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Old 04-21-2003, 01:52 PM   #291
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It better have pictures, as im not sure how long the heathens can sit and read without pictures in the posts, er i mean, book.



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Thanks to one of the IIDB regulars, I sort of do - I'm writing a book! However, writing is the kind of work that involves a lot of fidgeting time, so I chatter around here.
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Old 04-21-2003, 01:53 PM   #292
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It better have pictures, as im not sure how long the heathens can sit and read without pictures in the posts, er i mean, book.
Not many pictures, actually. It's an expansion on the material from my Cranky User column - run sporadically at IBM developerWorks for the last year or two. I'm doing a full book on it. Whee!
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Old 04-21-2003, 02:00 PM   #293
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I thought nothing would shock a Klingon woman....
Nothing shocks me but those smileys look happy.
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Old 04-21-2003, 02:03 PM   #294
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Nothing shocks me but those smileys look happy.
yes,,, and she looks just as happy.. since (2) smilies are better than just one!
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Old 04-21-2003, 02:25 PM   #295
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You're confused.
I meant, after I exorcised your demons did you have the urge to smite a sinner.

As for the French phrase...yes? I think.

Just say No Annabel, lol
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Old 04-21-2003, 02:26 PM   #296
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lol... I DOUBT they taught you that in French class..

I had to put the phrase together off my tape..

(gotta learn the basics first you know)

NAP.. IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DAY????


okay... rub your bald head for luck!
Hey I work all damn night, I can sleep all day if I wanna, lol
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Old 04-21-2003, 02:26 PM   #297
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Tomorrow I have to go meet with those two I lovingly refer to as 'Pinky and the Brain'...

what do you teach?

I noticed you stated you work at FSU
(gators...snicker)
I teach statistics and research design. That usually ends the conversation right there....

I just moved to Tallahassee last august and so far I like it alot. And I have learned that I am supposed to hate the Gators. Especially during football season.
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I teach statistics and research design. That usually ends the conversation right there....
One of the worst mistakes of my college career involved statistics. I took a non-honors statistics course; this meant they wouldn't *touch* the theory, and I nearly failed the class, until I finally sat down and figured out where all the stuff came from. I'm a theory person.
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One of the worst mistakes of my college career involved statistics. I took a non-honors statistics course; this meant they wouldn't *touch* the theory, and I nearly failed the class, until I finally sat down and figured out where all the stuff came from. I'm a theory person.
Statistics is just one of those courses where it seems that different people learn differently. Luckily, I teach it at the graduate level and I get a chance to teach both the theory and the application. but I wol think that you would need at least a little theory, or you would have nothing to "hang your hat on". It doesn't halp to be able to do the applications if you don't know WHY you are doing it....
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Statistics is just one of those courses where it seems that different people learn differently. Luckily, I teach it at the graduate level and I get a chance to teach both the theory and the application. but I wol think that you would need at least a little theory, or you would have nothing to "hang your hat on". It doesn't halp to be able to do the applications if you don't know WHY you are doing it....
For me, I can't learn anything if I don't understand the derivation. I just can't. I have to be able to see how it goes together... but then I don't need to memorize formulae, because I can just recreate them.

My parents were both mathematicians.
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