89% of the U.S. is wearing face masks where required
According to research at CMU, 89% of those surveyed wear a face mask, as required. Source: Home – COVIDcast – Delphi Research Group – Carnegie Mellon University When a public…
Study finds no one understands which pandemic control policies work or do not work
This report’s conclusions are what I observed with the eyeball-o-matic Stat-O-Meter since the beginning – there are rarely correlations between policies and effectiveness in reducing the spread of Covid-19. The…
What is the most power efficient (least electricity use) programming language?
Can energy usage data tell us anything about the quality of our programming languages? Last year a team of six researchers in Portugal from three different universities decided to investigate…
Covid cases rising almost equally in states with and without mask mandates
Based on population per state, the number of new Covid-19 cases occurring in the past week is about the same in states with mask mandates and those without mask mandates.…
We need to mandate face masks in homes, 24 x 7
40+/-% of cases due to in-home contacts, and 20+/-% due to close social contacts, mostly inside homes: Social gatherings seem to be driving the spread of coronavirus within communities. Source:…
Can the liquid in your CPU liquid cooler freeze?
The title is a serious question. I have a computer located in the loft of an outdoor shop. The shop and loft are unheated and during the winter, the temperature…
IOT, Covid: Smart Watch fitness trackers may help predict Covid-19 infections and outbreaks
Combines self reported data and information such as heart rate, from fitness trackers and smart phones to identify potential Covid-19 infections: Source: Early results from DETECT study suggest fitness trackers…
Software: Is coding a must-have life skill of the future?
“Kids who code early start thinking of themselves as people who can create. In the future, you can either be a creator or a consumer of technology. If you are…
Software: The greatest software error in history?
In The Price of Panic, a detailed, albeit dated, overview of the world’s Covid-19 response, the authors note the use of Neil Ferguson’s ICL Covid simulator software – and its…
Covid-19: Another model failure
As in 400% too high: One of the most alarming charts presented by the government when it announced the latest lockdown on Saturday looked at a range of scenarios for…