[0700] Grown-Up Talk
└ posted on Monday, 13 July 2015, by Novil
- Male colleague: I heard that Rainbow Dash must save Cloudsdale from a hurricane in the next My Little Pony episode.
- Female colleague: C-o-o-o-l!
- Female colleague: Patricia’s dating Carl now. But Rachel still believes she’s seeing Harold!
- Female colleague: Oh. My. Gawd!
- Male colleague: Just Cause 3 will come out on December 1.
- Male colleague: Awesome! I can’t wait to blow everything up again!
- Yuna: I wish I were grown-up. My stupid classmates never want to talk to me about neural networks and deep learning architectures!
![[0700] Grown-Up Talk](/comics/2015-07-13-0700-grown-up-talk.png "[0700] Grown-Up Talk")
@ Petah-Petah: your icon makes it better, and I know it sucks but it makes sense course there is suppose to be another Hearths warming eve (christmas) EP
The more things change…
…the more you feel the hurt.
1OldBear wrote:
Arg! I’m retired from the field of statistical analysis and this sort of stuff always bugged the heck out of me! If x causes a 10% increase over a base rate of 0.5%, the the probability is still only 0.55%… about 1 in 182 as opposed to the previous probability on 1 in 200. In most fields of study, this is considered statistically insignificant… especially if there is a margin of error within half the magnitude of the base rate.
The other thing that irked me to no end was when I would present statistical models based on Predictive analytics that showed (for example) a 25% probability of improvement in the object of study and a 30% probability of decline, the (non-mathematically inclined) managers I would report the data to would invariably say something like, “But that only adds up to 45%… that can’t be right!” and question either my methodology or competence. ::sigh::
Great strip Novil! I love Yuna! She reminds me of me at that age! (except I never broke any physical laws)
Well… the solution Yuna is looking for is called “Internet”.
Acidentally read “C-O-O-O-L” as “C-O-B-O-L”