Put together a fairly good statistical analysis for a problem at work today; luckily, it came out in our favor, if I have not done something colossally stupid like set the wrong null hypothesis. I am under the impression that H0 should always assume no intervention, no change, the commonsense default assumption... but doubts creep in, when the no- ( Read more... )

Just poking up my head to say that I still exist ( Read more... )

Or not, if, as is more likely, it never was all that interesting ( Read more... )

My boss: "I don't know if I can afford you as a consultant."
Me: "But I'm a cheap consultant! Almost as cheap as a student!"

Good thing he laughed.

Axiom #$bignum: Pay people what they're worth. People can make $9.50 an hour FOLDING SHIRTS. Skilled intellectual labor deserves a skilled-labor wage... or you don't fucking deserve skilled laborers ( Read more... )

Somebody please convince me that supporting youth literary education with scurrrrrvy pirates is worth $35.

Alternatively, if someone in SF were to get me one, I'd pay him/her/arrrrrr! back for their trouble.

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I am running into friends in my department who seem to know an awful lot about my upcoming change of employment, and details pursuant ( Read more... )

...whoa. One of the other companies I had put out a resume to, at SIGCHI, called me back to offer me an internship. I had to (got to?) tell them that I'd accepted another offer ( Read more... )

The ongoing dilemma: writing good* documentation is going to be the most lengthy and difficult task on this list, so I should budget the most time for it, but half the other things on said list haven't been properly implemented yet, so I should do that first... fuuuuuck, why do we have a total of three people on four projects ( Read more... )

I'm just curious - does everyone besides me hate the spring Knitty? I don't like some of it - especially the bead knitting, which is odd, because I adore more bead knitting than I'll admit to, but Ungranny Smith reminds me of the sort of ill-fitting cardigan things I used to see on clearance at Mervyn's - but I have yet to see anyone else go "Hmm, ( Read more... )

The correct response to "I have two months to complete all* the tasks currently on my plate" is not to start brainstorming about new and exciting features you think should be added but which were mysteriously never specced or even agreed upon in the first place ( Read more... )