@sp_monte_carlo LOL! You are so polite. I refuse to review ML conference papers. It is abundantly clear that they are all a total scam. We all know it, but most people are too polite to say it out loud. To be clear, I don't think regular journal publishing is great, but that's another story.
NZ's initial pandemic response was an elimination strategy: we knew the health system was under-resourced for mass outbreaks.
There was very real hardship in NZ.
But there was terrible mortality in the UK, US, Italy, & others.
After 2 years NZ had lost just 53 people.
1/2
Very moving testimony from Prof @Kevin_Fong who saw the devastation from Covid first hand. Our hospital staff are utter heroes. Political decisions made during this time were very poor. Lest we forget.
Prof @Kevin_Fong giving the most devastating and moving testimony to the Covid Inquiry of visiting hospital intensive care units at the height of the second wave in late Dec 2020.
The unimaginable scale of death, the trauma, the loss of hope.
Please watch this 2min clip.
jax-smfsb: a JAX port of my code for high-performance stochastic systems biology modelling, simulation and Bayesian inference - on PyPI for pip installation - https://t.co/sryN5Wiyna
Highlights segment about #MECFS on BBC Breakfast. Dr William Weir and @BinitaKane talk about the history of #MECFS how it has been psychologised and the frustrating lack of progress. There are now millions of patients with Long Covid and we have no treatments.
The national service nonsense does give me the opportunity to tweet one of my favourite recent bits of polling when Ipsos actually ran the famous "Yes Minister" questions as a randomised experiment, and showed that it worked.
For M.E. Awareness Week, I have written a poem. I wrote this poem when I was in a flare up and finally felt well enough to read it out yesterday. Please SHARE this.
Living with this disease at the moment is HARD. #pwME#MedTwitter#MEAwarenessHour
This is the remarkable moment that @NathanielD93744 crossed the finish line for the London Marathon playing his trombone. What makes this moment even more extraordinary is that Nat has stage four cancer, which is killing him.
Follow Natโs journey/donate: https://t.co/1CHzD0BIQK
"Research into [#MECFS] is lagging decades behind because society doesn't take it seriously enough" Professor Chris Ponting
Highlights also include the brief introduction not available in the videos being shared.