Hey how did the popcorn guy get there?
LOL
I just read the article matt posted on his blog: https://dezignstuff.com/is-a-data-addiction-really-useful/. I agree that quite a bit of the information and data being gathered isn’t used to anyone’s advantage, or just leads people to make the wrong decisions. For one example, when listening to Pandora I occasionally get ads in Spanish. I don’t speak Spanish, but I have a Johnny Rodriguez station, and have done the thumbs up on a few Freddy Fender songs. I assume some algorithm somewhere says “if he likes Johnny Rodriguez and Freddy Fender he probably speaks Spanish”.
That is an extremely interesting subject to read and discuss about, thanks for the share.
Without dwelving too deep into the subject, data collection is something we rely upon around here a lot in order to determine a GO/NO-GO decision. As Matt adresses in his article, you can collect all sort of data, some are useful, some are useless, some cause confusion, some do not pertain to specific subjects, etc.. What’s important, is defining what you have, what you need and what you expect, and then extrapoling whatever correlative data that comes out of these and make it as least subjective as possible. Keeping things simple is not always easy.
Which, somewhat reminds me of an old meme
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There is never too much data.
There is always not enough.
How many times you measure something you need to model and don’t have enough dimension?
Never measure just enough. Always get a few more so you can double check other measurements.
3 points make a circle but 30 points make a more accurate circle.
Thanks Glenn. Glad you’ve got my back!
Turns out it hit where my Dad lives pretty hard. Luckily the house is up is on a hill and hasn’t flooded since we moved there in 1980. Though he says that this was worse than the 95 flood, I’m not sure if it was worse than the 83 or 84 flood that I remember (that’s where they set all the elevations for flood insurance where everyone was SOL 8/16)…Of course there’s all the development to consider and it’s hard to tell anything over time because we keep blocking pathways off of the water…But the important takeaway that I liked to point out in the old forum is that we should always PANIC! PANIC! PANIC!..
Well, we had 39 F this morning. But hey, I’ll take that any day over 95 degrees with 90% humidity. 
My pet saying for a conversation like this: You can always put more clothes on, but you can only take a certain amount off.
Quebec got hit by a bunch of Tornadoes yesterday, thankfully the nearest to me was about 50 miles away.
There you go, Mike, stripping down to the bare essentials of the issue.
Hello all! A couple of you have messaged me over the last month or so asking about why I am not on the forum so much (thank you for checking in!!), so I figured I would post here explaining:
My life has changed significantly in the last year, which has kept me away for a bit.
My wife divorced me and it was final last July, and I fought for, and received 50% custody of our 3 children. So, 50% of the time, I am a single dad now. So, I made a deal with my boss that I could work short hours the weeks I have the kids, and make up the hours on the weeks I don’t have the kids. This has left very little time for the forums. I try to jump on when I can, but it is isn’t like it used to be.
Anyway, I am doing ok, and life is slowly getting back to whatever “normal” is supposed to be.
So, TL/DR: My priorities have changed…
I still tell people that who want to raise the thermostat setting here at work. I tell them, it is better to see you in a sweater, than to see me in a tank top.
I didn’t like the post because I thought it kind of sucked that you got divorced, but I’m glad to hear that you got 50% custody. The schedule will settle down in place eventually and you will figure out a way to fit things accordingly, wish you the best Dan!
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They knocked 98% of the population out of the running by asking for “Critical Thinking Skills” 
…before someone calls the cops.
TIFIFY
Take a look at this
You sunk it? Into the SwYmP?
Wow…
I need to admit, this website is really well built
I am not able to see the webcam view because it is disconnected (maybe?) but it look and feel really nice to navigate around the website…
And I personally like how they do the map for live location, it is pretty rare for me to see a map for black themed webpage 
Edit: It seem like the ship is stopped at the moment https://www.maritime-executive.com/article/mechanical-problem-stops-mayflower-autonomous-research-vessel
Wow, that’s some amazing woodworking skills right there!
Just came back from a 4 day weekend where I went to pick up my brother in Montreal so he could come visit our parents and family. The rest of the weekend was rather casual, as I’m still having pains from my 3 displaced vertebraes. Things are slowly coming back though, so that’s the good news on that!
Hope everyone has a great week.
Crazy, with a chainsaw.