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@abulsme tweets from 2014-05-17 (UTC)

  • Listening – Common Sense with Dan Carlin: Show 274 – The Wages of Fear http://t.co/7yJ9Y8ld4T 01:04:04
  • Another Little Test 07:52:02
  • More Test 08:22:57
  • Poll Added: Election1988 in IA from 1988-11-08 – DEM 54.71% to REP 44.50% http://t.co/waQAbomXUn 08:29:32
  • Cool. That worked. :-) I’ll turn it off for backfilling old elections though and leave it on for actual new polls. More to come. 08:31:12
  • Mo Test 08:44:40
  • Clinton vs Huckabee tipping point change: Clinton by 3.8 in NC -> Clinton by 3.5 in CO http://t.co/IListlzdAV 09:42:39
  • Uh, not true, just testing stuff. RT @abulsme: Clinton vs Huckabee tipping point change: Clinton by 3.8 in NC -> Clinton by 3.5 in CO 09:57:18
  • Clinton vs Huckabee tipping point change: Clinton by 3.5 in CO -> Clinton by 3.8 in NC http://t.co/IListlzdAV 11:53:28
  • Right again, but calc still off. :-( RT @abulsme: Clinton vs Huckabee tipping point change: Clinton by 3.5 in CO -> Clinton by 3.8 in NC 11:59:12
  • Think I finally licked the bug I found on the historical trend calcs that showed up with Huckabee. Maybe I should go to sleep now. :-) 12:31:08
  • I can’t find 1998 Pres election results for Nebraska by congressional district. I’m going to have to estimate it from county data. :-/ 13:00:25
  • Finished putting in 1988 election data into my thing. My goal was back to 1984, but I now think I’ll go back to 1980. http://t.co/7bmWxsD6jH 20:21:21
  • MT @BYUfan: 1790! MT @abulsme: Finished putting in 1988 election data. I now think I’ll go back to 1980. http://t.co/7bmWxsD6jH 21:34:01
  • MT @BYUfan: (Correction) 1788! MT @abulsme: Finished putting in 1988 election data. I think I’ll go back to 1980. http://t.co/GzLr4WFuje 21:34:48
  • .@BYUfan I think I’ll leave everything before 1980 to this guy: http://t.co/XUu9Y5EuJs Amazing resource! in reply to BYUfan 21:36:19
  • .@BYUfan Of course, he started his site before everybody standardized on Rep=Red, Dem=Blue, so he has it the other way! Confusing! :-) in reply to BYUfan 21:37:59
  • Added category label to the mouse over on the poll average line. http://t.co/7bmWxsD6jH 21:39:16
  • Next up I may actually tackle the new graphs I want to make using the trend histories. Unless I procrastinate by typing in 1984 data. :-) 21:40:16
Posted by Abulsme -- Sunday 18 May 2014 00:00:00 UTC
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@abulsme tweets from 2014-05-16 (UTC)

Posted by Abulsme -- Saturday 17 May 2014 00:00:00 UTC
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Curmudgeon’s Corner: Bouncing Around

In the latest Curmudgeon’s Corner Sam and Ivan talk about:

  • The Present / Garage Stuff
  • Election Site Update / Random Stuff
  • Right to be Forgotten
  • Apple Beats / Google Glass

Recorded on 15 May 2014

Length this week – 55:38

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Posted by Abulsme -- Friday 16 May 2014 05:43:58 UTC
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@abulsme tweets from 2014-05-15 (UTC)

Posted by Abulsme -- Friday 16 May 2014 00:00:00 UTC
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@abulsme tweets from 2014-05-14 (UTC)

Posted by Abulsme -- Thursday 15 May 2014 00:00:00 UTC
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@abulsme tweets from 2014-05-13 (UTC)

