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Well, everyone is Wrong sometimes, so let's talk about Wrongulence, which is the matter of whether a person is consistently Wrong. Technically speaking, there's
by michaelochurch 14y ago
Well, everyone is Wrong sometimes, so let's talk about Wrongulence, which is the matter of whether a person is consistently Wrong. Technically speaking, there's a lot of Wrongness on the Internet not because there is something wrong with the Internet, but because of the persisting Wrongulence of people who use it.
Back in 2008 I applied to Fog Creek and was rejected. I turned out to be awesome, not that one would have known that 5 years ago, because at the time I was a n00b with a capital zero and wrongulent about many technical things myself.
Add this to a noninformative prior of Beta(1, 1) and we get a posterior of Beta(1, 2) on the Wrongulence distribution.
If we interpret x < 0.5 as "Not Wrongulent" and x > 0.5 as "Wrongulent" then we get a 95-percent confidence interval of...
[Not Wrongulent, Wrongulent]
Conclusion: hell if I know.
- oinksoft 14y agoPardon my language, but do we have to get this narcissistic shit from you in every thread? I know the "I'm awesome" stuff is supposed to be tongue-in-cheek and all, but still ...
- beedogs 14y agoSeriously. I avoid technical discussions on reddit because they're inevitably full of comments like the parent comment. It's disheartening to see them here now too.
- michaelochurch 14y agoI was making fun of the OP for the open-ended question. I thought that was more clear, but some people have a hard time with subtle tea.
- michaelochurch 14y agoPardon my language and metaphor, but you are wasting the fire-breathing dragontits off of my goddamn time and I don't fucking appreciate it. Your score: 3/10. I can give you heckling lessons and bring you up to a 7-- not good enough to take down a Steve Hofstetter, but good enough for the Internet-- but I'm booked until August and my rate's $275 an hour.
- oinksoft 14y agoYou might have a problem.
- michaelochurch 14y agoI'll use regular expressions.