Ahh… the gyms reopened here in Pinellas County, Wang State today. I showed up 10 minutes after the gym opened and stood in a line to get in. It was really nice to lift weights again. I’m happy to report from close study that several of the ladies have found ways to keep fit. Slightly sadder to report that I will be arrested if I ever “accidentally” enter the ladies locker room again.
Hey, imagine that. The guy who shot up Pensacola NAS has ties to Al Qaeda.
Scientist says that just because scientific code is often buggy, poorly organized, and outsiders can’t figure out what its doing, doesn’t mean its wrong. Eh, I only dropped out of a hard-science grad program, but that’s not how I remember the scientific method working.
Baseless! attacks. Not like the well substantiated Steele dossier. We live in the best timeline. I’ll rise to Sleepy Joe’s defense. He seems to be more of an equal opportunity groper. Pedophilia is too selective.
Having a face mask did this new father some good.
It was really nice to lift weights again. I’m happy to report from close study that several of the ladies have found ways to keep fit.
It is very nice. Stayed up late last night, so i wasn’t able to go this morning, might try to sqeeze in a visit in the eveining.
To the Gym, not the ladies room
Thursday my gym reopens. I have been very lazy. Not working out and drinking heavily. Surprisingly my wife hasn’t gotten on to my about my increased alcohol consumption.
Surprisingly my wife hasn’t gotten on to my about my increased alcohol consumption.
Too drunk.
Learn to Code……
howdy!
Seems like a working knowledge of how to write decent code would prevent you from a successful career as a “scientific” modeler.
Dad uses his face mask to tie off newborn’s umbilical cord after wife gives birth outside hospital
I’ve been encouraging my wife to wear a mask at all times. Not to protect her from the Woo Flu… she’s just really ugly.
Hey o!
Does she have a lot of warts, by chance?
Rodney Dangerfield, is that you?
Actually, Dangerfield would flip the joke on himself.
“My wife encourages me to wear a mask at all times. I said, honey that’s so kind of you to be worried about my health and want to protect me from the Coronavirus. She says, No, you’re just really ugly.”
I tell ya, I get no respect!
*tugs collar*
tl;dr: Many scientists write code that is crappy stylistically, but which is nevertheless scientifically correct (following rigorous checking/validation of outputs etc). Professional commercial software developers are well-qualified to review code style, but most don’t have a clue about checking scientific validity or what counts as good scientific practice. Criticisms of the Imperial Covid-Sim model from some of the latter are overstated at best.
Show me the unit tests for your code then.
but most don’t have a clue about checking scientific validity
So, I once worked for a guy who had built a process (chemical) engineering simulator inside Excel. Would you use it to replace Aspen or one of the other tools professionals use for sizing reaction vessels or distillation towers? No. Could you simulate the temperature change of a reaction in an ideal stirred vessel given heats of formation to a reasonable precision? Absolutely. Part of the bait-and-switch is that the COVID simulation was presented as the former rather than the latter… Oh, and then it didn’t even reliably produce the latter. And yeah, every once in a blue moon, you’d get some complex reaction that threw his model for a loop and you’d just have to code the energy from literature tables, but I will tell you, that VBA code was clean, easy to read, and reliably produced results similar to what our clients actually experienced. I would say a good eighth of my undergraduate experience was dedicated to computer simulation of one form or another. One thing all of our projects were graded on was… model selection. Being able to explain why you picked a model, why the operating conditions made it a reasonable choice, and HOW YOU IMPLEMENTED THE MODEL were always the major criteria.
So they can cram that validity shit up their ass. If people who write code for a living can’t figure out what your variables are and derive your formulas, nobody else is going to be able to do so to establish validity either.
Yup. I particularly balked at it because the idea that “Review” is just for style is a big misconception. its for QC. Style aids the fact that others can tell what the fuck is going on. Also Design characteristics like, decoupling, make things more likely to work than several thousand line single file programs.
But most of all that programmers don’t know how to check the validity of a program. I guess all those tests i write are not at all helpful.
It’s difficult to parse page after page of fudge factors.
//Added this because otherwise model always trends to zero over 70 days
That is specifically what they dont have and the author says isnt a problem.
Also, poorly-written code is harder to follow. Poor practices which open them up to charges of deliberately trying to make their work un-analyzable by outsiders.
Yeah, I can write shit that “just works” too. I don’t get to use the scientician excuse, though.
What a steaming pile.
I’ll be honest, I have come across comments in my code that say things like:
//Not sure WHY this works, but it does, so please make sure YOU understand before changing
lol. Yup, there are always some pieces like that where you pull in a library that no one understands, the original developer is gone and all you have left is the executable.
Also, every developer has hacked something together in a language that they weren’t too familiar with because it was just “temporary” only to come back years later as part of a major refactor (often after learning a lot more about the new language) only to be appalled at the code.
“It Just Works”
Shorter “scientist”: I got the result I was looking for, so it must be right.
So many of the excuses in that article boil down to bullshit I’ve heard a billion times from developers I’m testing for; ‘the server is supposed to core out under that condition’, ‘it works on my machine!’, ‘just reload the page a few times’. Nope. None of those are acceptable.
It’s refered to as academic code. See, the scientific work (genetics, nuclear physics, whathave you) is done by a guy with a PhD in that, and any coding is done as an afterthought. Because they didn’t get a doctorate in genetics coding, nuclear physics coding. No, there was just someone on the team who like fucking around with computers. And HE wrote the code. And no, they didn’t get someone from the CS school to help, because writing code to spec and in a professional way is beneath them. Those people work outside acadamia.
And why yes, my uncle as a PhD in nuclear physics and later wrote code for a credit bureau. After leaving acadamia.
Copied from the previous thread:
So the Glorious Four Phase Plane of the Enlightened People’s Republic of Massachusetts has been published. It is every bit the shit show one would expect.
Some observations. My dogs can’t go to the groomer together. I have to wait out in the car and the groomer gets one, then the other. No dogs are allowed in the waiting kennels. They can’t use my leash. The groomer has to provide me with a leash which I then put on the dog. Then, after they’re done, they take the leash back.
Dogs are also to be socially distanced when walking.
My Jiu Jitsu school cannot open until Phase 3. No idea when that is…. Probably another two months. Which means that it’s almost certain that there will be no school to return to. The owner is not a wealthy man; it’s a labor of love for him.
My wife still is prohibited from getting manicures and pedicures.
The restrictions on using our office are so asinine that my boss announced that we’re working from home till further notice; It’s not like they’re going to replace 5,000 cubicles to raise the walls 1.5 feet.
I actually voted for the current governor when he first ran for the governorship. I violated my principles of not participating in the farces called elections because it was very important to me that Martha Coakley’s political career be completely flushed down the toilet. You might recall that she tried to keep an innocent husband and wife in jail – knowingly – for the sole purpose of furthering her political career. To this day she still maintains that they were nasty child abusers who are a threat to the general public.
So we got Charlie Baker… who is trying to imprison nearly half of the innocent people living in the state.
I’ve learned my lesson. I should have stayed home.
CV is just a sneak peak for America into what it will be like when AOC gets to plan the economy, under the Green New Deal.
At least we can trust Joe Biden to save us, oh wait…
Planning to be dead by then. You kids have fun.
pfft, just like a libertarian to not care about others!
The nattering idiots are obviously already in charge.
