mathdev

Hi, I just submitted a tool I created that estimates COVID-19 risks based on best scientific data available, while providing the detailed sources and explanations for each calculation [1][2].

It got quite a few upvotes in the first few minutes and some constructive comments. However, it seems the someone decided that it should not be displayed and it is now marked as flagged.

Could you explain why?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22793171

[2] https://www.covidodds.com/

For all the hype about online learning, I find no way of learning most standard academic topics at a rigorous level other than:

1) enrolling in a traditional university with all the cost and bureaucratic nonsense that entails, or

2) patiently working my way through a textbook (or worse, recorded lectures) and scrambling to find decent sets of problems with solutions. It's a lonely endeavour.

MOOCs don’t exist for most topics above a very basic level, and even then, they are typically ghost town outside of a handful of popular subjects.

It would be great to have a way to connect with other people wishing to study at any given time, say, introductory quantum field theory, for exchange of ideas and motivation.