George Hotz | Programming | we do coronavirus science aka hacking nature #lockdown part1 | COVID-19
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN suggests it for coders curious how an outsider approaches coronavirus biology, though it is described as unscientific.
What it is
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.
Recommended by 3 HN commenters across 3 different months, 2020 to 2020.
What Hacker News said
Recommends jungletime · 2020-03 · on “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. [this video]
Recommends adam_fallon_ · 2020-04 · on “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: [this video]
Recommends juliushuijnk · 2020-10 · on “'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. [this 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.