User talk:Vfrickey

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Forecasting nuclear proliferation

@Vfickey: Might you have time and interest to review "v:Forecasting nuclear proliferation" (on Wikiversity)?

I'm scheduled to make a presentation at the 88th Military Operations Research Society Symposium, June 15-19; my talk is scheduled for June 18. I'm asking you, because in Talk:Abdul Qadeer Khan, you said you had "researched nuclear proliferation issues" yourself, which suggests you might be able to identify and help me correct deficiencies in that article. Of course, I hope you would also find it interesting and useful for your own work.

If you'd like, I can send you a link to the slides for my presentation, and I'll be happy to give you the talk via videoconferencing at some mutually convenient time. I'm UTC-5. Thanks for your many contributions to Wikipedia. DavidMCEddy (talk) 20:17, 5 June 2020 (UTC)

@DavidMCEddy:With the caveats that I have no formal qualifications as a student of nuclear proliferation and my research has solely been conducted as an amateur, yes, I don't mind reviewing your presentation. Video conferencing is problematic over my satellite Internet connection, but I"d be happy to review your slide deck. FWIW, I'm UTC-6 (US Central Daylight Savings time).

Thanks for your praise - I work when I can, and when I can replace heat with light in the sometimes contentious fields of Wikipedia. --loupgarous (talk) 02:53, 6 June 2020 (UTC)

My draft slides are available at Google Slides "Predicting the Time to Next Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons". (I'm Graves, the lead author on those slides.)

I'm confused regarding time zones: I'm also in US Central Daylight Savings Time. However, as I'm writing this, "The World Clock" says it's approximately 10 PM in Kansas City and Chicago, and UTC is approximately 3 AM tomorrow. That sounds to me like Kansas City and Chicago are UTC-5, not UTC-6.  ???

Thanks, DavidMCEddy (talk) 03:08, 6 June 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for the link. I got the data on my time zone from Microsoft's automated Internet Time service: "(UTC-06:00) Central Time (US & Canada)". However, when I lived in central Indiana, I had a similar issue - until recently that part of Indiana did not observe Daylight Savings Time, so half the year we had the same local time as the US Eastern Time Zine. --loupgarous (talk) 03:48, 6 June 2020 (UTC)

I've commented on your slide presentation (both factual issues in recounting patterns in past nuclear proliferation and other historical and current issues that perhaps were more than you asked for). --loupgarous (talk) 12:30, 6 June 2020 (UTC)

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