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March 07, 2018

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Thoughts on Solar for the Home

Recently my wife and I received an estimate for having solar panels installed on our house. The sales documents made what appeared to be a compelling case for solar. With such a big purchase is seemed like a good use of time to see if I could reproduce the numbers in the estimate and prove to myself that I understood them. So I did a little thinking and ran some numbers and my surprising conclusion is that contrary to the sales information it would not make sense for us to get solar. And I'll go a little farther: I don't think it makes sense for most people. Just to be clear we live in a fairly sunny place and our roof surface area was projected to cover 80% of our electric needs. All things being equal we should be a good candidate for solar. Let me walk you through the numbers that the salesperson generated to show us why solar makes sense. Then I'll walk you through what I think he missed. I'm going to use my actual numbers because it's what I'm mo...

Audience

I do know how this will all sound, really I do, but I feel like someone else knowing about it will be somewhat of a relief. So the thing is, since I was an early teen I've been aware of and hear the "studio audience". Yes, the studio audience that interacted live with a performance at early TV recordings. The studio audience that was later replicated with "laugh tracks". That studio audience. I'm not saying I'm imagining or hallucinating a studio audience. I'm saying that I hear *the* studio audience. I have my own reasons for knowing this is real. But in any case just like a sighted person wouldn't care if a blind person denied the existence of sight, I know the studio audience is real and I hear them all the time. I don't know why no one else can hear them. I don't think I'm special, quite boring really. Maybe it's some sort of error in the universe, maybe it's an experiment. I used to be quite interested in figurin...

Word Typicality, An Investigation

Overview We seek here to learn about the most "typical" word of length n for various n's of interest. We define "typical" to mean: the most commonly suggested spelling correction for all strings of length n drawing from the standard English alphabet: A-Z. For instance if I type a word like "typicax" the suggested correction would be "typical". If we type a nonsense string of letters such as "rtyufghj" we can also check to see what the suggested spelling correction is, in this case "retying". In a sense, the "typical" word of length n is the word that a random string is most drawn towards. By hypothesis, it represents the true inner nature of words of a given length. Here are the results followed by some notes on methods. Note: for words of length 1 and 2 spellcheckers don't really seem to think it is worth correcting us so results start at 3. Results n Typical Runners Up 3 JFK kWh, s...

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