Author Archives: mikezintel

I’m been working diligently toward the goal of someday fluidly but casually interweaving the phrase “Double Mutant Variation” into a dialog. “While highly efficient, one of the drawbacks to the taking a dependency on a Double Mutant Variation (DMV) in … Continue reading →

Blue is new cases. Orange, % of population taking Hydroxchloroquine. Of course it doesn’t. If anything, it shows the opposite of that the post title claims. It seems that HCQ causes increases in cases, rather dramatically in the 3rd wave, … Continue reading →

Style Pattern 5: All Commercial Airlines Move Many People to Remote Destinations, and Quickly, and That’s What Matters, Experts Say While flying can be disorienting and makes some people anxious, flying on commercial airlines is a very safe activity, thanks … Continue reading →

In the early 90s, Microsoft was riding a wave of growth that would propel them to become one of the most valuable companies of all time. At the core of this growth was the Windows operating system. To understand the … Continue reading →

[ Waters ] Mr. Griffin, Americans feel the system is stacked against them, and Wall Street always wins. The Gamestop, er, thing put a spotlight on this. What say you? [ Griffin ]  We at Citadel take this seriously. Our … Continue reading →

It isn’t of course. That’s a silly non-sequitur, like “Bananas are Ballroom Rollercoasters“, but it didn’t stop WaPo from publishing garbage titled “Trumpism is American Fascism“. The word fascism used to mean: A governmental system led by a dictator having … Continue reading →

A few notes: The spread of this disease is profoundly non-linear. Looking at cause and effect, and extrapolating the future from any given window of time is likely to produce very large (order of magnitude) errors. And has. My hoped … Continue reading →

Trigger warnings: Longer than a tweet or a fb meme. Thought required. The country is badly divided, and full of hate. Trump did such a terrible job on the important topics of election fraud and Covid19 that he lost the … Continue reading →

From Feb to May I observed many deaths from Covid19 graphs that looked like this: I observed this in different populations, and population sizes, around the world. I hypothesized that something was dramatically slowing the spread of the disease long before the … Continue reading →

The Delphi Group at Carnegie Mellon University recently released data on mask-wearing in the United States via a project called a COVIDMap and public API. This is a valuable contribution to the understanding of Covid19 models; actual mask wearing data … Continue reading →