Is Walter Roberson a real person, or is he some kind of Matlab AI robot?

Jim Riggs on 28 May 2019
Latest activity Edit by Stephen23 on 4 Mar 2024

Just curious!
Image Analyst
Image Analyst on 15 Aug 2020
Sounds reasonable Adam. Perhaps you could join the covid-19 modeling groups, thereby raising their mean IQ substantially and improving forecasts.
Fangjun Jiang
Fangjun Jiang on 15 Aug 2020
@Adam Danz, It shows you that over-thinking is not a good thing.:)
Adam Danz
Adam Danz on 15 Aug 2020
Fangjun only specified the date so the default time would be midnight making his guess only 12 hours off (UCT time). I was the only other one to make a guess and I based it on simple linear regression where the slope was estimated by your recent 7-day and 30-day numbers which resulted in today (1 day later) at 1:39pm UTC (4:39pm Central), .
Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson on 14 Aug 2020
About 7:06 am central by the way.
Fangjun Jiang
Fangjun Jiang on 14 Aug 2020
Congratulations to Walter! An impossible feast!
Adam Danz
Adam Danz on 14 Aug 2020
@Fangjun Jiang nailed it!
Adam Danz
Adam Danz on 12 Aug 2020
Ha! I wouldn't doubt there are people who want to be the 100,000th point-giver. Unfortunately I already placed my bet using a simple linear regression and that factor was not in my model.
Rik
Rik on 11 Aug 2020
So now the question is whether we will see a bump in the rep gain because of someone trying to pull the date forward. XD
Fangjun Jiang
Fangjun Jiang on 11 Aug 2020
Can't access Google Form from work. I vote for 8/14/2020.
Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson on 11 Aug 2020
Heh. Any of you could vote for "today" and then go and vote for a bunch of my postings ;-)