Episode 111 - Covid Data Deluge, Zoombombing, and Wager Math

Max does a solo show during hist third week of staying at home during the Coronavirus outbreak. He covers:
- The large amounts of stories about the virus coming in from all corners, and how it's difficult to evaluate them
- The current situation in New York City, both everyday life, and policy
- How we're getting set up to do more video chats and calls, some ideas for rigging up a home studio, and the popularity of zoom
- The mathematics behind wagers and risks
- Listener email on Logical Probability

Links

Medium Thomas Pueyo: The Hammer and The Dance
Censored Medium post from Viral Marketer Aaron Gin: Evidence over Hysteria (because he’s a republican? because it’s the first debatable medium article? The latter is doubtful)
Twitter Rebuttal from Carl Bergstrom
Haaretz: Dan Yamin Models Coronavirus
Westport news: Superspreaders in Westport, CT!

Cuomo: New York State now testing more per capita than South Korea
Wall Street Journal: New Yorkers Fleeing the City

NY Post: Trump Proposes Potential Cure
Mother Jones: If Trump Proposed it, don’t take it
Vox: More in depth on the Hydroxychloroquine-azithromycin treatment

CNBC: Why Zoom has become the Darling of Remote Workers
NYTimes: Watch out for Zoombombing!
Joe Biden sets up a Rec Room Campaign

Stamford (2008): Preferences, Probabilities, and Decisions