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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.144 [SLACK_000358] · slack_pm:msg:01479

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Date
2020-08-24 15:21
Type
chat message · slack
recipient
Kristian G. Andersen, Robert F. Garry, Edward C. Holmes
speaker
Andrew Rambaut

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Particularly annoys me they have stolen the acronym for maximum likelihood too

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  1. 2020-08-24 15:17 Edward C. Holmes open
    Good grief. What BS.
  2. 2020-08-24 15:18 Kristian G. Andersen open
    No Eddie, ML, not BS! Because, cool.
  3. 2020-08-24 15:21 Andrew Rambaut
    Particularly annoys me they have stolen the acronym for maximum likelihood too
  4. 2020-08-24 15:24 Kristian G. Andersen open
    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
    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
    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
    He was probably thinking - he couldn't possibly mean Homer. Must be Bart he thinks he looks like. With that triangular spiky hair.

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