<div dir="ltr">Sorry, I read very little for pleasure these days.<div>I wish I had more time to read for pleasure rather than technical.</div><div>Admittedly, before the interview, I probably would not have headed for the zombie shelf.</div><div>My Niece loved "Pride & Predjudice & Zombies", I gather.</div><div><br></div><div>Years of flu season have taught me how to not handle doors.</div><div>Most office doors are levers which operate with elbows, but your point is not invalid.</div><div><br></div><div>Yesterday, you rattled off a numerical progression based on doubles.</div><div>To me that is geometric. I dont consider doubling a log curve. </div><div><br></div><div>Please bear in mind that anything you dont agree with does not make it "click bait"</div><div>I am finding stuff in mainstream news articles.</div><div>"Click bait" is "Doctor xrays preganant woman and police arrest her the next day" and if</div><div>you do start down the path, somehow they never quite get to the point.</div><div>Now THAT is clickbait.</div><div><br></div><div>Someone asked where I was getting my numbers from.</div><div>I WAS able to find stats that included daily increases by state but those graphs are no longer being updated.</div><div>I am still able to find it in table form and can make notes to complete the graphs on my own.</div><div><br></div><div>Rick makes a point, this data is drastically under reported.</div><div>One one hand, the immediate crisis is keeping CA current rates below 45k people.</div><div>The untested, are likely only minorly affected and wont contribute to the overwhelming of the system.</div><div>BUT.... the un reported that does not require hospital help, deprives us of the number of people who WONT get it because they have already been through it.</div><div>Missing these people who WONT get it in the future, deprives us of data that will signal when this thing is REALLY going to ease.</div><div><br></div><div>Number crunching this thing, was actually enabling me to cope with this disaster.</div><div>I was very hopeful that we might defy the imperial college numbers.</div><div>Mid afternoon, my number crunching led me to believe that it may actually be worse than Imperial college.</div><div><br></div><div>At the moment, Im resigned for the CA lockdown to run another 12 weeks.</div><div>While I dread this, I realize that if the US manages to recover from this before Nov, we are stuck with that fat slop for another 4 years.</div><div>I hate this, but Im hoping for zero us recovery before Thanksgiving.</div><div><br></div><div>Pity, I wont be around to watch.</div><div><br></div><div>Im not horribly spiritual, but the earth is a feedback system.</div><div>Humans screw up the environment, the environment comes back with something to cull the population untill its small enough to stop messing up said environment.</div><div><br></div><div>I previously believed we only needed tests for part of the population, but Im backtracking on that.</div><div><br></div><div>Regarding online Python, I actually found one and Im doing better on the recruiting programming challenges.<br></div><div>Most recently I learned about ".extend" vs ".append" and that was interesting.</div><div>The interesting thing is that Ive never been comfortable doing "functions" and that has changed in the last couple months with Python.</div><div>The indentation is a pain in the ass, but I still like it anyway.</div><div><br></div><div>At the moment, Im not positive the time waas well spent.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 5:34 PM Rick Moen <<a href="mailto:rick@linuxmafia.com">rick@linuxmafia.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Quoting Texx (<a href="mailto:texxgadget@gmail.com" target="_blank">texxgadget@gmail.com</a>):<br>
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> I will take Ricks word for it on the CA lockdown. I was under the<br>
> understanding that the CA order was a mirror or the bay area and ended<br>
> same. Again I will take Ricks word for it that this is not the case.<br>
<br>
Not necessary to take my or _anyone's_ word. Gov. Newsom's order was<br>
immediately posted to the public Web and remains there.<br>
<a href="https://covid19.ca.gov/img/Executive-Order-N-33-20.pdf" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://covid19.ca.gov/img/Executive-Order-N-33-20.pdf</a><br>
(It took me, just now, about ten seconds of Web-searching to find that.)<br>
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> Regarding the math thing, there are parts ofd the world that we are looking<br>
> at a geometric rise fast that will decimate some portions of the world.<br>
<br>
Not geometric. _Exponential_.<br>
<br>
> I was going to give CA the benefit of the doubt that we MIGHT escape<br>
> such a rapid rise. That has changed in the last couple hrs.<br>
<br>
Again, to make the same point I've already made several times to you, the<br>
available data are insufficient to such a conclusion. You keep citing<br>
reported confirmed case figures as if they were a reasonable guide to<br>
reality, but we know they are not, for multiple proven reasons. They<br>
are at best a rough _trailing_ indicator about part of what happened a<br>
week or so ago. And the reasons why they reveal only _part_ of what<br>
happened a while ago is ongoing restrictions on, and general<br>
unavailability of, testing.<br>
<br>
Texx, please stop blithering. <br>
<br>
During the bubonic plague outbreak of 1665, Isaac Newton went home (from<br>
Cambridge) to his rustic house, sat in his garden, drank a lot of<br>
tea[1], and worked out the laws of universal gravitation. Why don't <br>
you take inspiration from Sir Isaac, detach yourself from nearly<br>
meaningless statistics and clickbait news trivia, and at least work<br>
through an online Python course?<br>
<br>
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<br>
> Im giving up.<br>
<br>
Terrific. While you're giving up, try an online Python course.<br>
<br>
Or sit at home and concentrate on becoming an uncarved rock.<br>
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-- <br>
Cheers, "Rand Paul being patient zero for a Senate <br>
Rick Moen viral outbreak is a sign of a writers' room <br>
<a href="mailto:rick@linuxmafia.com" target="_blank">rick@linuxmafia.com</a> dropping too much acid, late in the season."<br>
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</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><br>R "Texx" Woodworth<br>Sysadmin, E-Postmaster, IT Molewhacker<br>"Face down, 9 edge 1st, roadkill on the information superdata highway..."<br></div>