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Re: Even Dr. ppauper cannot beat 1,077,111,387 views

August 25th, 2020, 10:42 pm

Thanks for pointing that out! I misread this graph at least twice. Now it makes sense, sort of.
 
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Re: Even Dr. ppauper cannot beat 1,077,111,387 views

August 26th, 2020, 10:44 am

The graph (FLA dept of Law Enforcement) comes from recent book "Calling Bullshat* by Bergstrom and West. It's good!
What seems to be a sharp in murders after 2005 in is fact a rapid rise!

It also has a few chapters on "AI BS".
 
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Re: Even Dr. ppauper cannot beat 1,077,111,387 views

August 26th, 2020, 3:46 pm

Here's one from the Economist (meshuggah)

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Re: Even Dr. ppauper cannot beat 1,077,111,387 views

August 26th, 2020, 4:18 pm

Another example closer to home; by changing one value to 1.0e+60 I can make delta look zero.


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Re: Even Dr. ppauper cannot beat 1,077,111,387 views

August 26th, 2020, 4:21 pm

... even though we all know better.
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Re: Even Dr. ppauper cannot beat 1,077,111,387 views

August 26th, 2020, 4:24 pm

The moral of the story is: 

You've got to accentuate the positive
Eliminate the negative
And latch on to the affirmative
You've got to spread joy up to the maximum
Bring gloom down to the minimum
Have faith or pandemonium's

Caveat: speaking figuratively, of course.
 
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Re: Even Dr. ppauper cannot beat 1,077,111,387 views

February 16th, 2021, 3:44 pm

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