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• The Probability of Extraterrestrial Life

  

  Since, the discovery of exoplanets nearly 3 decades ago most astronomers, at least the public facing ones, seem to agree that it is just a matter of time... Read more

  The 24 january 2021 by   Ccc1685
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• The Inherent Conflict of Liberalism

  Liberalism, as a philosophy, arose during the European Enlightenment of the 17th century. It's basic premise is that people should be free to choose how they... Read more

  The 21 january 2021 by   Ccc1685
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• The Machine Learning President

  For the past four years, I have been unable to post with any regularity. I have dozens of unfinished posts sitting in my drafts folder. I would start with a... Read more

  The 21 january 2021 by   Ccc1685
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• Math Solved Zeno’s Paradox

  

  On some rare days when the sun is shining and I'm enjoying a well made kouign-amann (my favourite comes from b.patisserie in San Francisco but Patisserie... Read more

  The 06 december 2020 by   Ccc1685
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• The Fear is Real

  When I was in graduate school, my friends and I would jokingly classify the utility of research in terms of the order the researcher would be killed after the... Read more

  The 19 november 2020 by   Ccc1685
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• How Science Dies

  Nietzsche famously wrote: "God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him." This quote is often used as an example of Nietzsche's nihilism but it is... Read more

  The 16 november 2020 by   Ccc1685
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• Nobel Prize Has Outlived Its Usefulness

  The Nobel Prize in Physiology was awarded for the discovery of Hepatitis C today. The work is clearly deserving of recognition but this is another case where... Read more

  The 05 october 2020 by   Ccc1685
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• ICCAI Talk

  I gave a talk at the International Conference on Complex Acute Illness ( ICCAI) with the title Forecasting COVID-19. I talked about some recent work with FDA... Read more

  The 18 september 2020 by   Ccc1685
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• Why It is So Hard to Forecast COVID-19

  

  I've been actively engaged in trying to model the COVID-19 pandemic since April and after 5 months I am pretty confident that models can estimate what is... Read more

  The 06 september 2020 by   Ccc1685
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• There is No Herd Immunity

  In order for an infectious disease (e.g. COVID-19) to spread, the infectious agent (e.g. SARS-CoV-2) must jump from one person to another. The rate of this... Read more

  The 31 august 2020 by   Ccc1685
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