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by PLeonat
Sun May 27, 2018 3:35 pm
Forum: Technology, Energy, Safety, Risk, Radiation, Shielding,...
Topic: Random - TI59 Web Site
Replies: 17
Views: 77775

Re: Random - TI59 Web Site

And, I believe NIM was the game of the 21 sticks that you have to take turns picking up, right? I remember playing that game and trying to fool the device, but after a while it would win all the time Yes, it was the game of the 21 sticks. It was sort-of my first introduction to expert systems, syst...
by PLeonat
Mon May 21, 2018 3:07 pm
Forum: Technology, Energy, Safety, Risk, Radiation, Shielding,...
Topic: Scilab exponential interpolation
Replies: 21
Views: 136265

Re: Scilab exponential interpolation

Jim, don't pay attention to him. Howard will find something negative in everything that's posted here. You know the type...
by PLeonat
Mon May 21, 2018 3:05 pm
Forum: Technology, Energy, Safety, Risk, Radiation, Shielding,...
Topic: Random - TI59 Web Site
Replies: 17
Views: 77775

Re: Random - TI59 Web Site

Ah... that makes sense. 1 Mb ? What was I thinking... I also recall that a lot of people were writing programs and sharing them with other users for a small fee. It was sort-of the first generation of user's groups :-) I remember getting such a program about the learning game of NIM (I think). It wa...
by PLeonat
Fri May 18, 2018 3:55 pm
Forum: Technology, Energy, Safety, Risk, Radiation, Shielding,...
Topic: Random - TI59 Web Site
Replies: 17
Views: 77775

Re: Random - TI59 Web Site

Not as random as you think :-) Although I was not an enthusiastic user of TI products (I was more of an HP person), I do recall dabbling a bit into the Algebraic notation, what a blasphemy :-), first with a TI-58 and the with a TI-59 (their popularity was declining when I started using them). What I...
by PLeonat
Thu Dec 28, 2017 4:21 am
Forum: Technology, Energy, Safety, Risk, Radiation, Shielding,...
Topic: Scilab exponential interpolation
Replies: 21
Views: 136265

Re: Scilab exponential interpolation

Howard, I think you are way off in your thinking. I don't know who told you that interpolation only has to be simple, or only linear, or... but whoever it was, they were lying to you :-) The complexity, accuracy, etc. of the interpolation is only limited by the knowledge of the user regarding the p...
by PLeonat
Thu Dec 28, 2017 3:32 am
Forum: Technology, Energy, Safety, Risk, Radiation, Shielding,...
Topic: Scilab exponential interpolation
Replies: 21
Views: 136265

Re: Scilab exponential interpolation

Howard, I think you are way off in your thinking. I don't know who told you that interpolation only has to be simple, or only linear, or... but whoever it was, they were lying to you :-) The complexity, accuracy, etc. of the interpolation is only limited by the knowledge of the user regarding the pr...
by PLeonat
Mon Nov 20, 2017 2:54 pm
Forum: Technology, Energy, Safety, Risk, Radiation, Shielding,...
Topic: Scilab exponential interpolation
Replies: 21
Views: 136265

Re: Scilab exponential interpolation

Thanks, everyone. I do understand what everyone is saying about how to interpret and use statistics, in general, but I think everyone missed the original request, i.e., if anyone had a scilab script for exponential interpolation :-) In any case, I am working on putting one together right now. If I ...
by PLeonat
Fri Nov 17, 2017 6:33 am
Forum: Technology, Energy, Safety, Risk, Radiation, Shielding,...
Topic: Scilab exponential interpolation
Replies: 21
Views: 136265

Re: Scilab exponential interpolation

Not sure how I can best explain this. It's a classical mistake people make with statistics. They think it's magic and somehow it comes up with some sort of equation that all of a sudden describes reality. It can, but only if the one performing the analysis know something about the process and can va...
by PLeonat
Thu Nov 16, 2017 6:07 pm
Forum: Software Development, Architectures, PM, Agile, Scrum...
Topic: Benford's Law - this is great
Replies: 9
Views: 46114

Re: Benford's Law - this is great

Well, I don't know how helpful it is, but I found another short paper on this site's "techs" section that deals with this subject. http://triusinc.com/techs/QuickBenford_Karahalios.pdf It's fairly simple and doesn't go deep into math, but it may provide some additional insight. Wow, actua...
by PLeonat
Mon Nov 13, 2017 3:17 pm
Forum: Software Development, Architectures, PM, Agile, Scrum...
Topic: Benford's Law - this is great
Replies: 9
Views: 46114

Re: Benford's Law - this is great

Yes, I had looked at it a while ago and I had analyzed the populations of 227 countries in 1950. It was a quick and dirty thing, but here is what the results looked like: Pretty good, IMO. The first digit frequencies seem to agree with Benford's law.

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by PLeonat
Sun Nov 12, 2017 12:03 am
Forum: Software Development, Architectures, PM, Agile, Scrum...
Topic: Benford's Law - this is great
Replies: 9
Views: 46114

Re: Benford's Law - this is great

Wait, isn't that exactly what his premise is? That "made up" numbers are not random, in terms of the first digit?

I may have totally misread this, but I think what you found proves his point.
by PLeonat
Sat Nov 11, 2017 11:55 pm
Forum: Technology, Energy, Safety, Risk, Radiation, Shielding,...
Topic: Scilab exponential interpolation
Replies: 21
Views: 136265

Re: Scilab exponential interpolation

Not sure if this helps, but I found this folder with a whole bunch of docs, on this board and there is a document there about exponential interpolations Doc: Exp_Interpolations_Karahalios.pdf Link: ( http://triusinc.com/techs/Exp_Interpolations_Karahalios.pdf ) Take a look and see if it's what you ...
by PLeonat
Fri Nov 10, 2017 5:48 pm
Forum: Technology, Energy, Safety, Risk, Radiation, Shielding,...
Topic: Scilab exponential interpolation
Replies: 21
Views: 136265

Re: Scilab exponential interpolation

I mistakenly posted my question in different thread (sorry about that), so I am re-posting here. First, this board is great. I find better answers here than what I am finding in the scilab specific forums. I guess those other forums are for people that already have expertise on the subject. I also ...
by PLeonat
Sun Nov 05, 2017 4:32 pm
Forum: Technology, Energy, Safety, Risk, Radiation, Shielding,...
Topic: SciLab for Nuclear Applications?
Replies: 4
Views: 32181

Re: SciLab for Nuclear Applications?

Will this work? Fairly trivial stuff, for the most part, but better than nothing.
by PLeonat
Wed Mar 02, 2016 5:20 pm
Forum: Technology, Energy, Safety, Risk, Radiation, Shielding,...
Topic: Stolen radioactive material - mexico
Replies: 2
Views: 21310

Re: Stolen radioactive material - mexico

It's not as major an event as you think. Sure, it should not be taken lightly, but it does happen and there are processes and procedures to deal with it. True, it happens all the time, such radiographic sources get stolen, or lost and everyone freaks out, thinking that all of a sudden people are go...