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Best of Twitter week of December 30 2024-January 5, 2025
Alexey Guzey
January 08, 2025
as promised, i wrote up my thoughts on gene drives: an overview and why i think they'll be really hard to get working for vector control. all based on my experience building them at harvard.
thread below!
— eryney marrogi (@eryney_ok)
4:53 PM • Dec 30, 2024
^ gene drive skepticism: https://eryney.substack.com/p/genetically-edited-mosquitoes-havent
The best book I read in 2024 was Stefan Zweig's The World of Yesterday.
His pre-war 19th century is haunting — a world of prosperity and liberalism, whose imminent descent into nationalism and barbarism seemed impossible to imagine.
— Paul Novosad (@paulnovosad)
5:39 PM • Dec 30, 2024
My all-time favorite Bono moment was when he said this to a New York Times reporter:
— Alec Stapp (@AlecStapp)
4:48 PM • Jan 5, 2025
I looked a bit into Glioblastoma (brain cancer) a few years ago. The consensus is that Glioblastoma, like most cancers, is the result of a genetic disorder.
Annually, 7 per 100,000 people are expected to develop the disease. But check out this case... 94 alumni of the same high… x.com/i/web/status/1…
— Riva (@rivatez)
2:22 PM • Jan 5, 2025
Soo no econtwitter discussion of this Tyler post on “The future of the scientist in a world with advanced AI” because it’s too depressing or?
“The humans will gather the data” 😬
— Basil Halperin (@BasilHalperin)
6:23 PM • Jan 5, 2025
incredible moment on an old ask historians thread about changing ottoman attitudes towards homosexuality, where an historian of the ottomans explains the long history of the cultural institution of child grooming and pedarasty and ends by saying euros made them homophobic
— Gabriel (@gbrl_dick)
12:24 PM • Jan 4, 2025
People who inadvertently changed the world a lot even though they probably weren't trying to:
Gavrilo Princip
Lehman Brothers CEO Richard Fuld Jr
Kansas farmer who dug up Spanish Flu in 1917
Pontius Pilate
Typhoid Mary
Mohamed Bouazizi
Dewitt Clinton
Alexander Fleming
Rosa Parks… x.com/i/web/status/1…— eryney marrogi (@eryney_ok)
3:57 PM • Jan 4, 2025
Unintuitive: the ~recommended daily energy intake for a moderately active adult woman (2000 kcal / 8400 kJ) is greater than the energy released in a full explosion of 1 kg of TNT (4200 kJ)
— clare ❤️🔥 (@clarejtbirch)
5:49 AM • Jan 4, 2025
if you will forgive a bit of anthropomorphizing, to the extent models think, they do not think in tokens. tokens are merely our samplers' best interpretation of the probability distributions that emerge from the actual 'thinking' process. they're an incredibly low bandwidth… x.com/i/web/status/1…
— xjdr (@_xjdr)
9:37 PM • Jan 3, 2025
The only red pill, political, race or sex wise is this: you cannot avoid confrontation just by being nice and having good intentions, because you ultimately cannot control other people, and some of them want to hurt you for bad reasons, and you can't argue them out of it, you can… x.com/i/web/status/1…
— garfieldbot (@robertlasagna1)
3:18 AM • Jan 3, 2025
I've never thought about this way but now that it's pointed out it seems obvious.
— Stilicho (@StilichoReads)
7:04 PM • Jan 2, 2025
The last new FDA drug approval for 2024 is not a drug and is f*cking awesome. Humacyte just got their SYMVESS 'fake' arteries approved for use as an implant to replace/bypass blood vessels damaged in the limbs from trauma. SYMVESS has been used in car accidents, gunshot wounds,… x.com/i/web/status/1…
— Matthew Kirshner (@MattyKirsh)
6:06 PM • Dec 31, 2024
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