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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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