Colin Higgins

data scientist at @meta, prev @instagram, @vevo, @SVDataScience by way of @insightfellows. "Correct you" doctor; not a "fix you" doctor.

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@eddie_monie Who does the tip go to?

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@stupid_reasons Jesus fudging christ

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@gem_ray I keep notifs off by default and turn them back on when I place an order. When I get the order I turn them back off. Insane? A little

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@colin_fraser Could be upward sloping in this case. Big if true

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@colin_fraser @chrisalbon Doing this over a pegboard maybe?

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@colin_fraser 🫡

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I'm not saying there was no p-hacking going on, but don't mistake a paradigm shift for widespread fraud.

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There's a very good reason for the density of successful CVD trials from the 80s through the mid 90s but not after. They're called statins. They work. The first, lovastatin, was approved in 1987. More "me too" drugs came in the next ~10 years, after which the market saturated.

[Alec Stapp @AlecStapp]

One of my favorite charts of all time (by @salonium):

“Before 2000 – when pre-registration of studies was not required – most candidate drugs to treat or prevent cardiovascular disease showed large benefits.

But most trials published after 2000 showed no benefit.”

[Ryan Rzepecki @Ryanrz]

The western half of San Francisco should be radically upzoned.

[John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch]

NEW: I’m not sure people fully appreciate how dire the US life expectancy / mortality situation has got.

My column: https://t.co/dBIhT9eZLv

And some utterly damning charts.

1) at *every* point on the income distribution, Americans live shorter lives than the English.

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solaipsism [noun]: the philosophical belief that all text written on the internet except your own is produced by an LLM

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@jburnmurdoch Where is Chicago (#3 population in US), and why is Boston (#24) or Dallas (#9) on here? Los Angeles is already low density enough to prove the point.

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@gem_ray I keep thinking I’m in a thread

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@heyricharnold The resemblance is uncanny

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@JeffDean @MickeyShaughnes @SashaMTL Pretty cool to see that this is the datacenter located 2 miles from where I grew up.

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@dannyzlo @Withings Yeah this may be more of a LinkedIn problem. The keyword “design” isn’t matching substrings I guess?

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The companion app for my @Withings smart scale has gone way downhill in the 7 years I’ve owned one.
According to LinkedIn, they have:
28 employees with “product” in their title
53 with “engineer”
0 with “design”
Sounds about right

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I’ve had to see physicians from four different specialties in the past 6 months, and I only get surveys about my experience after visits with the good ones (3/4). It’s like the hospital system knows the bad one and just doesn’t want me to review them.

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@Nowooski Isn’t this what @askiggyapp is doing?

[AukeHoekstra @AukeHoekstra]

The IEA continues to underestimate solar and the discrepancy remains stunning.

The first time I conceived of this visualization in 2010 or so, I expected it to be a temporary anomaly.
But reality continues to outpace predictions.
(Thx @CarbonBrief for making the update.)