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    #21
    Originally posted by Amiga500 View Post
    I'm not Scottish, but looking at these inventions:

    Alexander Bain-[electric clock,fax machine]
    John Logie Baird-[television]
    Alexander Graham Bell-[telephone]
    Sir James Dewar-[dewar flask]
    James Goodfellow-[pin & atm technology]
    John Scott Haldane-[gas mask]
    John Macgregor-[sailing canoes]
    Charles Macintosh-[waterproof fabrics]
    Kilpatrick Macmilan-[bicycle]
    William Murdoch-[gas lighting]
    James young Simpson-[chloroform]
    William Symington-[steamboat]
    Robert William Thomson-[pneumatic tyre]
    Sir Robert Alexander Watson-watt[radar]

    I'd say there are certainly some intelligent Scots.

    HTH
    1. Bayesian models for detection of fraud in consumer credit portfolios using socio-economic data (Menelaus)

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      #22
      Originally posted by Menelaus View Post
      1. Bayesian models for detection of fraud in consumer credit portfolios using socio-economic data (Menelaus)

      Passe. Been done before. 0/10.
      Hard Brexit now!
      #prayfornodeal

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        #23
        Originally posted by sasguru View Post
        Passe. Been done before. 0/10.
        Yep. By me. January 2001.

        Of the top 20 banks and lenders in the UK, none of them had tried it before.

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          #24
          Originally posted by Menelaus View Post
          1. Bayesian models for detection of fraud in consumer credit portfolios using socio-economic data (Menelaus)

          Was fraud being committed in relation to CC portfolios as far back as Ancient Greek civilisation? Maybe that was the real reason for going to war with Troy.
          Faster, faster, faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death.

          Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.

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            #25
            Originally posted by sappatz View Post
            below zero ?
            Well we least now know the IQ of the average sasanach
            "Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience". Mark Twain

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              #26
              Originally posted by BlackenedBiker View Post
              Was fraud being committed in relation to CC portfolios as far back as Ancient Greek civilisation? Maybe that was the real reason for going to war with Troy.
              Yes, those bloody W African Trojans!

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                #27
                Originally posted by scooterscot View Post
                Well we least now know the IQ of the average sasanach
                So you're berating the English using the English language, a computer, the World Wide Web and electricity (discovery of), all English inventions, oh the irony!
                You can lead a fool to wisdom but you can't make him think.

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                  #28
                  Originally posted by Amiga500 View Post
                  So you're berating the English using the English language, a computer, the World Wide Web and electricity (discovery of), all English inventions, oh the irony!
                  I wouldn't dare berate the English, especially when:

                  1. I know a good number of them as friends as well as colleagues
                  2. They've got about ten times our population
                  3. In many endeavours, the English do such a good job of berating themselves!

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                    #29
                    And we never lose at football.

                    England 6-0 Andorra

                    That's got to bring a feel good factor to the country.

                    (Italy makes good curly haired men call Fabio)
                    Faster, faster, faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death.

                    Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.

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                      #30
                      Originally posted by Amiga500 View Post
                      I'm not Scottish, but looking at these inventions:

                      Alexander Bain-[electric clock,fax machine]
                      John Logie Baird-[television]
                      Alexander Graham Bell-[telephone]
                      Sir James Dewar-[dewar flask]
                      James Goodfellow-[pin & atm technology]
                      John Scott Haldane-[gas mask]
                      John Macgregor-[sailing canoes]
                      Charles Macintosh-[waterproof fabrics]
                      Kilpatrick Macmilan-[bicycle]
                      William Murdoch-[gas lighting]
                      James young Simpson-[chloroform]
                      William Symington-[steamboat]
                      Robert William Thomson-[pneumatic tyre]
                      Sir Robert Alexander Watson-watt[radar]

                      I'd say there are certainly some intelligent Scots.

                      HTH
                      You forgot Alexander Fleming [penicillin].

                      OTOH he was a medical researcher who found something that killed bacteria, and instead of realising the potential, he just cursed because it spoiled his experiment and threw it out, only coming back years later to develop antibiotics. So maybe he wasn't so smart.

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