Monthly Archives: July 2020

Got ya!

Posted on 29 July 2020 by ecoquant

Non-Tesla drivers seem not to know (or care?) that because of the capability to do self-driving, all Teslas have a constellation of cameras all about the vehicle. These not only operate while driving, they also monitor activity about Teslas when … Continue reading →

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“Inferring change points in the spread of COVID-19 reveals the effectiveness of interventions”

Posted on 10 July 2020 by ecoquant

J. Dehning et al., Science 369, eabb9789 (2020). DOI: 10.1126/science.abb9789 Source code and data. Note: This is not a classical approach to assessing strength of interventions using either counterfactuals or other kinds of causal inference. Accordingly, the argument for the … Continue reading →

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Larkin Poe Interview

Posted on 10 July 2020 by ecoquant

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Indiara Safir: “Amazing Grace”, “Carlos & Maria”, “Time”

Posted on 6 July 2020 by ecoquant
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Political and demographic associations with changes in COVID-19 rates at the tails

Posted on 6 July 2020 by ecoquant

A few days ago, I wrote a post about poltical and demographic associations with changes in COVID-19 rates over all U.S. counties. Today, I’m augmenting that. For here, rather than considering all counties, I limited the study to counties with … Continue reading →

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Posted on 4 July 2020 by ecoquant

Rationalists, wearing square hats, Think, in square rooms, Looking at the floor, Looking at the ceiling. They confine themselves To right-angled triangles. If they tried rhomboids, Cones, waving lines, ellipses– As, for example, the ellipse of the half- moon– Rationalists … Continue reading →

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So, today, a diversion …

Posted on 4 July 2020 by ecoquant

(Updated 2020-07-06, see end.) So, today I report on a diversion. This is a bit off the beaten path for me. It resulted from an “I wonder” comment by Rob Honeycutt at Tamino‘s “Open Mind” blog, this time offering a … Continue reading →

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