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Pfizer's vaccine effectiveness simulation

Just for fun 😄. I saw this post about Pfizer's Vaccine Effectiveness Simulation. So I simply translate the Bayesian model (implemented in Stan) into my favorite Julia library Turing.jl. For details, please read the link.

Very briefly, from Vaccine Effectiveness Simulation

NYT reports a 44 thousand person trial with half of the people going to treatment and half to control. They further report that 162 people developed COVID in the control group and 8 where in the vaccine group. What is the probability that the vaccine is effective and what is the uncertainty in that probability? The Pfizer protocol defines vaccine effectiveness as follows:

Disabling GNOME Tracker and Other Info

GNOME's tracker is a CPU and privacy hog. There's a pretty good case as to why it's neither useful nor necessary here: http://lduros.net/posts/tracker-sucks-thanks-tracker/

After discovering it chowing 2 cores, I decided to go about disabling it.

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	## Alertmanager YAML configuration for routing.
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	## Will route alerts with a code_owner label to the slack-code-owners receiver
	## configured above, but will continue processing them to send to both a
	## central Slack channel (slack-monitoring) and PagerDuty receivers
	## (pd-warning and pd-critical)
	##

	## Source: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10984556/is-there-way-to-track-progress-on-a-mclapply/26892969#26892969
	library(parallel)

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	##' Wrapper around mclapply to track progress
	##'
	##' Based on http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10984556
	##'
	##' @param X a vector (atomic or list) or an expressions vector. Other
	##' objects (including classed objects) will be coerced by