Private channel session 324

12 messages over 1h 31m, 2020-08-24 – 2020-08-24.

A “conversation” here is an activity session — a run of messages with under 60 minutes of silence inside it. The channel had no native conversation boundaries.

1. 2020-08-24 15:17 Edward C. Holmes open PDF p.144
   Good grief. What BS.
2. 2020-08-24 15:18 Kristian G. Andersen open PDF p.144
   No Eddie, ML, not BS! Because, cool.
3. 2020-08-24 15:21 Andrew Rambaut open PDF p.144
   Particularly annoys me they have stolen the acronym for maximum likelihood too
4. 2020-08-24 15:24 Kristian G. Andersen open PDF p.144
   Haha, yeah - has confused the shit out of me on multiple occasions. Let's just call it #AI - way cooler anyway.
5. 2020-08-24 15:44 Edward C. Holmes open PDF p.144
   I think reviewers just give up with Koonin's papers. They are so dense that people just go 'fuck it, it's probably fine'.
6. 2020-08-24 15:44 Edward C. Holmes open PDF p.144
   In other news I think he's confused Bart for Homer: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/08/31/did-pangolins-start-the-coronavirus-pandemic
7. 2020-08-24 15:56 Andrew Rambaut open PDF p.144
   He was probably thinking - he couldn't possibly mean Homer. Must be Bart he thinks he looks like. With that triangular spiky hair.
8. 2020-08-24 15:57 Edward C. Holmes open PDF p.144
   Not every day that you get lampooned in The New Yorker though. A keeper.
9. 2020-08-24 15:59 Kristian G. Andersen open PDF p.144
   Need to read this whole thing. But in terms of accuracy, it appears spot on - based on this "He has a quick wit and aperfectly round, bald head".
10. 2020-08-24 16:00 Kristian G. Andersen open PDF p.144
    Mind you - a *perfectly* round head and not just a round head.
11. 2020-08-24 16:02 Edward C. Holmes open PDF p.145
    I had better get the calipers out.
12. 2020-08-24 16:49 Edward C. Holmes open PDF p.145
    Having some fun with Alina. Clueless.