CapnTrippy

3 karma · joined February 5, 2020

CapnTrippy··on Hiking the world in search of rare cheeses

This article made me laugh out loud several times!

If the Fast Show was still running, this would spawn a whole new character and a season of skits. Some great one-liners in it!

"In cheesemaking, if two hearts want to connect, they'll find a way."

"Uncomfortable foods open doors."

Thats Jessie's diet right there -

https://youtu.be/sw18OafeQiM?is=Y6M2-Si8xKHI5nQ7

And many other great lines! Lol!

CapnTrippy··on OpenAI, the Partition Principle, and Mathematics

Great article. My take on it is :-

"Er, can you check this for free? ... It would be great for my share price if you could, would really give the investors a badly needed shot of confidence!"

CapnTrippy··on Introduction to Programming Languages

https://www-users.york.ac.uk/~ss44/joke/foot.htm

I find the above the best introduction to a programming language.

CapnTrippy··on Tencent may have accidentally leaked real data on Wuhan virus deaths

I suspect you're right. But then, with a good, large data set, maybe something would show; once enough people get too sick to use a computer.

Maybe the number of DNS requests from distinct IP addresses goes down. As you say, traffic/data volume might keep more constant.

CapnTrippy··on Tencent may have accidentally leaked real data on Wuhan virus deaths

I wonder if there's any indirect way way to get mortality rates... Say number of social media accounts active, or number of webpage requests from an IP range...