Quan, The Quant

[Chris Albon @chrisalbon]

I can't really say it better than this.

[Dekunle27 @dekunlz]

Stop leaving your children with their Grandparents to babysit. I asked my nephew how old his gonna be and he said " if the lord sees fit, 10 in November "😭

[Senator Scott Wiener @Scott_Wiener]

BIG TRANSIT FUNDING UPDATE

Last night, the Senate & Assembly released our budget, including most of the agreement on transit. We vote on Thursday.

The agreement is a strong step to address the transit operations fiscal cliff. More work remains, but this is good progress.🧵⬇️

[Paul Graham @paulg]

A generation ago some people were saying there was no point in learning to program because all the programming jobs would be outsourced to India. Now they're saying you don't need to because AI will do it all. If you don't want to learn to program, you can always find a reason.

[Raimondo Bruno @PsychopharmRes]

This is an excellent critical consideration of what seems on the surface like simple transparent numbers. @kareem_carr this is fabulous - do you mind if I use it in teaching?

[Rebecca Saltzman @RebeccaForEC]

BIG NEWS - BART staff have figured out how to increase evening/weekend frequencies to 20 min from 30 min, without hiring more staff or spending more money.

No more 30 minute waits!!!🎉🎉🎉

🧵 with details:

[Probability Fact @ProbFact]

The central limit theorem says that CDFs converge. The corresponding PDFs may not converge.

[Rohan Alexander @RohanAlexander]

ggplot2::stat_ecdf() is criminally underused.

[Probability Fact @ProbFact]

Distributions are uniquely determined by their moment generating functions if the MGF exists in a neighborhood of zero.

[Consulting Comedy @consultingcmdy]

Optimist: “Glass is 1/2 full”
Pessimists: “Glass is 1/2 empty”
Excel: “Glass is Jan-2”

[vids that go hard @vidsthatgohard]

Need whatever he’s on 🤣🤣🤣

[Alvin Christian @_AlvinChristian]

They want to take this from you

[alexandra @bigmoodenergy]

I need to look at Google Maps for 20 minutes each day or I'll die

[Probability Fact @ProbFact]

E( E(X|Y) ) = E(X)

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

San Francisco schools banned kids from taking algebra in 8th grade in an attempt to cover up how badly they were educating kids. The ban predictably made kids worse at math, which the district promptly lied about and covered up.

https://t.co/2ghkZ3I74i

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

This is my favorite video on the internet

[Natalie Orenstein @nat_orenstein]

Landlord groups erupt in protest at #oakmtg after Oakland City Council President Bas says there’s no item on the agenda dealing with the eviction moratorium today.

[Steve Ilardi @dr_ilardi]

If covid conclusively originated from a lab, it would be an abject disaster for the field of virology. Funding would dry up; scrutiny, restrictions, and oversight would go through the roof (as they should).

Most virologists are thus heavily biased toward natural (non-lab) origin

[eric pointcrow @PointCrow]

life would be so much more interesting if google maps had fog of war

[Tristan Snell @TristanSnell]

1776-1933 - major bank crisis every 10 years

1930s - FDR bank rules enacted

1930s-1980s - no major crisis

1980s - rules rolled back

1980s-2010 - major crisis every 10 years

2010 - Dodd-Frank rules enacted

2010-2018 - no major crisis

2018 - rules rolled back

2023 - crisis?