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…
It’s worse than we thought: “Second Analysis of Ferguson’s Model”
In the past I had some comments on Neil Ferguson’s disease model and have repeatedly noted its poor quality. This model was used, last spring, as the basis for setting…
What if you could be convicted with secret evidence you cannot see nor contest?
All defendants have a right to review the evidence before them. When software applications produce a conclusion, then the software source code must be re-viewable by the defense. The government…
Twitter still a mess in the aftermath of the take over of their systems
Read the whole thing – Twitter blog post update. It’s pretty clear they still do not have a full handle on the situation. Twitter acknowledges that the hackers downloaded the…
Japan pulls its coronavirus tracking smartphone app due to software design errors
The Japanese government has pledged to fix within a week bugs that have caused its coronavirus contact-tracing smartphone app to be shut down, the health minister said Tuesday. The free…
Experts criticize ICL’s Ferguson’s Covid SIM model as garbage
Those of us who have seen Neil Ferguson’s ICL Covid sim model have the same views as this computational epidemiologist: As Ferguson himself admits, the code was written 13 years…