54 karma · joined June 16, 2012
First (and last) programming job was in FORTRAN, a summer college job.
Favorite language as a hobbyist, FORTH.
I work for a large generic pharmaceutical manufacturer, finding usually minor errors in handwritten documentation.
“What we've discovered,” says Lee, “uh, what we've concluded, you know, is basically that the machine that would fit a pig's teat is a human breast pump. It fits perfectly.”
Too bad they did not describe what pig's milk is like, or how “Anyone who farms pigs would say that pigs' milk would make an incredible cheese,” How would an ordinary farmer know, having never collected the milk?
Of course I cannot give any specific examples. They are currently secrets, or they are secrets that died with the company or died with the obsolescence of the product.
She is probably using the percent difference, where an absolute zero scale should be used.
This implies that the evolutionary selection of intelligence was sexual selection, that our brains evolved like a peacock's tail.