Shared on work Slack today:

[darkling@mstdn.social]

@tankgrrl BRB, just installing Windows 2000.

[erik@mastodon.infrageeks.social]

@tankgrrl @tantramar 🤪

[npars01@mstdn.social]

@scottmiller42 @simonzerafa @tankgrrl

John Burn-Murdoch on the subject...

https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2013/jul/24/why-you-should-never-trust-a-data-visualisation
https://archive.is/dT0za

https://petewarden.com/2013/07/18/why-you-should-never-trust-a-data-scientist/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misleading_graph

Darrell Huff's book "How to Lie with Statistcs"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Lie_with_Statistics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misuse_of_statistics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Lie_with_Maps

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lies,_damned_lies,_and_statistics

[gilesdring@mastodon.me.uk]

@tankgrrl Opus 98, HAL 2001…

[luc0x61@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@tankgrrl Then someone can use semantic versioning to 26.10 and outperform them all?

[fraggle@social.coop]

@PaniczGodek @tankgrrl and to be fair it's still the best Windows ever made

[d3codes@mas.to]

@fraggle @PaniczGodek @tankgrrl all the beauty of 95/98 with all the foundational improvements of NT

[pionir@mastodon.online]

@PaniczGodek @tankgrrl

[lambdachro@piaille.fr]

@tankgrrl

Maybe we won't even need artificial intelligence to be completely stupid after all.

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@jawarajabbi @tankgrrl

no, sorry, i have 13

[sempf@infosec.exchange]

@tankgrrl "Our version number is higher" is what I got from that.

[jhein@mastodon.social]

@tankgrrl that's very computers.

[noiseician@mastodon.world]

@tankgrrl my model 69.420 puts all those other tiny numbers to shame!