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Re:MacBook Pro with faster performance and new features for ... by Fomite on Thursday July 12, 2018 @10:31PM (#17520110)
A couple months ago, building projections for a rabies elimination program while sitting in a hotel bar in Zambia, I was pretty pleased I wasn't relying on a server.

Edge case, sure, but shrug

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Re:MacBook Pro with faster performance and new features for ... by et2o on Friday July 13, 2018 @01:30AM (#17520722)
Haha fair enough.

How's the rabies situation there? Are people still doing multicompartment SIR models? That kind of stuff is hard to parralelize.

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Re:MacBook Pro with faster performance and new features for ... by Fomite on Friday July 13, 2018 @02:00AM (#17520812)
It's still a big deal, but getting better - my university's running a decently successful program in Kenya.

And yeah, people still use compartmental models pretty heavily. A lot of my stuff is stochastic (it's about the beginning or end of epidemics, or in small populations) so that's nicely parallel.

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