Monthly Archives: December 2022

When I split entirely non-medical, non-Covid topics off from the weekly Covid post, I expected to have a grab bag of them on a weekly basis. Hence the name ‘weekly roundup.’ What changed were four things. The result of this … Continue reading →

Here we go again. It is December, and cases, hospitalizations and wastewater concentrations are all going up. How worried should we be? We should worry that cases will for a time double or triple from where they are. Combined with … Continue reading →

ChatGPT is a lot of things. It is by all accounts quite powerful, especially with engineering questions. It does many things well, such as engineering prompts or stylistic requests. Some other things, not so much. Twitter is of course full … Continue reading →

This week China experienced their largest protests since 1989, and according to many sources the most dangerous as well. China has painted itself into a corner. It cannot abandon Zero Covid, yet the costs of Zero Covid rise with each … Continue reading →