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Interpreting and using disk performance data

What’s our purpose? What factors confound the results of tests, and how to eliminate them? Which tests? What should we believe, and where do we go from here?

May 6, 2022 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Swallowing a fly

It started with wanting to benchmark SSDs, passed through robust linear regression, and is now diving deep into linear programming and matrices.

February 21, 2021 Macs, Technology

Help! My Mac is innumerate

The futile quest for a pasteboard format which transfers numbers as numbers rather than text which has to be converted back in integers, floating point numbers, and so on.

January 15, 2021 Macs, Technology

How many cases of Covid-19 was that?

Just how many fresh cases occurred in the UK on 22 May? It should be an easy question to answer, surely?

June 10, 2020 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Test results aren’t necessarily as meaningful as you think

So your swab test is negative. That could mean that it was just a false negative, or you might not have the infection at all. How can you tell the chances?

May 23, 2020 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Better than the web: The Economist Pocket World in Figures, 2016 edition

There’s more to the world than just numbers, but you will find most of those numbers in here.

January 16, 2016 General, Language, Life, Technology

Precisely not: why we have become too precise for our own good

The app told me that in 10 minutes it would rain for 10 minutes, but there was a 43% chance of rain over the next hour.

December 15, 2015 General, Language, Life, Macs, Technology

Spare us glib stereotypes

Why, when only too keen to point out our individuality, do we deny it of others?

October 18, 2015 General, Language, Life

$able or ¢ynthetic: 4 error and flat brushes

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Not all sable brushes are created equal, how some are slow starters, and new results for flat or ‘One Stroke’ brushes.

July 27, 2015 Painting, Technology
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