Miscellaneous writings
OK, so I have too much time on my hands. Or it's a case of a compulsive disorder, and I just can't stop writing about all sorts of things I know too little about. Before my Day Book, I put my ramblings on my Web site. I no longer do that, but I still occasionally place articles here, in English and Hungarian.
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I am using this page to collect links to research papers that offer especially important information about COVID-19.
- Impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) to reduce COVID19 mortality and healthcare demand
Imperial College COVID-19 response team - The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2
Andersen et al., Nature Medicine correspondence, March 17, 2020 - Virological assessment of hospitalized cases of coronavirus disease 2019
Wölfel et al., medRxiv preprint, March 8, 2020 - A SARS-CoV-2-Human Protein-Protein Interaction Map Reveals Drug Targets and Potential Drug-Repurposing
Gordon et al., bioRxiv preprint, March 22, 2020 - Role of Chloroquine and Hydroxychloroquine in the Treatment of COVID-19 Infection- A Systematic Literature Review
Kapoor & Kapoor, medRxiv preprint, March 30, 2020 - Discovery of a rich gene pool of bat SARS-related coronaviruses provides new insights into the origin of SARS coronavirus
Hu B, Zeng L-P, Yang X-L, Ge X-Y, Zhang W, Li B, et al. (2017) PLoS Pathog 13(11): e1006698 - Machine learning using intrinsic genomic signatures for rapid classification of novel pathogens: COVID-19 case study
Randhawa et al., PLoS ONE 15(4): e0232391, April 24, 2020
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My maternal grandfather, József Sztojka, was an architect.
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I recently came across a piece of delightful retro-futurism: a 55-year old slide show produced in Hungary, depicting the journey of a young student to the Moon in the year 2111...
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The sweetest kitty cat my wife and I have ever known, our beloved cat Szürke, passed away late at night on August 8, 2014.
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Ever since the official announcement by Dennis Tito that he is planning a privately financed manned Mars flyby in 2018, whenever I catch a glimpse of the SpaceX capsule on television or on the Internet, my heart beats just a little faster.
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I served as a conscript in the Hungarian People's Army in 1981, at the tender age of 18, as a lowly private.
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Marzipan, our first cat, died on the day of the botched 2000 US elections.
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I hate travel. But I loved this 8000-mile trip across the continental United States.
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Ramblings from the pre-blog era
Back in the 1990s, I was skeptical about this newfangled concept, "Web 2.0". It's just as stupid as interactive television, I said. Most people are consumers of information, very few will want to produce content.
I should have known better. Even as I uttered this opinion, I was already putting ramblings on my Web site. I continued this practice for several years, until finally, I started blogging in earnest, first using a monster Web page for this purpose, which I later automated using homebrew logging software (I finally switched to WordPress in 2008.)
Writings in Hungarian - Magyar nyelvű írások
I spent most of my adult life in Canada, so even though I'll never get rid of my accent, English often comes more naturally to me than my mother tongue. Nonetheless, there are a few things, mostly personal, that I write about in Hungarian.
Felnőtt életem legnagyobb részét Kanadában éltem le, így van az hogy habár az akcentusomat sosem fogom elveszíteni, sokszor könnyebben fejezem ki magam angolul mint az anyanyelvemen. Mindenesetre akad néhány, leginkább személyes téma, melyről magyarul írok.
