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    1. Saloni  🏳️‍🌈‏ @salonium 29 Oct 2020

      Saloni  🏳️‍🌈 Retweeted Christopher Snowdon

      A challenging question: Start with the number 128 and keep halving it until you reach the number 2. Now do the same thing again but starting with the number 4096. Which took longer?https://twitter.com/cjsnowdon/status/1321595761029763074 …

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      Christopher SnowdonVerified account @cjsnowdon
      The idea that locking down earlier makes the lockdown shorter is one of the claims that lockdown junkies have been making for months. As far as I know there is no evidence for it. 1/ https://twitter.com/BBCNewsnight/status/1321591175560810496 …
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      Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 29 Oct 2020
      Replying to @salonium

      In other words, you don't need evidence for math.

      4:13 AM - 29 Oct 2020
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        1. wr‏ @babarganesh 29 Oct 2020
          Replying to @paulg @salonium

          If you have R of Rl during lockdown and Rw during non lockdown then the total number of infections is the initial # times Rl to the power of the number of infectious cycles in lockdown times Rw to the power of # infectious cycles out of lockdown. Which comes first does not matr

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        2. Jugurtha Hadjar‏ @jugurthahadjar 29 Oct 2020
          Replying to @paulg @salonium

          One way I look at this is the Botlzmann distribution, population density (of particles) at energy levels. I look at a neon light and think about this pandemic.

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        3. Jugurtha Hadjar‏ @jugurthahadjar 29 Oct 2020
          Replying to @jugurthahadjar @paulg @salonium

          Boltzmann*

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        1. Lev Reyzin‏ @lreyzin 29 Oct 2020
          Replying to @paulg @salonium

          You don’t need evidence for math, but you do need evidence that the math applies to your situation.

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        1. Uteixe‏ @u_teixe 29 Oct 2020
          Replying to @paulg @salonium

          COVID-19 is a mathematical object?

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        1. vish‏ @_vish_ 29 Oct 2020
          Replying to @paulg @salonium

          Yes, but which math ? * assume complete isolation for (e.g. 30) days. (zero human contact that is not HAZMAT-suited) -> and it doesn't matter how many cases you started with. * assume 20% of the population will disregard the lockdown. -> and it doesn't matter how long it is.

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        1. Ashley Aitken‏ @AshleyAitken 29 Oct 2020
          Replying to @paulg @salonium

          Isn't that proof by example?

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