Unfortunately however shit the Republicans are the Democrats are usually much worse. Also New England Republicans have generally always been pretty shitty. Except for Coolidge I guess but that was a 100 years ago.
By this I mean Trump and Republican governors support lockdowns but are more willing to end them than the Democrat governors are it seems except for Polis.
Clown Prince Sununu has graciously and magnanimously deigned to allow select outdoor activities in the Live Free or Die state
The state issued new guidelines Monday for opening up some outdoor recreational activities, such as mini golf, driving and shooting ranges and paintball.
Gov. Chris Sununu said outdoor activities that can occur individually or in small groups of 10 people or less can start operating immediately, if they follow new guidelines that include staff members and customers wearing face masks, screening customers for risk factors and limiting capacity.
The new rules apply to centers for biking, canoe and kayak rentals, mini-golf, outdoor driving ranges, outdoor shooting ranges, small fishing charters, paintball, outdoor guiding services (such as fishing, hunting, hiking) and other small group outdoor activities that are able to follow the guidance.
Larger group activities and tourist attractions such as amusement and water parks, race tracks, tourist trains, boat cruises and indoor attractions are still prohibited from opening under the new guidance.
Interestingly enough, my gun club has been open for members’ use only. No guests allowed. Any scheduled event, whether open to the public or members only, have been cancelled.
No word on when gyms can open, but I am going to guess June 1st when the current orders expire.
I have an appointment for a haircut on Friday.
Our indoor shooting ranges here in VA were set to open this past weekend, but our asswipe governor issued a royal decree extending the shutdown through the 28th.
My outdoor club is up in Maryland, and it’s been open for practicing. No matches or events, though.
“Dogs are also to be socially distanced when walking.”
JFC
Who’s a good boy?
Not written by someone familiar with dogs.
Why does one of Donald Trumps sons look like a sickly italian mobster, and the other a goofy scotts-irish schooboy?
Native New Yorkers?
They should know the score by now
Another question is why are tweets from Trump’s sons national news? I don’t recall them being elected officials or candidates for office. Perhaps we should hear what Biden’s nephews have to say? Or better, ignore trolls, instead of microscopically dissecting every meaningless post they make.
Oh, and once more we see the media helping the Ds by saying anyone from the Rs calling out their actual politicization of the pandemic as them saying the virus itself is a hoax.
I’d love to hear what Hunter has to say.
why are tweets from Trump’s sons national news?
Because Americans are morons who are more interested in partisan soap operas than the actual governance of the country?
I’ve long said that Politics is just “Kardashians” or “The Bachelor” but for people who think they are better than you. I like following politics, but realize that it is a trash hobby.
The Kennedys were the Kardashians of the 60s, after all.
Because they receive huge engagement numbers, which makes the political punditry jealous. So the pundits “react” to the tweets, for the engagement.
Sounds like I’ll be able to be to go back to the gun range next week. Still no date for gyms or barbers but pressure is starting to build – with gym and salon owners saying “screw it” and opening up.
Yes, I read that. I have a co-worker that is happy to be able to go golfing with his usual foursome instead of the pairs that he is required to do now.
Still waiting to see how Murphy wrecks the Jersey Shore however.
I’m sure he’ll find many ways to ensure everyone there must genuflect towards Trenton and acknowledge his supreme power all summer. Not a regular at the shore and I doubt we’ll bother even doing a weekend this year.
“They don’t open, and we can’t get in,” David tells Yahoo Life. “The lights are dim, and there’s not even a custodian, nothing. We are completely blown away, especially since our doctor said this is where you need to come back.”
WTF? did they miss a memo, or was the Doc just leaving them out in the wind?
Listen, you covidiot, if the state hadn’t forced the hospitals to lock their doors she might have infected everyone with COVID-19!!!!
Civilization means we take care of each other. Forcing women to give birth on the dirty street outside a hospital is how we do that!
OB has been the only consistently busy practice during COVID lockdown. I have no idea how they didn’t have access.
We have over 70 doors to our hospital. In the before times, six of them were open to the public. Now its 4.
Numbnuts went to the wrong door. The public doors at hospitals are always well lit and typically staffed. It was 2 am. The L & D entrance is locked sfter hours, what a shock!
If its 2 a.m., go to the damn ED. If she’s actually in labor, that’s where you should go anyway.
Trump Jr posted to Instagram a meme which baselessly insinuated that Biden, his father’s probable opponent at the polls in November, was a pedophile.
I don’t know why that got a Guffaw from me.
So, Biden used the term hoax and The Guardian reports that Eric Trump called the virus a hoax – his actual quote is buried in the piece:
“You watch,” he said, “they’ll milk it every single day between now and 3 November [election day]. And guess what, after 3 November, coronavirus will magically, all of a sudden, go away and disappear and everybody will be able to reopen.”
I just assume the Grauniad writers are too stupid to actually parse a sentence and reprint whatever the press flack at the office sends them.
While I don’t doubt that they are stupid, I’m certain that this more of a calculated attempt at propagandizing for their preferred outcome.
If you can’t trust the Graundain who can you trust?
“Hey, imagine that. The guy who shot up Pensacola NAS has ties to Al Qaeda.”
The thing that is really hard to imagine is the the NYT didn’t report that they have proof from an unnamed source that the guy is a right wing extremist TrumpNazi.
Al Queda and Muslim extremism is Right wing extremism.
Yeah I know, and forcing women to wear a big black tent with nothing but eye slits to see out of, in public, and beating them with sticks if they dare show some ankle, is the epitome of feminism.
Sources familiar with the shooter’s thinking say he is in fact a TrumpNazi.
You don’t say
Nightmares. Tantrums. Regressions. Grief. Violent outbursts. Exaggerated fear of strangers. Even suicidal thoughts. In response to a call on social media, parents across the country shared with NPR that the mental health of their young children appears to be suffering as the weeks of lockdown drag on.
Most U.S. states have canceled in-person classes for the rest of the academic year. This week in Senate testimony, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, sounded a cautionary note on the prospect of reopening school buildings nationwide, even in the fall.
He pointed to the emergence of serious inflammatory illness in a handful of children. “We don’t know everything about this virus, and we really better be very careful, particularly when it comes to children,” Fauci said. He was responding to this comment by Sen. Rand Paul, Republican of Kentucky: “I think it’s a huge mistake not sending our kids back to school.”
Dr. Dimitri Christakis, one of the nation’s most prominent pediatricians, agrees with Paul, who is a physician by training. Christakis, who directs the Center for Child Health, Behavior and Development at Seattle Children’s Hospital, is the editor-in-chief of the journal JAMA Pediatrics. And in a new piece published in the journal, he argues that the risks to children’s learning, social-emotional development and mental health need to be better balanced with the risks of spreading the coronavirus.
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Mental health and social-emotional development, Christakis argues, have been less discussed: “The social-emotional needs of children to connect with other children in real time and space, whether it’s for physical activity, unstructured play or structured play, this is immensely important for young children in particular.” A new study in JAMA Pediatrics, he says, documents elevated depression and anxiety among children under lockdown in China.
Most of that stuff is not necessarily dependent on “school” but the lockdown is undoubtedly messing with their little heads. And terrorizing them nonstop.
Seeing how the lockdown and CV have much more real effects than Global Warming, and knowing that the Global warming prop has driven many kids into mental dark places, it isn’t all that surprising. One of my first red pills i can remember is getting to understand that almost all enviromentalist talking points was propoganda.
