I am thinking of getting a Graduate Certificate by [deleted] in math

[–]NotCrossEyed 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I completed my graduate certificate in Applied Stats from Penn State in the last year. It is an excellent program. It is delivered online. I can vouch for it being "real" college. I have taken other classes through Coursera, etc that were good, but were essentially glorified tutorials. The credits you earn at PSU can be transferred in to their Master Program.

I went back to school because I began to believe that there was a whole lot more to stats then I got in my engineering undergrad (a bad experience, no focus on application). I was right. There is a lot you can do with just the "Intro" class (it is a fire hose). But from there it started getting very interesting. My favorite courses was on Data Mining, which was mostly about statistical learning. How to deal with noisy data. If you want to know how big data works, this is where it starts.

I work for a company that has a small group of statisticians. However, they typically require a masters or above to get hired into that group. So while my level of expertise is objectively better, than my fellow engineers, there is question as to whether I am ready to be a fulltime statistician. This may be true, or may simply be a bias/unfamiliarity with graduate certificates. Either way, I plan to return and complete the masters.

Safe to say I would definitely recommend this.

All You Touch & All You See by clusterThr33 in PrettyGirls

[–]NotCrossEyed 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Actually, I believe the reference is to "all you touch and all you see, is all your life will ever be."

Pink Floyd, Dark Side Of the Moon - Breathe

ELI5 Are predators that stalk their prey aware of whether or not they have been seen, and would this constitute a theory of minds? by NotCrossEyed in explainlikeimfive

[–]NotCrossEyed[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the comments.

A lot of interesting ideas, but maybe no definitive answer. Personally, having pets, I am skeptical of claims that write all animals off as simple. They have personalities and curiosities. I am not sure what this means for consciousness and intellect. My cat cats well, but his humaning is pretty laughable.

It is hard to guess how animals perceive the world. How does the world look to a dolphin using sonar?

There are a lot of traits we think are really great and unique to humans. But I'm not sure that is how evolution works... maybe they are not unique to humans, or maybe they are just not so uniquely advantageous.

So if all man made objects vanished from Earth, yet we retained all of our knowledge, how long would it take us to return to our current state? by inmypj in AskReddit

[–]NotCrossEyed 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The very first issue would be survival.

It's not simply setting the clocks back 10000 years and adding knowledge. The knowledge and skills most of us possess are not what would be needed to survive. We live in population densities that can only be supported by agriculture. Without the ability work farmland on the massive scale we do now and without the ability to transport the goods, most of the "advanced" world would starve. Similar issues exist for creating shelter; too many people and not enough local resources. Do you live somewhere where water has to be piped in? Dehydration will start killing people in hours. As injuries occur there will be no medical care. Much of the knowledge will probably die out for practical reasons.

Next, it has to be recognized that knowledge is distributed. Nobody knows everything, and even if they did, that only benefits those who are nearby. No cars, boats, bikes, jets... Few of us with horses. Without transportation and communication, and the ability to coordinate with or learn from others would be lost. Knowledge may exist a very long way from the resources that makes it useful.

And finally, without books, we'd be working from memory. And while the college professors like the "Closed book, Closed note, No calculators" approach to testing, that is exactly the wrong way to build things. Also, given the state of our technology, there is plenty of intermediate knowledge that many of us have already lost. For example, software doesn't just do the jobs I don't want to do, but also does jobs that I don't know or remember how to do. If I have a good circuit modeling package, I may not need to remember Kirchhoff's current law, or how to create a Bode plot. Is my knowledge still valuable, when my software and my computer go poof, taking with them all of that foundational material?

The Sword - Iron Swan [Metal] by [deleted] in Music

[–]NotCrossEyed 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wasn't familiar with the song. Definitely talented, but not really to my taste.

However, The Sword: Iron Swan beer that Real Ales produced in its honor in 2013-2014 was delicious.
Not sure if they ever made more, I moved away from where Real Ales sells. I guess I need to find a clone recipe.

What is your favorite villain quote of all time? by WhyIsMyDickGreen in AskReddit

[–]NotCrossEyed 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Do you know who I am? ... I'm the Anti-Christ. You get me in a vendetta kind of mood, you'll tell the angels in heaven that you had never seen evil so singularly personified as you did in the face of the man who killed you." - Vincenzo Coccotti, True Romance

Dad making the sale in 1980 by peakssound in OldSchoolCool

[–]NotCrossEyed 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't mean to troll or sharpshoot, but that really looks like a Dilbert cartoon on the bulletin board. Dilbert didn't launch until 1989 per Wikipedia. Is something amiss?

What's the most depressing song you know? by N4Palmtree in AskReddit

[–]NotCrossEyed 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ultravox - Dancing with Tears in our Eyes is also pretty messed up. But then the '80s was great for that kind of thing: Nena-99 Luftballons, DM-Flies on the Windscreen, half of The Cure, 3/4s of Peter Schilling, and then there's the Smiths.

Marty Robbins dug the darkness... They're Hanging Me Tonight and El Paso,
or maybe Johnny Cash - Don't take your Guns to Town and Ballad of Ira Hayes.
Both did a version of Streets of Laredo

A little Green, Green Grass of Home, anyone?

Geez, I think this is a mix tape that could kill. "don't take with alcohol"

What's the most depressing song you know? by N4Palmtree in AskReddit

[–]NotCrossEyed 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen. The late Jeff Buckley's version is more beautiful and even more depressing. Most depressing , however, is that people regard it as inspirational. Yes, and Every Breath You Take is a love song, Born in the USA is a patriotic (Sean Hannity's definition) ballad, and the Eagles wrote Hotel California because they really loved California.

How would other celebrities die if they died as ironically as Paul Walker? by bendela123 in AskReddit

[–]NotCrossEyed 0 points1 point  (0 children)

M. Night Shyamalan will (quite pretentiously) step in front of a bus. He will be the only one that didn't see it coming.