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Finished/Unfinished.
Oct. 5th, 2005 10:16 pmHi Y'all,
It's been a struggle, but we've managed to finish an entire text on Linear Regression in 3 weeks. If I ever meet the author, I'll conduct a stern talking to him about being concise and coherent, and the virtues thereof in a quantitative text. Said "talking to" may involve a crowbar. Honestly, try not to make typos in mathematical statements - this can be very, very misleading very very easily and it essentially proves that you either do not care about your text, or your reputation, or both. (I use the term "quantitative" in order to avoid calling statistics "math", which it isn't, unless you're a common person, in which case arithmetic is "math" to you. Which is why you support software patents. I'm sorry to say it, but math is something harder, much harder. Even if you aren't a Platonist, you ought to seriously reconsider how clever you might think you are in face of a countable infinity of Turing machines. End of Line.)
The midterm is on Monday and no-one really knows what it's going to be about, except that it will be about any and all chapters of the text we finished and it will be much easier if we realize that all of the topics therein are "connected". Confucious say: "statistics is all linear algebra".
I've just realized that a blog is meant to replace email insofar as it is a channel for general-interest type links and commentary. Unless you're a superstar with a political blog, in which case some Federal agency no doubt is drafting legislation to get you criminalized. Pursuant to this discovery, some tidbits (using a luscious unordered list):
I've got your number so cool it.
It's been a struggle, but we've managed to finish an entire text on Linear Regression in 3 weeks. If I ever meet the author, I'll conduct a stern talking to him about being concise and coherent, and the virtues thereof in a quantitative text. Said "talking to" may involve a crowbar. Honestly, try not to make typos in mathematical statements - this can be very, very misleading very very easily and it essentially proves that you either do not care about your text, or your reputation, or both. (I use the term "quantitative" in order to avoid calling statistics "math", which it isn't, unless you're a common person, in which case arithmetic is "math" to you. Which is why you support software patents. I'm sorry to say it, but math is something harder, much harder. Even if you aren't a Platonist, you ought to seriously reconsider how clever you might think you are in face of a countable infinity of Turing machines. End of Line.)
The midterm is on Monday and no-one really knows what it's going to be about, except that it will be about any and all chapters of the text we finished and it will be much easier if we realize that all of the topics therein are "connected". Confucious say: "statistics is all linear algebra".
I've just realized that a blog is meant to replace email insofar as it is a channel for general-interest type links and commentary. Unless you're a superstar with a political blog, in which case some Federal agency no doubt is drafting legislation to get you criminalized. Pursuant to this discovery, some tidbits (using a luscious unordered list):
- Remember Repo Man? Well, you should...
Anyway, please regard the director's thoughts, as well as his opinions on the non-understood ("misunderstood" would be a compliment) state of Copyright Law and theAss ociations of America. One might also find the unofficial script for the unofficial sequel: Waldo's Hawaiian Holiday - if one lookscarefully ! and with due respect. If you're like me, you instantly flashed back to your memory of Zak McCracken on an emulator, and thought about what could possibly define a decade better than these few packets of media and your memories both thereof and of the face of shame afront your spiritual predecessors armed with nothing but a card-reader (or, worse, Borland Pascal 4.0!) and a rigour you could only imagine, tempered and vetted by a disciplined individuality which would reduce to tears your modernblogger .
Point being: Alex Cox was for real, people. Honour your roots. Download (or rent) Repo Man tonight. - This isn't much of a list, is it? Har!
I've got your number so cool it.
