George Hotz | Programming | we do coronavirus science aka hacking nature #lockdown part1 | COVID-19

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A long George Hotz livestream in which he explores the coronavirus genome and molecular biology from scratch using a browser and Python, hacking on the science in real time.

HN suggests it for coders curious how an outsider approaches coronavirus biology, though it is described as unscientific.

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@jungletime2020 · in “Doctors turn to social media to develop Covid-19 treatments in real time”

George Hotz is also making a valiant attempt. Starting from scratch, he's made a surprising amount of progress in the last 3 days. Armed with just a web browser and python. [VIDEO]

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@adam_fallon_2020 · in “What's a virus, anyway? The bare-bones basics”

Geohot has been doing a pretty unscientific but interesting look at the molecular & computational biology side of the coronavirus. Interesting for coders/hackers First in the series here: [VIDEO]

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@juliushuijnk2020 · in “'Long Covid': Why are some people not recovering?”

If you have many hours to spare, you can watch George Hotz dive into the details. One of the take-aways is that the Corona virus is a Sars, not a flu. [VIDEO] If your take is that Sars is just another flu, then I guess you just broadened the scope of the flu, and need to be open for the idea that the 'flu' could be more dangerous than you thought.

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