Is Omicron benign? No. In our JAMA study, led by Jeremy Faust MD MS (ER physician), more all-cause excess mortality occurred in MA during the first 8 wks of Omicron period than during the entire 23-week Delta period. Yale School of Medicine Harvard Medical School Yale Cardiology HAEMR jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

Chart of the Day: UK GDP per capita has grown by just 10 per cent since 2015, compared with 24 per cent for Germany and 18 per cent for France. newstatesman.com/chart-of-the-d…

Polls like this are usually roughly accurate (wisdom of the crowd), but here, whoa, people grossly underestimate sea level rise! It rose 4 inches (10 cm) over 30 years But most people replied 1.5 inches (3.8 cm) or less

I see absolutely no need to drop the term #LongCovid. It’s a general umbrella term yes, but so are the names of so many other health conditions. The difference? People who personally experienced it came up with this one and continued using it. I see dropping it as a power move.

This fantastic image of supernova remnant 0509-67.5 was made by combining optical data from Hubble and x-ray data from Chandra Observatory . The remnant is in the Large Magellanic Cloud.

In the wake of the terrible news from Texas, I wrote about why Australia doesn't have mass shootings, and how America could follow our path gidmk.medium.com/5764e0e5663f

Having trouble trying to align schedules for an interview with an expert on mass casualty incidents. "Well, if it doesn't work out, we can do it when the next one happens." 🤦‍♂️

Basic fact all graphics coders should know: To uniformly sample points in a disk, you'd think you could just pick a random radius r ∈ [0,1] and a random angle θ ∈ [0,2π] to generate points r (cos θ, sin θ). This doesn't work! …But take the square root of r, and it does! 1/3

I could have done some numbers selling these this past week. Unfortunately for my financial situation, I'm not a grifter.

Illicit activity makes up less than 0.5% of total Bitcoin transaction volume Source: blockchain analytics firm CipherTrace casebitcoin.com/an-analysis-of… (report archived here: web.archive.org/web/2021041608… )

Wonder how one of those #frontier #supercomputer blades from HPE with CPUs and GPUs from AMD looks like? Have a look! (: Each blade contains two nodes, each node uses - 1 AMD 64 cores Epyc "Trento" CPU - 4 AMD Instinct MI250X "CDNA 2" GPUs All watercooled.

Stay tuned for his next paper entitled: There was no World War II

Real-time microscope footage of an amoeba crawling. Credit: Jam's Germs

For those wondering: I'm not dead I have been off Twitter for, what, more than a year? I would love to get back to tweeting regularly, especially with Musk's changes, but I'm busy with life, house remodel, kids, vacations, hobbies, etc, etc Cheers😎