Tim
mckenna.bsky.social
Tim
@mckenna.bsky.social
NYC and LA
If you have five indep sources of evidence that all say guilty at 90%, how do you combine them? If actually indep, wouldn’t prob of guilt be (1-0.9)^5?
December 10, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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In my first job out of school learning about flash memory and learning that the difference between a 1 and 0 was just how much charge was trapped, with a threshold (or multiple for MLC/TLC/etc), that was when I learned its abstraction all the way down to the very 1s and 0s we’re paid to make dance.
November 27, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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Look at his feet in this one:
July 28, 2023 at 11:47 AM
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Indulging people's exaggerated fears makes everything worse, and most reporting on crime is that. I thought your magazine was supposed to have smart things in it.
October 16, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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This reminds me of the time Ryan Reaves thought the smelling salts weren't strong enough so he called for the hardcore stuff...
October 10, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Apartment gym weights might have lower actual weights than what is printed on them.
October 9, 2025 at 1:46 AM
He says sorry.
July 24, 2025 at 1:42 AM
This is exactly what happened with Chipotle. It was a huge improvement for most areas of the US. But now it is typical.
July 15, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Man did you get unlucky against me. We both q’d.
July 13, 2025 at 2:28 PM