the dude with four pairs of glasses looking at the solar eclipse. Is that even safe? I understand most sunglasses don't even block the dangerous rays and make it even worse to look toward the sun as your eyes are more dilated and the harmful rays burn your eyes even more.
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And maybe you really are new here. This site looks like crap. The response rates at times are incredibly slow. Please mode original post up to a six or seven.
But the whole point of the topic is that the journalist needs to explain his vast understanding of statistics to the unwashed masses. 90% accuracy is meaningless. You may find an interpretation to what the journalist is saying, but no matter what, it is inaccurate. You cannot use a single number to represent the accuracy of a model.
Lemme give you an example.
Here is my machine. It simply returns "Not a terrorist". My machine is 99.999% accurate as 99.999% of the population is not a terrorist. I beat the hell out of anything else out there. I am perfect at getting no false positives and am perfectly ineffective at getting accurate positives.
And here, silly statisticians use two numbers, alpha and beta to represent failure rates. Someone needs to educate them that they really only need one number
Let's pretend we had a non-invasive, 100% reliable method of detecting lies. Assume that it is proven to the point where no one argues that it has failures.
Would it be ethical to use them to prove innocence or guilt in a court of law?
I was wondering what would happen if you placed a mirror in an orbit between the sun and Venus so that the mirror remained between the two at all times (I am sure there is a term for it, geostationary but relative to the sun). Anyhow, if it were a few tens of square miles, would it be able to deflect enough of the sun's energy to bring about an appreciable drop in temperature. My thought is that once you started the cooling, that other processes like thinning of the atmosphere would cause a multiplier effect.
Spot on. However, don't expect that to go over very well. Folks have been conditioned to believe they are entitled to get whatever they want for free. Somehow to them, the only thing worth purchasing are physical goods.
In the Netherlands for example we pay about 24 eurocents on every empty cd or dvd we buy
And this makes sense? I buy all my music and use CD/DVD for data copying. So I'd have to subsidize someone who doesn't feel he has to buy music/movies? What a joke.
The TRS-80 Model IV? Ah, I remember fondly (mostly). It was my second computer after the Model I. 64K of RAM as i recall. I learned BASIC on the Model I, and the Model IV made it seem like a dream. With the IV I actually got to save to floppies instead of casette.
I still have the Model I in the attic. Most of the keys still work, but the casette drive is long dead. One of these days i am going to show the kids what it was like so they can roll their eyes in disgust.
I will then throw them out of the house and yell at them to stay off of my lawn.
Do you know what a false dichotomy is? Your post is a shining example of one.
In your argument, I am either 'unconcerned' with my health, and want this device to cover for that. Or I live a healthy lifestyle and shun this.
Perfectly healthy people have strokes. A lady I worked with in her 60's had one. She was perfectly health and coul out-exercise most of the 30-somethings in the office. The first stroke was minor. However, she had a second that was worse, partially due to not having someone there to report it. If you have a stroke, you may be unaware of it because it is affecting your brain. An observer would notice right away something was wrong.
So while you can feel good about yourself and your superior eating habits, there are reasons a device like this may be useful to those who aren't fat and lazy.
The solution to the problem you bring up is to deal with the problem, not the technology that brings the problem to a head. If we have a problem with health care in this country, then deal with the issue. Don't go "ABC is a bad technology and should not be pursued". That is foolish. There is a potential for real health benefit. Don't throw it out because it is easier to do so that to actually deal with the problem.
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Or, with Windows you really don't have to do anything. It just works.
the dude with four pairs of glasses looking at the solar eclipse. Is that even safe? I understand most sunglasses don't even block the dangerous rays and make it even worse to look toward the sun as your eyes are more dilated and the harmful rays burn your eyes even more.
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And maybe you really are new here. This site looks like crap. The response rates at times are incredibly slow. Please mode original post up to a six or seven.
The odds of that are incredibly remote.
