In the medium run, all #consultants want to be #economists #covidimpact

My thoughts on using model thinking for better decision making for city administrators, published in Towards Data Science A Tale of Two Towns towardsdatascience.com/a-tale-of-two-… #covid #mathematicalmodelling #modelthinking #SIRDmodels #pandemicpredictions #theoryforpractice #models

While we all work together to figure out what we can do to help in the current situation, I think the only long-term fix is for as many of us to move away from large cities. This is the answer to many of India’s problems. And now is probably the right time to work towards it. 1/5

My maths fails me. What is the factor of undercounting of deaths here? This is from The Tribune.

New paper on national differences in time preference. Combines many different measures (e.g. survey questions and field studies), standardizes them and extracts a common factor. Blue: people on average wait for future rewards Red: people on average want immediate gain

Short story - dark humour that we are living through. Only the Paranoid Survive link.medium.com/PCahPpvNEgb #paranoia #Hope #darkhumour

Of course #Azhar is fake. Indian fielders didn't dive to field the ball back then! #Indianfielding #Indiancricket #AnotherPRstunt

Happy birthday to the fighter Gautam Gambhir. If we can celebrate the World T20 and the World Cup of 2011, we owe him much.