Link. Complex and elegant.
Monthly Archives: June 2020
CA: “This is faster and worse than I expected. You have to have a ton of respect for this thing. It is nasty and it just lurks and waits to stomp on you if you let your guard down for a second.”
Link. Not exponential and then it is.
“periods when the virus seemed to percolate until something — perhaps a superspreader event — triggered an exponential rise in infections”
Link. Weirdness.
“dispersion parameter. It is a measure of how much variation there is from person to person in transmitting a pathogen.”
Link. Epi 101.
Create no-track YouTube Links.
Link.
“Microsoft vs AWS is as real a deathmatch as Facebook vs Google or Google vs Apple.”
Link. Google’s cloud fail is amazing
“Far from being biased against Republicans in the U.S. and right-wing nationalists and authoritarians around the globe, Facebook has been biased for them.”
Link. Fundamental flaw is both-sides equivalent assumption. Republicans are more evil.
Subscription services everywhere.
Link. The poison pill is the lock-in.
Gilead to Charge $3,120 Per Patient for Remdesivir therapy.
Link. This is very reasonable.
“if you’re thinking of getting a macOS device it might be smart to get it now”
Link. Yes.
Speculations on how Indian soldiers died in border fight with China.
Link. Plausible.
“Harriet Tubman was scheduled to replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill … the plan was canceled because it made President Trump mad.”
Link. No comment.
Woodrow Wilson Was Even Worse Than You Think.
Link. His father … “made his name through the publication of his popular sermon arguing for the Biblical sanction of slavery.”
America: “it will be one of the most spectacular instances of civilizational decline in world history. Every mind in the country should be bent towards the task of reversing the decline and restoring national competence.”
Link. He forgot political and governmental corruption.
CDC says U.S. has ‘way too much virus’ to control pandemic as cases surge across country
Link. Still nothing on making better masks.
NYT Coronavirus Vaccine Tracker
Link. I missed this one.
The making of Mao’s famine.
Link. His leadership style feels familiar.
“after she reached out to a local television station, which devoted a segment to her charges, her health plan began investigating the bill”
Link. Price concealment in healthcare is a metric of how broken our society is. Other metrics include gun ownership, prison labor, gov-industrial employment. A reform government would track them all.
Zuckerburg surrenders to advertisers
Link. He’s lying of course, but kudos to the advertisers who withdrew.
A very bullish take on EV adoption
Link. No. Won’t be this fast.
Milwaukee home burned by confused mob.
Link. America is a violent place; our policing problems have reasons.
App Makes Mass Transit Accessible to People with Cognitive Disabilities
Link. We need Apple to treat cognitive disability like visual disability.
Racial Variation in ACE: Clinical Trial ended 2001.
Link. I can’t tell if it was published. Black/white COVID mortality ratio seems higher than any other Black/white health outcome ratio.
China is holding Canadians hostage to free a powerful criminal held by Canada.
Link. The new hegemon is unsurprisingly brutal. Canada should disregard US however, under Trump it means nothing.
“the common ancestor of all the dinosaurs must have laid soft eggs”
Link. Like turtles, not birds.
Yellowstone supervolcano news is not very 2020.
Link. Evidence of decreased risk?
“At least 113 people have been shot since May 25, eight fatally, according to Minneapolis police, with hundreds of reports of gunfire across the city, including several shootings in broad daylight”
Link. Minneapolis has a violence problem.
Nader confession: “bringing a child into the country for sexual purposes in 2000.”
Link. Weirdly sympathetic coverage.
University of Trento (Italy) Scientific Programming Lab — Python intro and beyond.
Link. Based on the environments they recommend this is a contender for best and most current intro to science-oriented Python anywhere. The English version would benefit from editing by a native speaker, no Python knowledge needed.
Mars drone: “The body of Ingenuity is about the size of a softball with four spindly legs sticking out. Two sets of blades, each about 4 feet from tip to tip, spin in opposite directions”
Link.
Carbon Copy Cloner was quietly excluding 1Password stores from backup.
Link. I don’t use Agile’s central sync service, so I had not backups. Bombich blew this one.
“If the toilet has a lid, close it before you flush so it traps the plume. Think of the lid as a mask for the toilet.”
Link. No more appreciating the show.
Dexamethasone already less wonderful.
Link. To the surprise of no physician anywhere.
“In some cities, as vehicle traffic and tailpipe pollution declined, levels of one major smog-causing pollutant, ozone, actually shot up.”
Link. Predicted but never seen. It’s chemistry.
“it appeared that every liver cell was edited. After gene editing, the monkeys’ LDL levels dropped by 59 percent within two weeks.”
Link. Gene editing to eliminate heart disease.
“neuroinvasive capacity of SARS-CoV2, and an unexpected consequence of direct infection of neurons by SARS-CoV2”
Link. What does this thing do in bats?
“President Trump’s campaign directed the removal of thousands of “Do Not Sit Here, Please!” stickers from seats in the arena that were intended to establish social distance between rallygoers”
Link. Baal wants sacrifice.
The history of oral polio as universal vaccine
Link. Worthy of study.
“His father was a blacksmith, his mother a nurse.”
Link. Theoretical physicists come from everywhere. Newton set a precedent.
“Black people with COVID-19 in the 25-34 age group had a mortality rate 7.3 times that of non-Hispanic white people. The disparity was nine times higher in the 35-44 age group”
Link. That is largest disease outcome race gap I know of.
“In a supermassive black hole’s disk, the flowing gas converts the mosh pit of the swarm to a classical minuet, organizing the black holes so they can pair up.”
Link. Quasar neighborhood.
Norway COVID in gyms.
Link. I suspect their disease level is too low for ttis to mean much
“Google, institutionally, is bored with Android.”
Link. Yes. Google is excited by AI and nothing else.
COVID-19 spreads quickly but not typically exponentially.
Link. Rediscovering basic disease models, but a useful reminder that we overuse “exponential”.
“Many T cells apparently die, and so the body’s reserves are depleted — particularly in those over age 40, in whom the thymus gland, the organ that generates new T cells, has become less efficient.”
Link. 40 is the new Old.
Russia Secretly Offered Afghan Militants Bounties to Kill U.S. Troops, Intelligence Says – The New York Times
Link. “but the White House has yet to authorize any step” Trump needs Putin more than ever.
COVID vaccine: Africa is not being misused.
Link. Neither Black America.
“just 23 percent of Americans ages 16 to 19 will work this summer”
Link. Going to be a violent summer. Gov should be creating jobs.
US pandemic 2: the younger are the vectors
Link. Sucks to be 45 plus.
“We’ve all done the best that we can do to tackle this virus,” Redfield said, pleading for more investment in the country’s health infrastructure.”
Link. Pleading.