In light of the latest admissions, some thoughts from Wayne Hale.
Category Archives: Mathematics
The Rolling Blackouts In CA
No, they’re not a climate-change story. It’s about rampant insanity and corruption of rent-seeking “green”-energy firms.
And this seems like cheating: Texas lures California businesses with promises of electricity.
What did socialists use to light their homes before candles? Electricity.
[Late-morning update]
California is approaching Puerto Rico territory.
Speaking of which…
[Thursday-morning update]
California is “winning” its way into the Stone Age.
And is the state becoming pre-modern?
Apparently. Pat Brown has to be rolling in his grave at what his idiot son has wrought.
[Bumped]
Model Land
Judith Curry, on a new paper concerning how to escape from it:
Naïvely, we might hope that by making incremental improvements to the “realism” of a model (more accurate representations, greater details of processes, finer spatial or temporal resolution, etc.) we would also see incremental improvement in the outputs. Regarding the realism of short-term trajectories, this may well be true. It is not expected to be true in terms of probability forecasts. The nonlinear compound effects of any given small tweak to the model structure are so great that calibration becomes a very computationally-intensive task and the marginal performance benefits of additional subroutines or processes may be zero or even negative. In plainer terms, adding detail to the model can make it less accurate, less useful. [Emphasis added]
Computer models can be useful in some circumstances, but they are not science.
Dysfunctional Education
Yes, the maleducational system, from K through grad school, is the biggest danger to the Republic. It’s been almost forty years since that report that said that if a foreign nation had imposed it on us, it would be considered an act of war. It’s only gotten worse.
What A Difference a Key Makes
Not sure what they mean by “minor” key here, but whatever it is turns an uplifting jingle for a sitcom into a ballad.
All the Doomsdays
Zero out of the last thirty predicted have actually come to pass. Someone should show this to Greta Doom.
Meadow’s Father
“Guns didn’t kill my daughter; Democrat policies did.”
I would be at least as outraged as he is.
Meanwhile, exposing the ignorance, lies, and irrationality of gun “buy backs” and “assault weapons” bans.
Collisions Hazards And Space Debris
An article on the issue, quoting (among others) Brian Weeden and Glenn Reynolds.
CNN’s Climate “Town Hall”
…did the nation a great service.
Which means they’ll end up regretting it.
[Update a while later]
Democrats, on nuclear power: We’ll do anything but that.
Email Problems
I’ve got a problem, that my system administrator won’t help me with. My Trash folder on the server has grown to several gigabytes, and there is no way for me to empty it. It slows down getting and deleting mail, but Thunderbird crashes when I even try to load it. Here is the helpful email I got when I asked to simply delete it on the server (which I can’t do, because I don’t have root privileges–on my own hosted server).
“You’ll need to access your email accounts with a proper email client from your PC to clear them out. We can’t just delete the mail from the server, then the indexes are messed up. You need to be properly emptying your trash.
You have multiple Gigs of mail in the trash folders on the Simberg account. “
Note that this is nothing I don’t know, except I don’t understand why it would mess up indexes to delete the trash. Is that true?
[Update a while later]
OK, Tbird crashes, but I seem to be able to access it from Evolution. But there is no obvious way to empty it, other than to Expunge, which seems a little drastic, but maybe that’s what I have to do. And it doesn’t load all of the headers; it gets stuck at 99%.
[Update a while later]
Well, I hit “Empty Trash” in Evolution, and it seems to have done the job (even though Evolution says it’s still working on it).
OK, Evolution thinks it’s finished now. My next problem is that it’s not properly displaying my inbox. But now my web interface is much more manageable.