Fucking Moron (tm): "Stock Market starting to look good"

Remember this tweet two weeks ago?



https://d25d2506sfb94s.cloudfront.net/cumulus_uploads/document/w9x88vnsg2/tabs_Trump_Tweets_20200224.pdf

Singapore managed to prevent community spread

The contrast with the US in government response is astonishing

Watch on YouTube

Key learnings so far:
-- droplet transmission (direct and indirect); surface contamination;
-- small group contamination, close-quarters interaction;
---- open air, low humidity, direct sunlight = major virus killers;
-- little evidence of asymptomatic transmission;
-- the new normal: background presence of the virus in the community;
---- vaccine not likely in less than 1 year;
-- no non-essential travel.
-- the virus is here to stay until at least the end of the year.

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I do not recall any one who thought that the internal combustion engine could ever have more than a limited use. All the wise people demonstrated conclusively that the engine could not compete with steam. They never thought that it might carve out a career for itself. That is the way with wise people—they are so wise and practical that they always know to a dot just why something cannot be done; they always know the limitations.

--- Henry Ford, My life and work.

Limitations determine trade-offs and optimization strategies.

Productivity experiment

It looks like the spring quarter is going to be cancelled in many universities. Will this increase the number of research papers written by faculty?

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