It’s always a mistake to sacrifice that which you know for fear of that which you don’t.
“Most of that stuff is not necessarily dependent on “school” but the lockdown is undoubtedly messing with their little heads. And terrorizing them nonstop.”
Yeah, but we had no choice, climate hysteria wasn’t working and we’re still not rid of badorangeman.
Nice that they recognized Paul as a physician (‘by training’, I haven’t heard it described that way before) rather than saying ‘he’s just an eye doctor, not a real doctor!’, as I’ve seen on some sites, perhaps confusing his specialty with optometrists, who give eye exams for glasses and are not physicians (but are highly trained in their own right). That part is exceptionally funny as ophthalmology, what Paul does, is about the hardest residency program to get into out of medical school, and only the cream of the crop get selected. And they are considered to be surgeons on top of that. If you go along with the usual consideration that the eye is an extension of the brain, then technically Paul is a brain surgeon, which would likely make his haters even more enraged. OTOH, the same types do keep calling brain surgeon Ben Carson a moron, so maybe you just can’t win with them.
It’s not necessarily dependant on school, but the other places kids get those interactions are, for the most part, shut down as well. Both my kids play sports, my boy is particularly serious about it, and that’s been shut down since school was closed. Both my kids are used to roaming the neighborhood with their friends when they’re not at school or practice and, maybe because we live in a blue pocket of a red state, none of their friends’ parents are down with in person hangouts or sleepovers. I’ve set up some zoom meetings with the boy’s team and my daughter had a zoom birthday party with her friends. But that’s about it. I think they’re really suffering. Luckily, we have a family reunion trip to the Texas coast in June that’s been planned for months and it’s still on. So they’ll get to see cousins and play soon. It’s been too damn long!
Chicago mayor says city will fine churches that violated social distancing rules
I bet that will go over well when they appeal.
Is the Chicago Mayor going to fine Chicago Mayors who violate social distancing rules?
Okay, that was funny.
But I’m sure there’s a FYTW clause buried in there somewhere.
Well, she isn’t Congress!
None of that counts if enough people get sick enough.
If only the news would report on the lack of sickness at the churches that defied the order two weeks ago.
You can damn well bet that the one church out of 300 that has an outbreak will get hours of coverage though.
Congrats, Brett!
I’m really jealous. Our gyms will supposedly open 6/1, but I’m sure our dumbass governor will try to stop it.
Who needs a gym. Come to my farm. I will get you in shape real fast. And I won’t charge you a dime!
“Scientist says that just because scientific code is often buggy, poorly organized, and outsiders can’t figure out what its doing, doesn’t mean its wrong. Eh, I only dropped out of a hard-science grad program, but that’s not how I remember the scientific method working.”
The way that the scientific method works is that you know who’s funding the study and you get the results they want or that sweet grant money dries up. And I’m pretty sure if you let a decent software engineer take a peek at the data modeling code, they can tell you exactly why it’s getting the results it is.
I had my hair cut today in the new normal. That involved crossing a state line, answering CV questions on the phone from my car and wearing a mask. Of course, you’ll need to remove the mask from one ear so that a barber could cut one of the sideburns and then do the same with the other side. Hand sanitizer was squeezed on my hands when I entered and again when the cut was over.
That’s still less retarded than this:
https://www.baltimoresun.com/coronavirus/bs-md-bumper-table-revolution-20200518-z2wrplx6xvgfnd7hquzptiz7ka-story.html
It’s part of the new normal, so I’m sure this capital investment will have some huge returns.
I remember the last time I had one of those. It had an abacus looking toy on it and was upholstered in vinyl for easy clean up of “accidents.”
Dude, it’s Ocean City. It very well could be the least retarded thing ever done there.
I went out to restaurants twice this weekend, got a haircut and did some shopping. I’m finally back to my normal shift today. Hopefully will be back to the gym next week and I’m having friends over this weekend. Life is almost normal again.
*relieved sigh*
Show off.
Cut my hair last night. I’m liking it more than my regular barber’s work, although it does take me longer. I’m getting my money out of the new clippers before I go back.
That author of “Why scientists don’t need to write clean code” article, is getting some light pushback, and this is one of his responses:
I’m also a little puzzled about who this person is — I wasn’t able to see many published papers by them or understand where their scientific expertise lies. Based on their “about” page they don’t seem to be an academic scientist, so I’m unsure whether they are used to the ways of working that I’m describing. Perhaps I can offer links to viewpoints from some software engineers who are used to working with scientists though?
Sneer: Why hasn’t you dweebs written journal articles if you are so smart!?!
“Baseless! attacks. Not like the well substantiated Steele dossier. We live in the best timeline. I’ll rise to Sleepy Joe’s defense. He seems to be more of an equal opportunity groper. Pedophilia is too selective.”
At least we’re going to get to see the wildly entertaining spectacle of Cortez vs Trump Jr. in 2024.
In an unexpected plot twist, they will fall in love and run on a combined unity ticket.
If he trades Kimberly Guilfoyle for AOC, he deserves worse than just losing an election.
An interesting thing about this is how state and local government have been shit on coronavirus. But then again so have the feds…
And then there is the whole “You have human rights until the experts say you don’t”.
Well duh. Experts are there to tell us what the Societal Human Rights are… Your too busy thinking as a selfish individual Winston.
I would say this is illiberal but if you look at the history of England, France and Germany you would see that is fact what the classical liberals, with few exceptions, believed.
Individualism True and False. This has long been a point of discussion. There are two traditions of liberal “individualism” the continental “Rationalists” and the “scottish” individualists.
“Slightly sadder to report that I will be arrested if I ever “accidentally” enter the ladies locker room again.”
I did this once at a Planet Fitness. Thankfully, there’s a wall before you actually get into the locker room. Thankfully, there was also a poster on the wall that had a decidedly gendered message. I saw it and did the quickest u-turn in my life.
The problem is the signage for each locker room is flat against the wall next to the door. If you are approaching from a right-angle, you cannot see the signage until it’s too late.
“problem”, “too late”
Thankfully? Your ignorance could’ve led to bliss you fool.
Isn’t Planet Fitness the pizza and doughnut “gym”?
Still bliss.
It’s a judgment free zone. Unless you try to work out in the nude.
I don’t want to end up as “that guy.” I have to go back there!
+1 Marx Brothers sight gag
Also, the Three Stooges bit where they were trying to get into an event that required them to have a “Press Pass”.
So they go steal signs off of bathroom doors that instruct “press” to open the door.
Moe, showing sign: “Press.” (walks in)
Larry, showing sign: “Press.” (walks in)
Curly, showing sign: “Pull! nyuk-nyuk-nyuk” (walks in)
Found it (this is when the internet rocks)
Walked into the ladies room at a corporate function a few years back because I saw the (male) VP walking out. Fucker led me into a trap as I was greeted by the head of HR walking out of a stall. This was a few years ago so HR administrators still had a sense of humor. If I did that today I would still be in a threadbare orange suit.
“Why you can ignore reviews of scientific code by commercial software developers…”
Nope. Once again we see scientists caught using sloppy methodology, and obtuse methods, and claiming their critics know nothing. Climategate II: Electric boogaloo.
Yeah, what would people who are actual experts in coding, who write and review code all day long, know about . . . coding, anyway?
