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The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has introduced millions of ordinary people to some basic aspects of epidemiology, such as the R number to measure the reproductive ability of a virus. 

One of our services, the Projections Toolkit, is a collaboration with Heriot-Watt University.  Implementing stochastic projections can be a tricky business, so it is good to have the right people on the job.

Gavin recently explored the topic of threads and parallel processing.  But what does this mean from a business perspective?

I've previously suggested parallel processing might have a touch of the infernal about it, and further evidence might be how it allows us to usefully indulge in one of the seven deadly sins, that of gluttony.

A colleague of mine once described parallel processing as the "work of the devil". I don't know if I'd go quite this far — this statement was made in the early nineties, when technology was that little bit less advanced than it is today.