GOOD NEWS, EVERYONE! Although the hospitalization rate in Houston is still high, it's pretty clear now that we passed a peak and it's going down. This means my predictions … More
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COVID-19 Houston update
(source, as always: https://www.tmc.edu/coronavirus-updates/tmc-daily-new-covid-19-hospitalizations/) We seem to have reached a plateau in terms of hospitalizations. I hope this … More
I still dislike AT&T, but I use it again
A long time ago, I abandoned AT&T for the crimson-tinted waters of Comcast. They offered faster service, and they didn't directly try to hoist a fraudulent contract on … More
The UK COVID variant
Happy new year! The new COVID "British" variant (UK B117 strain) isn't, of course, British. It was merely detected there first. See this thread by Dr. Gurdasani on Twitter, and the … More
Relative Citation Metrics
This is the first post in what I hope will be an ongoing series in scientometrics. Today's topic is an excellent paper -and idea- by Hutchins, Yuan, Anderson, and Santangelo … More
OctoMac
I like 3D printing. It's an interesting, if fiddly, hobby. Quite fun as long as you don't actually need to print anything, because things go wrong All. The. Time. The filament … More