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meridianrose · 17 days
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fics that are like 500 to 1200 words or so often have a particular kind of energy to me - like the author sat bolt upright in bed, struck by the most brilliant inspiration of their entire lives, and then typed as fast as their fingers would allow them to in order to capture it all before it left.
oneshots that are just a straight, clear shot from the brain to the page with no real filter in between? that's good stuff right there.
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meridianrose · 17 days
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fics that are like 500 to 1200 words or so often have a particular kind of energy to me - like the author sat bolt upright in bed, struck by the most brilliant inspiration of their entire lives, and then typed as fast as their fingers would allow them to in order to capture it all before it left.
oneshots that are just a straight, clear shot from the brain to the page with no real filter in between? that's good stuff right there.
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meridianrose · 4 years
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Serpent
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meridianrose · 4 years
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Fiction: The Imprisonment of Daniel Watkins
In a dystopian future Dan is arrested, not for committing a crime, but for a computer’s prediction that he might somehow cause deaths if left at liberty. mentions of selfharm/suicidal ideation
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meridianrose · 4 years
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Remember when it only Article 13 we were worried about?
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meridianrose · 4 years
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The animated illustration to my Da Vinci’s Demons fanfiction The Prisoner of Labyrinth  
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meridianrose · 4 years
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Poem: Quality
There is a difference between existing and living Just as there is a difference between summer and sunshine between loneliness and chosen solitude between unwanted unemployment and a longed-for holiday or a job compared to a vocation There is a difference between going through the motions compared to living with joy and hope between quantity and quality
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meridianrose · 4 years
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💪 ✨ 🙌 QUEENS
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meridianrose · 4 years
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meridianrose · 4 years
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"We considered it, but if we changed ourselves just to survive, would it even matter if we did?"
Westworld, s3e6 Decoherence
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meridianrose · 4 years
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Q1.
In 2005, Ferguson
said
that up to 200 million people could be killed from bird flu. He told the Guardian that ‘around 40 million people died in 1918 Spanish flu outbreak… There are six times more people on the planet now so you could scale it up to around 200 million people probably.’ In the end, only 282 people died worldwide from the disease between 2003 and 2009.How did he get this forecast so wrong? 
Q2.In 2009, Ferguson and his Imperial team predicted that swine flu had a case fatality rate 0.3 per cent to 1.5 per cent. His most likely
estimate
was that the mortality rate was 0.4 per cent. A government
estimate
, based on Ferguson’s advice, said a ‘reasonable worst-case scenario’ was that the disease would lead to 65,000 UK deaths.In the end swine flu killed 457 people in the UK and had a death
rate
of just 0.026 per cent in those infected.Why did the Imperial team overestimate the fatality of the disease? Or to borrow Robinson's words to Hancock this morning: 'that prediction wasn't just nonsense was it? It was dangerous nonsense.'
Q3.In 2001 the Imperial team produced modelling on foot and mouth disease that suggested that animals in neighbouring farms should be culled, even if there was no evidence of infection. This influenced government policy and led to the total culling of more than six million cattle, sheep and pigs – with a cost to the UK economy estimated at £10 billion.It has been claimed by experts such as Michael Thrusfield, professor of veterinary epidemiology at Edinburgh University, that Ferguson’s modelling on foot and mouth was ‘severely flawed’ and made a ‘serious error’ by ‘ignoring the species composition of farms,’ and the fact that the disease spread faster between different species.Does Ferguson acknowledge that his modelling in 2001 was flawed and if so, has he taken steps to avoid future mistakes?
Q4.In 2002, Ferguson predicted that between 50 and 50,000 people would likely die from exposure to BSE (mad cow disease) in beef. He also predicted that number could rise to 150,000 if there was a
sheep epidemic
as well. In the UK, there have only been 177 deaths from BSE. Does Ferguson believe that his ‘worst-case scenario’ in this case was too high? If so, what lessons has he learnt when it comes to his modelling since?
Q5.Ferguson’s disease modelling for Covid-19 has been criticised by experts such as John Ioannidis, professor in disease prevention at Stanford University, who has said that: ‘The Imperial College study has been done by a highly competent team of modellers. However, some of the major assumptions and estimates that are built in the calculations seem to be
substantially inflated
.’Has the Imperial team’s Covid-19 model been subject to outside scrutiny from other experts, and are the team questioning their own assumptions used? What safeguards are in place?
Q6.On 22 March, Ferguson
said
that Imperial College London’s model of the Covid-19 disease is based on undocumented, 13-year-old computer code, that was intended to be used for a feared influenza pandemic, rather than a coronavirus. How many assumptions in the Imperial model are still based on influenza and is there any risk that the modelling is flawed because of these assumptions?
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meridianrose · 4 years
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Got really into the new SyFy show Vagrant Queen! It’s a lot of funned I really enjoyed the look and design of it. A real breath of fresh air. So I had to make some art. 
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Hello Vagrants! It’s Isaac - the third of my fan art cast portraits of the main cast of Vagrant Queen. These have been a lot of fun to do, I’m excited for the new episode tonight! I also included the portraits of Elida and Amae just to get all their faces in one post! :)
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Vagrant Queen 1x03 - Nobody’s Queen (2020)
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meridianrose · 4 years
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OMG that’s Nolan!!!
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