We published a hash of our white paper on Twitter on March 25th, 2020.https://twitter.com/patio11/status/1242670345737256962 …
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Three days prior to that, on March 22nd, I was sufficiently convinced that there was an unacknowledged geographically distributed coronavirus outbreak to pre-register that conclusion. The Working Group came together and began work on March 23rd.https://twitter.com/patio11/status/1241551327743770624 …
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I've explained the idiom of dropping a hash on Twitter here for the benefit of folks for whom this is new: https://www.kalzumeus.com/essays/dropping-hashes/ …
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We opted to work pseudonymously a month ago to avoid negative impact on the containment efforts or on our team. I am coming forward because the work was early and correct enough to inform responses, and we think our methods may accelerate future efforts here and elsewhere.
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I would like to thank my co-authors, those who helped us arrive at this result, and the researchers, journalists, engineers, and others without whom it would have been impossible. We hope to have been of some small service.
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The situation remains extremely fluid and concerning. There are still potential social consequences to those close to this effort and people they are responsible for. I am coming forward, in a cautious manner, for reasons described in the above essay.
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I may not be in a position to elaborate further on this topic. Please see the essay.
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@patio11 - thanks for doing + sharing this. Looks like the doc-only post should update the link in its header. Would you be open to having a version with public annotation, including links to relevant models and datasources? -
Thanks; I have fixed the link.
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What a read. Nice work.
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Tinfoil in me think numbers were cooked for the Olympics, and the pressure lid was taken out once the event was postponed; and by then the national psyche was "let's go see sakura, we dealt with the virus already". Hope more comes to light why they were undertesting.
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