🎓 Doc Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@qoto.org

Uh I just got DMed by the COO of Tumblr asking about hiring contractors to make us fully #indieweb compliant, and possibly even #fediverse integration. Anyone out there looking for work?

An explanation I gave a while back as to why gun statistics generally favor the fact that less restrictive gun laws means fewer violence and homicides.

I basically explain why the typical argument of "countries with more guns have more violence" is inherently anti-scientific as it violates fundamental statistical analysis good practices. Instead we would use statistical causality tests for this, not correlation tests. When we actually look at the data from that perspective it generally shows that countries with less restrictive gun laws effectively lowers a nations homicide and violent crime rates.

Reattached the graphs from that post, but best to click the link to the original post where I go into more detail (the graphs are there as well).

#Guns #GunLaws #GunRights

@ff0000

Since I cant fit all the data I had on hand in a single post (only allows 4 images to be posted at a time) I attached a few more to this reply for you.

@snow

@ff0000

The actual statistics directly contradict your claims and support my own.

The way we data scientists analyze situations like this is very specific. We look at countries where guns are legal and there is a significant legal change banning guns, then we look at the overall homicide rate or violent crime rate and see if it spikes up or down. We do this across many countries and see if there is a trend.

We also do the converse where we look at relaxed restrictions.

The cause-effect here is very strong, we almost always with only a few exceptions see a huge spike in homicide rates and violent crime rates following a gun restriction law. This spike tends to last on average about a decade before falling back down to almost pre-ban levels but usually never fully recovering.

I provide two attached examples as reference, i can provide more from additional countries if youd like.

@snow

making a minimalist dbus clone
gonna call it
shortbus

First Toot in Mastodon

well it looks like google has made a very weak general intelligence out of a token sequencer.

this is interesting because kurzweil was talking about heirarchial hidden markov machines about 20 years ago and they're capable of similar things.

cc @purple @freemo

CAP theorem

It's impossible for a distributed system to provide both Consistency, Availability and Partition tolerance.

@stux

During the course of the Revolution, approximately 1,700 letters of Marque were issued to privateers. In the War of 1812, President James Madison issued more than 500 letters of Marque to privateers. These letters of marque created what was, essentially, legal piracy, and it was sanctioned by the government and even deemed necessary. So how did these privateers arm their vessels? With cannons that they purchased as individuals. Our colonial navy had approximately 1,200 cannons on board less than 65 ships. The privateers, on the other hand, had almost 15,000 cannons – all privately owned. Throughout much of this country’s history, privately-raised militia units have fought side by side with regular artillery units, with the only difference being that these militia units were using cannons that had been privately purchased. Many artillery units in the Civil War were funded privately.

https://www.ammoland.com/2021/06/actually-mr-president-you-can-own-a-cannon/

fuck off.

I felt this.

Hey, #Electronics folks!
Has anyone seen such an output for a ramp coming out of a DAC?
This is produced by a simple counter counting from 0 to 4095 and then wrapping.
The sharp dips are absolutely stable and deterministic. They occur at bit switches but I don't seem to get my head around why.
Identical curves on two different DAC peripherals on the same μC and even across different chips/boards (I'm almost certain it's a software problem).

I'm trying to build a potentiostat for cyclic voltammetry, it seems it requires further calibration but at least my signals (red) are similar to those expected (blue)