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Jeffrey Phillips Freeman
Innovator & Entrepreneur in Machine Learning, Evolutionary Computing & Big Data. Avid SCUBA diver, Open-source developer, HAM radio operator, astrophotographer, and anything nerdy.
Born and raised in Philadelphia, PA, USA, currently living in Utrecht, Netherlands, USA, and Thailand. Was also living in Israel, but left.
Pronouns: Sir / Mister
(Above pronouns are not intended to mock, i will respect any persons pronouns and only wish pronouns to show respect be used with me as well. These are called neopronouns, see an example of the word "frog" used as a neopronoun here: http://tinyurl.com/44hhej89 )
A proud member of the Penobscot Native American tribe, as well as a Mayflower passenger descendant. I sometimes post about my genealogical history.
My stance on various issues:
Education: Free to PhD, tax paid
Abortion: Protected, tax paid, limited time-frame
Welfare: Yes, no one should starve
UBI: No, use welfare
Racism: is real
Guns: Shall not be infringed
LGBT+/minorities: Support
Pronouns: Will respect
Trump: Moron, evil
Biden: Senile, racist
Police: ACAB
Drugs: Fully legal, no prescriptions needed
GPG/PGP Fingerprint: 8B23 64CD 2403 6DCB 7531 01D0 052D DA8E 0506 CBCE
Joined Jul 2018
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@freemo I remember that example from the following:
https://youarenotsosmart.com/2013/05/23/survivorship-bias
I wish this blog kept posting more like this!
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>timeline barren
>go to @freemo 's Following page
>go Follow a bunch of the sciency/scholarly/linuxy kind
Let's see if THIS makes it worth checking my timeline more than once every 2-3 days! 
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@freemo I don't know what this means but it sounds easier than memorizing everything from here:
https://changingminds.org/disciplines/argument/fallacies/fallacies_alpha.htm
People never seem to realize that a great many of the logical fallacies they engage in every day could be avoiding if they just understood Regression to the Mean!
99% of the coronavirus is just me being pissed off companies are using it as an excuse to SPAM me.
Well my sister was just diagnosed with Coronavirus :(
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Today I learned that many/most color laser printers layer an array of yellow microdots on top of documents 🔬
This Machine Identification Code https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Identification_Code encodes a print date and a serial number unique to the machine. It only became public knowledge in 2004, ~20 year after deployment 😑
The Technical University of Dresden released a tool 2 years ago to layer on _even more dots_ to render the MIC unreadable and aid whistleblowers publishing https://github.com/dfd-tud/deda ✊
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I find it weird when one of my posts gets more reshares than likes... what does that even mean
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Some Hard information on #COVID19 as compared to other epidemics in recent history. ==COVID-19== R0 = 2.2 Global Mortality: 7% Death Toll = 4,718 (...
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Some Hard information on #COVID19 as compared to other epidemics in recent history.
==COVID-19==
R0 = 2.2
Global Mortality: 7%
Death Toll = 4,718 (and rising)
== 2009 Swine-flu ==
R0 = 1.5
Global Mortality: 0.04%
Death Toll = 500,000
== 2002 SARS ==
R0 = 3
Global Mortality: 9.6%
Death Toll = 349
== 1920 Spanish Flu ==
R0 = 2
Global Mortality: 2.5%
Death toll = 100 million
For those who don't know R0 is the average number of people who will contract the disease from an infected individual.
As you can see the numbers are very concerning. The only disease that had the same potential for damage as this would have been the SARS epidemic in 2002. Luckily it was contained early on and never spread. The big difference seems to be the 2002 SARS epidemic had very few if any asymptomatic individuals. So it was easy to stop the disease before it spread (artificially lowering the R0 effectively).
However the COVID-19 has a large portion of people with the disease whoa re asymptomatic. This causes the spread to go unhindered. Despite having a lower R0 and lower mortality rate the death toll is already more than 10x what it was for 2002 SARS.
The numbers are scary, it suggests to me, we are in for some really nasty times ahead...
I feel like being a gynecologist would totally ruin the enjoyment of porn...
