L. Marcus Posted October 8, 2008 Report Share Posted October 8, 2008 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER It's a start! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 8, 2008 Report Share Posted October 8, 2008 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER I got hailed on when I walked up the hill from one worksite to the other around noon today. Grumble. It was tiny hail, but hail nonetheless. And some nice ugly rain, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 9, 2008 Report Share Posted October 9, 2008 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER . . . Why is it that the US gets all the fun politics? Share' date=' damn you![/quote'] Actually, wasn't Belgian politics riotously funny about a decade back? To the point that "Belgium" was a one-word joke post on some chats and BBSs? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted October 9, 2008 Report Share Posted October 9, 2008 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER . . . Well, now it's the Netherlands that's fun. Seems like they might split up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 9, 2008 Report Share Posted October 9, 2008 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Really? Hmm. I'll have to ask the two Dutchmen I know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 10, 2008 Report Share Posted October 10, 2008 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER I encountered a relatively new father the other day who has taken to describing diaper-changing episodes as DEFCON ratings. He has the sign wrong (in his scale a pee-only diaper is a 1) but in terms of contractions it's plausible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted October 11, 2008 Report Share Posted October 11, 2008 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Actually' date=' wasn't Belgian politics riotously funny about a decade back? To the point that "Belgium" was a one-word joke post on some chats and BBSs?[/quote'] I know it was a swear word (and not just any swear, but THE swear) in the Hitchhiker's universe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 13, 2008 Report Share Posted October 13, 2008 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER I suspect those two are related to each other. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted October 14, 2008 Report Share Posted October 14, 2008 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER No correlation is necessary out there in the wide, crazy universe of tHHGttG. Remember, "easter" means "small, flat and brown." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 14, 2008 Report Share Posted October 14, 2008 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Sounds like that portion of the US north of El Paso, south of Pueblo, east of Ruidoso, and west of Austin. Which I think is larger than half of Europe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted October 14, 2008 Report Share Posted October 14, 2008 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER As a wise man said -- we got the history, you got the geography. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 14, 2008 Report Share Posted October 14, 2008 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Obviously some new threat has appeared in the cyberworld, because Java and Firefox and every other damned piece of software an this pathetic box is grabbing for the update connection and insisting it must download a patch ***NOW***, which triggers the antivirus to grab what little available memory it has not already arrogated to itself, and bring the box to utter catatonia. Not even the 3-finger salute gets a prompt response, and I'm this close to grabbing the 60VAC to remind it who is the boss here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted October 15, 2008 Report Share Posted October 15, 2008 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER So . . . How are you posting? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted October 15, 2008 Report Share Posted October 15, 2008 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER . . . Three-finger salute? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 15, 2008 Report Share Posted October 15, 2008 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER By waiting five minutes for the antivirus to back off, rebooting the box (another five-minute process), and firing up the newly-patched browser. Other unknown anomalies were going on as well, which is why I ultimately did the power-cycle. I'd never had Vim crash before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savinien Posted October 15, 2008 Report Share Posted October 15, 2008 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Three finger salute would be C A D, 'natch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted October 15, 2008 Report Share Posted October 15, 2008 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Ah. So, not "Read between the lines!"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 15, 2008 Report Share Posted October 15, 2008 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Wild cheering. Found some numbers of the flavor I want. Hopefully I can turn them into the sort I really need. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted October 15, 2008 Report Share Posted October 15, 2008 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER So, you has a flavor? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 15, 2008 Report Share Posted October 15, 2008 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Well, sort of. They're mortality numbers. I need a particular type of mortality numbers. So not only do I need death flavor, I need a particular variety of death flavor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemming Posted October 15, 2008 Report Share Posted October 15, 2008 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Well' date=' sort of. They're mortality numbers. I need a particular type of mortality numbers. So not only do I need death flavor, I need a particular variety of death flavor.[/quote'] Sort of a Raspberry Mint? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted October 16, 2008 Report Share Posted October 16, 2008 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Apparently, it's the opposite of cake. But cake comes in so MANY flavors. Hmm. Bitter and sour, then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted October 16, 2008 Report Share Posted October 16, 2008 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER . . . Almond-lemon cake? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted October 16, 2008 Report Share Posted October 16, 2008 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER No, not-cake. Pie? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 16, 2008 Report Share Posted October 16, 2008 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Mortality is usually defined in terms of a hypothetical cohort of 100,000 people of mixed age, sex, race, etc. That's fine, but when you're modeling a population that starts at age 50, some portion of that cohort has already died, so you're constructing a population of people who are still alive at that age, and the age structure of the population depends in a complicated way on the data. And exactly how to construct a model population of a particular size isn't immediately obvious when you're interested in the operation of a particular cause of mortality. Disease incidence is specified in the same way, but it gets messier still because the model population you're trying to construct has to exclude people who already have been diagnosed with the disease, whether they've died or not. So by definition you are constructing something that is different from the standard population for which you have statistics, and statistical tests to compare your model population with the real population must fail at some level because of that. Some of the goofy numbers the model has been kicking out I think are caused by some of these subtle issues, and that most statistical products are not really defined in a way that's helpful to someone doing this kind of numerical model. That's not surprising ... the statistical products were defined long before this type of modeling was possible ... but it is annoying, especially when you've got no formal training in statistics and you suffer from the "that word ... I do not think it means what you think it means" syndrome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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