My best tweets of 2018
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2018-01
Q: How do species evolve different numbers of chromosomes?
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) January 14, 2018
A: By inbreeding.https://t.co/68puUKICiW pic.twitter.com/KsVCi2gIzA
2018-04
3/n genius and obsession pic.twitter.com/J0923KHRc1
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) April 1, 2018
Reading notes: Civilization & Capitalism, 15th-18th Century, Vol. I: The Structures of Everyday Lifehttps://t.co/1ppCpRWmmf pic.twitter.com/8WT3ZeSo9i
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) April 15, 2018
2018-05
in 1985 a man in abducted and raped a woman in california, then appealed to the cultural practice of "marriage by capture" and avoided rape charges, only serving 120 days in prisonhttps://t.co/nQRTQycUTnhttps://t.co/rpo0vODX6Z pic.twitter.com/EQEgvCIfaT
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) May 7, 2018
best argument against universal basic income so far: "The JG Wentworth Problem" pic.twitter.com/l2KfZysnuk
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) May 20, 2018
2018-06
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) June 11, 2018
related thesis: people just experience different levels of pain / pleasure when exposed to same events pic.twitter.com/U16HlY0ZPA
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) June 19, 2018
2018-07
"Employees who practice mindfulness meditation are less motivated, having realized the futility of their jobs" https://t.co/wtCBWQmH1i https://t.co/heu7icat0G
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) July 9, 2018
on deworming pic.twitter.com/SlKObmKuZw
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) July 14, 2018
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) July 22, 2018
2018-08
once we encounter an argument that seems overwhelming, we lose the interest in the conversationhttps://t.co/ZlgQbIcrqp pic.twitter.com/uGqKnHYyX7
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) August 13, 2018
2018-09
one of the most important papers I ever read is "Statistically Controlling for Confounding Constructs Is Harder than You Think" https://t.co/plJEy0ww5A (by @talyarkoni and @CookieSci)
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) August 22, 2018
A blog post by one of the authors that beautifully describes the paper: https://t.co/giZg1SySHD pic.twitter.com/WZ6xyClJHB
basic argument is that due to the fact that controls are imperfect (due to imperfect measurement etc), we're only able to control for some part of the thing that we want to control for, which implies that almost always there is residual confounding, inflating false positive rate https://t.co/0Ujmwf0Sq7
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) August 22, 2018
found @michael_nielsen's quotes pagehttps://t.co/RkIfjOc44F pic.twitter.com/yqTPXzPANO
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) September 4, 2018
bureaucracy is a system designed to erase personal legibility whose goal is to make everyone around it maximally legible
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) September 5, 2018
is Harvard employing someone a strong signal of this researcher's competence? Probably not if the entire scientific field is bshttps://t.co/L9qtoiTTPi pic.twitter.com/YYa6CZ3Orv
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) September 6, 2018
Dostoevsky: "You all, healthy people, he said, can’t imagine the happiness which we epileptics feel during the second or so before our fit.… ... for all the joys that life may bring, I would not exchange this one." pic.twitter.com/LVfJV4TX2N
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) September 16, 2018
2018-10
1/2 "[In the US between 2011 and 2013] Among pregnant women, the prevalence of any alcohol use was 10.2% and the prevalence of binge drinking was 3.1%" <-- that's survey datahttps://t.co/35TuBNVX4m
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) October 5, 2018
2/2 "State survey estimates of consumption accounted for a median of 22% to 32% of state sales data across years." i.e. in surveys people report about 1/4 the amount of alcohol they actually drinkhttps://t.co/I4fHTfcl1f pic.twitter.com/UqrcAQasYU
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) October 5, 2018
“People have completely forgotten that in 1972 we had over nineteen hundred domestic bombings in the United States.” — Max Noel, FBI (ret.)https://t.co/okBPndQFIN
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) October 11, 2018
beiser underground reports: consensus reality is 100% psy-ops https://t.co/bUF8TE1oNz pic.twitter.com/DYWdzrK4LQ
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) October 12, 2018
most popular response, perhaps unsurprisingly: "my wife" https://t.co/TU1z3zV8oO
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) October 14, 2018
"The touch-induced closing of Mimosa leaves and the snapping of Dionea and Drosera traps are blocked if these plants are treated with exogenous anesthetics." https://t.co/q1JyJ940JL
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) October 21, 2018
something something self-correcting something something https://t.co/FTG87NNP1F
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) October 29, 2018
2018-11
what Ed Boyden reads https://t.co/1f5rJtV7em pic.twitter.com/iMIQkmpxOF
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) November 4, 2018
https://t.co/rGbfDVKzJ4 pic.twitter.com/0VgnizEmru
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) November 9, 2018
I'm imagining an RCT which would randomize people between
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) November 12, 2018
- staying dirty
- going to bathhouses regularly
and seeing how going to bathhouses literally kills people
/r/slatestarcodex on birth order effects lol pic.twitter.com/QMO7ozKu9i
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) November 18, 2018
broke: compute is limiting the progress of science in 2018
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) November 22, 2018
woke: compute is limiting the progress of science in 1822 pic.twitter.com/8BSsITNHud
"hiring additional workers dilutes existing workers' ownership shares, so workers' cooperatives have strong incentives either to hire too few workers or to bring new workers in on contractual terms, essentially recreating management/labor divides under a new name." pic.twitter.com/9UsucA3Pxt
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) November 26, 2018
a side-effect of universal peer-review: everybody steals your ideas
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) November 30, 2018
in computer science: https://t.co/zDOIEcHCdi pic.twitter.com/nqyAdI2HzK
2018-12
when a student asks "why do i need to do practice problems, i already understand everything" show them this https://t.co/16Clh4JDZb
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) December 7, 2018
This course went live on Tue. I strongly recommend it if you have any interest in biology
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) December 8, 2018
The first 2 weeks were the hardest for me and if you get lost during them, feel free to DM me with questions -- I'll try to help (I had tutor help me) https://t.co/lNqJRjk5cC
In India "the law criminalizes rape in most cases, although marital rape is not illegal when the woman is over the age of 15."
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) December 13, 2018
Same for many other countries: https://t.co/hu1aPOd26A pic.twitter.com/dhCJioYddS