Yeah not sure why I got it so wrong! Coming from UK pounds. It was about 70p a few years ago but back to 50p now. Still, never the 90p I was assuming...

Sad to have missed this. Lots of great symposia!

- Format didn't promote deep questions. Often questions left till end. Have to squish past people to walk to mic. Mostly short presentations with even shorter Q&A.

Overall, the vibe was fact finding rather than deep science. Not that surprising that it feels different to a stats conference. 3/3

- Lots of people here seem to be fact finding. Slightly different vibe.
- Following, perhaps a lack of criticality. Questions were more clarification of details and rare robust probing of methods or findings.
2/n

You don't go with nun-ya beeswax?

I want one. This was a fairly small room. Agree single runners don't work well for big rooms (need a few, strategically placed).

Yeah, it's definitely not easy. We have two chairs so probably one of them should run around with the mic. Which is also annoying but overall better I think.

Yes thank you! I'll watch it

I am. Not seeing tons of people on bluesky talking about it. Maybe just need another day or two.

It works ok there because you know all the strong levers a priori. And if a new strain arrived as strong lockdown started you wouldn't calmly state new strain has 30% lower R. But in cases when we don't know which drivers are important (i.e. most of the situations when we'd be doing iv) its tricky

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Computer science types love this stuff. It's useful for lots of algorithms like pathfinding? But I also have never used it.