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COVID

• Updated my DaysToZero code to put charts into the spreadsheet, which was pretty straightforward using xlsxwriter. There do seem to be three basic patterns:
• The first is steady growth:

• So no curve flattening here. The disease is moving pretty steadily through the population. The USA is mostly on this track as are countries like India and Chile. I think the difference that we see is related to a first, faster wave among the more vulnerable populations.
• The second pattern is the ‘flattened curve’. Ireland shows this really well, as does New York state:

• The last pattern is the ‘second wave’ pattern. Japan seems to be having one now:

• So it looks like we are far from out of the woods on this, and letting your guard down is soundly punished.

#COVID

• Start the db to fixing “elderman” posts. Running. I’ve got about 100k bad posts. The fixes seem to be taking care of some. This is going to require multiple passes

GOES

• 2:00 Meeting with Vadim

GPT-2 Agents

• Updated the document. Antonio’s going to submit. Fingers crossed! It would be nice to go to London in May
• 3:30 meeting?
• Need to backup and save the db. Done. It’s almost 11GB! Compressing. Backed up the compressed version, which is (only!) 3GB.