Archive for the '–' Category

Eager to Corral the Coronavirus, U.K. Tests a Disputed Tracing App – The New York Times

May 16, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/07/world/europe/uk-coronavirus-contact-tracing.html

Gittins index – Wikipedia

May 16, 2020

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gittins_index

Rule of succession – Wikipedia

May 16, 2020

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_succession

‘Doomsday’ Math Says Humanity May Have Just 760 Years Left – WSJ

May 16, 2020

https://www.wsj.com/articles/doomsday-math-says-humanity-may-have-just-760-years-left-11561655839

J. Richard Gott – Wikipedia

May 16, 2020

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Richard_Gott

How to be less wrong – Towards Data Science

May 16, 2020

QT:{{”
How much longer will the Berlin Wall stand? This is what went through J. Richard Gott’s head when he visited Germany in 1969.
If you think about it, this is a tough question, as there is not much data available about lifetimes of walls in Germany (in fact, the Berlin Wall is a single datapoint). How then to approach a question like that, where we are almost completely in the dark?
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https://towardsdatascience.com/how-to-be-less-wrong-5d6632a08f

Simulated annealing – Wikipedia

May 16, 2020

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulated_annealing

’83 Sci. paper by Kirkpatrick et al.

Hill climbing – Wikipedia

May 16, 2020

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hill_climbing

Prestige Ameritech offered to make millions of N95 masks in Texas. The government turned him down.. – The Washington Post

May 16, 2020

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/in-the-early-days-of-the-pandemic-the-us-government-turned-down-an-offer-to-manufacture-millions-of-n95-masks-in-america/2020/05/09/f76a821e-908a-11ea-a9c0-73b93422d691_story.html

The psychology behind why some people won’t wear masks – CNN

May 16, 2020

https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/06/health/why-people-dont-wear-masks-wellness-trnd/index.html