We did find clay tablets with inscriptions from earlier civilizations. If all papers, books and newspaper gradually go digital, just electric charges or magnetic blips in racks - few thousand years down the road our civilization would be virtually traceless or at least those parts of it. Nothing is forever. Just a random thought.
I think you posted on the wrong story but you eloquently described my feelings on ACM going all digital.
Trying to make sense of why Otis exploded en route to Acapulco
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Re: Trying to make sense of why Otis exploded en route to Acapulco
#82This headline could really use the word "hurricane" in it. I had no idea what Otis or Acapulco were, and my initial guess was wildly off: some sort of space probe experienced a catastrophic failure on the way to an asteroid.
Re: Trying to make sense of why Otis exploded en route to Acapulco
#83This headline could really use the word "hurricane" in it. I had no idea what Otis or Acapulco were, and my initial guess was wildly off: some sort of space probe experienced a catastrophic failure on the way to an asteroid.
Re: Trying to make sense of why Otis exploded en route to Acapulco
#84Cloudflare blocked me from accessing it. edit: wow, that was some unexpected downvotes
It is also on archive sites. Can anyone recommend a good one-click firefox extension to open an archive copy of the current page?
I'm using it on my phone. It gave me this https://archive.ph/20231026233758/https://theeyewall.com/try... with a few taps.
Re: Trying to make sense of why Otis exploded en route to Acapulco
#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
What forecasting models / techniques are prevalent in disease forecasting?
There's usually a mix of statistical models (some traditional time series methods, some neural network based) and mathematical models (i.e. SIR models). None of them fully capture all the dynamics we need to.
Re: Trying to make sense of why Otis exploded en route to Acapulco
#86This headline could really use the word "hurricane" in it. I had no idea what Otis or Acapulco were, and my initial guess was wildly off: some sort of space probe experienced a catastrophic failure on the way to an asteroid.
This tells me you don't know Jean-Paul Belmondo's movie The Man from Acapulco. Seriously watch that movie.
Re: Trying to make sense of why Otis exploded en route to Acapulco
#87Re: Trying to make sense of why Otis exploded en route to Acapulco
#88This headline could really use the word "hurricane" in it. I had no idea what Otis or Acapulco were, and my initial guess was wildly off: some sort of space probe experienced a catastrophic failure on the way to an asteroid.
Re: Trying to make sense of why Otis exploded en route to Acapulco
#89This headline could really use the word "hurricane" in it. I had no idea what Otis or Acapulco were, and my initial guess was wildly off: some sort of space probe experienced a catastrophic failure on the way to an asteroid.
If I heard that Otis exploded after visiting Acapulco, I wouldn't really consider that unexpected, but admittedly that's only based on personal anecdata.
Re: Trying to make sense of why Otis exploded en route to Acapulco
#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
There's usually a mix of statistical models (some traditional time series methods, some neural network based) and mathematical models (i.e. SIR models). None of them fully capture all the dynamics we need to.
Differential equations make the world go round.