People sometimes use Excel for real data and there's always problems because it does bullshit like that, but not always so noticeable.
You need to make things clear in SAS.
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"Sometimes it's easier to rewrite genetics than update Excel" - A modern classic, although relabel might be more accurate than rewrite.
I bet if Neb were around, he'd support this guy. https://twitter.com/mrchevette/status/1562790610079084545?s=46&t=Ws_ZHzRbTV_nT5a9_Gg8JA
I guess I learned something. Thanks.
8 is the dumbest thing I've ever seen. A diagram is supposed to be an ancillary thing that guides one's understanding, not some rigid constraint-bound mess.
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This was an interesting essay, some overlap with DeLong's scope.
http://glineq.blogspot.com/2016/05/economic-reflections-on-fall-of.html
Was there consensus about interest level for a group reading of that one? A target date and pace maybe? It's a big book, potentially could start in October if particiapnts exist and agree?
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I saw that joke years ago but I had no idea I should share it here. Now I need to post every funny thing I've found on the assumption that it will be new to someone.
There are people who just routinely repost commons jokes on Twitter every six months and enough people think it's new that they get tens of thousands of likes.
I've gotten screwed by the thing in 7. The worst Excel behavior is when it converts a number to a date to a number again and the latter number is the date in the format of "days since Jan 1 1970". Completely impossible to identify that it's corrupted your data!
I saw that joke years ago but I had no idea I should share it here. Now I need to post every funny thing I've found on the assumption that it will be new to someone.
No. You leave those jokes for heebie. She somehow needs to come up with something to post here every weekday. If you don't have any suggestions to send her, you can at least not take her material.
13. Yes, didn't you know that this year is 52 AB (After Bill)?
I just converted the number 1 to a date in Excel and it was January 1, 1900. I think it's Unix that counts from 1970? Or did Excel change at some point?
That's another thing SAS does better. It counts from 1/1/1960.
I recorded which it was in Excel a while ago but now I can't figure out what it means.
Excel is magic. It solves problems for me all the time. The folks that Bill Gates stole that from are tremendous benefactors of humanity.
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Philip Larkin counts from 1963.
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Philip Larkin counts from 1963.
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Philip Larkin counts from 1963.
Lotus or Visicalc, I'm thinking. But I am no spreadsheet historian.
Peep is doing the lord's work in 14.
10: This is why God made the white-arm/black-arm Predator handshake meme format.
22: I don't want Excel always breaking the bank, though.
There's more.
https://twitter.com/undersequoias/status/1286374917110292480
There are people who just routinely repost commons jokes on Twitter every six months and enough people think it's new that they get tens of thousands of likes.
I swear to Christ that I have probably spent more time on trying to extract dates from spreadsheets than almost any other thing. Librarians and archivists are literally fucking insane when it comes to dates.
"fl. c. approx. third quarter of 15th c."*
When what they want it to plot some collection on a timeline or enable users to search or filter them by date. I have not-jokingly suggested that when I quote for projects I should just add a 20% surcharge any time someone mentions that their data is in a spreadsheet.
* I have one client who sometimes records the season, too, i.e. that it was summer, when they don't know what decade it was. And they want that sort of thing represented. So, it's somewhere between June and September, any year between 1928 and 1946.
Or for the seasonal client reclassify them as pastures.
Wanted: data class with room for precision level.
12: Bret Deveraux just published a blog article last month on "Why No Roman Industrial Revolution?" that answers the question that globalinequality article was asking. Bret is a historian whose professional work is on the military history of Rome, and whose blog goes into intersection of military history and popular culture, diving into topics like why the Dothraki don't accurately reflect key aspects of the nomadic cultures that GRRM said inspired them.
Short answer: the Industrial Revolution in Britain, and the development of steam engine technology in particular, depended on certain factors that were largely geographically unique to Britain at the time to make that development economically feasible (and after that, diffusion of technology prevented any alternate examples of Industrial Revolutions occurring from scratch elsewhere):
Fundamentally this is a story about coal, steam engines, textile manufacture and above all the harnessing of a new source of energy in the economy. That's not the whole story, by any means, but it is one of the most important through-lines and will serve to demonstrate the point.
The specificity matters here because each innovation in the chain required not merely the discovery of the principle, but also the design and an economically viable use-case to all line up in order to have impact. The steam engine is an excellent example of this problem.
But the technology could not jump straight to railroads and steam ships because the first steam engines were nowhere near that powerful or efficient: creating steam engines that could drive trains and ships (and thus could move themselves) requires decades of development where existing technology and economic needs created very valuable niches for the technology at each stage. It is particularly remarkable here how much of these conditions are unique to Britain: it has to be coal, coal has to have massive economic demand (to create the demand for pumping water out of coal mines) and then there needs to be massive demand for spinning (so you need a huge textile export industry fueled both by domestic wool production and the cotton spoils of empire) and a device to manage the conversion of rotational energy into spun thread. I've left this bit out for space, but you also need a major incentive for the design of pressure-cylinders (which, in the event, was the demand for better siege cannon) because of how that dovetails with developing better cylinders for steam engines.
34: In these parts, he's known as the "Fuck Sparta" guy.
In my case, it's because I have trouble with French names.
34: Deveraux is excellent both on his blog and on Twitter. That post is great, and not just because it's consistent with what I was arguing on a previous thread (though it is).
MOSSY!
re: Berkeley economist book club - I'm in too.
I will actually buy the book next week and put up a book pub post. If you're interested? Buy now and start reading.
Probably just buying the book is enough for me.
39: Hope you have been able to stay safe.