But the whole point of the topic is that the journalist needs to explain his vast understanding of statistics to the unwashed masses. 90% accuracy is meaningless. You may find an interpretation to what the journalist is saying, but no matter what, it is inaccurate. You cannot use a single number to represent the accuracy of a model.
Lemme give you an example.
Here is my machine. It simply returns "Not a terrorist". My machine is 99.999% accurate as 99.999% of the population is not a terrorist. I beat the hell out of anything else out there. I am perfect at getting no false positives and am perfectly ineffective at getting accurate positives.
And here, silly statisticians use two numbers, alpha and beta to represent failure rates. Someone needs to educate them that they really only need one number
Exactly. So, someone who doesn't have a grasp on the terminology wants to educate folks who don't have a grasp on it either.
Actually, I took a webcam shot of the moon from my back yard.. That should be good enough for the CSI team.
Let's pretend we had a non-invasive, 100% reliable method of detecting lies. Assume that it is proven to the point where no one argues that it has failures.
Would it be ethical to use them to prove innocence or guilt in a court of law?
Mommy, why is the Special K flashing an ad for tampons?
Bloody hell...
Yup, because sucking out some air requires more energy than leaving a light on for thousands of hours...
But what would they do the remaining 23 hours and 58 minutes a day?
This is Slashdot after all.
Nothing gave me more pleasure that thinking of WOW power levelers with electrodes attached to various body parts.
I was wondering what would happen if you placed a mirror in an orbit between the sun and Venus so that the mirror remained between the two at all times (I am sure there is a term for it, geostationary but relative to the sun). Anyhow, if it were a few tens of square miles, would it be able to deflect enough of the sun's energy to bring about an appreciable drop in temperature. My thought is that once you started the cooling, that other processes like thinning of the atmosphere would cause a multiplier effect.
Please feel free to shoot holes in this idea :)
That was my original thought as well. I was trying to be a little kind :)
I am actually curious to see how this ends up getting modded. Troll? Funny? Insightful. My secret wish is for +5 Troll.
Why is that so many people who dream of colonizing other worlds and traveling faster than light rarely leave their own houses?
Why not hire him for both sides and let him have the experience of actually winning a case?
Spot on. However, don't expect that to go over very well. Folks have been conditioned to believe they are entitled to get whatever they want for free. Somehow to them, the only thing worth purchasing are physical goods.
In the Netherlands for example we pay about 24 eurocents on every empty cd or dvd we buy
And this makes sense? I buy all my music and use CD/DVD for data copying. So I'd have to subsidize someone who doesn't feel he has to buy music/movies? What a joke.
And, of course, you pay your plumber 99 cents on iPlumber.
The TRS-80 Model IV? Ah, I remember fondly (mostly). It was my second computer after the Model I. 64K of RAM as i recall. I learned BASIC on the Model I, and the Model IV made it seem like a dream. With the IV I actually got to save to floppies instead of casette.
I still have the Model I in the attic. Most of the keys still work, but the casette drive is long dead. One of these days i am going to show the kids what it was like so they can roll their eyes in disgust.
I will then throw them out of the house and yell at them to stay off of my lawn.
Do you know what a false dichotomy is? Your post is a shining example of one.
In your argument, I am either 'unconcerned' with my health, and want this device to cover for that. Or I live a healthy lifestyle and shun this.
Perfectly healthy people have strokes. A lady I worked with in her 60's had one. She was perfectly health and coul out-exercise most of the 30-somethings in the office. The first stroke was minor. However, she had a second that was worse, partially due to not having someone there to report it. If you have a stroke, you may be unaware of it because it is affecting your brain. An observer would notice right away something was wrong.
So while you can feel good about yourself and your superior eating habits, there are reasons a device like this may be useful to those who aren't fat and lazy.
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The solution to the problem you bring up is to deal with the problem, not the technology that brings the problem to a head. If we have a problem with health care in this country, then deal with the issue. Don't go "ABC is a bad technology and should not be pursued". That is foolish. There is a potential for real health benefit. Don't throw it out because it is easier to do so that to actually deal with the problem.