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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.144 [SLACK_000358] · slack_pm:msg:01482

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Date
2020-08-24 15:44
Type
chat message · slack
recipient
Kristian G. Andersen, Robert F. Garry, Andrew Rambaut
speaker
Edward C. Holmes
Topics
Natural origin / zoonotic spillover

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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

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  1. 2020-08-24 15:18 Kristian G. Andersen open
    No Eddie, ML, not BS! Because, cool.
  2. 2020-08-24 15:21 Andrew Rambaut open
    Particularly annoys me they have stolen the acronym for maximum likelihood too
  3. 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.
  4. 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'.
  5. 2020-08-24 15:44 Edward C. Holmes
    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
  6. 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.
  7. 2020-08-24 15:57 Edward C. Holmes open
    Not every day that you get lampooned in The New Yorker though. A keeper.
  8. 2020-08-24 15:59 Kristian G. Andersen open
    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".
  9. 2020-08-24 16:00 Kristian G. Andersen open
    Mind you - a *perfectly* round head and not just a round head.

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