Notices by jszym (jszym@mastodon.club), page 4

This is a bit of old news, but I’m hoping hard in this study.

It’s no vaccine, but we should get results in June, and the drug has been in production for ages and it’s super cheap to make

We need a bandaid fast, hopefully this is it

#covid #coronavirus https://nationalpost.com/news/can-a-cheap-gout-drug-slash-covid-19-deaths

Poor Brucey, always the poison's maid, never the poison.

One of the more helpful truisms out there for me, specifically re: my research, has been "it doesn't work, until it does". #phdchat

“Horacio Arruda, said that mandating a compulsory use of masks might infringe on individuals’ Charter rights.”

I laughed so hard when I read this. CAQ is willing to bulldoze the Charter rights of visible religious minorities, but global medical crises?Nah https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-legault-hopes-quebeckers-make-a-habit-of-wearing-masks-but-wont/

Advertisers have discovered "Nobody Speak" by DJ Shadow/Run the Jewels and rediscovered "Psycho Killer" by the Talking Heads, and the world is so much worse for it.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-quebec-should-not-be-heading-back-to-school/

Remembering Paul Vasquez as one of those rare people who were able to bring joy to the internet without turning out to be a horrible person.

Double rainbow, man. Whole way round.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/11/us/paul-vasquez-double-rainbow-death-trnd/index.html

Getting closer to finishing up my @FiveThirtyEight@twitter.com-esque @matplotlib@twitter.com theme. Big shout-out to the Envy Code R and Inter fonts, which have open licenses and are nice drop-ins for 538's (beautiful) proprietary fonts.

Montréal-North and RDP are witnessing accelerating outbreaks, but schools in that area are opening nonetheless.

It feels like Legault threw a dart on a calendar to chose when to reopen.
#covid19 #mtl #Deconfinement https://lp.ca/tOW8fM

If your situation allows it at all, please don’t send your children to school this year. Children, while they can show milder symptoms, are not immune to this disease and can spread it. Legault’s betting on herd immunity bs. #COVID19 #Deconfinement

“Québec and Ontario take different paths to reopening”... one based on benchmarks, and the other based on an arbitrary date. Total lunacy. Many are dying, many more still will die because of this. Email your representatives.
#COVID19 #Deconfinement

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-quebec-ontario-take-different-paths-to-reopening-provinces-from/

"Please note that space is limited for each webinar so registration and entry will be on a first-come, first-served basis"

My eyes roll very hard when I see stuff like this. This is "our website is only available during business hours" grade stuff.

Just wanted to give a huge recommendation for my #ml peeps to check-out @lutzroeder@twitter.com ‘s Netron.

A great, interactive way to viz the computational graph of your deep networks. Works with nearly any framework (as well as ONNX)

https://github.com/lutzroeder/netron

Thinking "man, I wonder how much longer we'll be in isolation" and subconsciously looking over to the clock... I'm going to need a bigger clock.

The break music for @StanfordHAI@twitter.com sounds suspiciously like Cisco's Default Hold Music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6g4dkBF5anU

About @WhiteHouse@twitter.com response, @DoctorYasmin@twitter.com 's advice is to check what you hear from politicos with what @CDCgov@twitter.com and scientists say. Nigam Shah says "monitor for consistency". Michelle Bary says it's not only about the USA, "we're all in this together" and we need more $ for @WHO@twitter.com

Q: What have we learned about masks? A: Michele Bary speculated CDC will promote masks soon, thinks that initial response was about makin sure docs got masks. Warns cloth masks are not effectual (20-30%). @StanfordHAI@twitter.com #COVID19 #Masks4All

"We need data literacy", just as we teach children to add numbers or subtract. - Dr. Nigam Shah at @StanfordHAI@twitter.com #COVID19

"This is a long game... it's about chipping away at the trust of science" - @DoctorYasmin@twitter.com on #COVID19 and the relevance of Ebola Misinformation and Anti-Vac

24h news cycle doesn't have the nuance we need to cover complex topics like case definitions - @DoctorYasmin@twitter.com at @StanfordHAI@twitter.com