Quote from: chaotic neutral observer on October 30, 2019, 01:20:48 PMQuote from: ᚼ on October 30, 2019, 06:21:00 AMOoh, I got a nibble.Quote from: chaotic neutral observer on October 29, 2019, 12:57:38 PM
If you were an actual mathematician, I would think you might have the ability and inclination to post something relevant to this thread.
I'm betting you're a numerologist, at best.
Check out my reply to Doktor Howl. (And BTW, I got a doctorate in Mathematics and Computer Science.)
Claiming you have a doctorate means nothing (welcome to the internet). And even if you do have one, I've been around the block enough times to recognize that it's quite possible for someone to hold a PhD and still be a blithering idiot in most respects.
I know about blithering idiots in the Internet. (I locked horns with Archimedes Plutonium for about a year.)
In fact, I'm replying to a post by one.
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For example, here you are, with your LOL OMG 23, and your low effort shitposting, while your above reply to Doktor Howl suggests that you lack even a freshman-level understanding of statistics.
Oh, so you're using my posts in different contexts to try to insult me here, then. And you forgot to look up my posts to the Visual Pinball forum, and half of my Usenet posts. Non sequitur! (Besides, I figured that's the type of posts that a Discordian forum would be like; I didn't expect stick-up-your-ass-type posts.)
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(Some of us actually use freshman-level statistics in our day job. For example, linear regression can be used to perform timing estimation of an OFDM signal in the presence of noise. It's good for other things, too, as long as you recognize its limitations. Not voodoo.)
Linear regression is a minimization problem, which belongs to mathematics proper. (I teach it in my linear algebra classes, by the way, which would put it there.) Nothing random about that.
And as for "not voodoo" ... There are TWO definitions of standard deviation (one with N in the denominator, and one with N-1 in the denominator). If not voodoo, it certainly suggests the old joke about an interviewer and a shady guy: "How much is 2+2?" "How much do you want it to be?"