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andrewducker

Interesting Links for 01-08-2015

Aug 01, 2015 13:01

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steer August 2 2015, 20:12:00 UTC

Those rules for when a process is out of control are terrible terrible rules.

All rules will definitely be broken if you observe a "normal" process for long enough. That's bad enough but for specific rules:

Rule 1 will be broken quickly by any process which has a severely skew distribution (e.g. low values common high values rare, mean is near low values)

Rule 2 will be broken quickly by any process which has "memory" (it reverts to a mean but samples are like each other.

Rule 3 will be broken quickly by any process which has "momentum" (it reverts to a mean but tends to "keep going" in the same direction).

I can cite processes which will be "working fine" and break any of the other rules.

naath August 3 2015, 14:53:46 UTC

I don't understand why anyone thinks that parents have any financial obligation towards their children once the children are independent adults; and I certainly don't see why children "deserve" any party of the estate - children don't *contribute* to your financial wealth they *cost money*, what is the source of their moral right to any of your money?