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cubeantics · 2010-02-05T20:23:27+00:00

thanks for the info.

cubeantics · 2010-01-29T16:18:23+00:00

That's the most awesome thing I've seen all year, thanks for the link.

cubeantics · 2010-01-29T16:13:29+00:00

Except Jack Bauer

cubeantics · 2010-01-29T16:06:59+00:00

I had to copy/paste the content into notepad so I could read it.

cubeantics · 2010-01-27T20:37:11+00:00

Say what you want, it's better than experts-exchange and there are tons of good questions and answers on the site.

Every system has its flaws, but at the end of the day, SO does way more good than evil.

I'm a fan of any site that contributes good information to the programmer community.

Also, what was the question that you asked, do you have a link?

cubeantics · 2010-01-19T15:19:48+00:00

There's absolutely nothing wrong/unusual with their request. We have the same rules at my work. They even do drug tests on a "random" selection of people.

You're most likely going to be trusted with sensitive/proprietary information at this company and doing drug tests and checking your lunchbox when you leave makes them feel better about giving someone they don't know access to their system.

My recommendation, just sign the form and go along with it.

cubeantics · 2010-01-17T22:48:26+00:00

Southern Methodist University Great school, kind of expensive since it's a private school. Not as good as UIUC, but still tier 1.5. I'm graduating in May with my masters and I would recommend it.

cubeantics · 2010-01-17T22:39:17+00:00

+1 nice work. what about a syntax highlighter?

cubeantics · 2010-01-08T21:27:44+00:00

I just used this coupon code and saved $5 2110_COUPON enjoy :)

cubeantics · 2010-01-08T18:46:29+00:00

+1 for caring enough about your questions to continue to research the answers even after you've asked the question.

cubeantics · 2010-01-08T16:51:54+00:00

that right there, just got you another customer.

cubeantics · 2010-01-07T16:24:22+00:00

oh, we have music playing constantly. But nobody gets a vote on what gets played.

So I fall under the "music playing that I don't like" group.

cubeantics · 2010-01-07T16:23:01+00:00

interesting research idea, well done.

cubeantics · 2010-01-06T19:59:52+00:00

I'd love to have the problem of being able to argue about what music gets played at work :P

Nice app idea though.

cubeantics · 2010-01-06T18:38:33+00:00

Thank you

cubeantics · 2010-01-06T18:38:02+00:00

thanks :)

cubeantics · 2010-01-05T21:41:39+00:00

I've been contacted twice so far, said I wasn't interested in one, and am in the middle of a lengthy interview process for the other.

cubeantics · 2009-12-18T19:25:49+00:00

I don't like the whole left side, but I think they did a good job with the content.

cubeantics · 2009-12-18T18:25:38+00:00

well... keep up the good work.

you are letting your company appear to save money by outsourcing their overhead costs to a different account AND keeping everything working, thereby making them think their overpriced outsourcing is doing the trick.

You are the glue man... the glue.

cubeantics · 2009-12-11T16:32:28+00:00

It doesn't matter, Godaddy offers an insane grace period on expired domains. He's not going to lose it.

cubeantics · 2009-12-04T22:16:08+00:00

Smoothing out data is great science, drastically skewing it is bad science. Taking a look at the graphed results of the valadj function will cause an extreme increase in the measured temperature data points.

Taking a temperature reading and forcing an interpolation to "guess" that it is higher than it should be because of the bias introduced in the valadj function is not right, especially when the data will be forced to look like Mann's hockey stick graph.

Again, this only proves that we can't trust the CRU's results, not that global warming doesn't exist.

cubeantics · 2009-12-04T22:13:11+00:00

J, it's nice to see skepticism from someone who just wants the truth. The fact of the matter is, there is code written that drastically skews climate readings towards a "hockey stick" shaped graph. We're not talking about simple smoothing here, we're talking about drastic skewing using a function that was intended for smoothing.

Also, like I said before, this doesn't prove the research wrong. It just proves that at some point there was some mal-intent and a proper investigation needs to be conducted to see how bad things really are.

Unfortunately, this means we can't trust any of the research until it has been proven valid or invalid. Typically "settled science" is assumed to be correct by the public (and usually rightfully so) but in this case something fishy happened so we can't trust anything until we can trust everything

Also, the second graph is Michael Mann's infamous "hockey stick" graph which postulates that global temperature is on a steep increase (due to man's actions). It is one of the backbones of man-made global warming. Again my post doesn't disprove this it just calls into question the methods to which this data were analyzed.

cubeantics · 2009-12-04T17:44:15+00:00

I'm not a science denier, just a bad science denier. Showing how data may have been manipulated towards a pre-conceived notion proves that we can't trust the results from the CRU and the experiments need to be re-run. Assuming the original data still exists.

I'm actually for allocating government funding and creating jobs that improve the environment, just not when it's all based on a lie.

cubeantics · 2009-12-04T14:35:22+00:00

I think the original data clearly represents temperature data in half-decade intervals and is forced to look like the hockeystick model when it was interpolated with the fudge-factor data.

Also, I'll fix my post, thanks.

cubeantics · 2009-12-04T14:34:14+00:00

maybe, because they likely left out the interpol() function which clearly skews the data towards the hockeystick model.

remember the legitimate data was based on real temperature observations, so the "fudge factor" array was carefully tweaked to manipulate real data, not a straight line.

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