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Tuesday, February 18, 2025

Fountain of Youth

Musk has posted a age bucket distribution of those who have Social Security Numbers and are still listed as alive.  The 448 above 190 are suspicious. 

This may just be bad data.  My first job at Idsho Corrections was auditing the Date of Birth fields in our prisoner data base.  Many were clearly invalid.  

Some were fields swapped.  Month 30, day 11, year 1955.  Some were default values 1/1/1900.  A few were incomprehensible: 155/255/1867.  Yes, the data entry form was undemanding.

By the time I was done,  I had used a regular expression approach to fix most of the 15,000 DOBs that had a plausible value.   A few hundred were flagged for human intervention. 

I do wonder how many dead people are still collecting Social Security.   They was a serial killer in Sacramento some years ago who was killing and burying her elderly tenants and cashing their checks.

You can see why Democrats are so upset with Musk.


1 comment:

  1. Killing and burying them? Didn't she know that Arsenic and Old Lace wasn't a training video?

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