Computer misbehaving

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Every once in a while, I get a day where my hands shake too bad to type well. I'm not all that good a typist anyway, but I can get on a roll and do all...

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Malwarebytes locked my computer up tight as a drum. Only a power-off restart got me back on line, and it took forever. Not your fault, just fyi. Now...

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Admin: I suspect that a system resource didn't load, loaded improperly, or that memory was corrupted and disabled the resource. I rebooted my system...

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This is really odd, and I can't find anything about it anywhere. It started when I tried to load WordTwist. The screen just froze, with the little swirly...

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I suspect that the statistics posted are correct, and there really are that many words. But they're backwards or coiled back on themselves and really...

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I like to know a little more about how well I can expect to do, so if I can look at a board and say: "RussDNails got 700 on that one, so I ought...

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Yeah, I've done that before, too. But I was signed in. I had been playing for a while and everything was normal until it very decidedly wasn't. And...

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One more thing to add: Every board shows up now with no statistics. None of them have been played, there is no high score shown, etc.

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I played a game and got an unremarkable score of 490 or so. I saw "submitting" and then it showed a null page -- no high score, no best word,...

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I recognize eight as possible words. I think if I tried to memorize the list I still couldn't make myself see them as words on any board, other than...

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We're not trying to deny that the data are skewed. Spike and I agree that it seems to be. We're just discussing what kind of skewness applies, and have...

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Yeah, polynomials are good at interpolation (as you said, even a cubic can be good locally). There are even formulae to tell you what the expected error...

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The really fun thing about this discussion (is it really log normal?) is that the same discussion was had about stock prices and the option prices derived...

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The data are the data, and it matters not if someone is trying to extrapolate or predict. To me, log normal distributions are simple descriptive statistics....

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Stock market prices are simple and numeric, and two U of Chicago economics professors (Black and Scholes) won a Nobel for writing a mathematical model...

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Another thing you need to consider is how many games have been played on that board. If I were to play a board and then have the same board come up again...

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For a log normal distribution, you'd pick a reference score and then express all other scores as a ratio to that score. So, if the median score were...

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With no data to back my opinion, I suspect the bell curve might actually be a more reasonable notation -- if the scores were converted to log-normal format....

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Speaking of averages, there's something I've been meaning to write and I keep putting it off. Well, it's the start of the month and a perfect time to...

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I can't answer for RussDNails, but from what I know and surmise, you're about as wrong as possible. I'm 74 years old, retired, and enjoy words and word...