1. Starting a new thread of "I wish people would make up their minds" and will add examples of when I think of them.

Ernest Hemingway kept a chart with his exact daily word count, “so as not to kid myself,”

We're still on the hunt for world-class cyber security startups to join our Feb 2020 accelerator program, so we've partnered with Startup India to search for the best local talent. Based in India and have some impressive cyber tech? Let's chat! startupindia.gov.in/content/sih/en…

Beautiful. A kid with severe colour blindness sees colour for the first time after he tries on a pair of colour blind glasses. Science is amazing. gofundme.com/f/sp7m4-color-…

The Portuguese man o' war looks like a jellyfish, but it's not. It's not even in a single animal; it's a colony – a colony of specialized animals of the same species, so well integrated they function like a single being. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portugues… Video: youtube.com/watch?v=uIeS8q…

“YAML is super picky and annoying!” snivels an entire generation who never had to touch a BIND zone file.

#coronavirus has 'traction' x.com/MarkHiggie1/st…

On the face of it, one might not guess that it has been 50 million years since pinnipeds (seals et al.) evolutionarily split from other caniforms (dogs, etc.) during the Eocene.

Excellent paper in The Lancet on the difficult tradeoffs: > Governments will not be able to minimise both deaths and the economic impact > Keeping mortality as low as possible will be the highest priority for individuals thelancet.com/journals/lance… #COVID19

Australia is roughly level with Italy in COVID-19 tests per capita Which is an encouraging thought businessinsider.com.au/coronavirus-te… health.nsw.gov.au/news/Pages/202… - credit to NSW Health for regular updates and transparency re: numbers ==> breeds confidence

The UK's response to COVID-19 explained with a bucket of water

Air flow from a person breathing, talking, and coughing, with & without face mask. Visualization by LaVision Inc.

With this new info, WHO is considering calling a world conference to discuss whether we should consider recommending we all wear hats sometime in 2021.

Holograms?

What determines the success of #COVID19 #TestAndTrace? Our SEIR on a graph says: (i) Symptom Onset to Test Time (& to self-isolation) (ii) Share of Contacts Traced Less important: (iii) Test & Trace Time: test turnaround & contact tracing time. medrxiv.org/content/10.110… 1/

Terrific essay on what makes TikTok special by Eugene Wei eugenewei.com/blog/2020/8/3/…

Such a great email sent by a Dyson Institute Undergraduate Engineer to James Dyson after his announcement of new Degree Awarding Powers Dyson

Signal is blowing up.

> There was another factor that had roughly triple the predictive power of brainpower. x.com/rshotton/statu…