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On 5/11/20 10:27 PM, Niklas Holsti wrote:
> 
> I've seen a somewhat longer and better review of this code, but I didn't save 
> the link (sorry). The following points were criticized IIRC:

I saw the interpretation of the review that Gautier linked to at 
https://lockdownsceptics.org/code-review-of-fergusons-model/. From the site name 
we can conclude that this is not an unbiased interpretation.

> Moreover, the code is 
> deterministic if executed on a single core (after some errors were corrected 
> which seemed not to be unusually alarming).

It seems clear that the code that was executed to create the predictions was not 
deterministic on a single core.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"I wave my private parts at your aunties."
Monty Python & the Holy Grail
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