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type: Conversation
title: Private channel session 324
description: "slack conversation, 12 messages, 2020-08-24."
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started_at: "2020-08-24T15:17:32"
ended_at: "2020-08-24T16:49:15"
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A slack conversation of 12 messages spanning 1h 31m.

# Metadata

- **Started:** 2020-08-24T15:17:32
- **Ended:** 2020-08-24T16:49:15
- **Duration:** 1h 31m
- **Participants:** 3
- **Source:** [slack_pm](/sources/slack-pm.md)
- **Pages:** 144-145

# Participants

* [Andrew Rambaut](/people/andrew-rambaut.md)
* [Edward C. Holmes](/people/edward-c-holmes.md)
* [Kristian G. Andersen](/people/kristian-g-andersen.md)
* [Robert F. Garry](/people/robert-f-garry.md)

# Transcript

**[2020-08-24T15:17:32] Edward C. Holmes:** Good grief. What BS.

**[2020-08-24T15:18:57] Kristian G. Andersen:** No Eddie, ML, not BS! Because, cool.

**[2020-08-24T15:21:21] Andrew Rambaut:** Particularly annoys me they have stolen the acronym for maximum likelihood too

**[2020-08-24T15:24:42] Kristian G. Andersen:** Haha, yeah - has confused the shit out of me on multiple occasions. Let's just call it #AI - way cooler anyway.

**[2020-08-24T15:44:13] Edward C. Holmes:** I think reviewers just give up with Koonin's papers. They are so dense that people just go 'fuck it, it's probably fine'.

**[2020-08-24T15:44:33] 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

**[2020-08-24T15:56:30] Andrew Rambaut:** He was probably thinking - he couldn't possibly mean Homer. Must be Bart he thinks he looks like. With that triangular spiky hair.

**[2020-08-24T15:57:45] Edward C. Holmes:** Not every day that you get lampooned in The New Yorker though. A keeper.

**[2020-08-24T15:59:54] Kristian G. Andersen:** 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".

**[2020-08-24T16:00:14] Kristian G. Andersen:** Mind you - a *perfectly* round head and not just a round head.

**[2020-08-24T16:02:43] Edward C. Holmes:** I had better get the calipers out.

**[2020-08-24T16:49:15] Edward C. Holmes:** Having some fun with Alina. Clueless.