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Old 10-19-2016, 09:46 PM
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As I ponder our political discussion I can not help to reflect on how we drowned in data.

Our newest students might come from the school of frequency. They have the luxury of bandwidth.

What I ponder is the forgotten value of gain, aka span. That discussion is near the end of party. Span smells.
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Old 10-20-2016, 06:34 AM
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As I ponder our political discussion I can not help to reflect on how we drowned in data.

Our newest students might come from the school of frequency. They have the luxury of bandwidth.

What I ponder is the forgotten value of gain, aka span. That discussion is near the end of party. Span smells.
I am trying to get an idea of what you are trying to say. So far I have failed.
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Old 10-20-2016, 07:32 AM
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As I ponder our political discussion I can not help to reflect on how we drowned in data.

Our newest students might come from the school of frequency. They have the luxury of bandwidth.

What I ponder is the forgotten value of gain, aka span. That discussion is near the end of party. Span smells.
I want some of what he is having.
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Old 10-20-2016, 08:56 AM
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Are you sure?

Ha!

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As I ponder our political discussion I can not help to reflect on how we drowned in data.

Our newest students might come from the school of frequency. They have the luxury of bandwidth.

What I ponder is the forgotten value of gain, aka span. That discussion is near the end of party. Span smells.
Information overload vs depth of substance?

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Old 10-27-2016, 08:08 PM
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Information overload vs depth of substance?
That might be a good characterization of what I am trying to get at.

The day I wrote I was trying to digest the value of making mountains of molehills. We all do it. So why do we do it? Why did nature program us this way? It must serve a function.

The word "span", as I used it, refers to how big a signal an instrument can record. Old scientists therefore had to choose from the beginning whether they would look at mountains or mole hills. Both were interesting, but each scientist had to pick one.

Advancements in measuring, in particular big data, seem to have shifted focus to mountains. In that context it is the mountains that get attention -- the squeaky wheel gets the grease. Macroeconomics.

But as we argue politics it seems that we are really arguing about mole hills. We are trying to communicate our local frustrations, such as water drainage, store closures, drifting odors, etc, to a national audience. Nobody in the audience really gives a damn about anyone else's mole hills.

I am having a mole hill appreciation moment.
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