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Okanogen

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If you offend easily, you don't want to follow me
No, not THAT Dr. Mastodonocologist
Me, #geologist, #sysadmin, #sailor, #CubanAmerican, old, drunk, also stabby.
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The coalition is fragile with many fissures. Oir job is to put a spudbar in those cracks and lean into it.
The are Trump's "Biden Afghanistan withdrawall"; the event that permanently damages his coalition.
Keep prying.

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@Okanogen its great to see the in fighting. I hope we see more of that.

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"Slow boat to Gravy Town!" Was the hilarious line quiped in the credits of "Gumpy Old Men".

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Watched for the first time in decades on the 4th. My wife saw it for the first time.
And so I am two days old since learning the film production company "Bad Hat Harry" is named after a throwaway line in that movie.

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is BOOOOOORRRRIIINNNNNGGGGG

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No wonder Terminator Genisys bombed. Jai Courtney (Kyle Reese) has the charisma of a pickled egg. Who cast this guy?

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Let's talk about "", , and , which I don't put in quotes.
First, I am not anti-science, I am anti-JUNKscience and MARKETING, and there is a difference.
Why can I discuss a field I'm not in with some knowledge? I spent over 30 years in geophysics, signal processing, and in geologic and hydro and hydrogeologic modelling. People doing this kind of work are the progenitors of the current science. 1/

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Which brings us to an important concept, "All models are wrong, some are useful." This is a decades old aphorism, but what does it mean? The gist is another aphorism "The map is not the territory".
A model is a snapshot, based on current information, current assumptions/algorithms, and current allocation of processing resources. "Reality" which is what the models try to represent, is constantly and unpredictably changing. Our data on reality also changes, which changes the modelling 3/

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Every "" or will put out and/or models. From facial recognition to societal predictions. This is predictable, because our society itself is racist and bigotted, it literally can't produce models which defy the data. This is why we can't rely on it for policy, for health care decisions, for law enforcement, benefit determinations, informing legislation, or any other use related to society. Fundamentally unusable. 10/