Firdaus Kasim

DPhil in Clinical Medicine student, University of Oxford l reading mathematical modelling of vaccine hesitancy | tweets in English & Bahasa Indonesia

[Sam Altman @sama]

muslim and arab (especially palestinian) colleagues in the tech community i've spoken with feel uncomfortable speaking about their recent experiences, often out of fear of retaliation and damaged career prospects.

our industry should be united in our support of these colleagues; it is an atrocious time. i continue to hope for a real and lasting peace, and that in the meantime we can treat each other with empathy.

[Mushtaq Bilal, PhD @MushtaqBilalPhD]

Five dumb ways of using ChatGPT for academic purposes — and five smart:

[Mushtaq Bilal, PhD @MushtaqBilalPhD]

Five ChatGPT prompts to help you polish your academic writing:

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

The year is 1440 and the Catholic Church has called for a 6 months moratorium on the use of the printing press and the movable type.
Imagine what could happen if commoners get access to books!
They could read the Bible for themselves and society would be destroyed.

[Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski]

In hindsight, it can be easy to forget that all the parameters we now have for COVID - from incubation period and clinical progression to severity and transmissibility - had to be estimated by someone. A thread on some of the crucial early work in this area... 1/

[Steve Rathje @steverathje2]

🚨Out now in @NatureHumBehav 🚨

Across 4 experiments (n = 3,364), we found that motivating people to be accurate via a small financial incentive:

-Improved people’s discernment between true and false news
-Reduced the partisan divide in belief

https://t.co/WJHP3MQxYl

[SEES Lab @sees_lab]

📢 New in @NatureComms we investigate the limits of symbolic regression: Can we always learn a model from data? We find a transition between a learnable and an unlearnable regime, where no algorithm can ever discover the model that truly generated the data
https://t.co/4E4FSo3E94

[Santiago @svpino]

11 ways ChatGPT saves me hours of work every day, and why you'll never outcompete those who use AI effectively.

A list for those who write code:

1 of 16

[Amanda Rotella @AMRotella]

Why are the forecasts largely inaccurate?

We speculate: a) scientists usually study phenomena with high experimental control & small effect sizes, b) focus on individuals or groups (not populations), c) aren't trained in prediction & d) predictions were made in a pandemic (6/9)

[Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski]

Think about the conclusion, limitations and wider implications. Note these down as bullet points in Discussion. More here: https://t.co/SgWYfTOyKR 7/

[Vermont Complex Systems Institute @ UVM @uvmcomplexity]

"Temporal and probabilistic forecasts of epidemic interventions"

New preprint from @uvmmathstats PhD student @MariahBoudreau w/@andreaJoanAllen @_NJ_Roberts @all_are @LHDnets

https://t.co/T093YaCnnf

[Find me on Bluesky @psmaldino]

My book has a cover. I like it.

[Find me on Bluesky @psmaldino]

1) My book, Modeling Social Behavior: Mathematical and Agent-Based Models of Social Dynamics and Cultural Evolution, will be coming out in late summer 2023 from @PrincetonUPress. I’ll post more about it wherever I’m posting as the publication date gets closer.

[weird medieval guys @WeirdMedieval]

thread of medieval jokes that still kinda go hard:

[Oxford Mathematics @OxUniMaths]

The standard way of selecting models in mathematical biology is to select the model that best fits the experimental data. But it doesn't always describe the underlying mechanism. What next?

Johannes & Sam strum the 'Symmetry Blues'.

Read the research:
https://t.co/j0hUSlSyj1

[Pandemic Sciences Institute @PSIOxford]

Prof. Tom Solomon, CBE @RunningMadProf @ThePandemicInst discusses accelerating the response to emerging infections and #pandemic threats, highlighting Liverpool's strengths in emerging infections research.

[Alex Brogan @_alexbrogan]

So, what are OKRs?

Objectives are what you’re setting out to achieve.

Key Results are the measurable benchmarks that show you whether you’ve achieved your objectives.

Initiatives are the specific tasks you’ll do to achieve your key results.

h/t (image) @PerdooHQ

[Oliver Morgan @OWMorgan]

What is Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence?

Read our recent paper in @NatureMedicine https://t.co/tGU9VCI1tB

Find out more about the #WHOPandemicHub

[Fariba Karimi @fariba_k]

In this chapter, we review recent advances in data-driven and theory-informed computational models of networks for addressing marginalization in society and algorithms: https://t.co/Udxhry0EfE

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

The evolution of #SARSCoV2 in immunocompromised people with chronic infections is driven by immune evasion, especially seen w/ viral rebound, and requires extensive genomic monitoring for detection of new VOCs @NatureMedicine
https://t.co/GFK4nW10Lj