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The Fed says this is a cube of $1M. They're off by half a million

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Re: The Fed says this is a cube of $1M. They're off by half a million

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Post by Daneel_ »

_carbyau_ wrote: post #349
achierius wrote: post #329

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That sounds more like "a couple". Personally I think "a few" would be anywhere from 3-9, which is more reasonable, if still handily above the median national income (like 250k a year if you save and invest well).

Definitions are surprisingly varied. I see these words as being something to be cautious about. For me: couple(formal) = 2 couple(informal) = 2-3 few = 3-5 half-dozen = 6 [gap] ten-or-so = 9-11 dozen(formal) = 12 dozen-ish(informal) = 11-14 And don't get me started on "this Friday" vs "next Friday"...

don't forget:

several = 5-10

handful = 10-20

Personally, after having worked in a hardware store, I always confirm. "grab me a couple of those please" - "is two enough, or do you need a few extra?"

I'm one of those people for whom a couple is 3-5, but never 2. I would just say "two".

Re: The Fed says this is a cube of $1M. They're off by half a million

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Post by Daneel_ »

tobinfekkes wrote: post #366
_carbyau_ wrote: post #349

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Definitions are surprisingly varied. I see these words as being something to be cautious about. For me: couple(formal) = 2 couple(informal) = 2-3 few = 3-5 half-dozen = 6 [gap] ten-or-so = 9-11 dozen(formal) = 12 dozen-ish(informal) = 11-14 And don't get me started on "this Friday" vs "next Friday"...

My wife and I just discovered that we have different beliefs about "this Friday" vs. "Next Friday". I never even knew there was another possibility, so it's cool to see this mentioned here so soon after.

"This Friday" is the one during the current week, provided it's currently earlier than Friday. If it's Saturday/Sunday already and I want to talk about the Friday that's only 5 days away I would say "this coming Friday" (or just "Friday").

"Next Friday" is always a week+ away. If it's Tuesday and I say "next Friday", I ALWAYS mean the day 10 days away.

If someone says "next Friday" to me and they mean the one in a few days I'll look at them like they're crazy.

Re: The Fed says this is a cube of $1M. They're off by half a million

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Post by williamscales »

_carbyau_ wrote: post #349
achierius wrote: post #329

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That sounds more like "a couple". Personally I think "a few" would be anywhere from 3-9, which is more reasonable, if still handily above the median national income (like 250k a year if you save and invest well).

Definitions are surprisingly varied. I see these words as being something to be cautious about. For me: couple(formal) = 2 couple(informal) = 2-3 few = 3-5 half-dozen = 6 [gap] ten-or-so = 9-11 dozen(formal) = 12 dozen-ish(informal) = 11-14 And don't get me started on "this Friday" vs "next Friday"...

I like the definition of several as “more than two but fewer than many”

Re: The Fed says this is a cube of $1M. They're off by half a million

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Post by cxr »

sdenton4 wrote: post #369
cxr wrote: post #332

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> The post specifically says there's not a tool for counting red dots on an image Oh really? Is that what it says? Let's take a look: > All I wanted was a way to click on things in a photo and have the number go up. Those are the requirements. That's what the app is supposed to do. I don't see "a tool for counting red dots" anywhere. The closest thing is this passage: > It's stupidly simple: upload an image, click to…

You seem... needlessly offended. Pass in your image with red dots, and the red dots will be counted by the ML-counting thing just fine. It's a minor variation in approach to solving the problem, and that's OK: When confronted with a problem, people often jump to specific solutions too quickly, and miss out on better or more general approaches. This is quite pertinent in this specific case, as well - you can ask the M…

Look, there's no need to get upset. Take a breath. Calm down.

> This is quite pertinent in this specific case, as well - you can ask the ML-counting thing to count the rectangles instead of the dots, and perhaps save yourself all the clicking in the first place.

Are you just dead set on totally missing the point of what the author of this post is doing? You keep leaving comments that suggest you don't understand the requirements at all. Let's put that aside. Here's a dead simple question:

Have you successfully used the app to do the thing that you're saying that it will do when you try to use it?

Re: The Fed says this is a cube of $1M. They're off by half a million

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Post by eddythompson80 »

ftmch wrote: post #303
viccis wrote: post #221

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Man how expensive was that contractor when your art installation requires $1M in cash and all the labor to assemble it, but you can't just tell the contractor to do a new box?

They can just print more money.

It's almost as if the art piece is a commentary on the imagined order of money between humans.

Re: The Fed says this is a cube of $1M. They're off by half a million

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Post by aspenmayer »

Daneel_ wrote: post #373
tobinfekkes wrote: post #366

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My wife and I just discovered that we have different beliefs about "this Friday" vs. "Next Friday". I never even knew there was another possibility, so it's cool to see this mentioned here so soon after.

"This Friday" is the one during the current week, provided it's currently earlier than Friday. If it's Saturday/Sunday already and I want to talk about the Friday that's only 5 days away I would say "this coming Friday" (or just "Friday"). "Next Friday" is always a week+ away. If it's Tuesday and I say "next Friday", I ALWAYS mean the day 10 days away. If someone says "next Friday" to me and they mean the one in a fe…

What if they say “Friday week”?

Re: The Fed says this is a cube of $1M. They're off by half a million

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Post by Brian_K_White »

jjk166 wrote: post #305
Brian_K_White wrote: post #60

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Then another way to say that is that the claim is short.

Not in english it isn't.

Don't be absurd.

The amount written on the plaque is short by .5m

The comment we're all arguing about only says "50% shortfall" and does not say which side of the equation is short. So the word in that context merely means discrepency.

Maybe they did actually have the wrong idea about the story, but what they wrote does not say one way or the other, so there is nothing to correct and everyone is just picking a meaning and acting like they actually said more than they said.

English can't fabricate a missing identifier any more than any other language. There are no context rules that apply in this case to derive it indirectly, such as figuring out that "it" refers to something that was previously explicitly identified for instance, or anything like that.

Re: The Fed says this is a cube of $1M. They're off by half a million

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Post by goopypoop »

Daneel_ wrote: post #371
_carbyau_ wrote: post #349

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Definitions are surprisingly varied. I see these words as being something to be cautious about. For me: couple(formal) = 2 couple(informal) = 2-3 few = 3-5 half-dozen = 6 [gap] ten-or-so = 9-11 dozen(formal) = 12 dozen-ish(informal) = 11-14 And don't get me started on "this Friday" vs "next Friday"...

don't forget: several = 5-10 handful = 10-20 Personally, after having worked in a hardware store, I always confirm. "grab me a couple of those please" - "is two enough, or do you need a few extra?" I'm one of those people for whom a couple is 3-5, but never 2. I would just say "two".

I'd like a handful of bowling balls, please.
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