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So I stumbled upon an old class photo, and I mentioned to cfgt that our high school class was filled with overachievers. It seemed everyone was doing a tough degree, with the exception of Chewxy, who’s doing economics which was an easy degree (add to the fact that I’m planning to do my honors year in microeconomics, somewhere in the game theory field, which is the easy part of economics). Here’s the ensuing laziness competition that followed: Continue reading Competing Laziness My friends and I had a game of Monopoly just 2 nights ago. It was a fast and fun game, but I wasn’t satisfied with the game at all. It didn’t give me any stimulation. This is an after dinner conversation: KL looked at Shockrave’s untouched vegetables. KL: What is that? Shockrave: These are vegetables. They help with your digestion. Here, have the plate. Shockrave passes the plate to KL. KL took a look. KL: Nah. Thanks Shockrave: Have it. It’s called Pareto Optimal. I gain no utility from having this plate. Since you want it, take . . . → Read More: An After-Dinner Conversation We played frisbee yesterday. And I am still sore from the extra running and jumping and physical activity. It was a simple, casual game of frisbee, 3 people, just throwing a flying-disc around in circles. A throws to B, B throws to C and C throws back to A. While playing frisbee, I noticed a few things:
I’ll spare you the whinging on the cuts on my arms and legs (they’re not that bad anyways, I’m just over-dramatizing). I’m not too good with quantum electrodynamics, so I’ll also spare you any errorneous thoughts that might occur. But what was interesting was that frisbee has no scoring system. So I started wondering, if casual frisbee would be any more fun with a scoring system. Now, there are a number of frisbee games with scoring systems (one was introduced by Kels, called frisbee soccer…), most notably, Ultimate Frisbee. But all those games have horrendously complicated rules. A casual game shouldn’t be complicated. On Bad Data
It was funny. And sad at the same time. I actually post this up for cfgt to see, since I’m likely to be sleeping when he wakes up. Bleh, totally not normal (Jarque-berra proves its way too skewed and kurt – by 45 million times! LOL!). Last time I’ll open my gob and bet that the data is normal. Okay okay.. this data looks bad from a first look, but this also tells me something – too much data isn’t good. Instead, what I did was to split up the data into 3 (going to try 5) distinct groups, and within each distinct group, the price is normal. Hah! I previously mentioned that I had to use EViews this semester, instead of the already familiar R. Naturally, I wasn’t very happy, me being more used to R (and also, used to using R in my usual work). Then again, as they say, “never try, never know”. Grudgingly, I got EViews 6 last week, before semester started, and played around with it. So, yesterday, I had my first econometrics tute (other people start their tutes next week, but we start ours this bloody week), and the tutor was going thru EViews. For fun, I took the sample data the tutor provided and worked out the same things in R (like calculating covariance and t-stats)… and so I thought, why not a comparison?  First Impressions I remember when I first opened up EViews (with their provided wfl file), I was overwhelmed by the amount of nonsense I saw on the screen. By nonsense, I mean a lot of GUI-ish stuff. On the other hand, when I opened R for the first time somewhere in the middle of last year, I was greeted by a familiar commandline. Ah, but that’s just the first impressions… |
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