COVID-19

"Hundreds of AI tools have been built to catch covid. None of them helped"

Science doesn’t work well under time pressure.    Continue reading ›
Aug 18, 2021 2 min read Link post, COVID-19, Machine learning and AI

"Google Promised Its Contact Tracing App Was Completely Private—But It Wasn't"

Move fast and break privacy, I guess    Continue reading ›
May 19, 2021 1 min read Link post, COVID-19, Coding

"A College Admissions Rat Race"

Is the pandemic accelerating existing trends in higher ed?    Continue reading ›
Feb 26, 2021 2 min read Link post, COVID-19, Academia

"The Hard Lessons of Modeling the Coronavirus Pandemic"

It’s almost as if toy models, simulations and observational data are not sufficient to inform policy decisions.    Continue reading ›
Feb 25, 2021 1 min read Link post, COVID-19

"When could everyone in the U.S. get vaccinated?"

Nice article and interactive visualizations from Reuters.    Continue reading ›
Feb 1, 2021 1 min read Link post, COVID-19

"The day we let Covid-19 spin out of control"

January 24, 2021 is a momentous, unnoticed one-year anniversary in the history of COVID-19.    Continue reading ›
Jan 23, 2021 1 min read Link post, COVID-19, Science

200

How many people will die from COVID?    Continue reading ›
Sep 21, 2020 1 min read COVID-19

"Thousands of Coronavirus Cases Linked to U.S. Universities"

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/covid-college-cases-tracker.html The New York Times has launched a new tracker for coronavirus cases focused specifically on higher education institutions in the US. It already lists 26 thousand cases at the time of writing (surely it will be more this by the time this post appears).    Continue reading ›
Sep 9, 2020 1 min read Link post, COVID-19

Save the gaiters from stress (positions)

Did the science of scientific writing create a masked maelstrom?    Continue reading ›
Sep 3, 2020 4 min read COVID-19, Writing
Save the gaiters from stress (positions)

Returning to campus

Today, my university is beginning move-in. Classes start on August 31. It’s tough times for everyone now. COVID continues to upend our lives. My thoughts go out to all the students, staff, faculty, parents, friends and colleagues, at UVM and other universities and schools.    Continue reading ›
Aug 24, 2020 1 min read COVID-19