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Quotes the origin of it in an article Cummings wrote in 2013:
“ In 2013, in his 237 page-long paper Some Thoughts on Education and Political Priorities, Cummings expressed his own fascination with evolutionary ideas in economics and developed the notion that computer science and ‘genetic algorithms’ could combat “bioterrorism or pandemics” using “artificial immune systems” and “agent based models”. Cummings directly quotes another New York University professor, Joshua M. Epstein, and his 2009 paper Modelling to Contain Pandemics which discusses the “classical epidemic modelling” of the 1920s which revealed “the threshold nature of epidemics and explained ‘herd immunity’, where the immunity of a subpopulation can stifle outbreaks, protecting the entire herd.”
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Thought this was interesting regarding the herd immunity idea
https://bylinetimes.com/2020/04/03/the-coronavirus-crisis-herd-immunity-has-infected-uk-policy-but-who-was-patient-zero-for-this-toxic-transatlantic-idea/ -
The only time I ever find myself wanting to correct people in the gym is when I see the collapsing to the floor style burpees... obviously I never actually do it cause I don’t wanna be one those guys
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Is anyone doing burpees in an old Victorian terrace? Will my downstairs neighbours hate me if I do it? Or should I ask them what time they would prefer me to work out?
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Not meant to belittle your problems, but I found it helps enormously with keeping things running smoothly around the house, if only one person has to work full time. Good luck with the move!
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I read yesterday on here that nhs trusts are having trouble placing orders directly in China. My partner speaks Chinese and would be happy to volunteer help with that. Is that something that would be useful?
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Sounds like you are going to benefit from nice meals and a happy partner. Things could be worse!
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As I said, design looks great. If my cheap one fails on me, I will consider getting one
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America is saved, Jared Kushner had taken over the corona portfolio. After bringing peace to the Middle East, that should be easy for golden boy.
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.politico.com/amp/news/2020/04/01/jared-kushner-coronavirus-response-160553
That’s why Nassim Taleb, among others, has argued that the mistake most governments made was throwing the precautionary principle out of the window, and rely too much on modelling