Is Walter Roberson a real person, or is he some kind of Matlab AI robot?


Just curious!
Image Analyst
Image Analyst el 15 de Ag. de 2020
Sounds reasonable Adam. Perhaps you could join the covid-19 modeling groups, thereby raising their mean IQ substantially and improving forecasts.
Fangjun Jiang
Fangjun Jiang el 15 de Ag. de 2020
@Adam Danz, It shows you that over-thinking is not a good thing.:)
Adam Danz
Adam Danz el 15 de Ag. de 2020
Fangjun only specified the date so the default time would be midnight making his guess only 12 hours off (UCT time). I was the only other one to make a guess and I based it on simple linear regression where the slope was estimated by your recent 7-day and 30-day numbers which resulted in today (1 day later) at 1:39pm UTC (4:39pm Central), .
Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson el 14 de Ag. de 2020
About 7:06 am central by the way.
Fangjun Jiang
Fangjun Jiang el 14 de Ag. de 2020
Congratulations to Walter! An impossible feast!
Adam Danz
Adam Danz el 14 de Ag. de 2020
@Fangjun Jiang nailed it!
Adam Danz
Adam Danz el 12 de Ag. de 2020
Ha! I wouldn't doubt there are people who want to be the 100,000th point-giver. Unfortunately I already placed my bet using a simple linear regression and that factor was not in my model.
Rik
Rik el 11 de Ag. de 2020
So now the question is whether we will see a bump in the rep gain because of someone trying to pull the date forward. XD
Fangjun Jiang
Fangjun Jiang el 11 de Ag. de 2020
Can't access Google Form from work. I vote for 8/14/2020.
Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson el 11 de Ag. de 2020
Heh. Any of you could vote for "today" and then go and vote for a bunch of my postings ;-)