I’m taking note of how confident the tech community is about covid-19, a topic where they know absolutely nothing. It’s a good way to calibrate how much we should buy into their equally confident statements about the future of crytocurrency, AI and other overhyped tech ideas.

Now that everybody's kids have been home for a whole day, can we all agree to pay teachers more?

I know that COVID has been an astronomical burden but on a positive note it has gotten my undergrad college friends to Skype with each other while in quarantine regularly

In unsurprising news, elon mollusk continues to prove he is dangerously stupid

You can follow my (new) general account here. This account will focus more on software going forward

zEpid is adding super learner. This feature will be added to the v0.9.0 release. Check it out at: github.com/pzivich/zEpid/…

Sneak peek of some performance tests for super learner and all its candidate estimators

Simulated demonstration of out-of-sample prediction using the new super-learner functionality to be released in v0.9.0. Simulations show performance of super-learner along with each of the component algorithms for several dgm github.com/pzivich/zEpid-…