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This guy spent a few hours trying to "solve" covid from "basic principles", ran some python on the DNA sequence, and then gave up. None of this is serious.

Remember when he wanted to "fix twitter search?"

Then a few weeks in he went "Anyone want a job? Fix this, make your code MIT and we'll see!"

...despite the fact that he just wanted to steal code and had 0 authority to give anyone a job.

This is what happens you feed the ego of software engineers. Make them think they are smarter than everyone else and that they cannot be wrong simply because they are good at software engineering.

Their "about" page reads "home for poorly researched ideas that I find myself repeating a lot anyway"