In a Recent Simulation, a Coronavirus Killed 65M People (futurism.com) 5 points by imlina 6y ago ↗ HN
[–] dkrudy 6y ago ↗ The assumptions are comical. Clickbait fear mongering. [–] imlina 6y ago ↗ The assumption is also that hacker news readers are not subjected to fear mongering but I guess that assumption of mine was also comical.Assumptions here obviously won’t be 100% accurate given it’s a simulation conducted 2 months before outbreak.The point of this exercise is “what if” and seeing if useful extrapolations can be drawn from tweaking the variables.
[–] imlina 6y ago ↗ The assumption is also that hacker news readers are not subjected to fear mongering but I guess that assumption of mine was also comical.Assumptions here obviously won’t be 100% accurate given it’s a simulation conducted 2 months before outbreak.The point of this exercise is “what if” and seeing if useful extrapolations can be drawn from tweaking the variables.
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[ 4.8 ms ] story [ 44.7 ms ] threadAssumptions here obviously won’t be 100% accurate given it’s a simulation conducted 2 months before outbreak.
The point of this exercise is “what if” and seeing if useful extrapolations can be drawn from tweaking the variables.