I felt the exact same way. "Oh, okay, so no spanking, no time outs. What should I do?" And finally at the end of the article they say something about teachable moments.
Ummmm...so what do I do when my 2 year old hits the cat? Most of the time he's loving and playful with the cat. But then sometimes for no reason he throws a toy truck at the poor cat. So I yell at him "NO!" and send him for a time out. Then I explain what he did was wrong, and make him apologize to the cat, and then explain that we only love and pet our kitty.
What the fuck is wrong with that? What else am I supposed to do? Let him go right on doing it and wait for some teachable moment about not hitting the cat? TFA says "what you're doing is wrong" with little explanation why and then fails to tell you what to do instead except some hippy crap about talking to your kids.
or
"L. Bob Rife's Raft, a flotilla of ships circulating the in the pacific, bringing immigrants in search of a better life from the Third World to the California coast. These immigrants are known as Refus. The Raft is a lawless, sprawling, entangled mess of boats of all sizes, all connected eventually to the aircraft carrier piloted by L. Bob. Rife himself, which has only a tangential influence on the actual navigation of the Raft."
https://mslinder.wikispaces.co... Crash by Neal Stephenson-Plot Summary-The Raft
"One of the problems included a toolkit that included a wrench needed to install a nuclear warhead atop an ICBM. Only one of the toolkits remained available for three bases to maintain the fleet of 450 Minuteman ICBMs.
Crews working on the missile fleet relied on Fed-Ex to deliver the copy of one wrench."
http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/...
Do you have any idea what the error rate for manual data entry is? Typically about 0.5% of the entries will be wrong. Retyping information is a very error prone process.
Do you have any idea that there are known good practices for checking entered data before committing to it? And that most people would want to apply this kind of check before kicking off a production run, of just about anything, regardless of how the order was sent to the system?
What is it about this topic that makes people forget basic engineering practices?
Did some analysis for a survey once; they did double entry of the data, i.e. two separate keyboarders read and entered every response and if they didn't match somebody looked at that item.
Do you know at all how VVT works? There are 2 distinct types of VVT systems I have encountered and both use cam rods. One has different sets of lobes (the most I've seen is 3) for discreet, still hardware-limited, valve timing, while the other uses an adjustable gear at the end of the camshaft, allowing maybe 15-20 degrees of adjustment in total; still hardware-limited. The VVT systems I've seen have all been configured such that the earliest and latest physically possible timings were still well within safe operating parameters.
Did you think the valves were individually operated by servos? Pull your valve cover and take a look sometime; it's at most a dozen bolts, most likely all 10mm.
just anecdotal evidence, but the graphics board on my old media center died one day; autopsy revealed that immediately before the expiration Windows had just done an automated update of the graphics board driver. A wise person pointed out to me that said driver covered a wide spectrum of the manufacturer's graphics boards, and that any updates at this late date were probably oriented more to the current offerings than ancient boards, such as mine; replaced the board with the current equivalent but turned off the automated driver update.
It was rumored in the days of the original IBM XT/AT that there were programs which would cause the color graphics board to die.
On the other hand;
long ago, in the early days of electronic hospital records, some executive from one of the companies told of how, when giving a presentation at a hospital and being asked the inevitable question about security, he would excuse himself, go to the closest nurses' station, pick up a fistful of the charts always piled up there, and bring them back to the meeting room and place them on the table.
We've personally dealt with long-time academics who have no real world experience. They'll spew theoretical crap all day long, and those of us who have worked in industry see it for what it is: crap.
In CompSci, I would tend to agree with you; and the humanities do count as complete bullshit, so nothing for them to really get objectively "wrong".:)
But in Quantum Physics? In that domain, the academics overlap 100% with "industry". Sure, you could argue that virtually the entirety of the semiconductor industry depends on quantum physics, but IMO, that field evolved incrementally from the "Cat's whisker" (which may as well have worked by magic for all its users understood about it), not from any sort of first-principles breakthrough as verification of the theory.
Do microwave ovens still incorporate tunnel diodes in their design?
(haha, my typing/keyboard just screwed this up, starting again)
It's quicker to just use voice input. Then the person at the receiving end can set the phone to read the message so it can be heard without as much attention being demanded.
some day, somebody will devise a system which will allow you to send an audible message to somebody else. Maybe even realtime synchronous audible communication will someday be possible.
If the extent of your skepticism is repeating No No No, even though you have a different reason each time why it's No, you are a denier.
If you can cite a priori precise criteria which, if satisfied, would prove it to your satisfaction (which are possible, i.e. not "two identical planets, one burning fossil fuels, one not", then you are a skeptic.
Now that they've found a way to filter out ("ignore") data that doesn't fit, maybe now they'll actually be able to conclusively prove that climate change exists!
