Comment Re:He's right (Score 1) 276
The math, coupled with domain exposure and feedback, gives you the insights to detect new relationships in the data long before the statisticians can find it.
The math, coupled with domain exposure and feedback, gives you the insights to detect new relationships in the data long before the statisticians can find it.
Now we bring the discipline of the coder to the problem, and we really have a way to understand the rules. I love it!
We sometimes forget that both of the non-scientific methods lead to great and often institutional stupidity. Reason without data is seen all the time when charlatans and the like argue that "women are the same as men because anything else is social heresy". And as for faith without data, well, get thee to Missouri.
The people who visit my office might think I do
The people who argue that we are (im)morally equivalent to these goat-fekkers are confusing the 1400s (nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition) with the 1960s. The separation of Church and State (such as it is in the West, see Magna Carta) has not been discovered yet in the MIddle East. Only the Europeans and in some sense the Chinese-Japanese-Koreans and similar have separated the two.
Footnote: high-caliber and high fire rate do not help at all against the mob (adverts not-withstanding, so don't look for me in cities.
"You don't go out and kick a mad dog. If you have a mad dog with rabies, you take a gun and shoot him." -- Pat Robertson, TV Evangelist, about Muammar Kadhafy