your Bayesian yacht is an outlier adn should not be counted (www.nytimes.com)

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[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 23 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Wait, they replaced the two masts with one double sized one? That seems a bit unwise.

Most of the time, though, the Bayesian operated like a motorboat, powered by two enormous diesel engines. During her five-day voyage, Ms. VanSickle said they sailed only once, for just a few hours. But when they did, the boat moved through the water so smoothly, she said, it felt like they were “gliding.”

Yes that is how sailing often feels if the water isnt choppy.

[-] aio@awful.systems 28 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Mr. Costantino said the design was not at fault and that the towering mast, which stood 237 feet tall, had not created “any kind of problem.”

“The ship was an unsinkable ship,” he said. “I say it, I repeat it.”

- Designer of sunken ship