Lockdown 2: nope. Kicked in on Thursday 5th, positive cases peaked around the 10th. Lockdown 3: nope. Came in staggered (as London and some of the South East entered Tier 4 earlier than the rest of t… (View Post)

Why is gold intrinsically valuable? It’s pretty, it’s got some good uses in electronics, and you can make things that don’t corrode. Other than that, it has value because we value it. Which is indeed… (View Post)

I thought his discussion on what the potential outcomes were in the case of varying increased transmissibility (from 0% to 80%) in this thread: https://twitter.com/JamesWard73/status/1393933557026938… (View Post)

On modelling, and mindful of the "Going to Twitter for details on science" cliche, a mathematician and risk modeller called James Ward ( https://twitter.com/JamesWard73 ) has been consisten… (View Post)

I saw the paranoia on the modelling earlier. People do know that when they're demanding answers like "what are they assuming?!?", the models are published on line, with the assumptions… (View Post)