Favorites January 23rd 2022
![Twitter avatar for @cstross](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_96/cstross.jpg)
The key there is cost per hour of travel time. More details of the calculation.
![Twitter avatar for @mattyglesias](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_96/mattyglesias.jpg)
![Twitter avatar for @RonFilipkowski](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_40/RonFilipkowski.jpg)
Yea, seems bad, but what do I know? Popehat's response was amusing.
![Twitter avatar for @NoahShachtman](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_96/NoahShachtman.jpg)
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Speaking of scary stuff...
![Twitter avatar for @hillelogram](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_96/hillelogram.jpg)
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My understanding of what they're saying is that part of the issue is a statistical cutoff effect. Even more detail here. Plus, could be another example of getting biased results because all the test subjects were college students.
![Twitter avatar for @russelljkaplan](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_96/russelljkaplan.jpg)
Very cool to see real-world uses of alphafold's protein structure prediction.
![Twitter avatar for @kylieatwood](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_96/kylieatwood.jpg)
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Things in ukraine continue to look worrying. Details on how Russia's attack might work in this thread, which was widely shared. Not sure how accurate it is.
![Twitter avatar for @kottke](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_96/kottke.jpg)
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Pedestrian downtowns are good stuff.
By the way, this silly ad for Apple TV was talked about a lot. It’s pretty funny.