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Update: the error belongs, indeed, to the RKI crew: https://twitter.com/Tim_Roehn/status/1477975486764572675 Via Google translate: "Update: The RKI made a significant change in the…

Interesting. * 30.12.2021 RKI Wochenbericht reads "1.097 Patientinnen und Patienten waren ungeimpft, 4.020 waren vollständig geimpft, von diesen wurde für 1.137 eine Auffrischimpfu…

Similar figures from Denmark, reported as rates and broke down by age groups. Waiting for severe omicron cases stats, which may lag for a few weeks. We are in for an interesting wi…

In a free society the job of the media is to report the facts, not to "keep the raving mad in check".

This leads to 2 twitters, one for each side of the political aisle. Filter bubbles enabled by social media are already bad enough, a complete fracture of the public space along pol…

Since you are not posting your sources, it's hard to tell what claims of Marjorie Taylor Greene you are referring to. I recently stumbled upon a site that reports on covid data fro…

(2nd attempt, realized the outlier spike is in "unvaccinated and 80+" category). Utter garbage data. Using the breakdown by age we note a huge outlier spike in unvaccinated cases i…

Not a big fan of nuclear because of security and waste disposal issues, but quoting 3 accidents over a span of 60 years as a reason for a blanket ban on a whole class of energy pro…

Perhaps this Twitter thread (sorry) may help alleviate some of the fears? The author is a full professor working on computational biology at University College London and had prior…

Your note on misuse of VAERS data caught my attention: "deaths happening shortly after vaccinations, but not necessarily connected to it". Apparently the same kind of sleigh of han…

Indeed. A few more examples of fundamental systems advances since 2000: iOS, Android (intents), Chrome (multiprocess), Kubernetes, Cloudflare Durable Objects (collaboration), WASM,…

"Python is basically slowly becoming a TypeScript." If only.

"We've measured the position of iron balls thrown at different speeds from a 56m tall tower and found they were 90% likely to be found flying in the air." This is technically corre…

Given that boosters are an attempt to counteract waning vaccine vaccine effectiveness, there are two fundamental questions: 1. Do boosters work at all? 2. Do boosters wane over tim…

From the paper I originally linked: "Infection with one serotype likely elicits lifelong immunity to that serotype, but generally not against the other three." Dengue researchers r…

Long-lasting original antigenic sin is well documented at least for dengue. "Original antigenic sin has the advantage that a response can be rapidly mobilized from memory. However,…

Network effects. As long as the other kids socialize on social media, not using social media becomes a drastic socialization penalty. The problem cannot be solved individually, onl…

The point of 1/ 2/ 3/ ... threads is to enable out of context deep linking. They are not going away, lest Twitter becomes yet another run-of-the mill blog platform nobody engages w…

old.twitter.com, I hope.

Not really. Team X uses Java? Someone on the team takes 1 hour to create YamlPlus.java, submits to the monorepo. Now team X + all the other 100(0) teams that use Java have access t…

Coding is values, arrays, dicts, ifs, loops and functions. An expressive set-like operations library over arrays (& dicts) gives superpowers.

Overreaction? Let's hypothetically consider yaml+, with the definition: yaml+ = yaml "\n" "." * easy to wrap a yaml parser and create a yaml+ validating parser. * easy to create a …