Posted on 05/16/2020 11:37:48 AM PDT by knighthawk
The heralded model United Kingdom experts have largely used to guide their coronavirus policies is “totally unreliable,” according to experts.
The criticisms follow a series of policy turnabouts, including Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s decision to extend the national lockdown. The United States also used the model, which predicted upwards of 2.2 million deaths in the US without proper action. The prediction helped influence the White House to adopt a more serious approach to the pandemic.
Experts have derided the coding from Professor Neil Ferguson, warning that it is a “buggy mess that looks more like a bowl of angel hair pasta than a finely tuned piece of programming.”
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Bug? Or feature?
So it’s written in BASIC with a lot of GOTO statements, no structure whatsoever, no comments, cannot be maintained, and only understandable by the original author.
Just like so many Climate models.
Politicians make trillions and trillions of dollars of socio-economic decisions and ruin countless lives based on this crap.
Garbage in, garbage out.
Fauxcy has never used accurate, real world pandemic parameters in the “Science” [models] allegedly backing up his flip-flopping pronouncements.
Instead of “Peek” and “Poke” they used “Pig” and “Poke”.
Well you got to have some consideration here. The guy was too tired when he came to work. All that screwing of another man’s wife.
Probably Cobal run on an IBM 360.
Fauxi and Birx used fraudulent Imperial College model to urge shut down
-Modeler had to resign in disgrace
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/professor-lockdown-modeler-resigns-in-disgrace/
Cobol
Cheat on your wife. Cheat on your mandated lockdown. Cheat on your “scientific” model and code. Real trustworthy chap, isn’t he?
Oh yes.
No morals or sense of responsibility whatsoever.
A total cock-up!
The Fearpers who trashed me for calling this guy Bozo the Modeler are free to apologize any time.
This modeler has never predicted anything correctly ever
“a bowl of angel hair pasta”
Here in the States, we call that ‘Spaghetti’ code.
Yeah, but “a bowl of angel hair pasta” just trips off the tongue so more nicely and descriptively than plain old every-day “spaghetti.”
so....his code was written by H1B subcontractors?
NOW they tell us!
The only question is whether or not Ferguson did it on purpose...
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