After working with statistics in an Econometrics course, and seeing my fellow students intepert their findings in the exact opposite direction of how they should, i realized that any scientific paper that doesn’t have a dedicated statistician on board, should be looked at with a lot of skepticism, should require replication, and if it is a “social science”, is worth about as much as the paper it is written on. Likewise for computer modeling scientists.
I’m not saying it is too technical (statistics really is though), its just that computers are one of those things that make doing the wrong thing so easy, and hard to notice. it is very easy to code in the logic backwards and unless you have tests to verify your logic, you can get into a bad spot easy. Anyone can write tests, it’s easy. Just about the only people who do are commercial developers. Because, you know, people are paying for a quality product.
I honestly wonder if they even tested the software, other than getting it to compile and run without error. That’s what professional software development and analysis bring to the process. There is a discipline called “software engineering” which deals with how to write modular, readable, testable code.
Agreed. I’d love to get a developer, coder, and statistician to go over their methodologies.
Also, peer-reviewed code, anyone?
I’ve seen snippets online that show some poor coding practice, like 8 or 9 if-else if conditionals, where a switch statement could have been used much more cleanly. Those types of things are kind of funny, but not really a huge deal.
The big thing to me is the non-determinism; I guess it’s possible to do things like seed a random number generator from the computer clock, so it pretty much gives a different sequence every time it’s run, but in this case that’d be really dumb – you want to be able to replicate things. There are some other areas I’ve seen that are random run to run by design, but not in this type of program.
I saw a code snippet that used openMP, so I’d guess mistakes like reading a variable that hasn’t been written to yet, or different threads overwriting the same variable(s) mistakenly, memory problems like that. At least, those were mistakes I’ve made that gave me random output.
Their suggestion to average the outputs, without clearly explaining why there’s randomness, is a joke.
Also remember that this is cleaned up code (I think by a team at Microsoft), this isn’t their actual code; these problems persist after a team has tried to fix things – as far as I know, they refuse to share their actual code.
Having a routine that takes a random number as input for simulations is very useful. Testing that routine with known inputs and outputs to ensure that it’s correctly written is also critical.
The takedown I saw mentioned that OpenMP was used in a manner that was explicitly warned against, due to issues with OpenMP and that particular way of doing things – that’s not exactly smart.
Averaging outputs of randomly seeded methods makes sense if you know that all of the code, post-seeding, is deterministic, because then you can make some smart guesses about upper and lower limits, and averages, based on the outputs.
So yeah…this code is apparently shit. Given my limited experience with academic coders (we have a guy on staff that was academic, and I’ve seen his code), I’d be shocked if academic coders on average were worth a damn.
We often do simulations. Standard practice is someone like me writes the rules, a programmer codes it, we test it, and then a different programmer is given the rules and the code verify it is doing what it is supposed to do. Then we validate against data (is it reasonable). This part actually happens over and over through the process.
yup
The correlations and implications are above people’s paygrade. I sit in first class next to C-level morons all the time who can’t follow simple logic problems (coin-flipping, fox and goose and canoe, price is right).
What I don’t agree is that any leftist agenda is primary. The urge is to discover something; the first guys think they found something and were lauded for it; after that, kissing up to established journals is important, but peer review runs all the numbers through the grinder, and all kinds of fraud are found out every day.
Researchers are just like the politicians: they jump on whatever floats, they abandon their principles the first chance they get at a payday. What can I get away with is the standard of conduct for everyone today; they don’t even know why that’s wrong.
I doubt that much of the climate hysteria modeling type code is written by software developers. It’s written by people with a serious leftist bias, who believe they know more about everything than everyone else because they have something like PhD after their name. Most of those people couldn’t get jobs developing software if their life depended on it, unless it’s a government job, in which you don’t have to be competent at anything, just have the correct political views.
“You have human rights ”
You have them, you just can’t access them right now. Same as your bank deposit. Try again in a few days.
Same as your unemployment benefits.
Its like they don’t even read the news.
Just ignore all those videos of Unka Joe getting quite handsy indeed with underage girls.
My wife asked me if I though stores requiring mask is violating people’s rights. I said no because a store can set whatever policy they want and if you don’t like it you can shop elsewhere. Then she asked if the government requiring you to wear mask in a government building is violating your rights and I didn’t have a great answer. You can’t go elsewhere, but at the same time limiting the spread of a communicable disease can be a legitimate government function. What say you?
They’ve already effectively stripped away freedom of association, so why not enforce a dress code ?
Does the dress code include a brown shirt?
In hindsight, if anyone knew the actual efficacy of masks (which nobody seems to), I could see requiring them as a reasonable public health concern. But since even the CDC has waffled on their effectiveness, such a requirement is without merit. If someone was truly serious, and the virus was so deadly, why not insisting on everyone in public wearing EPA Level A, double-envelope, with supplied air?
Plus there are people with breathing issues (asthma, cystic fibrosis, etc) that probably shouldn’t have an additional breathing hindrance put on them.
Government won’t even bother to prove the efficacy of their own rules and resist any evidence that shows the rule to be counterproductive. Nothing succeeds like failure.
They’ve always had an informal dress code. How do think cops pick their victims?
I think I’m coming around the Wisconsin Supreme Court’s reasoning. An emergency is by definition: sudden, unexpected, and finite. If the legislature could have been called into session and made law around the issue, it is no longer an emergency, and the government office must either define (in time, not by conditions) how long the “emergency” will last, or find a way to accomodate you without your mask.
It has been something like 8 weeks since the first “emergency” declaration. Congress has passed spending bills related to it. Surely, states and localities could have gotten together their duly elected officials and gone through the formal law or rule-making process. If I were a governor, or gubernatorial hopeful, my takeaway would be that after two weeks, I’m calling a special session, and dumping the whole fucking problem in the lege’s lap. “Emergency has been on for two weeks. It ends in two more. Please make whatever law you feel is necessary for Constitutionally navigating this crisis.”
Yep. It’s not like the horse and buggy days. You can dispatch state troopers to transport any legislators who claim they can’t get to the capital because of transportation issues. They have quorums (quora, for you pedants) for a reason.
How quickly did Congress assemble after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
The next Day:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_declaration_of_war_on_Japan
You mean, like this?
Judge tosses out Gov. Kate Brown’s coronavirus restrictions in Oregon
Gut check for those who bitch about federal district judges setting national policy: should this have any effect outside the county where the court sits?
My gut is No. It should only apply to where the Judge has Jurisdiction. But i don’t know enough about how the legal arguments go for universal injunctions to understand. Also i would guess it depends on how the courts had been structured by the legislature.
Interesting thought experiment. The courts are a state institution, despite being divided by county. There’s no statewide court except at the appellate level. There are only 36 counties not 94 as with federal courts. And this was a ruling, not a preliminary injunction.
Aside from that, next stop is the state Supreme Court, which is elected so mostly Democrat establishment insiders. Will be interesting. In addition to the grounds cited, Oregon has a much broader protection of religious freedom under the state constitution than the federal constitution.
Depends on what you mean by “effect”. If I understand correctly, the judge’s decision helps to set common-law precedent. As such, it should have an effect on the larger body of case law on the subject, no?
I was thinking more along the lines of blocking the coronavirus restrictions statewide, just as Hawaiian District Court judges block immigration restrictions nationwide.
Lower court decisions aren’t binding precedent on higher courts, anyway.
