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Those are not mutually exclusive events.

The only cut I'm going to celebrate is the one where Musk gives back all the billions in public funding he received.

The Keith Laws hates the Tigers thing is so lame. He used to criticize the Tigers farm system because it sucked. Now, he says good things about it it because it's good.

He does not have a computer. He sometimes uses a calculator.

I use it occasionally. There is a data set of all the at bats in baseball history which I used to use a lot and the only way to update it was with DOS. I don't know if it still requires DOS.

Right, I go l go all he way back to punch cards! The gains have been amazing. The one thing I have found in recent years though is data security (which I realize is an absolute necessity) is now preventing me from getting the most out of computers. It can be paralyzing at times and it will only get worse.

That is good to know. I have not used that system, but I have seen the problem elsewhere especially in state systems.

AI can probably solve it, but I am not so optimistic about AI. AI will only be as good as the people who design the algorithms. Ultimately, I think AI will be designed mostly for profit just like everything else. Whatever the wealthy want is the AI world we are going to get. Somtimes that will be a good thing, other times it won't be.

You would think. Any data entry form containing year should always be 4 digits. Once it gets to the programmer, there is generally no way of knowing whether a two-digit year is in the 1900s or 2000's. The problem is when you have a massive database, the data are being entered at different places using different systems. I used to manage a database with substance abuse treatment admissions from about 20 different states. All states had the same variables, but each state had it's own way of formatting variables. Then when you finally get them on the same page, one of the states decides to do it differently the next year.

It's still a problem in 2025. I still receive a lot of data sets with two-year dates in them and they can create a mess when birthdates and ages are involved.

The key word being "reasonable".

Don't you know that people who use pronouns are weak? I don't use pronouns and think they are unnecessary, but seeing the right freak out over them is amusing.

Oh it definitely could be fraud. It could have been hacked by the Nigerians or Chinese. It could be Trump's or Musk's buddies or maybe Biden, Obama and Pelosi snuck in there in the middle of the night and added a bunch of illegal immigrants. Or maybe Musk is making it up as way to illegally transfer money. There are lots possibilities, but maybe the guy currently in charge of all the money in the country might want to investigate further before giddily telling the world what he found like a three year old. I was mostly just sharing my experience working with this kind of data

I doubt it's as high as 12 million people, but this is something I have seen in my work too. I wouldn't assume it's fraud. It could be in some cases, but it is more likely to be erroneous birthdates due to two-digit years. What I mean is if someone has a two-digit birthyear "00", they were probably born in 2000, but might be assumed to have been born in 1900 due to an old algorithm. 0000 or 9999 could also indicate a missing value. https://www.ntd.com/database-lists-12-million-people-older-than-120-eligible-for-social-security-musk_1048177.html

I agree.

They are not booing USA. They are booing one person.

Baseball is important!

I believe Devers is stating at third base and Bregman is going to second base.

Exactly the same philosophy as Musk!

Better watch out. You'll lose your MAGA card.

I have always been curious about the Junior Felix nontender. He batted .306/.372/.525 for the Tigers at age 26 and then never again played in the majors. I get that the strike screwed things up, but it's fascinating to me that he never got another chance with anyone. This SABR profile suggests that he might have been a lot older than 26: https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/junior-felix/#:~:text=Félix was believed to be,already in his mid-30s.

Businesses too? The MAGA cult is hopeless,but I think real conservatives won't like this.

Nuclear DOGE firings reversed. https://apnews.com/article/nuclear-doge-firings-trump-federal-916e6819104f04f44c345b7dde4904d5

Yes, I meant indirect.

Health research is not going to be able to function at all if the NIH cuts don't get reversed or substantially mitigated. I think people don't understand the difference between direct costs (not being cut) and indirect costs (severely cut). In my understanding, indirect costs are not in place to make profits, they are things that are essential to research (like equipment and labs) that are not allowed to be part of direct costs.