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He gives more detailed numbers about Guandong: at the height of the epidemic, they performed 320000 tests, of which less than 0.5% were positive, which means that they missed less than 200 cases. In other words, Aylward thinks the Chinese numbers are basically correct. Even though of course not all cases are detected, we are not looking at magnitudes more undetected cases driving up the infections in the background.

It is not postmodernism for techies, but hermeneutics for nerds.

I think Chapman is acutely aware that postmodernism poisoned the well of the humanities and largely killed them. Now, the stem nerds have to repeat history, by reinventing and reimporting hermeneutics into their intellectual canon. It is happening largely outside academia, and somehow the inevitable next step after Bayesianist epistemology infused rationalism has reaped the low-hanging fruits and lost most of its steam. Postrationalism marks the return of the narrative in nerd intellectualism. Those few folks that are still alive and sufficiently versed in the scholastic canon of the prepostmodern humanities may scoff at it, but I think Chapman is serious, has high intellectual integrity and may gain serious cultural impact. Thanks to Kegan and Caplan, he also found a bunch of sufficiently original starting points to make it worth wile following his explorations.

After we migrated to Python 3, we came to regret the decision with considerable regularity. We mostly use MacOS, and working with OpenGL and scientific libraries has been painful. We never found that a library we needed was not available for 2.7, but lots of stuff has not been ported to 3.3. The syntactic advantages of 3 have been too minor to warrant the troubles we earned. Your mileage may vary, if you have different applications, of course.

Have you ever tried to deploy a native looking Python3 qt app on both Mac and Windows? I am not aware of anyone who lived to tell the tale. If you can do without a native look (menus, dock icons, app packaging), i.e. you just want to have some academic lab tool, then qt is good enough, IMHO. But no comparison with native UI development on Win or Mac.