Mike Schachter

burgeoning interests in cancer immunotherapy, neuro vascular units, computational neuroscience, cultural depolarization

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Toddler birthday parties have awakened the ancient pizza-then-cake causal association in my brain, likely etched into the evolutionary circuitry by our ancestors.

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"Truth decay" from the RAND corp was probably the most relevant thing I've heard about in a while: https://t.co/eLicn9ufch

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Just read through "Neuro–Immune Cell Units: A New Paradigm in Physiology", some very interesting connections between neurons, glia, and immune cells: https://t.co/5kFp6aCWWG

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Gamma-delta T cells, defenders and maintainers of barrier tissue! https://t.co/xAo8Hc8Cvj

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Had a dream about an upscale Jersey shore wine delivery service named "Scroach".

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My co-workers got beef with me because I'm always meating with key steakholders.

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I'm tired of these wildfires. How many goats do we need to make California fire-free in 2021? Ten thousand goats? A million goats?!?

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Also wanted to share some nice intro material on immunology from Harvard HMX: https://t.co/OJlfzoNCOx

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Very informative and clear video series by @armando71021105 on VDJ recombination (how antibodies are made): https://t.co/GyMsibckXT

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Thought the child was concentrating intensely on a Bach concerto that was playing. Turns out she was taking a shit.

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Move slow; break things anyway.

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Local minima in the initialization of cluster centers can be produced by the concentration-of-norm phenomenon.

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Are you clustering high dimensional vectors? Watch out for not-so-useful distance metrics and dubious cluster-producing random projections:
https://t.co/2M8WLPcvPr

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High D "hub" points often manifest in real data that tend to be neighbors of most points, foiling nearest neighbor approaches.

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Too many civilians are killed and too many others lose limbs and livelihoods to explosives.

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I'm against going to war with Iran.

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@JesseLivezey Thanks!

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@JesseLivezey what's a low coherence dictionary