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This is the COVID-19 CovidSim microsimulation model developed by the MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis hosted at Imperial College, London.

34 mentions on Hacker News by 27 people: 9 stories, 25 comments · first 2020-04-27 · latest 2022-08-03

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  1. ….ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3001435/ [2] https://github.com/ptti/ptti/blob/master/README.md [3] https://github.com/mrc-ide/covid-sim/issues/116 https://github.com/mrc-ide/covid-sim/issues/30 https://github.com/mrc-ide/covid-sim/commit…
    comment by mike_hearn · 2021-05-21 · in Face masks effectively limit the probability of SARS-CoV-2 transmission
  2. …into their calculations is not fine, they assert those programmers don't understand science (see: https://github.com/mrc-ide/covid-sim/issues/165 ) And that's just the scientists. Public health officials like Fauci have lied to the public…
    comment by thu2111 · 2021-05-03 · in Reaching ‘Herd Immunity’ from Covid Is Unlikely in the U.S., Experts Now Believe
  3. …varying by up to 60k). Also it has race conditions and can't be run in parallel. Fucking mess: https://github.com/mrc-ide/covid-sim/blob/e8f7864ad150f40022... As far as independent journalists that give you a different point of view: James…
    comment by djsumdog · 2021-01-04 · in Moderna raises 2021 vaccine output forecast to at least 600M doses
  4. …and allow that as an excuse for terrible code with no testing specs. Take this for example: https://github.com/mrc-ide/covid-sim/blob/e8f7864ad150f40022... This was used by the Imperial College for COVID-19 predictions. It has race…
    comment by djsumdog · 2020-08-24 · in Challenge to scientists: does your ten-year-old code still run?
  5. …The track record of Neil Ferguson‘s Group at Imperial is representative of this industry, however. https://github.com/mrc-ide/covid-sim/issues/176
    comment by goatinaboat · 2020-06-24 · in Initial Covid-19 infection rate may be 80 times greater than originally reported
  6. …made it to the cabinet. [0] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2020/05/16/coding-led... [1] https://github.com/mrc-ide/covid-sim
    comment by skrebbel · 2020-06-03 · in Papers with Code
  7. …our time efficiently in this thread; it looks like they fixed the non-determinism a month ago, https://github.com/mrc-ide/covid-sim/pull/121 Linked directly from the issue, too. It would indeed seem to have all been random numbers in the…
    comment by tripletao · 2020-05-19 · in Neil Ferguson's Imperial model could be the most devastating software mistake
  8. …of parameters does. Here's one params file that specifies some of the inputs to a run of the model: https://github.com/mrc-ide/covid-sim/blob/master/data/param_... Here's another one: https://github.com/mrc-ide/covid-sim/blob/master/data/ad…
    comment by tkiley · 2020-05-18 · in To software engineers criticizing Neil Ferguson’s epidemics simulation code
  9. Here's the GitHub issue: https://github.com/mrc-ide/covid-sim/issues/116 The discussion isn't terribly clear to me. Is this non-determinism in which random number gets used where, like if you seed an RNG once and then use it from multiple…
    comment by tripletao · 2020-05-17 · in Neil Ferguson's Imperial model could be the most devastating software mistake
  10. If anyone is in any doubt about this, I would like to point them towards this github issue: https://github.com/mrc-ide/covid-sim/issues/165
    comment by ljm · 2020-05-17 · in It’s OK for your open source library to be a bit shitty (2015)
  11. …is gaining traction because it was used in the Covid 19 sim that was publicly released recently https://github.com/mrc-ide/covid-sim/blob/master/README.md There was even a thread about it that made its way to the front page of HN yesterday…
    comment by Minor49er · 2020-05-08 · in Monte Carlo Geometry Processing
  12. …broken for reasons that they just don't understand. I think a comment on the GitHub is relevant: https://github.com/mrc-ide/covid-sim/issues/175#issuecomment... > To add to this, please read report 9 properly. The 500k UK prediction was if…
    comment by creato · 2020-05-08 · in Imperial College London have released their Covid-19 epidemic simulation
  13. …find the serious issues and then take it down with vengeance. So far only serious issue is this: https://github.com/mrc-ide/covid-sim/issues/168 Looks linked to the awful style, though. When you have 700 LOC functions starting with int i,…
    comment by yread · 2020-05-07 · in GitHub issue calling for retraction of Imperial College study for codebase flaws
  14. …and it's elsewhere on HN already) with some links that point to (potential or perceived) issues: - https://github.com/mrc-ide/covid-sim/issues/116 - https://github.com/mrc-ide/covid-sim/issues/30
    comment by lbeltrame · 2020-05-07 · in GitHub issue calling for retraction of Imperial College study for codebase flaws
  15. …to make it possible for us to even see it! Be more like Carmack. EDIT: Also be like this person: https://github.com/mrc-ide/covid-sim/issues/161 Helpful, constructive and the developers engaged with them.
