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Post by fretslider on May 19, 2020 4:26:10 GMT -5
Huawei The Lads
From last Sunday's Telegraph:
The code, written by Professor Neil Ferguson and his team at Imperial College London, was impossible to read, scientists claim
The Covid-19 modelling that sent Britain into lockdown, shutting the economy and leaving millions unemployed, has been slammed by a series of experts.
Professor Neil Ferguson's computer coding was derided as “totally unreliable” by leading figures, who warned it was “something you wouldn’t stake your life on".
The model, credited with forcing the Government to make a U-turn and introduce a nationwide lockdown, is a “buggy mess that looks more like a bowl of angel hair pasta than a finely tuned piece of programming”, says David Richards, co-founder of British data technology company WANdisco.
“In our commercial reality, we would fire anyone for developing code like this and any business that relied on it to produce software for sale would likely go bust.”...
www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2020/05/16/coding-led-lockdown-totally-unreliable-buggy-mess-say-experts/
Bad code and useless models, be they epidemiological or climate models, are right up The Guardian's street. In today's edition:
The team at Imperial College London – whose modelling predicted as many as half a million coronavirus deaths in Britain without lockdown measures – have been accused of “crude mathematical guesswork”.
...
It is no surprise that so many professional contrarians are paid-up lockdown sceptics. They are products of our distorted media ecosystem, which invariably privileges heat over light. For them, the only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about
www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/may/18/lockdown-sceptics-coronavirus-brexit
The Guardian is more than just pro lockdown, it doesn't even bother with the facts of bad data and even worse modelling; no this is all down to sceptics - and their secret funders.
Ferguson has now, as you can imagine, gone into lockdown or, as we call it, hiding. He certainly hasn't popped his head up yet.
And today it has been revealed that
Imperial College London has landed a £5 million deal with Huawei, which will sponsor research projects, the construction of new tech facilities, as well as a 5G network for the college.
“Like other UK universities, we have received support from Huawei for high-quality and open research for several years. Such funding is subject to our robust Relationship Review policies,” Imperial College London told the Mail on Sunday.
www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/05/18/huawei-strikes-5-million-deal-corona-modelling-imperial-college-london/
Lets hope their robust Relationship Review policies are more robust than their computer modelling.
From last Sunday's Telegraph:
The code, written by Professor Neil Ferguson and his team at Imperial College London, was impossible to read, scientists claim
The Covid-19 modelling that sent Britain into lockdown, shutting the economy and leaving millions unemployed, has been slammed by a series of experts.
Professor Neil Ferguson's computer coding was derided as “totally unreliable” by leading figures, who warned it was “something you wouldn’t stake your life on".
The model, credited with forcing the Government to make a U-turn and introduce a nationwide lockdown, is a “buggy mess that looks more like a bowl of angel hair pasta than a finely tuned piece of programming”, says David Richards, co-founder of British data technology company WANdisco.
“In our commercial reality, we would fire anyone for developing code like this and any business that relied on it to produce software for sale would likely go bust.”...
www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2020/05/16/coding-led-lockdown-totally-unreliable-buggy-mess-say-experts/
Bad code and useless models, be they epidemiological or climate models, are right up The Guardian's street. In today's edition:
The team at Imperial College London – whose modelling predicted as many as half a million coronavirus deaths in Britain without lockdown measures – have been accused of “crude mathematical guesswork”.
...
It is no surprise that so many professional contrarians are paid-up lockdown sceptics. They are products of our distorted media ecosystem, which invariably privileges heat over light. For them, the only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about
www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/may/18/lockdown-sceptics-coronavirus-brexit
The Guardian is more than just pro lockdown, it doesn't even bother with the facts of bad data and even worse modelling; no this is all down to sceptics - and their secret funders.
Ferguson has now, as you can imagine, gone into lockdown or, as we call it, hiding. He certainly hasn't popped his head up yet.
And today it has been revealed that
Imperial College London has landed a £5 million deal with Huawei, which will sponsor research projects, the construction of new tech facilities, as well as a 5G network for the college.
“Like other UK universities, we have received support from Huawei for high-quality and open research for several years. Such funding is subject to our robust Relationship Review policies,” Imperial College London told the Mail on Sunday.
www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/05/18/huawei-strikes-5-million-deal-corona-modelling-imperial-college-london/
Lets hope their robust Relationship Review policies are more robust than their computer modelling.
