I wanted to learn how to use smashwords, for reasons completely unrelated to this blog, SAS or statistics, but I thought it would go much faster if I had an actual project to work on. I considered writing a serious book for researchers on SAS Enterprise Guide, but then I decided that I did not…
I’ve been reviewing a number of options for students to learn mathematics. A lot of sources kind of sucked. At best, these sites were just the same old thing, flash cards but on a computer screen, for example. There is nothing terribly wrong with that, but it is hard to imagine that they have any…
I’m on Twitter a lot, and more to the point, I read a whole lot of blogs and web pages, all of which point to three, related questions: Why do I so seldom read anything on how to DO predictive analytics or modeling from people who are always tweeting how these are (** Drum roll…
My friend, Gokor Chivichyan, a mixed martial arts instructor, once gave this questionable advice to his students, “Women usually just say they’re fat to get attention. So, me, I agree with them. If she says she’s fat, I say, yes, you fat but we like you anyway. If she’s really fat, though, you just have…
The reverb10 prompt for today was to sum up 2010 in one word. It reminded me of a kid I used to play with. Her name was Star, her sister’s name was Secret and her brother’s name was Arrow. She said that, after each birth, her mom opened the dictionary at random and whatever word…
Hurray, you! You read my last post and now have your data on the high performance computing cluster wherever it is that people were silly enough to give someone like you access. You have an account. You have data. Now what? Oh, yeah, you need to connect to your host computer and do stuff. If…
“How often times it happens that we live our lives in chains, and we never even know we hold the key.” I remember listening to that song by The Eagles at the Mississippi River Fest back when I was a teenager. Yes, the Mississippi River existed back then. It’s a good point. So often we…
The next time your boss asks what you do all day or why it takes you so long to answer a question, show him or her this … Now, unlike this blog. where I basically drink Chardonnay and say whatever the hell I feel like, when people are paying me for answers, I take my…
Vista on VMware was running slow. I mean painfully slow. Like, bamboo shoots under your fingernails painful. As in banana slug slow. SAS Enterprise Guide was running SO slow on VMware I had gotten to the point where I would read a book while waiting for it to open, or to view results in a…
There are two kinds of people in organizations; those who can count and those who claim to have “people skills”. When David Wechsler created the most commonly used intelligence test in America, the results gave two IQ scores, Verbal and Performance Intelligence. Dr. Wechsler said he had noticed that there are some people who were…