This will be over soon, and then I can go home to Tara.
Scarlett (by Alexandra Ripley)
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Model Studies of Cake Baking. VI. Effects of Cake Ingredients and Cake Formula on Shear Modulus of Cake
http://www.aaccnet.org/publications/cc/backissues/1985/Documents/CC1985a101.html
What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy.
Neil Postman (http://ma.tt/2012/05/culture-of-distraction/)
“The mean of a population has an expected value of 
, known as the population mean. The sample mean makes a good estimator of the population mean, as its expected value is the same as the population mean. The sample mean of a population is a random variable, not a constant, and consequently it will have its own distribution. For a random sample of 
observations from a normally distributed population, the sample mean distribution is
.”
~Wikipedia (http://bit.ly/I72ocy)
Unfortunately, while our asymmetrical attitude toward time may explain our indifference to our prenatal existence, we might still wonder whether it gives us any kind of justification for it. The fact that we’ve got this deep-seated asymmetrical attitude doesn’t necessarily mean it’s rational.
Shelly Kagan (http://bit.ly/Ja61oR)
This guy is hilarious (in praise of Nikola Tesla):
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/tesla
Great to finally know the name for this!
http://www.thekitchn.com/ingredient-spotlight-green-plums-171090
Prediction by itself is only occasionally sufficient. The post office is happy with any method that predicts correct addresses from hand-written scrawls. Peter Gregory undertook his study for prediction purposes, but also to better understand the medical basis of hepatitis. Most statistical surveys have the identification of causal factors as their ultimate goal.
Brad Efron, Comment on “Statistical Modeling: The Two Cultures”
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On a test set the bagged model was…
On a test set, the bagged model was significantly more accurate than the single model with four covariates. It is also more stable. This is one possible fix. The multiplicity problem and its effect on conclusions drawn from models needs serious attention.
Leo Breiman, “Statistical Modeling: The Two Cultures”
I rush from science to philosophy, and from philosophy to our old friends the poets; and then, over-wearied by too much idealism, I fancy I become practical in returning to science. Have you ever attempted to conceive all there is in the world worth knowing—that not one subject in the universe is unworthy of study? The giants of literature, the mysteries of many-dimensional space, the attempts of Boltzmann and Crookes to penetrate Nature’s very laboratory, the Kantian theory of the universe, and the latest discoveries in embryology, with their wonderful tales of the development of life—what an immensity beyond our grasp! … Mankind seems on the verge of a new and glorious discovery. What Newton did to simplify the planetary motions must now be done to unite in one whole the various isolated theories of mathematical physics.
Karl Pearson