Training courses, seminars and conferencesInspirational or a waste of precious slacking-off time? I once went on a buzzword bingo-laden training course which ended up with my being held at gunpoint in public. Could have gone better, to be honest. Tell us your tales from either side of the lectern
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 15 Mar 2012, 15:01)
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TITSI once advertised and taught a course to my professional peers called "Trends In Time Series" Not only did it have a superb acronym it featured a slide with the geometric mean of two beards.
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it featured Adjustment for Real Seasonal Effects too
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A click......for the maths-obsessed pogonophile.
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Amish Information Systems hates misplaced, commas, Fri 16 Mar 2012, 10:02,
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slide or it didn't happen!
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Fisher - Laspeyres and Paasche
Spot the deliberate mistake.
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click!The dot product of (beard) and (no beard) is clearly zero.
But:
sqrt( (beard, mustache, sideburns, pince-nez) .
(no beard, mustache, no sideburns, no glasses) )
= sqrt(mustache^2)
= mustache!
(, Mon 19 Mar 2012, 10:57, closed)
I like thisso much I may even try to claim partial credit for it.
(, Tue 20 Mar 2012, 13:38, closed)
It's the wrong Fisher by the way.
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