Should the government actually be able to show that such measures are likely to help limit the spread of a communicable disease? Because, if so, the masks policy would have to go. There’s virtually no scientific basis for their utility in doing so. Right now the argument is: “they wear masks in Southeast Asia and they have fewer deaths, so it must work.” Seriously.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4480558/
https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/5/19-0994_article
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2020/04/commentary-masks-all-covid-19-not-based-sound-data
This mask shit has me infuriated, particularly when I get called a “science denier” for *checks notes* referencing the actual science.
I disagree that it is a legitimate function of government.
It’s about Kontrolle
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) warned Monday that the city is serious about keeping swimmers out of the water at its public beaches Memorial Day weekend, even as other locations begin to lift their coronavirus-related restrictions.
“Anyone tries to get in the water, they’ll be taken right out of the water,” he told reporters.
The mayor said that city officials would not put up police barriers at beaches, giving New Yorkers the chance to comply voluntarily. Swimming, lifeguards, parties, barbecues and sports would all be prohibited on the beaches, de Blasio added, and social-distancing rules will still apply.
“It’s a dangerous situation to ever go in the water if there are no lifeguards present,” he added, saying officials are also concerned about scenarios where large numbers of people take the bus or subway to beaches. Only residents of the communities surrounding the beaches would be allowed to use the beach as “just open space you can walk on,” he said.
RESPEK MEEEE!
Thank goodness for socially liberal urban cosmopolitanism!
They haven’t been liberal for a long time.
Our beaches are “open” but with harsh restrictions. You cannot sit, sunbathe or generally relax. Basically, you have to act like a landshark.
Candygram?
Landshark ?
Just when you thought it safe to not be in the water!
Why is it dangerous to go in the water?
We call out to the beasts of the sea to come forth and join us, this night is yours Because, one day we will all be with you in the black and deep One day we will all go into the water
SEA SMITH SAY COME ON IN, WATER IS FINE!
Orcas
Krakens.
So he finally watched “JAWS”?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_1_of_the_Canadian_Charter_of_Rights_and_Freedoms
The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees the rights and freedoms set out in it subject only to such reasonable limits prescribed by law as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society.
Like much of the constitution, and constitutional jurisprudence, that sounds like a lot of fancy words for “we know we have to acknowledge your rights, but really we can do whatever we want, as long as we can get 51% of people on board”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_tree_doctrine
Sankey by the way was an advocate of human rights laws. How exactly one is supposed to ensure that “growth and expansion” will not lead to human rights being violated or being declared obsolete?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Sankey,_1st_Viscount_Sankey#Sankey_Declaration
Right. So, in summary:
1. You have rights unless the government says you don’t.
2. It doesn’t matter what’s written here in black and white.
Fuck. Canada.
We can trust the politicians to appoint judges we like and for the law school professors to agree with us on everything…
“Scientist says that just because scientific code is often buggy, poorly organized, and outsiders can’t figure out what its doing, doesn’t mean its wrong.”
Technically, he is right. Being off by a few orders of magnitude is what makes it wrong. So what is this guy’s argument? Being buggy, poorly organized, impossible to analyze, and also producing completely terrible results doesn’t mean it’s bad?
It doesn’t matter if it’s wrong, the only thing that matters is getting the ‘correct’ results.
And-
De Blasio had said Sunday that police will take action against people gathering together to drink on sidewalks in lieu of bars. This practice, he said, “violates what we’re saying about social distancing, and that puts lives in danger. We’re not going to tolerate people starting to congregate. It’s as simple as that.”
Intolerably uppity!
Out here, they frame everything as if we have to earn our freedom through obedience. If everything goes well enough, we MAY relax the “rules” a little bit more, but it depends on your behavior. They’re nor even pretending to be in charge!
He regularly shits on the NYPD, so I wonder how excited they are about enforcing this?
The police chief said (in not so many words) they won’t do it any more.
police chiefunion head (I think)Even our cops are reluctant to inflame tensions by arresting people for mundane actions. they do raid businesses and send in undercovers without masks, though. So far they’ve charged 60 businesses with misdemeanors.
Revenue.
Yep, it’s going to be like the smoking ban, they’ll make an example out of a few places, most places will loosely follow the rules, and some will just say fuck it and do what they want. After a while it’ll be TNN.
The deal with the democrat governors and mayors is that they have their marching orders from the DNC. They must ensure we get rid of Trump by any means possible. It that includes committing political suicide, then they have to do it. Once we have Biden and whoever his VP choice is, who will actually be the acting POTUS, they’ll get a cushy new job and the states will get massive tax payer funded bailouts. If it doesn’t work, oh well, 4 more years of badorangeman, time for some more investigations.
It was really nice to lift weights again.
Gyms aren’t open here. I haven’t seen word on when they will but I’m expecting after Clown Prince Sununu’s current orders expire, so June 1st.
I’m happy to report from close study that several of the ladies have found ways to keep fit.
Excellent.
Slightly sadder to report that I will be arrested if I ever “accidentally” enter the ladies locker room again.
Sad.
I read the Phil Bull article. I agree, it’s a bunch of handwaving and garbage in attempt to claim a shitty bit of code isn’t shitty.
Donald Trump has been accused of sexual misconduct or assault by multiple women. Though he was recorded boasting about grabbing women by the genitals, he denies all such accusations.
Fuck. This again?
If you’ve run out of material, just recycle the old stuff.
And from the Recycling Bin….
Just like the release of hacked emails no one was supposed to pay any attention to the contents of those emails. The DNC never even challenged the veracity of them. We were all supposed to be OUTRAGED that hackers released private emails though.
Now we are all supposed to be outraged because someone pointed out that Biden is pretty creepy/gropy. Same game plan. No one is disputing that all those videos of him glomming onto women are fake.
OK, there was one faked Biden photo out there. Even Joe has his limits.
Kontrolle
Business owners in Illinois could now face a Class A misdemeanor charge for opening their establishments in defiance of the state’s stay-at-home order.
Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) on Friday filed an emergency rule that would penalize owners of restaurants, bars, gyms, barbershops and other businesses for reopening before coronavirus restrictions are lifted.
In Illinois, a Class A misdemeanor charge can carry a fine of up to $2,500 and a maximum jail sentence of one year.
The emergency rule is an “additional enforcement tool for businesses that refuse to comply with the most critical aspects of the stay-at-home order,” Jordan Abudayyeh, a spokeswoman for the governor, told The Hill.
“Law enforcement has relied heavily on educating business owners about the order and always first discusses the regulations with business owners to urge compliance,” Abudayyeh said. “Only businesses that pose a serious risk to public health and refuse to comply with health regulations would be issued a citation.”
The governor’s office said that the rule will help prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus by codifying restrictions for potentially high-risk environments.
Pritzker administration general counsel Ann Spillane added to The Associated Press that the rule change was “very mild, like a traffic ticket.”
“Nobody’s getting arrested or handcuffed,” Spillane said. “But they are getting a citation where they would have to go to court.”
And a big fine. Don’t forget that part. Illinois needs the dough.
He’s already said the state has no choice but to do a big tax hike.
If I could sell my house for a decent price I’d leave tomorrow.
A decent price is whatever the market will bear. Remember that you enjoyed living in it for some period of time and your intention (in all likelihood) was not to make money on it.
Get out now, if its important to your health.