  • RT @CBCAlerts: MM&A railway, 3 people charged in #LacMegantic disaster. Accused of causing the death of 47 people by criminal negligence. 00:45:44
  • Reading – FCC Net Neutrality Plan in Chaos (@samgustin) http://t.co/Uw5beSTUhX 04:40:16
  • Automated raw trend data update. Made the state trend update smarter. Fixed dynamic default 4 state graph timeframe. http://t.co/oEpFPIlJnD 08:59:24
  • Alex has a fever, so staying home from work tomorrow to take care of him. But still probably time to call it quits for the night. :-) 09:00:03
  • Next up, trying to actually make graphs out of some of those raw national trend numbers. Woo! 09:08:55
  • Yes. Got mail. Not PCOing again. Will email later with thoughts. RT @BYUfan: @abulsme Did you get my email? Are you willing to be PCO again? 18:27:10
  • Reading – What it's like to own a Tesla Model S (The Oatmeal) http://t.co/kXhxHNoKok 21:29:16
Posted by Abulsme -- Wednesday 14 May 2014 00:00:00 UTC
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@abulsme tweets from 2014-05-12 (UTC)

Posted by Abulsme -- Tuesday 13 May 2014 00:00:00 UTC
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@abulsme tweets from 2014-05-11 (UTC)

Posted by Abulsme -- Monday 12 May 2014 00:00:00 UTC
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@abulsme tweets from 2014-05-10 (UTC)

  • Alex saw a rainbow and spontaneously broke into song… What a Wonderful World. Sang the whole song. Made my day. Thanks Alex! 02:16:56
  • I will let YOU have that particular fun. :-) RT @BYUfan: @abulsme that would be so much fun! 02:49:02
  • Reading – I've got a little list (@intelwire) http://t.co/2G05SRcC0i 03:21:04
  • Let it go Bruce! Let it go! RT @BYUfan: The movie tonight is Frozen. It seems like I'm the last person in the world to see it. 03:24:35
  • Reading – U.S. Officers Kill Armed Civilians in Yemen Capital (Eric Schmitt) http://t.co/OTK7gC1aJw 04:07:45
  • Breitbart mentions my dad -> Hillary Clinton Protested Designation of Boko Haram as Terrorist Group (Warner Huston) http://t.co/fDiLmZcKbu 05:34:28
  • Made one correction and added five polls I had missed thanks to data from @bonncaruso. Thanks! http://t.co/qTS8nbucG3 06:08:35
  • Reading – How to make a simple electronic musical instrument (@Frauenfelder) http://t.co/UZrCCx00Ub 06:40:17
  • Another bug fix thanks to @bonncaruso. When I flipped left/right recently, I missed flipping category totals. Fixed. http://t.co/qTS8nbucG3 12:39:03
  • Reading – Still Paying for the Civil War (Michael M. Phillips) http://t.co/In5kBr3vwJ 13:48:49
  • No graphs yet. But I now have (very inefficient) historical trends calculations working in raw form: http://t.co/6rEmW1j0If 20:48:19
  • Next up, automatic recalculation (currently I manual trigger that), then actual graphs, then I’ll probably need to tackle efficiency. 20:49:53
  • The current way I am calculating is horribly inefficient. I have it set as a back end process so won’t trigger on web views, but still bad. 20:50:37
  • It recomputes all candidate combos, even if there are no new relevant polls, and recomputes all the historical stuff, even if not changed. 20:51:30
  • Also reexamines all polls and recalculates all the state averages for each data point, even though I have that some of that info elsewhere. 20:53:40
  • Takes over 30 minutes to calculate everything, even with limited poll data. Will get much worse in 2016. So I will have to make it smarter. 20:54:55
  • There are plenty of things I can think of to make it smarter & faster. But I wanted to get something quick&dirty done first, optimize later. 20:56:26
  • But wow is it doing a lot of repetitive calculations that it would be better off only doing once and then using the stored results… 20:57:05
  • Anyway, I spent about 6 or 7 hours on this today. I’ve got some garage cleaning work calling my name now. More poll stuff some other time. 20:58:56
Posted by Abulsme -- Sunday 11 May 2014 00:00:00 UTC
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@abulsme tweets from 2014-05-09 (UTC)

Posted by Abulsme -- Saturday 10 May 2014 00:00:00 UTC
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