What do a herd of deer and a sea lion have to do with statistics? Friday, I was on the Spirit Lake Dakota Nation in North Dakota. Most of the time while I was there, I spent at the Spirit Lake Vocational Rehabilitation Project, an impressively effective group of people who help tribal members with…
This post DOES relate to you, I am almost certain. Keep reading. As I type this post very slowly, I’m trying to use all 10 fingers. You see, for a few years, I had a real problem with my left thumb due to arthritis. It hurt so badly I couldn’t really use it at all…
I saw this poster in a high school, supposedly said by a basketball coach: People say, “Follow your dreams. ” I say, “Forget your dreams, kid, follow math.” He goes on to give the percentage of high school athletes who compete in college – 3.4% for men’s basketball, by the way, 1% of high school…
A couple of years ago, I get an email from Professor Douchebag (not his real name) that he is doing a study on women entrepreneurs and would like half an hour or more of my time. I’m in favor of research, so I schedule him in a week or two later when I have a…
God spare me from the self-taught software developer who knows only the latest thing. I’m not against the latest thing, whether it is react or ember or Python games on Raspberry Pi or whatever it is today. My objection is to the fallacy that it is the only thing or even the most import thing. …
Today, I finished up a bonus Easter egg for the game, Aztech: Meet the Maya that you are taken to play when you click to see what Jose is thinking. You can see a rough version of it here. This plays better on a desktop / laptop because iPad blocks the autoplay for sound, but…
So you want to be a successful software developer / consultant ? If you are in any kind of quantitative field you have a VAST range of options, from working at some of the largest companies in the world in marketing research to performing efficacy studies for non-profits whose staff members can be counted on…
Last post, I talked about bricolage, the fine art of throwing random stuff together to make something useful. This is something of a philosophy of life for me. Seems rambling but it’s not … Over 30 years ago, I was the first American to win the world judo championships. A few years ago, I co-authored…
I thought the title of Al Franken’s book , The Truth, with jokes , was great and I wanted to do something just like it. Unfortunately, I’m not that funny. Often, the discussion comes up among colleagues whether it is better for one’s career to be a specialist or a generalist. It’s a little (a…
Little known fact (because, seriously, how would you know) , I write a lot of code while sitting on a plane and I can’t always connect to the Internet. NOT ALL QUOTATION MARKS ARE CREATED EQUAL Sometimes, when I copy and paste my code into SAS Studio, it doesn’t work. if compress(q23) = “3/4” then…