Where are you? We are considering selling the Chicago place.
Just leave. Sanity is worth more than a few $$.
In Illinois, a Class A misdemeanor charge…doesn’t have to be drafted and approved by the legislature.
Out here, they frame everything as if we have to earn our freedom through obedience.
That’s about how it is out here, too. We’re bad children who have to “earn back” our privileges.
And some party apparatchik can walk in and shut your place down if he wants to. It seems like every time I walk into the bar there’s some idiotic new modification to the rules.
Damn! You guys get to go to bars? Ya’ll must have done your homework on time AND finished all your chores! No bars and food is to/go or delivery only.
No, he just has trashy parents/bureaucrats who can’t be bothered to make sure he is really following through on all that stuff. Just some lip service and that is all
BREAKING: President Trump Says He Is Taking Hydroxychloroquine
I knew it!
I’m test driving the Brave browser. No complaints, yet.
It acts like a browser, and it will dump cookies and history on close, or so it says.
cool
I think you can set up any browser to do that same dump
/ gearhead
You can definitely do so with Chrome.
One of my co-workers has been using Brave for a while now. She likes it. I asked her what she is hiding. I haven’t tried it yet. I don’t like IE and Firefox updates itself every time you open it, which sometimes gets annoying.
I’ve been using it for a long time and really like it.
Of course, Opera was my other browser. I even got my dad to use Brave. He doesn’t know it, but I installed it and put a shortcut with the chrome icon on his desktop that goes straight to Brave.
I’m going to be trying it, probably tonight.
I’ve been using Brave for a long time now and have been very happy with it.
I wish we had better choices in search engines. Bing is by far my favorite one, but like all the rest, controlled by rabid leftists.
Duck Duck Go has been ok. That and Brave have been part of my de-Googlization process. Of course, I run them on my Android phone, so I have a long way to go.
I’ve been using DDG for ages, and anytime I feel like I may not be finding what I want Ill peek @ Google. Its certainly more comprehensive, but for 95% of my searches, I like my privacy.
So i heard on Lions of Liberty that Amash dropped out of the LP Presidential Election.
Who? He’ll be a no name within 2 years.
Well I suppose he is a True Libertarian since alienated everybody. Too pro-life for the LP. Too libertarian for the Democrats and NeverTrumpers. Hates Trump so the Trumpsters hate him.
Too Pro-China for America.
布鲁
Bù lǔ
his tweet listed his reasons
all things we could have told him ten years ago
BREAKING: President Trump Says He Is Taking Hydroxychloroquine
Washing it down with bleach?
He’s trying to get rid of some of the orange.
NO!!! He didn’t say bleach! He SAID LYSOL!
He’s using it in combination with light bulb enemas.
Pepcid.
Diet Coke, duh.
The Census finally hired me, sort of, they tell me to finish the onboarding forms, I log in and get this,
“Attention Applicants who Have Been Offered a Job:
Based on continuing assessments of guidance from federal, state and local health authorities, the U.S. Census Bureau is suspending 2020 Census field operations. The Census Bureau is taking this step to help protect the health and safety of the American public, Census Bureau employees, and everyone who will go through the hiring process for temporary census taker positions. The Census Bureau continues to evaluate all 2020 Census field operations, and will communicate any further updates as soon as possible.
In addition, we are working diligently to provide additional information on how and when you will be trained. In some cases, training will be delayed in order to maintain public safety. Training will include social distancing measures. Please be patient as the training details are finalized. We will provide more information as it becomes available. For more information on the hiring and training processes, please see the FAQs:”
So I filled out the forms and, Train for a job I may not do?
Census work is so last month. The new hotness is contact tracers.
Snark aside…sorry to hear that.
You still need work you can count on.
As long as we have Joe Biden, we will need contact tracers….
I have an open Beach and a River to play on, you’re in Cali Right?
I would totally go out there. I love that place and this is the exact perfect time of year. I’m subject to recall at work any day now. They can tell me to show up tomorrow. I might be out there later this summer though. I’ll hit you up if I get out that way. Thanks
please do, we have toys….
Are you on the clock while you are training?
yes, but being part time I still get the Trump 600$ per week, I don’t know why they are bothering, who are supposed to count? When?
I am NOT a number!
I am. That’s the only thing they’re entitled to know.
OK. This pandemic has finally resulted in something I fully approve of.
Garrison Keillor and his fans are embroiled in quite the cruise refund deal.
Basically Keillor was going to go on a cruise with a bunch of his fans. They all paid in advance and now the pandemic has canceled the trip. People who booked directly through Carnival are getting refunds ez-peasy. People who booked through Keillor’s company that was putting this on are being told that they may or may not be getting refunds. Reading their reactions is pretty funny. They are mad and want their money, but they can’t quite blame Keillor for this cock up.
Something tells me that the cruise would be full of men who are not strong, women who are not good looking, and any kids would be below average.
Well done, sir!
I think you can set up any browser to do that same dump
Chrome won’t dump history (I couldn’t find a way to do it, anyway). That’s why I switched. That and the whole “google suxx!” thing.
Yeah, if Google ever tells me anywhere, in any way, that they aren’t collecting or will delete my data, I assume they are lying.
“If you aren’t being charged for a product, then you are the product.”
I assume that I am being lied to 100% of the time.
a) It helps sort out the bullshit from the news sources
b) It is such a pleasant surprise to be proven wrong occasionally.
Here’s a decent article, from of all places, The Hill. Never read the comments there. Anyway…
National Suicide via Lockdown
This point is most salient:
But if all those lives, save just one life!
It shows what a complete failure Fauci et al are as “public health” experts. Those are all negative public health outcomes due to the lockdown/panic that they advocated for, and absolutely should have been part of their analysis and recommendations from day one.
Its been pretty clear since very early on that the lockdown was going to cost more lives than the Commie Cough.
“What is one life worth?” Apparently a whole bunch of other lives.
I’m using that one.
The cumulative affect of closing the gyms, shutting down all elective surgeries and medical procedures such as colonoscopies and mammograms, and other secondary stuff like acupuncture and PT – together will shorten more lives than coronavirus will. Throw in stuff like massive unemployment and locking AA and NA groups out of pubic buildings and it’s not close.
I think everyone is pretty aware of this. OK, there are some clueless people out there, unfortunately a lot. But the democrat governors and mayors who are doubling down on this insanity know full well what they are doing, and it has nothing to do with anyone’s health. It’s all about forcing some form of global socialism on an impoverished desperate people. Because you could never do that with a prosperous and happy people. They’re willing to burn it all down to get what they want and we’re all just numbers in their game.
You won’t get endless sob stories in the media about these deaths and hardships. All you’ll get is ads from politicians telling how their heroic leadership “saved countless lives” and “vote to re-elect me and science.”
https://www.aier.org/article/is-this-really-a-post-liberal-era/
We must not forget that total lockdown — not the virus — is generating catastrophic harms. Restricting other medical care and instilling fear in the public is creating a massive health disaster, in addition to severe economic harms that could generate a world poverty crisis.
Fake news. Misinformation from the right wing spin machine.
Damn! You guys get to go to bars?
We can, but it seems to be primarily a giant experiment to see just how much idiotic bullshit people will put up with.
I’m about at the point where I’ll just stay home, as long as the weather is nice.
