Katherine Paur

[Katherine Paur @KatherinePaur]

@CmonMattTHINK I still use #76 for a full day with my probability class; it's spectacular!

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@mikeandallie @AlexKontorovich @pmarca Relatedly, this is why I always insist my probability students code simulations when we study conditional probability. So many of them come back and tell me in disbelief that Monty Hall became trivial after they built a simulation.

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@SarahDRasmussen @minskycharlotte Ha!

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@SarahDRasmussen @minskycharlotte Hi! I hope that wasn't too weird -- I just thought your tweet should get upvoted a bit. You don't actually know Charlotte Minsky too, do you? (She was at Cambridge for a year or so.)

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@hpicciotto @metasj Fair enough! You were my best bet!

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@jamestanton This one does, if you think of it as having 60 faces that are all concave pentagons: https://t.co/6dDPpQ5D9B

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@kjhealy @pwr2dppl 2nd typo: gotta extend that vinculum in the square root sign over both integrals

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@minskycharlotte He found a little money and some office space, and I just showed up to grad school several months early. So that's a thing. And Harvard may not be perfect, but they're taking COVID a lot more seriously than your current situation...

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@minskycharlotte So twenty years ago I spent a year abroad before Harvard grad school and realized it wasn't the best. I wrote the director of grad studies in the math department at Harvard and asked if I could start my PhD program earlier than planned...

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@karaschechtman shriveled shallot

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@zachlipton If there are about 900,000 scooter rides and about $450,000 in parking citations, isn't that about 50 cents per scooter ride?

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@lshultz82 Definitely.

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@Prajakta_RD Little does Humphrey know what he's in for when Blockchain-Becca joins Room 26...

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@_brandonpark @zeynep Certainly bay area and NYC, but plenty of other places too. We can't check in at school until we've done our health pre-check for the day. Ours is pretty seamless, but it's true that we do it on autopilot -- and we've only been in school for three weeks.

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@zeynep If, for example, we rearranged the wording so that your answer wasn't always no-no-no-confirm, and you actually had to read the questions, you might stand a chance of stopping and thinking.

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@zeynep The theory, my school tells me, is that it's tremendously valuable to get everyone to stop and think about possible exposure and symptoms. The reality, my survey-designer colleague, claims, is that you have to create actual stop-and-think moments that most attestations don't.

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@CohoKelly @oni_blackstock @RheaBoydMD The alternative is that we control it as we control other infectious diseases. Measles is way more infectious, and I've never had it, despite living a normal life until 2020. Widespread vaccination (and possibly improved vaccines) can do this.

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@lshultz82 Is it available online? link?

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@betsyladyzhets me too :( both the search bar and the emotions.