Welcome to the Fat Emperor podcast.

I'm your host, Ivor Cummins.

We're going to be talking about coronavirus again today and particularly the prevalence in the population of infection, which may be vastly higher than is being assumed.

And also around the lockdown versus softer smart measures, which might be used.

And what's giving a bang for the book in this whole problem to flatten the curve?

So I'm with Tucker Goodrich again.

Great to see you, Tucker.

Great to see you, Agor.

As always.

Thank you for having me on.

Oh, not at all.

I mean, you're a data guy.

And actually, you might start by just a very brief overview of your past kind of professional experience,

which pertains very strongly to this kind of issue, even though I don't have medical experience per se.

Yeah, so my experience, I was chief technology officer of a top 100 hedge fund on Wall Street for about 20 years.

My expertise was building risk systems, which means, you know, looking at models, evaluating models, evaluating new products to perform

data analysis that were being brought to me all the time, and also analyzing claims

and performance of traders, right? So a key part of my expertise to the point where salespeople were terrified to come in front of me

was listening to a case that was being made to me and tearing it apart, figuring out where all the holes in the data were.

The fellow I worked for for 20 years was of a similar mindset and one of our vendors said

about him one day, what is he, your assassin? So, yeah, so basically I look at this argument that's

being presented to us about the coronavirus pandemic and how to handle it as if they're making an argument.

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