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You Should (Probably) Sell Your Cryptocurrencies

Yesterday, I sold almost all of my cryptocurrencies, securing a decent 20% margin for *checks notes* a net gain of 33 Euros and 78 cents….

17. January 202117. January 2021
Categories Health, Science

Anti-Aging – Overview of the State of the Art

On Lesswrong JackH posted a very interesting overview of aging and the scientific progress made to reverse it. If we think about aging as a…

16. January 202116. January 2021
Categories Science, Statistics

Three Months of Crowd-Forecasting Covid-19

Note: I posted this on the LessWrong Forum on December 31st 2020. It is somewhat related to this post I made about the project previously….

1. January 20211. January 2021
Categories Health

First Doses First

The UK moved to a first dose first strategy, where they prioritize vaccine uptake over administering second doses. This means that instead of administering the…

30. December 202030. December 2020
Categories Health

Could we Vaccinate Twice as Many People?

Michael Minna raises an intriguing possibility in an opinion piece in the New York Times: Instead of giving people two shots of a vaccine, we…

19. December 202019. December 2020
Categories Society, Politics and History

Losing Taiwan Means Losing Japan

Interesting article about the geopolitical importance of Taiwan to Japan. Taiwan is a chokepoint of great utility for blockading Japan. The Taiwan Strait, it notes,…

17. December 202019. December 2020
Categories Science, Statistics

Crowd-Forecasting the Covid-19 Pandemic

Some time ago I started working on a crowd-forecasting app for my PhD (code). The app allows experts and non-experts to make predictions for the…

26. November 202030. November 2020
Categories Health

Who Should Get a Vaccine and When?

Announcements of early coronavirus vaccine breakthroughs have inspired new hope this may be the beginning of the end of Covid-19. Developing a vaccine is one…

12. November 202013. November 2020
Categories Science

Replication Markets for Covid-19 Preprints

ReplicationMarkets is launching another project – this time users are asked to predict and bet on the success of preprint papers on Covid-19. The process…

7. November 20209. November 2020
Categories Health

How the Virus Spreads

El PaĆ­s published an article with very nice visualizations of how the coronavirus spreads via aerosols. It’s a light and informative read. Main takeaways: The…

4. November 20204. November 2020

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