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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (6 children)

Because there already are tracks without electricity where I live. When coming from a nearby major city by me, the train has to stop for 40 minutes while they switch from an electric to diesel power car. Same process while taking a train into the city, switching from diesel to electric.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (8 children)

Well a battery electric train is probably useful for those routes with a section that isn't powered.

Not sure if it would be awfully cleaner than a diesel electric train, because those are already pretty efficient as I understand it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Erm I might be showing my inexperience here.

Is there no equivalent to man LOAD in the commodore world? Or even just help?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

That's the ticket, IMO. I start off assuming they know, then pause to ask "are you familiar with x concept?"

If they say yes and they really mean no, there's really not a lot I can do. But it seems to make people feel at ease when talking to me - I don't get called out for over explaining or infantalizing people this way.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

In statistics, everything is based off probability / likelihood - even binary yes or no decisions. For example, you might say "this predictive algorithm must be at least 95% statistically confident of an answer, else you default to unknown or another safe answer".

What this likely means is only 26% of the answers were confident enough to say "yes" (because falsely accusing somebody of cheating is much worse than giving the benefit of the doubt) and were correct.

There is likely a large portion of answers which could have been predicted correctly if the company was willing to chance more false positives (potentially getting studings mistakenly expelled).