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Either you went back to those chats in order to write this post down, or you have studied the matter yourself, because man that's a lot of detail for something
by ByThyGrace 2y ago
Either you went back to those chats in order to write this post down, or you have studied the matter yourself, because man that's a lot of detail for something your friend talked to you about a few years ago.
I'm not being skeptic, rather saying it's actually impressive.
- mike_hearn 2y agoHe wasn't a friend, he was a guy who reached out to me because of stuff I'd written about COVID. We communicated over email and I encouraged him to write down a document with some of his experiences in it. The stuff in my post is a tiny fraction of it.
- xandrius 2y agoI'd love to hear more about it!
- mike_hearn 2y agoWe mostly discussed coding issues in epidemiological modelling. Science has big problems with bugs because scientists tend to assume programming is easy (they don't get exposure to professional standards and they rarely test their code). He'd been at the forefront of damage control and had lots of stories.