Benefits of Covid-19

[Fat Charlie]

Originally Posted by freebeard

This is MacOS Summarize Text set to about 10% Sentences:

You realize it took Microsoft decades to make their own OS run right, don't you? Hell, 25 years ago the line Mick Jagger sang in their commercials- yes, actual Microsoft commercials for their new, "improved" OS was You make a grown man cry.

[freebeard]

Pitching the problem over the transom to Microsoft doesn't gain any points in my estimation. I try to feel better about them since Steve Ballmer left. He was half the problem.

I read the whole thing. Regression testing is what I used to do.

The Imperial code doesn’t seem to have working regression tests. They tried, but the extent of the random behaviour in their code left them defeated. On 4th April they said: “However, we haven’t had the time to work out a scalable and maintainable way of running the regression test in a way that allows a small amount of variation, but doesn’t let the figures drift over time.”

I thought the most pertinent part downrated by Summarize Text was:

Conclusions. All papers based on this code should be retracted immediately. Imperial’s modelling efforts should be reset with a new team that isn’t under Professor Ferguson, and which has a commitment to replicable results with published code from day one.

On a personal level, I’d go further and suggest that all academic epidemiology be defunded. This sort of work is best done by the insurance sector. Insurers employ modellers and data scientists, but also employ managers whose job is to decide whether a model is accurate enough for real world usage and professional software engineers to ensure model software is properly tested, understandable and so on. Academic efforts don’t have these people, and the results speak for themselves.

'Sue Denim' in Greek is pseudonym

[redpoint5]

I'd be curious to see insurance actuary modeling vs governmental or academia. People like to say "it's science, dummy", when the "science" depends on bias. Those same people are quick to point out the non-credibility of research performed by "Big Oil", but aren't willing to accept that bias can exist in all other realms people occupy.

[freebeard]

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[Fat Charlie]

Originally Posted by redpoint5

People like to say "it's science, dummy", when the "science" depends on bias.

Bias in research:

Big Oil: How can I phrase this so the spill isn't why the animials are declining?
Big Tobacco: How can I phrase this so it seems they died of something else?
Academia: How can I phrase this so I can get another grant to pursue it farther?
"Deep State": How can I phrase this so my department looks more important?
Big Pharma: How do I phrase this so my new pill looks great?
Big Insurance: How do I phrase this so we make money?

Science:

Peer review and replication changes what is understood as truth.


Of course a study put out by Big Oil is asking to be debunked. But look at Academia: from every department head to every grad student, they all want to be the one on record as debunking it with a solid enough study that cannot itself be debunked. And if they confirm it, so much the better. As long as their work is solid, it still makes them look good.

That's actually what science is all about- questioning data and analysis until enough scientists come up with the same results, and then that idea becomes accepted as truth. Until the next study contradicts it, but they'll move in to debunk that one too, unless they verify that one, in which case it becomes the truth.

Look at anti-vaxxers. Their whole premise is based on a study that fell apart and was retracted once it was scrutinized. If it had been legitimate, just censored because Big Pharma disapproved of it, do you really think that no scientists would have confirmed that study by now? Really, any scientist would love to go down in history as the one who confirmed that vaccines were bad (with work that was good enough to be replicated). Any university, for that matter- because if you establish that vaccines are causing autism, you've come up with more knowledge of vaccines and autism at the same time, and understanding those mechanisms can help develop safer vaccines and treat autism. Think of all the promotions and research grants you could get out of that, how many of your grads will get hired first, how many top notch students will go to your school...

But no one's done that. And while researchers are still doing their thing, at some point people need to understand that there's a difference between skepticism and denial. Only one of those counts as science, dummies.

[oil pan 4]

That's the difference between religion and science.
When a study falls apart upon first contact with scrutiny or ground away at by its own failed studies and predictions like dark matter and something that starts with glo and ends with ing.
People who cling to that failed science start to act more like religious nut balls than reasonable people.
Yeah because all those failed studies the believer group put out them selves is some how a conspiracy from everyone who doesn't agree with them.
If it sounds crazy that's because it is.

[freebeard]

That's the difference between religion and science.

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Just FYI, Bucky Fuller named his Morgan sloop "Intuition"

Beware the tyranny of two answers.

[freebeard]

This isn't a benefit of Corona-chan, but a benefit that comes after
WION: Gravitas: 5 Things India can do to reform the WHO
On 2020-05-22 India assumes leadership over the WHO. Tedros Adhamon will be answering to India, and they are pee-oohed.

Point #3 is recognizing Taiwan.

[redneck]

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[freebeard]

The cameras, however, will not be able to track or recognise specific individuals, neither will it collect any personal data.

....yet.