Noah Smith 🐇@Noahpinion
Whoa
Hong Kong Free Press HKFP @hkfp
Covid-19: Hong Kong lawmaker Regina Ip gets BioNTech jab after no antibodies detected from Sinovac vaccines
https://t.co/snPwnvHswz https://t.co/uB0WroYHdw
5:34 AM · Sep 17, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
This is why they should have explicitly made one mRNA vaccine the Republican one and the other the Democratic one.
Curtis Houck @CurtisHouck
Joy Reid again defends her belief that it was NECESSARY to be anti-vaxxer when Trump was in office: "I was hesitant. When Donald Trump was out there controlling the CDC & controlling the FDA & manipulating them & making them put out falsehoods, anybody rational was hesitant." https://t.co/dBFT8lTvWw
1:19 PM · Sep 17, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
It is good that he said this but also kind of disturbing that it needs to be set.
A key to rebuilding institutional confidence is for the experts themselves to stay in their lanes.
Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorva_nyc
And he is also reminding the advisers to stay focused on science rather than on operational issues of rollout or questions of global equity. Interesting.
1:25 PM · Sep 17, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Tales of Norse exploration of North America made it to 14th century Italy. https://t.co/VM9cIHyPba
Ross Douthat @DouthatNYT
This is cool (via @tylercowen):
https://t.co/EfvSQK8qWD
1:54 PM · Sep 17, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
There are valid reasons to present a stock/flow ratio but it doesn’t make sense to say things like “Apple’s market cap is bigger than the GDP of Bulgaria” or whatever. https://t.co/t1iB32fCOV
Alec Stapp @AlecStapp
Two things I've changed my mind on in recent years:
Fahrenheit is in fact better than Celsius
You can (and sometimes should) compare stocks and flows
6:55 PM · Sep 17, 2021
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Ryan Radia@RyanRadia
@mattyglesias Looks like Apple's market cap is roughly 12 times the national net wealth of Bulgaria ($2.42 trillion vs $204 billion).
7:06 PM · Sep 17, 2021
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Andy Slavitt 🇺🇸💉@ASlavitt
BREAKING: 100% yes vote. Vaccine boosters approved on EUA for those 65 and over and at high risk.
8:23 PM · Sep 17, 2021
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Timothy B. Lee@binarybits
If you’d told an AI researcher in 2001 that AI systems in 2021 would be about as smart as the average republican voter, they would have been pretty impressed. https://t.co/1kKrlJmShu
Owain Evans @OwainEvans_UK
Paper: New benchmark testing if models like GPT3 are truthful (= avoid generating false answers).
We find that models fail and they imitate human misconceptions. Larger models (with more params) do worse!
PDF: https://t.co/3zo3PNKrR5
with S.Lin (Oxford) + J.Hilton (OpenAI) https://t.co/QfwokYJ7Hq
12:09 AM · Sep 18, 2021
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