alex peysakhovich đŸ€–
Machine learning. Game theory. Casual inference. MythBusters axiom: “The only difference between screwing around and science is writing it down.” Mostly troll
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Top CEOs pledge to hire 100,000 low-income New Yorkers
Cbsnews.com 48h 1 tweets
Leaders at Amazon, JPMorgan Chase and other large employers vow to recruit more low-income and minority workers.
100 days without Covid-19: How New Zealand got rid of a virus that keeps spreading across the world
NZ Herald 5d 18 tweets
There are key lessons from New Zealand's Covid-19 experience.
alex peysakhovich đŸ€– This is like those articles that talk about "wow Norway does so well" while ignoring its giant sovereign wealth fund, population of 5 people, and insularity from the world. 4d
How to Think Like an Epidemiologist
Nytimes.com 9d 62 tweets
Don’t worry, a little Bayesian analysis won’t hurt you.
Vintage Factor Analysis with Varimax Performs Statistical Inference
arXiv.org 8d 2 tweets
Psychologists developed Multiple Factor Analysis to decompose multivariate data into a small number of interpretable factors without any a priori knowledge about those factors. In this form of factor analysis, the Varimax "factor rotation" is a key...
Leveraging Machine Learning to Fuel New Discoveries with the arXiv Dataset | arXiv.org blog
Blogs.cornell.edu 8d 3 tweets
The Garmin Hack Was a Warning
Wired 12d 1 tweets
As ransomware groups turn their attention to bigger game, expect more high-profile targets to fall.
Federal Troops Tear-Gas Yankees Off Field So Trump Can Throw Out First Pitch
Sports 13d 4 tweets
NEW YORK—Moving in formation across the first-base line as terrified players scrambled into the dugout, federal troops reportedly tear-gassed the New York Yankees off the field Friday so President Donald Trump could throw out the first pitch before...
A wave of evictions is coming. Democrats are proposing a lifeline.
Vox 16d 2 tweets
Exclusive: Reps. Ayanna Pressley and Rosa DeLauro and Sen. Kamala Harris introduce a bill to fund legal assistance for Americans facing eviction.
Preventing the next pandemic will cost $22.2 billion a year, scientists say
NBC News 21d 5 tweets
Better protections of forests, wildlife trade monitoring and research into diseases are needed to prevent a repeat of a zoonotic disease outbreak.
Tailors Know New Yorkers’ Pandemic Secret: ‘Everybody Got Fat!’
Sarah Maslin Nir - Nytimes.com 19d 7 tweets
Tailors across New York City are expanding waistlines and moving buttons to accommodate the “Quarantine 15.”
alex peysakhovich đŸ€– Who are these people that need their nice clothes for anything right now? 19d
Editorial Statements | Management Science
Pubsonline.informs.org 21d 1 tweets
Airbnb Was Like a Family, Until the Layoffs Started
Nytimes.com 27d 12 tweets
What happens when a kumbaya office culture meets the business realities of a pandemic?
Swing Riot Invitational Battle Part 3 - Crossover & Finale - Montreal Swing Riot 2015
YouTube 28d 1 tweets
Formerly known as Lindy Hoppers vs Street Dancers, this is part 3 of the Invitational Battle Vintage vs. Modern Street Dancers at Montreal Swing Riot, bringi...
alex peysakhovich đŸ€– the dance/music juxtaposition reminds me a lot of these awesome hip-hop vs. lindy hop events in montreal 28d
Graffiti Is Back in Virus-Worn New York
Nytimes.com 36d 2 tweets
The city’s coronavirus lockdown and subsequent rise in unemployment have created the perfect conditions for a new generation of graffiti writers.
alex peysakhovich đŸ€– Interesting article in the NYT on graffiti. Doubly interesting that they are willing to preserve anonymity for graffiti artists despite earlier statements... 30d
Scolding Beachgoers Isn’t Helping
The Atlantic 40d 15 tweets
People complain that going to the shore is a careless act during a pandemic, but the science so far suggests otherwise.
The key to safety on college campuses this fall? Student willpower to avoid parties
mlive 34d 1 tweets
Thousands of students will descend back to campus this fall as Michigan colleges and universities try to cultivate some normalcy amid a global pandemic
Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 84d 23 tweets
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a virus (more specifically, a coronavirus) identified as the cause of an outbreak of respiratory illness first detected in Wuhan, China.
Texan Man Outfits Face Mask With Exhaust Pipe To Roll Coal
The Onion 35d 1 tweets
The Onion brings you all of the latest news, stories, photos, videos and more from America's finest news source.
Scaling Choice Models of Relational Social Data
arXiv.org 36d 2 tweets
Many prediction problems on social networks, from recommendations to anomaly detection, can be approached by modeling network data as a sequence of relational events and then leveraging the resulting model for prediction. Conditional logit models of...
A guide to R — the pandemic’s misunderstood metric
Nature.com 41d 31 tweets
What the reproduction number can and can’t tell us about managing COVID-19.