Shiva Shivakumar
@NShivakumar
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Learning about fun data problems
Bay Area, CA
Joined May 2009
Happy July 4th! Made a "Big Sort" for big data (animated algorithm) to celebrate.
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Apt title, @WSJ :-) . U.S. Chess Grandmaster ‘Likely Cheated’ More Than 100 Times, Probe Finds.
The American teenager in the chess cheating scandal likely received illegal assistance in more than 100 games, an investigation by has found
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RT @TexasTribune: .@evanasmith: Why was water infrastructure a priority in the infrastructure bill?. @PeteButtigieg: “Mostly because you ne….
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How will CDC pick vaccines (for virus variants) for Fall? Fascinating tradeoffs!.
I get lots of questions about what vaccines are coming & when and how they will work against BA.4 and 5, the newest variants. This episode explores thanks to @dr_kkjetelina & @apoorva_nyc.
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RT @TheOfficialACM: Edsger Dijkstra was born on this day in 1930. He received the 1972 #ACMTuringAward for fundamental contributions to pro….
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RT @random_walker: It is meaningless because social media is not adopted in a vacuum. It’s like asking whether car adoption made roads more….
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RT @random_walker: Research on the harms of social media — mental health, disinformation, radicalization, echo chambers… — has gone astray….
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RT @wonderofscience: Amazing drone footage of a massive school of rays off Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia. Credit: dronesharkapp.https:/….
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Raincircles!.
Rainbows are actually. circles . The centre is directly opposite the position of the sun in the sky, this is called the antisolar point . A full circle is visible from a higher vantage point, usually a plane and is sometimes called a ‘glory’ 1/🧵.
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Is Gmail really real, or the longest run prank from Paul/Sanjeev?.
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Most fun as an engineer? Got water leak sensor to 0%!. Quite zen to track and fix big leaks in heaters, crawl space, and flaps. TIL, water leaks are too common, esp with the temperature changes.
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Iowa Liquor Sales dataset wins! Ultra-popular this year for final projects, especially with JOINs on demographics. Should I be worried? In the past years, students picked COVID, CMS, climate change, and genetics data sets.
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RT @othman: NIH Awards technology and return of result service contract to @Color for the 1 Million-Person @AllofUsResearch Study. Huge s….
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RT @ericschmidt: Amazing sets of data . so you can be an informed critic.
ourworldindata.org
Research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems
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RT @SteveStuWill: Which came first, the chicken or the egg? At last, the definitive answer to this age-old question…
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