Sergey Bekrin

Hey there

[hero thousandfaces @1thousandfaces_]

no more designing data intensive applications :(

[Pablo Rochat @PabloRochat]

dvd butter

[Cameron Moll @cameronmoll]

Why did no one tell me about this earlier.

[Ryan Winchester @ryanwinchester]

literally me

[Jonatan Pallesen @jonatanpallesen]

Incredibly, the placebo effect is (mostly) not real.

It is a result of statistical confusion. Whenever you have a group with extreme values, they tend to exhibit regression to the mean. Eg. on average, sick people tend to become more healthy over time.

Thus if you give one group medicine, and one group placebo, the placebo group will also tend to get better over time, because of regression to the mean.

People have then misinterpreted this to think that it is the placebo pill that actively does this.

If you want to demonstrate a placebo effect, you have to construct a study where there are three groups:
• A. treatment
• B. placebo
• C. no treatment, no placebo

If B and C get different outcomes, that would demonstrate a placebo effect.

When this has been tried, mainly there has been no provable placebo effect. See the paper in the screenshot. (There is some evidence for an effect for pain, but this get's into a slightly different debate.)

The fact that the placebo effect is mainly not real, fortunately frees us from having to come up with convoluted explanations, as to why the placebo effect would work even when we tell the patient that it is a placebo, as in the quoted tweet.

[Matt Weinberger @gamoid]

The Orb is safe for eyes. The Orb is safe for skin. The Orb is safe for organs. The Orb is safe. The Orb is safe. The Orb is safe. The Orb is safe. The or

[Theo - t3.gg @theo]

I still think about this a lot

[Tom Barber 🐀 @torbar]

So apparently imax theaters ran off of palm pilots for the quick turn reel unit. And nowadays, rather than having it run off a microcontroller or PC or raspberry pi or iPad, they just run a palm OS emulator? Lmao

[jenny_tightpants🪑 @halomancer1]

just a heads up, twitter changed the DM settings for everyone to be that only checkies can DM you. if you want to receive DMs from anyone not dumb enough to fall for elon's scam, go into your settings and change it from the second option to the third option.

[Theo - t3.gg @theo]

It’s going to take me a week to recover from this

[ken @aquariusacquah]

“Rate Limit Exceeded: Please Wait A Few Moments And Try Again”

[Sergey Bekrin @sbekrin]

@janklausa just at 4k you can convert the need of pumping em into the charging :) https://t.co/6cs081rGwb

[june @mangopanic]

NO FUCKING WAY #TearsOfTheKingdom

[April King 🌀 @CubicleApril]

truly hope that nobody writes a twitter API library using the official client’s API keys, as that would almost certainly violate their terms of service.

these are the keys that they would want to avoid using:

https://t.co/KHuTNIfKEZ

[Molly White @molly0xFFF]

if you want to get a sense of some of the impact of this change, just look at the quote tweets 💔

[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

what a sentence

[delty @DeltyThe73rd]

Someone sent me AI art of Salmon in the river but HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH 💀💀💀