From: Carbon on
On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 08:32:46 -0500, BAR wrote:
> In article <clark-49C123.08032425022010(a)charm.magnus.acs.ohio-
> state.edu>, clark(a)nospam.matsceng.ohio-state.edu says...
>
>> You need to understand what "trick" means in the context of data
>> analysis. It simply means a short cut that utilizes part of a data
>> set, but provides the same answer as if you used the entire data set.
>> Computer time is not free.
>
> Trick has a definition in the public arena. Regardless of how the term
> is used in the scientific community the public thinks they are being
> fooled.

You are the one who is being fooled.

> I haven't payed for computer time in years. I can't believe that you
> are not using a Linux cluster, 16, 32, 64 or 128 quad processor Linux
> systems with 64 GB of RAM should make a nice little parallel
> processing system.

Is computer time free on these systems?

http://www.top500.org/list/2009/11/100
From: Carbon on
On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 06:01:11 +0000, assimilate wrote:
> On 24-Feb-2010, Carbon <nobrac(a)nospam.tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
>
>> You know what's superficial? Saying over and over again that
>> something is superficial and never once saying why.
>
> I've stated my reasons many times, has it not sunk in yet?

Well let's see...

The only actual claim I recall you making was that the cost of
healthcare per capita somehow didn't represent the true cost of
healthcare per capita. You offered zero (0) supporting evidence for why
this might be the case.

You gave no reasons for why you thought the average life expectancy cite
didn't matter, other than that you apparently though such easily
verifiable facts were somehow lacking in depth.

In fact, you informed us several times about how subtle your mind is and
how much you love digging into complicated issues. I invited you to
direct your awesome mental powers toward providing actual substantial
responses for why you believed these two stats were irrelevant. You
never once did.
From: Jack Hollis on
On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:22:00 -0800 (PST), "John B."
<johnb505(a)gmail.com> wrote:

>On Feb 24, 9:24=A0pm, Jack Hollis <xslee...(a)aol.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 09:16:04 -0800 (PST), "John B."
>>
>> <johnb...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>> >Never before in human history has the polar ice cap shrunk in both
>> >thickness and area as much as it has recently. Never has it melted
>> >completely in summer, as is expected this century.
>>
>> Really? =A0Where did you get this information?
>>
>> Did you ever hear of the medieval warming period? =A0
>
>
>What happened, or didn't happen, during that period is hotly disputed.
>Whatever the truth is, I don't think anyone back then was able to
>measure the area or thickness of the polar ice cap.

No but the temperatures were higher than they are now, so you can
assume that glacial melting was more advanced than it is now.
From: Jack Hollis on
On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 06:06:49 -0800 (PST), "John B."
<johnb505(a)gmail.com> wrote:

>Ok, recorded human history. You happy now?

The Medieval period is part of recorded history.
From: BAR on
In article <4b870bdd$0$4863$9a6e19ea(a)unlimited.newshosting.com>,
nobrac(a)nospam.tampabay.rr.com says...
>
> On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 08:32:46 -0500, BAR wrote:
> > In article <clark-49C123.08032425022010(a)charm.magnus.acs.ohio-
> > state.edu>, clark(a)nospam.matsceng.ohio-state.edu says...
> >
> >> You need to understand what "trick" means in the context of data
> >> analysis. It simply means a short cut that utilizes part of a data
> >> set, but provides the same answer as if you used the entire data set.
> >> Computer time is not free.
> >
> > Trick has a definition in the public arena. Regardless of how the term
> > is used in the scientific community the public thinks they are being
> > fooled.
>
> You are the one who is being fooled.

Right. Bad PR has taken down more than one organization.

> > I haven't payed for computer time in years. I can't believe that you
> > are not using a Linux cluster, 16, 32, 64 or 128 quad processor Linux
> > systems with 64 GB of RAM should make a nice little parallel
> > processing system.
>
> Is computer time free on these systems?
>
> http://www.top500.org/list/2009/11/100

Looks like a majority of them are just a bunch of massively parallel
systems.

The Air Force is making a supercomputer out of Sony PS3's.

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/345642/Air_Force_Taps_PlayStation
_3_for_Research

The supercomputer isn't what it used to be.

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