Trolls, Nikos, Ferrous Cranus

2013-10-02 Thread Alan Spence
Steven D'Aprano once wrote: Definitely troll, and we got well and truly had. Shame on us -- he practically *screamed* I am a troll in his user-name. Ferrous Cranus (Iron Skull) is the name of a particular subspecies of troll in Mike Reed's well known compendium:

Re: Converting a string to a number by using INT (no hash method)

2013-01-22 Thread Alan Spence
On 22 Jan 2013, at 19:28, Ferrous Cranus nikos.gr...@gmail.com wrote: Τη Τρίτη, 22 Ιανουαρίου 2013 9:02:48 μ.μ. UTC+2, ο χρήστης Michael Torrie έγραψε: On 01/22/2013 11:37 AM, Ferrous Cranus wrote: == pin = int( htmlpage.encode(hex), 16 ) %

Re: [Offtopic] Line fitting [was Re: Numpy outlier removal]

2013-01-11 Thread Alan Spence
On 09 Jan 2013, at 00:02:11 Steven D'Aprano st...@pearwood.info wrote: The point I keep making, that everybody seems to be ignoring, is that eyeballing a line of best fit is subjective, unreliable and impossible to verify. How could I check that the line you say is the best fit actually