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Coronavirus Update XXIV: Why Did We Panic?
The Unmasked Bandit! I originally started this article with an imaginary dialog between myself and a Karen. Then I got kicked out of mass Sunday for not wearing a mask…
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Coronavirus Update XXIII: Yes, More Testing Leads to More “New” “Cases”
The numbers, the only important part of this article, are in the last section. I heard on the radio the analysis I present is a "lie". Reason? Trump said more…
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Coronavirus Update XXII: Mask Madness: Updates At End
As I was writing this (Monday morning), a minor government official came on the radio and promised "We haven't seen the worst yet." What accounts for this monumental level of…
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AI Getting Too Good At Predicting Crime, So It’s Being Purged
If all we know about an American male is that he is an American male, we can use data on observed rates American males committed crimes to predict that this…
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Coronavirus Update XX: Lockdown Madness 2.0: BIG UPDATE
All the good stuff, caveats, code, data sources and explanations are linked, some in Update III, and the most important in Update II, Update IV, Update V, Update VI, Update…
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Coronvirus Update XIX: UPDATE: Screw Spikes, Surges, Records In New Cases
All the good stuff, caveats, code, data sources and explanations are linked, some in Update III, and the most important in Update II, Update IV, Update V, Update VI, Update…
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Coronavirus Update XVIII –UPDATES: Ignore Orders, Experts & BS “Spikes” In New Cases
All the good stuff, caveats, code, data sources and explanations are linked, some in Update III, and the most important in Update II, Update IV, Update V, Update VI, Update…
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That Open Letter On BLM From The Berkeley History Professor
The anonymous letter, which can be regarded as in the public domain (it's been fully tweeted, line by line, for instance), is from a purported History Professor "of color" (she…