The Workermonkey

Monday, March 01, 2010

What now bitches? 

# posted by Brancibeer @ 3/01/2010 02:42:00 PM

7 comments

Just curious, what does the equation work out to you?

By  T, at Monday, March 01, 2010 5:17:00 PM  

ouch! wtf would he be paying ~700$ for?

By  ron, at Monday, March 01, 2010 11:46:00 PM  

Hey Ron!

Would you be willing to walk me through that calculation? I'm assuming some the values must be known constants (to which I'm guessing that the 'e' is related perhaps to the e=mc^2,just a guess I'm not a scientist). And to be quite honest, I have completely forgotten how to do that 3rd piece.

-T

By  T, at Tuesday, March 02, 2010 8:38:00 AM  

What happened to the TL who asked Mr. Gambio to be placed in the advanced chemistry class back in high school??

By  Brancibeer, at Tuesday, March 02, 2010 5:28:00 PM  

I didn't really do it out.

e is about 3 (2.78 or something) and we'll call 2 pi about 6. so 3^6 minus a few is a decent estimate as to how much it i2. You can ignore the first part and the last part too.

By  ron, at Tuesday, March 02, 2010 10:38:00 PM  

Thanks Ron.

Branci,
To answer your question... A wiser man than me once said "Fat, Drunk and Stupid is no way to go through life, son". I'm living proof ;-).

But seriously, even though I do statistical analysis for a living, my math skill are terrible. Its actually a joke with my staff that you can't trust any math that I do in my head. The nice thing about statistics is that 90% of it is interpretation (Did you know that 54% of all statistics are made up on the spot?). That part, I am good at. I'm also one of the best bull shitters in the world, I openly admit that sometimes I have no clue what I'm talking about but the very fact that I am confident in my answers prevents people from questioning me. Sometimes this is referred to as 'salesmanship'. Remember if people don't agree with you, then they just dont understand the 'facts' properly.

Realistically, you can prove anything with "facts" and "logic". Its not the ability to be right that matters, its the ability to not be proven wrong that counts (c.f. religion or politics or the supreme monkey overlord). Its all about packaging. Ron could have told me the answer was just about anything and I would have believed him only because I couldnt prove he is wrong.

By  T, at Thursday, March 04, 2010 10:16:00 AM  

facts are determined by who talks the loudest, not correct information. and the higher up the food chain you are, the less correct you have to be for it to be considered fact. it is entirely possible for the CEO of a company to tell his employee's that the sky is magenta and from that day forward it will be unquestionable fact.

math it over rated. i have dilbert cartoon hanging in my cube with the quote of the centuary; "one misleading benchmark can do more in 5 minutes than years of good engineering could ever do". true story.

By  Supreme Monkey Overlord, at Saturday, March 06, 2010 2:18:00 AM  

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