    comment by te_chris · 2020-05-07 · in Imperial College London have released their Covid-19 epidemic simulation
  16. Just argument parsing makes my eyes bleed... https://github.com/mrc-ide/covid-sim/blob/master/src/CovidSi... That stuff is priceless: else if (argv[i][1] == 'C' && argv[i][2] == 'L' && argv[i][3] == 'P' && argv[i][4] == '1' && argv[i][5]…
    comment by mshook · 2020-05-07 · in Imperial College London have released their Covid-19 epidemic simulation
  17. …(warning: possibly partisan link) https://lockdownsceptics.org/code-review-of-fergusons-model/ [2] https://github.com/mrc-ide/covid-sim/issues/165 [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23099212
    comment by lbeltrame · 2020-05-07 · in Imperial College London have released their Covid-19 epidemic simulation
  18. This code is great fun. Start here to explore the horror: https://github.com/mrc-ide/covid-sim/blob/master/src/CovidSi... I like the way InitModel() crashes (I think) if a global pointer called bmh (short for bitmap header) isn't first…
    comment by abainbridge · 2020-05-07 · in Imperial College London have released their Covid-19 epidemic simulation
  19. IMO this should be unflagged and the link changed to https://github.com/mrc-ide/covid-sim/issues/165 which is at least non-partisan unlike the very domain name of this submission.
    comment by lbeltrame · 2020-05-07 · in Code review of the Imperial College London Covid-19 modelling
  20. …will push for better software writing in academia. There's some discussion in the GH issues, too: https://github.com/mrc-ide/covid-sim/issues/165 I'm hoping it doesn't get hijacked and turns into a flamefest, which would distract from the…
    comment by lbeltrame · 2020-05-07 · in Code review of the Imperial College London Covid-19 modelling
  21. Thanks for the link. As I randomly clicked through, I wasn't that horrified until I got to this file: https://github.com/mrc-ide/covid-sim/blob/master/src/SetupMo... Of course, it's absolutely insane to suggest that all of academic…
    comment by dwaltrip · 2020-05-07 · in Code review of the Imperial College London Covid-19 modelling
  22. Actual code: https://github.com/mrc-ide/covid-sim
    comment by hartator · 2020-05-07 · in Code review of the Imperial College London Covid-19 modelling
  23. …is not much different in nature. It's an agent-based and capable of making nice pictures like this. https://github.com/mrc-ide/covid-sim/ However i have not been able to find a case where their model could reproduce the epidemiology of a…
    comment by buboard · 2020-05-01 · in Multipole Methods for the Masses
  24. I think it's been released yesterday: https://github.com/mrc-ide/covid-sim
    comment by varlock · 2020-04-28 · in Ask HN: Imperial College Pandemic Code?
  25. they just released the code for the Imperial model that the UK apparently uses https://github.com/mrc-ide/covid-sim Seems like a game of simcity, honestly. With so many parameters that are not very precisely known, it's easy to go into…
    comment by buboard · 2020-04-27 · in Ask HN: Which are some Covid-19 simulation models that are accurate?