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Vox has an article well worth reading about a certain coronavirus model that the administration uses. It points out that this model has consistently underestimated the death rates (it previously said that the cumulative death rate would be 60,000 and then later revised to 72,500 when it was obvious that we were breaching the 60K…
A quick note about yesterday’s post: I wanted to add something that I forgot to mention in yesterday’s post. At the end, I mentioned that there were a few things I wanted to add to the analysis. One was to add each state’s lockdown/shutdown/stay-at-home order date and the projected re-opening date. Another thing I wanted…
I’ve been avoiding doing any kind of graphing or numerical play with the data that is being put out on this crisis mainly because the news is so distressing. All I have been doing is just gathering the data without doing anything with it. But with the states now starting to open up the economy,…
“We’ve been destroying jobs in the heartland, and we’re not focusing on putting up money to fund entrepreneurs in those places.” Top Dog, Dan Lyons, 2018, p. 168. “…tech founders always talked about “changing the world” and “putting a dent in the universe” and “making the world a better place.” We were kind of cynical…
Two weeks ago, I finally saw some auroras! On web cam. A couple of posts ago, I wrote about some Web cams that I started looking at, and interestingly enough, just a few days later, BBC had an article about “seeing the world without leaving your home”. Within the article was three of the web…
For a while, Harvard was going to tap into the educational aid relief that was in one of the CARES packages offered by Congress despite having the wealthiest university endowment of roughly $40 or $41 billion dollars. Now, I don’t know how these endowments work so I regarded them as funds for a rainy day…