I wonder what the impact on world wide fossil fuel consumption the corona virus has had.. i know it made a huge difference in china.. Is it possible this might have a noticeable positive effect on Global Warming I wonder?
Does @Gargron or anyone know of any bugs where an instane that used to block you, after undoing the block, still behaves as if they are blocked fromt he perspective of the instance that was the target of the block?
We have had two instances now that reversed blocks on us but its still behaving as if its blocked.
Just got a recruiter sending me a job position (I'm not even looking for work right now) that had the title "Snowflake Developer"... I was a bit offended :)
A nice little challenge for the day. Attached is the image for the question/challenge. A few notes
1) you must fill in all the boxes
2) you can not add any symbols into the box other than the provided numbers.
3) you cant use a trick of the wording to solve this, it must be solved with mathematical trickery
4) the answer is not "no" there is an actual solution by picking 3 numbers.
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Map of every concentration camp in WWII, U.S. News and World... http://dlvr.it/RRqx9d
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*Walks into best buy*
*looks at the TVs*
Me....
Employee: Can I help you with anything?
Me: Does this one come with its own parallel port or would I have to download one?
Employee: Uh-
Me: How many ECCs does it have? I'm guessing like 5?
Me: I could always upgrade it with a CMOS chip right?
Me: Do you have this one in another BIOS? Preferably on laserdisc?
Does it come with a decapped Ethernet dongle or would I have to go buy a few RAMS?
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Chelsea Manning ordered to be released [pdf]
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22562041
#hackernews #tech
Some Hard information on #COVID19 as compared to other epidemics in recent history.
==COVID-19==
R0 = 2.2
Global Mortality: 7%
Death Toll = 4,718 (and rising)
== 2009 Swine-flu ==
R0 = 1.5
Global Mortality: 0.04%
Death Toll = 500,000
== 2002 SARS ==
R0 = 3
Global Mortality: 9.6%
Death Toll = 349
== 1920 Spanish Flu ==
R0 = 2
Global Mortality: 2.5%
Death toll = 100 million
For those who don't know R0 is the average number of people who will contract the disease from an infected individual.
As you can see the numbers are very concerning. The only disease that had the same potential for damage as this would have been the SARS epidemic in 2002. Luckily it was contained early on and never spread. The big difference seems to be the 2002 SARS epidemic had very few if any asymptomatic individuals. So it was easy to stop the disease before it spread (artificially lowering the R0 effectively).
However the COVID-19 has a large portion of people with the disease whoa re asymptomatic. This causes the spread to go unhindered. Despite having a lower R0 and lower mortality rate the death toll is already more than 10x what it was for 2002 SARS.
The numbers are scary, it suggests to me, we are in for some really nasty times ahead...
- UFoI Member
- http://UFoI.org/u/freemo/
- Website
- http://JeffreyFreeman.me
- Gitlab
- https://git.qoto.org/freemo
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Jeffrey Phillips Freeman
Innovator & Entrepreneur in Machine Learning, Evolutionary Computing & Big Data. Avid SCUBA diver, Open-source developer, HAM radio operator, astrophotographer, and anything nerdy.
Born and raised in Philadelphia, PA, USA, currently living in Utrecht, Netherlands, USA, and Thailand. Was also living in Israel, but left.
Pronouns: Sir / Mister
(Above pronouns are not intended to mock, i will respect any persons pronouns and only wish pronouns to show respect be used with me as well. These are called neopronouns, see an example of the word "frog" used as a neopronoun here: http://tinyurl.com/44hhej89 )
A proud member of the Penobscot Native American tribe, as well as a Mayflower passenger descendant. I sometimes post about my genealogical history.
My stance on various issues:
Education: Free to PhD, tax paid
Abortion: Protected, tax paid, limited time-frame
Welfare: Yes, no one should starve
UBI: No, use welfare
Racism: is real
Guns: Shall not be infringed
LGBT+/minorities: Support
Pronouns: Will respect
Trump: Moron, evil
Biden: Senile, racist
Police: ACAB
Drugs: Fully legal, no prescriptions needed
GPG/PGP Fingerprint: 8B23 64CD 2403 6DCB 7531 01D0 052D DA8E 0506 CBCE
Joined Jul 2018
