Comments | qwantz: to NFB or Not to NFB by Matthew Hays

qwantz

to NFB or Not to NFB by Matthew Hays

Feb 11, 2009 07:59

Hey the article I recently discussed / BRUTALLY BODYSLAMMED is up online now! People were asking about it, so you can read it here:

To NFB or Not to NFB!

Comments 15

phrawzty February 11 2009, 13:12:47 UTC

Heh, it begins :

"Anonymous: Your egregious mis-use of statistics invalidates every conclusion you falsely drew from your pointless exercise.

« I recently conducted an entirely non-scientific survey [...] »

So what you're actually saying is « ignore the rest of my article, it's based on total nonsense. »

« A small sampling, certainly, but the results are telling. »

No, they aren't. Please stop butchering the field of statistics.
February 11, 2009 05:11 EST"

qwantz February 11 2009, 13:25:25 UTC

Oh whoops, I didn't intend for them to get deluged in comments! I just wanted it for background.

THIS LJ IS LIKE A GUN THAT I WAVE AROUND WILDLY, POINTING AT THINGS THAT AROUSE MY INTEREST

luthwyhn February 11 2009, 16:37:12 UTC

Your readers are like the bullets! Bullets which pierce the fragile hearts of those unable to cope with the responsibilities inherent in the use of SCIENCE!

chezmax February 11 2009, 16:37:38 UTC

Use your power wisely!

(strangely, the captcha I got for this was '120th bullet')

Thread 5

I am stalking you in the past. tizol February 12 2009, 02:33:45 UTC

OT, but your wiki page says you are from Ottawa.

I am also from Ottawa and trying to do a computational linguistics phd, and have discovered there are a shocking number of people from Ottawa who wind up with graduate degrees in linguistics, computational and otherwise.

To narrow things down: what high school did you go to there?

(past you might want to watch your back in the future.)

Re: I am stalking you in the past. qwantz February 12 2009, 12:50:00 UTC

Bell! IT'S NUMBER ONE

Re: I am stalking you in the past. marseverlasting February 12 2009, 14:57:33 UTC

I went to Bell as well! Will wonders never cease!

But I have none of these fancy compuwhational degrees. I'm getting a good ol' fashioned Bachelor o Farts.

Re: I am stalking you in the past. tizol February 12 2009, 23:47:34 UTC

I think my mother supply-taught there in the past.

stokerbramwell February 12 2009, 02:59:41 UTC

I can't see the letters NFB without thinking of the National Federation of the Blind. I have no scientific proof, but I suspect this comes from being non-Canadian and married to a blind person.

qwantz February 12 2009, 13:13:22 UTC

They've got a pretty clever logo! There's a Canadian organization for the deaf near me, and their logo has an ear hidden in their logo that I just saw the other day.

in conclusion, i like clever logos

stokerbramwell February 13 2009, 05:19:38 UTC

Their logo guy has a name, too! He's called the Whosit. I find that inherently awesome on a level that is difficult to convey.

rabidkow February 14 2009, 23:47:15 UTC

Anonymous strikes again

littlegirltoast April 28 2009, 01:44:17 UTC

The Walrus published my letter!

I'm sorry I co-opted your umbrage, Ryan.

It's the last one on this page!

qwantz April 28 2009, 02:32:10 UTC

I saw - I subscribe! I am glad they published at least one of the messages they got, and seeing the name "Jesse Dangerously" in the magazine made it all worthwhile. You said in a few sentences what I took paragraphs to say!