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#PedsICU doc, #informatics specialist, #dataScience researcher 👨🏻‍💻& Canario 🇮🇨 🇪🇸 🏝 ✈️ living the dream in Chicago 🇺🇸🏙 @palisipedal #medtwitter
Jun 9, 2021 21 tweets 8 min read
@MaddieMierMD This may be a long reply, but bear with me. The best way to think about #Bitcoin is as a store of value. If you generate excess wealth you can either spend more or store the value of your wealth somewhere for later use. People store value in lots of things: cash in the bank, @MaddieMierMD gold, jewelry, art, real estate, etc. Across history many of these things have been used as medium of exchange (ie money). In the past, this list included things like sea shells and salt (which is how Roman soldiers were paid there “salary”). Anything that you want to go back to
Jun 4, 2021 13 tweets 5 min read
Accelerated innovation using #BigData and #DataScience in medicine is sometimes just a matter of making the “adjacent possible” happen. The concept of “adjacent possible” in innovation postulates that you need to have the right tools and concepts available to combine.

Mini-🧵👇 In “Where Good Ideas Come From” @stevenbjohnson writes: “What kind of environment creates good ideas? The simplest way to answer it is this: innovative environments are better at helping their inhabitants explore tge adjacent possible, because they expose a wide and diverse...
Jan 6, 2021 12 tweets 5 min read
“[Trump] Went Down to #Georgia

🎵A #GARunoff Musical Thread 🧵

(with music inspired by Charlie Daniels’ classic #GA fiddle song )

(1/11) 👇 [Trump] went down to Georgia
He was lookin' for a [vote] to steal
He was in a bind 'cause he was way behind
And he was willin' to make a deal
When he came across this [woman]
[Makin' democracy] hot
And [Trump] jumped upon a hickory stump
And said,"[Girl], let me tell you what"(2) Image