Sunday, April 04, 2004
all work and no play makes raedy a dull girl
watch out, i might become an axe-wielding psycho. "become" haha, right. sigh.
yeah i have been working really hard lately, but that's okay. i have three new experiments in the works, interesting all three of them. i want to be famous. but i'm going to need about 6 million subjects, and i'm not sure i can find that many. are there even that many people in chicago? i might have to use some people twice. hah...okay anyways. . .
it's pretty lame when one day you're designing an experiment and you realize, wow, this is a random-effects model. my mean square is going to be divided by the interaction for the other variable's f-test. so what that means for all you non-dork/people with important things to think about is: complicated mathematical models which i didn't even understand three months ago are seeping into my unconscious when i'm sleeping and making their way into my everyday thoughts. then, when those thoughts randomly surface, i get giddily excited. then i realize how much of a dork i am. i wonder if a person can ever be TOO dorky. a girl my age should be thinking about makeup and boys and babies, not random-effects models, right? shucks....
freakout 2004 is proceeding nicely in the ping-monaghan "family" here...
example:
"mike angry. mike smash"
have you ever had computer-directed anger so intense that you slam your fists down on the keyboard, preventing the "backspace" and "space"/other important keys on the computer to stop working? then you send your girlfriend an email that looks like this:
raedy.my.comPuter.keYbdsard.no.longer.Works.i.needd.a..new.one.
??
have you? well, mike has.
then, being the dutiful and ever-kind lady that i am, i located a new key
watch out, i might become an axe-wielding psycho. "become" haha, right. sigh.
yeah i have been working really hard lately, but that's okay. i have three new experiments in the works, interesting all three of them. i want to be famous. but i'm going to need about 6 million subjects, and i'm not sure i can find that many. are there even that many people in chicago? i might have to use some people twice. hah...okay anyways. . .
it's pretty lame when one day you're designing an experiment and you realize, wow, this is a random-effects model. my mean square is going to be divided by the interaction for the other variable's f-test. so what that means for all you non-dork/people with important things to think about is: complicated mathematical models which i didn't even understand three months ago are seeping into my unconscious when i'm sleeping and making their way into my everyday thoughts. then, when those thoughts randomly surface, i get giddily excited. then i realize how much of a dork i am. i wonder if a person can ever be TOO dorky. a girl my age should be thinking about makeup and boys and babies, not random-effects models, right? shucks....
freakout 2004 is proceeding nicely in the ping-monaghan "family" here...
example:
"mike angry. mike smash"
have you ever had computer-directed anger so intense that you slam your fists down on the keyboard, preventing the "backspace" and "space"/other important keys on the computer to stop working? then you send your girlfriend an email that looks like this:
raedy.my.comPuter.keYbdsard.no.longer.Works.i.needd.a..new.one.
??
have you? well, mike has.
then, being the dutiful and ever-kind lady that i am, i located a new key
