July 30, 2020

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  • The Algorithm Charter has been released. Stories from NewsHub, newsroom, The Guardian, The Register, ZDnet
  • Covid-19 in Victoria: bad, and according to modelling by Peter Ellis, still getting worse.  If you’re in NZ, make sure you have a mask and hand sanitiser available and at least have the contact apps on your phone, in case we get another outbreak.
  • RadioNZ’s podcast “The Detail” has an episode on polling.  I’m reliably informed that I’m on it.
  • In 2020, we’re amid that critical juncture for ’90s music—we can finally start asking today’s teens, “What music do you recognize from the ’90s?”. From pudding.cool
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Thomas Lumley (@tslumley) is Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Auckland. His research interests include semiparametric models, survey sampling, statistical computing, foundations of statistics, and whatever methodological problems his medical collaborators come up with. He also blogs at Biased and Inefficient See all posts by Thomas Lumley »