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defund: verb. prevent (a group or organization) from continuing to receive funds

Covid is here to stay, and you can be expect to be infected with it every few years. You probably won't even know it's covid because we will have stopped routine testing. Talk about having zero cases is ridiculous and fanciful.

It seems the messaging from the experts is different in the US and the UK. The message in the UK broadly is: expect to be infected with COVID multiple times throughout your life, vaccination and prior infection should protect you from serious illness.

this "covid is over" mentality is what will help produce the next, possibly really nasty, variant.

Can you back this up? It's my understanding that our actions now have almost no bearing on what happens with future variants.

Church (genuine suggestion for anyone) We often have non Christians turning up to our church for one reason or another. A non Christian comes every week because he loves the people. You can find churches with members on either side of the political spectrum if you worry about that.

One thing I love is that (almost) wherever I am travelling in the world, I can just turn up to a church and feel welcomed.

My wife and I moved to a new city and went to church and were invited to a family home for dinner straight after the service. It's great to experience that in a city where you don't know a single person.

What you’re describing is common and you can recover, I recommend a book called DARE - it changed my life.

I wanted a FAANG job so I followed on Twitter every engineer I could find from the company I wanted to work at. Reading them every day gave me the impression that I too had to be popular on Twitter to get a job there.

I got the job and soon realised that no one I work with is a Twitter personality. I'm not aware of anyone I work with having a social media presence at all. These are some of the world's best engineers, they do hugely influential work and outside of their colleagues no one has ever heard of them.

When you're on Twitter you get the impression that the whole world is there and anyone who isn't there is not relevant.

There are thousands of engineers where I work, why did I think that you had to be a Twitter personality just based on a few dozen people I could find on Twitter?

Brent Simmons noted this on his blog after joining Audible:

"I haven’t noticed that the people I work with have a lot of public social media presence. (Maybe I just haven’t gotten clued-in yet?)"

The majority of people don't use Twitter at all. Of those who do, the majority aren't Twitter "personalities".

I deleted my Twitter account and haven't looked back.

If anyone else struggles with anxiety I highly recommend the DARE book. It's essentially CBT but framed in a way that finally really clicked for me.

"the model that shut down the world economy"

The model was released on the 16th of March. Large parts of the world had already "locked down" prior to this date.

edit: of course there is no doubt this model was influential in other countries' decision to lock down.

How would that be technically possible? All the app needs to do is log the user’s taps and swipes and then replay those inputs on a copy of their app.

Is there a collection of general machine learning resources (blogs, books, people to follow on twitter etc.) for someone wanting to get started?