Re: [LINK] The government's coronavirus modelling

2020-04-11 Thread Tom Worthington
On 9/4/20 4:23 pm, David Lochrin wrote: What do you mean by a "gradual return to the classroom" and ... Rather than having all students stop online learning at once and return to campus on the same day, stagger it over months. Only a few students would be on campus initially, for only a

Re: [LINK] Australia’s media is dying before our eyes

2020-04-11 Thread David Lochrin
On 2020-04-11 12:52, Karl Auer wrote: > Might all this not ultimately be a good thing? The landscape will finally be > cleared of toxins like Murdoch, leaving an open field for alternatives to > arise, and hopefully a lot of them, to combat the disastrous consolidation of > past decades. That

Re: [LINK] The government's coronavirus modelling

2020-04-11 Thread Bernard Robertson-Dunn
On 11/04/2020 1:28 pm, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote: > More data is needed. And, it seems, a lot more patience. A model on its own is just theory. It needs to be validated, hence the need for data. Here's an example of data being used to validate (or not) climate models. Australian forest study