tech
The False Positive Paradox
One thing more people need to be aware of is the False Positive Paradox.
If you have an app that can identify people with 97.6% accuracy, that’s pretty good right?
No! When looking for a small sample in a large enough population, it’s really bad.
Response from my MP
Hot network closets in your area
One of our network node rooms at work had it’s air con die yesterday (Friday) afternoon. It’s not considered critical and we are in a budget squeeze, so the team who are responsible for it have decided it can wait over the weekend. They have however, not turned off the alert emails. So now I’m getting a nice hour by hour view of the temperature in an uncooled network closet until things start turning off. It’s hit almost 42C overnight and is still on the rise… I’m not sure what the shut off point for the kit in there is, but it’s clearly still running…