Kentucky Wildcats fire cheerleading coaches after hazing, nudity probe
“The investigation discovered that the activities occurred in the summer of 2019 during a retreat at a Kentucky lake and cheerleading camp in Tennessee. Some cheerleaders reportedly performed gymnastics routines that included hurling teammates into the lake “while either topless or bottomless within view of some of the coaches.”
Alcohol use was also prevalent during the retreat and coaches failed to confiscate the items, according to the report. Some members needed medical treatment for intoxication. Some cheerleaders were also urged to perform lewd chants and wear outfits without underwear. No sexual assault or sexual misconduct occurred during the trips, the investigation found.”
Sounds like a cheap 80s comedy.
It sounds like my house in the 80’s!
Was there not enough hazing or nudity?
You have a bunch of college cheerleaders drunk and partially clothed, and there was no sexual misconduct? Disappointing.
That seems highly unlikely. If I were one of those investigators I’d keep on investigating.
#MeToo
I’d insist on re-enactments to make sure that nothing fishy was going on.
That explains the smell on the fish in that lake…
If it was a volleyball or softball team, things would have turned out differently….
Alcohol use was also prevalent during the retreat and coaches failed to confiscate the items, according to the report.
The drinking age shouldn’t be 21 anyway.
25?
This is my favorite piece of that steaming pile in defense of The Model
The author literally has no self awareness at all. That, right there, makes me think that this has to be an epic troll. No way does anyone try to use the accuracy of climate change and vaccination models as the foundation for their defense. And then follow it up with “experts in the field itself” (97% of scientists agree global warming is real and caused by man).
I could almost see trying to defend The Model if it had been even close to correct. But how do you throw down the gauntlet to defend something that predicted 2.2M deaths?
It ain’t over ’til its over. We won’t have an accurate count ’til then. For the time being it’s open ended and will stay open until the 2.2M is reached. Now put on your mask and move back the required safe social distancing and let us take care of the math part.
/The Experts
I believe they are arguing, whether they know it or not, that an epidemiology expert is also, ipso facto, a software engineering expert.
Because having an expert in software engineering critique the software is not having an expert in another field cast doubt on the soundness of the actual epidemiologists. Epidemiology and software engineering are separate areas of expertise.
You would think a real scientist would welcome having subject matter experts assist them in the subject matter experts’ area of expertise.
It appears that these days scientists are pathetic whiny little bitches.
You would think they would welcome the opportunity to redo their model so it isn’t off by one or two orders of magnitude next time. I would even suggest this is their only path back to relevance, because as things now stand, I doubt anyone is going to care about their GIGO projections next time.
It’s about the ‘correct’ results, not accuracy. If you make it accurate, it might get the ‘wrong’ results.
Government scientists, definitely.
“an epidemiology expert is also, ipso facto, a software engineering expert.”
Dude, having had clients in academia, and in particular medical research, for the past 15 years, I can 100% ensure you that these people are experts in everything. In their own minds, that is.
You see, what they’re modeling is so very complicated that no mere software engineer could comprehend it.
Of course. Although I don’t think they’d like to get caught with their pants down trying to actually modify or debug come actually complex code that actually works to get accurate data.
I’ve had the same situation with a client for the past few years where they all of the sudden do not think 2 different reports showing the same data, agree with each other. They get wildly different results in the 2 reports! The first time, I spent a lot of time cross referencing all this data to be absolutely sure it was accurate in both reports. It was. A couple of day ago this popped up again. So I checked both reports again, and got exactly the same results. Turns out you can filter the criteria on one of them, but not the other. So I said ‘I’m getting the exact same numbers in both reports, are you setting a filter on one of them?’. Because I was sure that is what was happening. The person just never replied to me, lol.
I sat in a talk once at school about modeling the mixing in lakes done by fish (i.e. what contribution their actual swimming makes to water circulation). At the end of the talk, a professor in the audience told the person giving the talk they should have tried approach A. The person stated they tried approach A, it didn’t work because, etc. etc. so they used approach B. The professor said no, approach A will work, you need to do it this way, there was a back and forth for about five minutes – the professor in the audience had never worked on the problem before, but was convinced he knew the best way to do things. That’s sadly very common
He should have asked the cheerleaders.
Lol, yes, that would have settled it!
Clients who were doctors always paid a premium because they are so painful to work with. They all believe that they are the smartest humans in the world and if you were smart, you would be a doctor too.
I know better. I went to Hopkins with a bunch of pre meds.
They hated engineers for busting the Bell curves in their mandatory math and physics classes.
97% of scientists agree global warming is real and caused by man
That claim in itself was always utter bullshit. The main study it originated from was done using only sixty-some friends of the author who self-described as working in a climate-related field (hardly a representative or random sample, and not statistically valid), and even then only 97% believed that the climate was changing, not that it was man-made! Makes my blood boil, but now it’s an established fact, like how Trump said Nazis are very good people.
Yusef. Wife is getting slammed with dogs so might need a raincheck for Wednesday on the river. Will know more tomorrow.
Hoe the census thing works out though
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The pimp is sending out his hoes to collect data.
A P̶i̶m̶p̶’̶s̶ census taker’s love….
I’m not going to even try making sense of that.
Roger, I’ll be here all Summer, let me know, I need to find a mobile Groomer for Bella, she’s going to be a River dog.
I got her a Life jacket and a 2 man kayak, more goodness, I can put 10 people on the water now, Yippee!
“I got her a Life jacket and a 2 man kayak…..”
You got Bella a kayak ?
HEY YUFUS!
SUP TRES! yes I did, I wanted more room for her to relax on the the water, and still bring my ice chest full of,
Tall Cans!
I also got this Lady to ride on my island Float,
https://photos.app.goo.gl/WaKb26xLpx5uUbRj6
I definitely hope that’s a euphemism.
Excellent
Why you can ignore reviews of scientific code by commercial software developers
I actually tried to read that article — twice.
I do feel remorse when desperately want some stranger to suffer violence at the hands of the Clintons.
I used to work for a big defnse contractor. Models were an essential part of all development – either we didn’t have the test article yet or it was too expensive to reproduce the test environment.
If there was a two-hour presentation on the performance of a proposed development, an hour and a half would be devoted the model(s) and the input data. IOW, here’s why you should believe our results.
If anyone told the Chief Engineer that they wouldn’t let anyone review their code or that they had altered the inputs but wouldn’t say why they’d be thrown off the program.
Everyone ivolved with this plague cluster fuck who repeats the “we’re following the Science and the Data” should be made to read “The Uncertainty Monster” by Judith Curry. She was driven out of the climate science field for writting the – a coherent discussion of the difficulties in modeling large, complex systems.
https://judithcurry.com/2010/09/22/the-uncertainty-monster/
Yup. The code, the data, it all has to be reviewed
Nice park adminstering there Lou! Tennis courts in Minneapolis and St. Paul were shut down for safety.
I can almost see that some people (not me, my defense has been social distancing compliant for years) might get the CV playing hoops, but tennis? Uffda.
Our idiot mayor extended park closings, I think through June. I drive past a pretty big park twice a day, and its been busy, to the point that people are playing pretty organized softball games (it has several fields).
I’m thinking the cops are just ignoring her. Because she’s an idiot.
The balls aren’t disinfected, and Serena Williams might try to shove one down your fucking throat.
I chuckled
You do realize that’s based on an actual incident?
And yet people defend Serena on this.