Oh, wait. They are already ignoring the data that doesn't fit, so I guess this won't help. Well, maybe sometime in the next 50 years they'll actually come up with a model that is accurate for more than 2-3 years in the future.
There's undoubtedly more noise in climate data than in CO2 data, so you've just reminded us about the "climate makes CO2 rise, not the other way around" argument and it is now even more clear that it is false.
Good job!.
Drunk falls into an open grave, passes out.
In the AM, thinks to self:
"If I'm not dead, then why am I in a grave?
And if I am dead, then why do I need to pee?"
Indeed. if you have a correlation, and a well established mechanism that would account for it, you've got causation, until something better comes along; and this better thing has to not only account for the correlation, but also explain why the mechanism actually doesn't work in this case.
Which brings us, of course, to CO2.......
Or stuff like "this drug increases survival in men, but decreases survival in women"
If you don't suspect enough to look for that and just look at overall survival, you'd be mystified.
Yeah. you can make anything significant if you use like the entire population of the US as your population; on the other hand, really obvious effects will not reach significance if you use the currently affordable study populations of like 40 people.
I still believe that the only reason fridges and freezers are cold is because you keep buying cold stuff, and putting it into them. That's why they need to be insulated. All those electric motors and stuff just keep chugging heat out.
The other thing they fail to understand is that causality is patently obvious in the vast majority of cases where there are no confounding factors.
Probably the social sciences are most in need tests like this, as they are always trying to pin some outcome on some input in a bubbling cauldron of alternatives. But of course, the cauldron is full of confounding factors.
Still going to need to elucidate reasonably valid mechanism to convince anybody of anything.
Indeed. Famous, perhaps apocryphal, finding that storks bring babies, correlating postwar stork population in Europe with birth rate; confounding factor was spike in marriage rate after war, resulting in more babies, and more houses (in the chimneys of which storks nest). Can't take that apart by comparing noise rate in stork count and in baby count.
Porsche attempted to go to "factory stores" like in the 80s or maybe 90s, got soundly beaten by the dealerships.
I see in the industry news yesterday, that Volvo is going to try shifting largely to online sales.....
just yesterday got a push from yahoo to install a yahoo chrome extension; sets yahoo to home page, makes yahoo default search, connects to yahoo mail. I'd have installed parts of it, if i didn't have to take the whole package but that didn't seem possible.
talk about taking the fight to the enemy's home turf.....
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I felt the exact same way. "Oh, okay, so no spanking, no time outs. What should I do?" And finally at the end of the article they say something about teachable moments.
Ummmm...so what do I do when my 2 year old hits the cat? Most of the time he's loving and playful with the cat. But then sometimes for no reason he throws a toy truck at the poor cat. So I yell at him "NO!" and send him for a time out. Then I explain what he did was wrong, and make him apologize to the cat, and then explain that we only love and pet our kitty.
What the fuck is wrong with that? What else am I supposed to do? Let him go right on doing it and wait for some teachable moment about not hitting the cat? TFA says "what you're doing is wrong" with little explanation why and then fails to tell you what to do instead except some hippy crap about talking to your kids.
What Would Garfield Do?
So, Metro City, the movie version.
or "L. Bob Rife's Raft, a flotilla of ships circulating the in the pacific, bringing immigrants in search of a better life from the Third World to the California coast. These immigrants are known as Refus. The Raft is a lawless, sprawling, entangled mess of boats of all sizes, all connected eventually to the aircraft carrier piloted by L. Bob. Rife himself, which has only a tangential influence on the actual navigation of the Raft." https://mslinder.wikispaces.co... Crash by Neal Stephenson-Plot Summary-The Raft
"One of the problems included a toolkit that included a wrench needed to install a nuclear warhead atop an ICBM. Only one of the toolkits remained available for three bases to maintain the fleet of 450 Minuteman ICBMs. Crews working on the missile fleet relied on Fed-Ex to deliver the copy of one wrench." http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/...
as in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Do you have any idea that there are known good practices for checking entered data before committing to it? And that most people would want to apply this kind of check before kicking off a production run, of just about anything, regardless of how the order was sent to the system?
What is it about this topic that makes people forget basic engineering practices?
Did some analysis for a survey once; they did double entry of the data, i.e. two separate keyboarders read and entered every response and if they didn't match somebody looked at that item.
