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These IHME predictions are actually based on deaths, not on tests. Also, please look at the wide error bars on the original data source: https://covid19.healthdata.org/projections …

Go look at https://nextstrain.org/ncov if you want to see all of the mutation paths! Wonderful site/org with contributors doing great work around the globe sending in sequences.

Could you please explain what's happening here then, in terms of how Google is reading our Signal messages to provide "smart" replies?

Why is it no longer a "clear history" feature?

This is not a fully correct conclusion. I feel a need to call out the conflation of "non-hierarchical" with "structurelessness"/"without a formal structure". There are at least 3 t…

Congratulations to https://twitter.com/sehurlburt ! ...who is also a font of interesting and insightful business advice and life/growth thoughts

Aw... (Stopping by later and seeing this at the top) SMDH at myself, too, for giving in to the temptation to just blat out a quick frustration despite knowing this is exactly the k…

SMDH at how they see fit to include, in the second-to-last paragraph, a scientist calling the words "tipping point" inaccurate and irresponsible... and then still made it their hea…

I don't think anyone would say an apology is sufficient response. It's only a necessary component of a full response. But if a company screws up the apology right off the bat (as s…

Will we be able to modify the plasticity of our neurons with future drugs?

For those to whom this article clicks and resonates: at what stage of ego/mental development do you think this perspective unlocks? I perceive this complexity now, but the me of ju…

This author just does such amazing work, consistently. A joy to read.

Got one in the Kickstarter and my kids love it. Great for the 7-10 age range with adult partnership. The comic story is even decent! I imagine 12+ could get pretty far on their own…

Meta thought: is this article wrong? (Partly tongue-in-cheek, partly not)

"make things fair" is a strange way to put "other countries hurt their consumers more, so we should too"

They did: theoldreader.com

(porting my comment over from my dupe) Corporations are optimization processes. Advertising is an optimization process. Social networks are. Smartphone addiction. Political polariz…

Haha... (at the cleverness of your description of church/religion) Secular church is definitely one approach, one option to try to fight fire with fire. I've seen compelling analys…

Corporations are optimization processes. Advertising is an optimization process. Social networks are. Smartphone addiction. Political polarization. Television, mobile games, and mo…

Meta note: I'm submitting this again, and don't think of this as a dupe, because I think the transcript/blog form is much more engaging than a video (and by accounts on the video t…

This is not relevant to the subject of the article.

Well, the three visualizations in the article all use Tableau Public, and you can download them yourself and play with the data.

"So, the thing that is hard to do, that I try to do, is to come back and think that everyone is trying to do the right thing, which I believe is the right place to start. If someon…

Been there, bought the mug: http://www.nullisland.com