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Martin Roberts retweeted
I've proven the strangest result of my career..
The classic idea that gradient descent's rate is best with constant stepsizes 1/L is wrong. The idea that we need stepsizes in (0,2/L) for convergence is wrong.
Periodic long steps are better, provably.
arxiv.org/abs/2307.06324
Martin Roberts retweeted
It wasn't until I'd *taught* algorithms a few times that I finally understood why sorting is in the CS curriculum. Unfortunately, most curricula don't explain this!
It is NOT because sorting is an important algorithm to learn to implement...
Martin Roberts retweeted
I love the Samsung Frame TV but got really tired of paying a subscription for the art—so I made a little script that lets you use a folder of your own images to rotate randomly on your TV. 👀github.com/ow/samsung-frame-…
Martin Roberts retweeted
Our Global Gender Gap Report is up for a Webby Award! Still some hours left to vote. If you ❤️ it, plz vote for us! vote.webbyawards.com/PublicV…
Martin Roberts retweeted
"#Mucormycosis epidemic: another dark side to the COVID-19 #pandemic"
RSTMH Country Ambassador, Prof George Varghese,
@OffCMCVellore, shares his account of the staggering rise of "#blackfungus disease" during the 2nd wave of #COVID19 in India.
bit.ly/3j1k4BJ
Martin Roberts retweeted
"#Mucormycosis epidemic: another dark side to the COVID-19 #pandemic"
RSTMH Country Ambassador, Prof George Varghese, @OffCMCVellore, shares his account of the staggering rise of "#blackfungus disease" during the 2nd wave of #COVID19 in India.
bit.ly/3j1k4BJ
Martin Roberts retweeted
When people say mucormycosis has a high mortality rate, it is often mortality at 3 months! That's where the numbers like 50-70% come from. So, you can't calculate mortality at 10 days post onset of symptoms, or not follow up cases, and claim it is low.
Martin Roberts retweeted
This excellent dashboard by @TechSparx has been a very useful tool: governmentstats.com/mucormyc…
Martin Roberts retweeted
Afghan health authorities warn of surging cases of mucormycosis, also known as "black fungus," among coronavirus patients as war-ravaged country grapples with shortage of vaccines and medical oxygen
dailysabah.com/world/asia-pa…
Martin Roberts retweeted
To further understand and manage this horrific epidemic, here’s a #mucormycosis dashboard that shows graphs of total reported cases and deaths due to mucormycosis for each of the states in India (and some other countries)
governmentstats.com/mucormyc…
Updated daily. Free for all.
Martin Roberts retweeted
India has lost 3129 patients to #mucormycosis (the fungal disease), which is about 8% of the 40,845 cases detected so far in the country, according to the @MoHFW_INDIA data. History of #Covid_19 in 34,940 cases (about 85%), with 26187 cases having diabetes, and 21,523 on steroids
Martin Roberts retweeted
Dashboard on mucormycosis cases worldwide. Apart from a tiny number of cases scattered across the world (as expected), almost all the recent disease burden appears to be in India.
To help understand and manage this horrific epidemic, here’s a #mucormycosis dashboard that shows graphs of total reported cases and deaths due to mucormycosis for each of the states in India (and some other countries)
governmentstats.com/mucormyc…
Updated daily. Free for all.
Martin Roberts retweeted
Deaths due to mucormycosis can be seen on this website governmentstats.com/mucormyc… – at New Delhi, India
Martin Roberts retweeted
After recovery from covid, I was in constant fear of #mucormycosis for initial few days - such a terrible disease this one is..
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Martin Roberts retweeted
On account of growing COVID-19 and #BlackFungus cases in District #Rajouri (J&K), #IndianArmy has mobilised awareness patrol to assist local populace of the region to fight COVID and Black Fungus.
Martin Roberts retweeted
This is an extremely important tweet.
We need to be aware of #Mucormycosis or the #BlackFungus
To help us better understand and manage this #blackfungus epidemic, we built a #mucormycosis dashboard
It shows graphs of reported cases and deaths for each of the states in India (and some other countries)
governmentstats.com/mucormyc…
Updated each day and free for everyone to use!
Martin Roberts retweeted
Most ideas, even the greatest ones, will require someone to do more work or work differently. If you want to be successful with your ideas anticipate resistance to change. It is human nature.
Your skill at persuasion will be at least as important as your creativity.
Martin Roberts retweeted
A nightmare within an epidemic:
31,216 cases of #mucormycosis reported by Indian government officials between May 5 and June 13, 2021
Latest stats at this “Mucormycosis dashboard” by @TechSparx
governmentstats.com/mucormyc…
Martin Roberts retweeted
We are now used to dashboards of daily Covid cases - but I never, ever expected to see one for a #Mucormycosis epidemic in #India 🇮🇳
Well, here it is - courtesy of @TechSparx
#BlackFungus #IndiaCovidCrisis
governmentstats.com/mucormyc…