Do you know at all how VVT works? There are 2 distinct types of VVT systems I have encountered and both use cam rods. One has different sets of lobes (the most I've seen is 3) for discreet, still hardware-limited, valve timing, while the other uses an adjustable gear at the end of the camshaft, allowing maybe 15-20 degrees of adjustment in total; still hardware-limited. The VVT systems I've seen have all been configured such that the earliest and latest physically possible timings were still well within safe operating parameters. Did you think the valves were individually operated by servos? Pull your valve cover and take a look sometime; it's at most a dozen bolts, most likely all 10mm.
the occasional camless system, not on production autos though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
just anecdotal evidence, but the graphics board on my old media center died one day; autopsy revealed that immediately before the expiration Windows had just done an automated update of the graphics board driver. A wise person pointed out to me that said driver covered a wide spectrum of the manufacturer's graphics boards, and that any updates at this late date were probably oriented more to the current offerings than ancient boards, such as mine; replaced the board with the current equivalent but turned off the automated driver update. It was rumored in the days of the original IBM XT/AT that there were programs which would cause the color graphics board to die.
which brings us to the recent questions re drive by wire cars, toyotas, etc......
On the other hand; long ago, in the early days of electronic hospital records, some executive from one of the companies told of how, when giving a presentation at a hospital and being asked the inevitable question about security, he would excuse himself, go to the closest nurses' station, pick up a fistful of the charts always piled up there, and bring them back to the meeting room and place them on the table.
We've personally dealt with long-time academics who have no real world experience. They'll spew theoretical crap all day long, and those of us who have worked in industry see it for what it is: crap. In CompSci, I would tend to agree with you; and the humanities do count as complete bullshit, so nothing for them to really get objectively "wrong". :)
But in Quantum Physics? In that domain, the academics overlap 100% with "industry". Sure, you could argue that virtually the entirety of the semiconductor industry depends on quantum physics, but IMO, that field evolved incrementally from the "Cat's whisker" (which may as well have worked by magic for all its users understood about it), not from any sort of first-principles breakthrough as verification of the theory.
Do microwave ovens still incorporate tunnel diodes in their design?
my big fat fingers are pretty lousy, even for swyping, but a big fat stylus works very well for swyping for me.
(haha, my typing/keyboard just screwed this up, starting again) It's quicker to just use voice input. Then the person at the receiving end can set the phone to read the message so it can be heard without as much attention being demanded. some day, somebody will devise a system which will allow you to send an audible message to somebody else. Maybe even realtime synchronous audible communication will someday be possible.
Literally!
If the extent of your skepticism is repeating No No No, even though you have a different reason each time why it's No, you are a denier. If you can cite a priori precise criteria which, if satisfied, would prove it to your satisfaction (which are possible, i.e. not "two identical planets, one burning fossil fuels, one not", then you are a skeptic.
Now that they've found a way to filter out ("ignore") data that doesn't fit, maybe now they'll actually be able to conclusively prove that climate change exists!
Oh, wait. They are already ignoring the data that doesn't fit, so I guess this won't help. Well, maybe sometime in the next 50 years they'll actually come up with a model that is accurate for more than 2-3 years in the future.
There's undoubtedly more noise in climate data than in CO2 data, so you've just reminded us about the "climate makes CO2 rise, not the other way around" argument and it is now even more clear that it is false. Good job!.
I know, my sound system has terrible problems with 60 Hz Hume from Induction.
Drunk falls into an open grave, passes out. In the AM, thinks to self: "If I'm not dead, then why am I in a grave? And if I am dead, then why do I need to pee?"
Indeed. if you have a correlation, and a well established mechanism that would account for it, you've got causation, until something better comes along; and this better thing has to not only account for the correlation, but also explain why the mechanism actually doesn't work in this case. Which brings us, of course, to CO2.......
Or stuff like "this drug increases survival in men, but decreases survival in women" If you don't suspect enough to look for that and just look at overall survival, you'd be mystified.
Yeah. you can make anything significant if you use like the entire population of the US as your population; on the other hand, really obvious effects will not reach significance if you use the currently affordable study populations of like 40 people.
I still believe that the only reason fridges and freezers are cold is because you keep buying cold stuff, and putting it into them. That's why they need to be insulated. All those electric motors and stuff just keep chugging heat out.
The other thing they fail to understand is that causality is patently obvious in the vast majority of cases where there are no confounding factors.
Probably the social sciences are most in need tests like this, as they are always trying to pin some outcome on some input in a bubbling cauldron of alternatives. But of course, the cauldron is full of confounding factors.
Still going to need to elucidate reasonably valid mechanism to convince anybody of anything.
Indeed. Famous, perhaps apocryphal, finding that storks bring babies, correlating postwar stork population in Europe with birth rate; confounding factor was spike in marriage rate after war, resulting in more babies, and more houses (in the chimneys of which storks nest). Can't take that apart by comparing noise rate in stork count and in baby count.
Porsche attempted to go to "factory stores" like in the 80s or maybe 90s, got soundly beaten by the dealerships. I see in the industry news yesterday, that Volvo is going to try shifting largely to online sales.....
just yesterday got a push from yahoo to install a yahoo chrome extension; sets yahoo to home page, makes yahoo default search, connects to yahoo mail. I'd have installed parts of it, if i didn't have to take the whole package but that didn't seem possible. talk about taking the fight to the enemy's home turf.....