They were saying how there was a 0% chance that any individual passenger was not exposed on the cruise. If you ever needed a nice isolated model to use, this was it. Mixed demographics all in a confined space.

I'm amazed by how many people I see wearing masks while driving. Then over 50% of them are also texting while driving. So I guess they don't care that they are significantly more likely to die in a car accident?

If you look at guidelines for the original SARS virus, the CDC defines prolonged close contact as the primary mechanism of spreading. They say if you walk past someone in the store or on a walk, it is not an issue. Even a place like a waiting room is fine to be in. They also recommend 3 feet, not 6. And then there's the whole recommendation for only quarantining the sick and healthy people should go about as normal. But then again, orange man wasn't president.

I think the biggest thing is not facing any adversity growing up. If they struggle in school, they get passed on to the next grade anyways. Youth sports, everybody wins. So they fear the unknown because they have never had to face anything.

Several gym owners I know have starting prepping for Monday reopening, and Mayor Curry mentioning this decision comes after many talks with Governor DeSantis makes me believe DeSantis will roll back many more restrictions in an announcement later this week.

And then it is something like 75% of the deaths are from nursing homes and other elderly people. Less that a fraction of one percent are young, healthy individuals.

The reddit thread on this is talking about underreported number, lack of testing, and no one going to hospitals. They just cannot believe that this thing could actually be going away. The TDS is strong with them.

They're preying on the fear of people and their lack of knowledge on contact tracing's usefulness and intent. They really just want to be able to track your every move, under the guise of public safety.

My dad had a bad upper respiratory infection in late January. Probably was the kung flu as he had all the symptoms.

In Jax, FL some of our city employees, namely police, firefighters, and sanitation workers, are being paid time and a half currently due to Covid. I'm all for supporting these hardworking men and women, but they should not be paid extra for doing their jobs simply because they could catch Covid. All of them are more likely to die from on the job hazards than Covid.

I'm sure newsom will give them a hard time and cut funding or something. Even though California is in direct violation of federal law by selling marijuana and running sanctuary cities. newsom can ignore federal law, so it only follows that counties and cities can ignore state laws, right?

That is the story the media will run as to why he resigned, not the fact that his model is garbage and caused this whole global panic.

I started looking over it a little bit ago. It definitely seems like he tried to make it purposefully difficult to follow. Code obfuscation is great job security.

There's way to many assumptions that are made for me to feel comfortable with results from that model. Then add in the lack of repeatability and you have an absolute garbage model.

I'm a engineer as well. I was just pointing out that the style of code isn't really a big deal. The big deal is as you just said, the RNG and lack of repeatability. Sloppy code is fine as long as it is correct code.

I spent a good deal of time tracking down a repeatability issue in grad school with modelling boundary layer transition. I knew my results would be invalidated by committee if I could not have repeatable results.

Ferguson is a quack job and should have been fired long ago.

The onset of OOP really changed the perception of single vs multiple source files. Before OOP, compilers were difficult to use with multiple source files and neither Fortran not C are good at being modular, so most programmers worked with single large source files. Also, there is no such thing as universal best coding practices, only best for your project or organization. If this guy did work at Google, they will have coding practices and formatting guidelines.

Personally, I would rather have a well organized 15000 line source file rather than 50 poorly organized source files.

To be fair, if the code was originally written in Fortran, it is entirely possible for it to be a single file. The codebase I used for my grad school research was Fortran, developed in the 70s, and consistently updated while I was in school in 2010-11. It was the biggest pain in the ass to use though. So many gotos, it was like a maze.

Still, any code should have been migrated to an OOP language years ago.

Voting twice is a crime. It doesn't say voting more than twice is a crime though... So fill in both mail in ballots and go vote in person? \s

From this Twitter thread

https://mobile.twitter.com/JoshSchoen/status/1257756595859140608

I like how the media is running with the "Ferguson resigned because he was caught violating lockdown," and not the true reason; people are proving his model is garbage.

I will be so happy if reddit goes the way of digg.

Any grad student would be absolutely destroyed by their committee during a Master's thesis or PhD dissertation defense if they used a model like that.

The system is so broken in Florida. I'm from Florida and registered to vote when I turned 18. I went to college out of state and moved to Alabama for a job after graduating. I still received an absentee ballot the subsequent election. I called and told them I moved out of state and needed to be removed from the voter roll. They told me I needed to go to my local election official in person to be removed. No way was that going to happen, take 2 days off work to drive or pay for a plane ticket, so I didn't. I still received absentee ballots for each and every election afterwards, as the registered address was my parents house.

I moved back to Florida last year and when I registered to vote, they told me I was already registered, only needed to update my address.

My favorite is people that wear the same gloves all day. That's the same as not wearing gloves at all.

Ah, the good old Film Actors Guild is at it again. How about they address the rampant drug abuse in Hollywood that kills far more?

Thank goodness we are getting some common sense into this absurd "educational" amendment. Young men's lives were being destroyed by false accusations with absolutely no consequence for the accusor.

Next I hope she takes on the part about proportionate representation in men's and women's athletics. Women do not have a sport like football that has a roster of over 70 athletes. It is unfair to men's programs such as tennis, swimming, rowing, etc. That are cut every year because not enough women want to participate in sports. At UT Austin, the women's rowing team was the catch all for NCAA title IX compliance. They were literally recruiting women to row who had never heard of the sport before.