…it’s the stuff Ph.D. dissertations are made of, as I am in the process of realizing . How little our world would have made sense if Least Squares fit wasn’t around? It’s philosopher’s stone, panacea, and elixir, all ground into one Euripidean ‘deus ex machina’ incarnate for grad students.
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Division by zero
…and it would be a crazy happy world. Truth would only be a matter of one’s imagination. Fallacies would be the only consistencies and no professor would be smug. People would be generally confused and disoriented and no one would bat an eyelid when sold 5 oranges after paying for 6. It would be a [...]
Oh my darling Clementine
‘Oh my darling, Clementine’ is an American folk song from the Gold Rush times. It’s about a miner’s daughter named Clementine who dies in a drowning accident while her lover couldn’t save her. Hindi song ‘Ae dil hai mushkil’ was ‘inspired’ from it: