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   • Kent Pitman

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   Huh! I did not know that.

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     • Kent Pitman

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     Oh, neat. Though the pun I had been trying to make was that we often say "I had the realization.." to mean a discovery, though this also has the statistical useage "My particular sample of this random variable was"

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     • Kent Pitman

     @dougmerritt
     After being reminded, I do remember that.
     @kentpitman

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     • Kent Pitman

     @screwtape @kentpitman
     Substituting "humor" for "irony" in the Steve Martin quote from Roxanne (1987):

     "Oh, ho, ho, humor! Oh, no, no, we don't get that here. See, uh, people ski topless here while smoking dope, so humor's not really a, a high priority. We haven't had any humor here since about, uh, '83, when I was the only practitioner of it. And I stopped because I was tired of being stared at."

     Also about statistics, you may have missed my final comment on Lambda Moo:

     When my research mathematician friend Arunas Rudvalis (discoverer of the Rudvalis group) switched from group theory to statistics, I asked, isn't that a much more narrow field?

     He said "no, you don't get it. Take *all* of mathematics, and make all of the variables random variables. That's statistics."

     (No doubt I still don't get it, but that expanded my horizons anyway.)