Do you know how long a virus stays on a tennis ball?
That’s how I caught herpes.
At least you were able to bounce back from it.
Hey, its OK. Walz is still carrying the fear had he went to Iraq with his unit. He understands fear.
How would you like it if you were chosen last for the playground team, day after day? Walz knows
About Phil Bull
I’m a Lecturer in Cosmology at Queen Mary University of London. My research focuses on the effects of inhomogeneities on the evolution of the Universe and how we measure it. I’m also keen on stochastic processes, scientific computing, the philosophy of science, and open source stuff.
Hi Phil. I’m an aging engineer and an expert in the verification and validation of safety critical systems. I wouldn’t let you balance my checkbook Phil.
I’m a Lecturer in Cosmology
At least he knows how to keep you looking good.
at Queen Mary University of London
Her majesty will be delighted to learn you wish to name your university after her!
“Phil Bull”
I guess he got tired of acting in porn so he became a physicist?
In other words, he never left the university environment and had to generate product that worked and was verifiable.
That is precisely the kind of guy that drove me out of the physics department and into engineering school.
Ronan Farrow must have a big story that the DNC doesn’t like. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/17/business/media/ronan-farrow.html
I got a paywall.
I got a rock.
In case that didn’t ring a bell
Everybody wants a rock.
This discusses it. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/may/18/ronan-farrow-new-york-times-too-good-critique-ben-smith
“But Smith, a former editor-in-chief of BuzzFeed News ”
“Smith questioned the rigorousness on occasion of the reporter’s sourcing”
If the irony was cellulite, Tres Cool would be like “Damn girl how you doin”
LOL!!!
Cellulite is ALLRIGHT!
Love the gigantic glamor-pic though.
He’s a cutie
Young blue eyes.
Jeebus, if you are going to wear a bow tie, at least learn how to tie it.
Now that big name Dems are getting caught in the #metoo dragnet, it is no longer valid.
They want to discredit him in the eyes of their readers before he comments on the Reade case.
All must preserve Biden now. If Trump wins, their entire world will crash down, particularly if Barr see his investigations thru.
Insert screaming reaction to Trump winning gif here.
Can I go with he’s neither?
Forgive me if drugs emerge from this story’s backside, but in news local to Brett L and me, the local state attorney has decided not to get bludgeoned over the head with the First Amendment, and has dropped charges against a Tampa pastor who defied the county’s ban on worship.
To his credit, Governor DeSantis amended his “safer at home” order so that blue counties couldn’t pull these kind of shenanigans again.
https://hypebae.com/2020/5/rising-time-cooking-world-baking-day-trojan-brand-condoms-sex-quarantine-cookbook-recipes
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Now THAT is how you lede and article!
Someone’s been holding out on us…
https://www.youtube.com/user/combatcarl7705
I want to believe Tundra is bald and rocks a beard like that.
Tundra looks like a Cabela’s ad, if the sponsor was Geritol and Cialis.
/ZING!
“Geritol and Cialis”
Sounds like a helluva weekend.
Getting balder, yes, but no beard.
Dead sexy, really…
Shorter scientific coders:
http://archive.li/ofYls/806217b43192b541c5f3926dc21f5f76d2b5dc4a.jpg
Chicks dig boats, see my picture above, ^
Would.
Thicc thighs save lives.
They float!
Pretty much
RE: Scientific modeling.
Reality is the ultimate unit test.
His code failed.
It is the first day that Clown Prince Sununu has magnanimously and graciously deigned to allow outdoor dining.
It rained this morning, and the clouds were gone by mid-day.
I went into Nashua to pick up a sandwich from a downtown bar.
All outdoor seating in downtown Nashua is full.
I saw no one except for some restaurant staff wearing masks.
I was a little worried when I walked into the bar to pick up my sandwich.
Not because no one waiting for their take out wore a mask. Not because the girl behind the counter wasn’t wearing a mask. Not because people waiting for take out weren’t keeping Leper Length.
I was worried because there was a cop stationed in the restaurant.
Well, it was nothing. I got my sandwich and chips. I paid. I left.
The sandwich was good.
Still, how odd to have the same reaction to seeing the Boys in Blue that people living in Vichy France had. Polite on the surface, but always a little worried about being caught in some kind of infraction.
Aaaaannnnnd shit’s getting real. I’m packing up the books for someone to come buy the bookcases.
But you’re keeping the books?
Of course!!!1!1! I have culled as many books as I can bear to.
*hangs onto library for dear life*
I don’t like the bookcases so I’m not going to bother to move them. Same with the sofa and love seat.
I compromised with the spouse by getting rid ot a lot of books, but there are some that aren’t going anywhere, including my first edition boxed “A History of the English Speaking Peoples” by Winston Churchill.
I also have the books I WROTE and that is not insignificant poundage.
I used to love library sales. I got a lot of great books from that and I still have all of them weighing down a lot of shelves. Then they invented this Amazon Kindle shit and all the fun ended. The last time I bought a physical book was in maybe 2010. Seriously, I love books, but they’re not comfy to sit in bed with reading and they don’t have a backlight and a shit ton of other cool options.
You would have to pry my Paperwhite from my cold, dead hands. Thousands of books and a backlight in the palm of my hand #FTW!
(Akshually, I just bought a paper book on purpose. The Daily Stoic, rec’d by some folks here to get me some permanent Zen in my life.
Using my aversion to the grocery store experience as a reason to clear out the fridge.
Made black eyed peas (instant pot) in broth I’d frozen after boiling bones. Made cornmeal muffins on the side.
Good for this cool, rainy day.
I was going to make sugar cookies but I set the butter out this morning and it’s still not soft.
Just got an announcement from my employer containing links to covid 19 testing under our company sponsored health plan.
The fine print says: “In addition, CV-19 molecular tests will be conducted on a designated basis at some Company facilities pursuant to government regulations.”
Did my employer just tell me that the government told them that they will be doing random sampling at a random moment when I’m going to the building?
I assume “Fuck off, slaver!” would be a career-limiting move?
But yes, apparently they will be swabbing away. Curious about which government, though. Feds or Gruesome.
Yes, it text says “government regulation.” I don’t think any state laws were passed on this so it must be Goobernatorial fiat.
I think turning around and going home might be the way to go.
I never even interview for government supply jobs
* my only tinfoil posture *
Tell them that we’re all better off, if we can, working from home, with the added bonus of saving the planet. If they think we cannot play this game it’s just because they’re too fucking stupid to get it. These Karens can go fuck themselves up the arse with a rusty chainsaw.
I’m certain they will make me test when I have to go back. They told me I can OPT to go back. I told them that I would except for the mandatory masks and the closed schools require me to teach/watch my kid. Basically I told them it was their own fault. I meant it too. I’m ready to go back. I am concerned that, if I test positive they’ll whisk me away to quarantine or something.
Testing is completely fucking worthless. You can be negative today and positive tomorrow. What the fuck are they going to do, test 325 million people every day, forever?
As far as I know, there are no quarantine camps. What we do, and I think its pretty typical, is require people to stay home until they test clean.
If you co to a hospital, test positive and require hospitalization, they take you to the back and your family is not allowed to visit you until you either die or recover.
We can’t imprison people. You can go home anytime you want.
We can in an emergency. We can do lots of things in an emergency that would otherwise be evil and tyrannical.
New post is up!
OK, Karen. (:
OK boomer!