the valuation of small deli up to $100 million, my first reaction is ...
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Thursday, April 22, 2021

Effect sizes and vaccination

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This is Joseph Okay, I want to address a question about effect sizes and vaccination: I think that this perspective can only be seen as usef...
Wednesday, April 21, 2021

Clash of the Regulatory Titans

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Following up on yesterday's post .  NHTSA is great — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 20, 2021 What's Tesla official safety recor...
Tuesday, April 20, 2021

The lies we tell ourselves about technology and the future have real costs

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Follow-up to yesterday's post .  Not so long ago, the conventional wisdom (except for a few journalists who really understood the challe...