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Did yo hear the news?
Dr. Pepper found his screws,
He’s back it’s true?
Ha ha ha got you!
Have a Happy April Fools!
coke-
I don’t live there but I plan on being there on Sunday.
This might be against CR rules but I think we should each hold something that says our name on it.
squeak-
I assumed you were my mothers age based on a few posts- one of them being the riddle with the monkey which you read in a magazine in the 50s.
Please forgive me if you were offended. (The last thing I need is for you to start hitting me with your cane when BP Totty and I look for the “wagon”.)
By the way- how did you solve that riddle? Was it the same method I used?
Also- how old do you think I am?
??????? ???????
15 years ago Yitzhak Rabin was shot. He later died of his injuries.
squeak-
You’re being very cryptic but I think I know what you’re talking about. I’m not a member of any “society” as of now (hopefully soon I will be though). (I still have no idea what the “wagon” refers to.)
In any case the “society” that I’m trying to get membership in lists all the members of the other “society” in its directory. (They also publish a yearbook listing all the members of both societies.)
Being that I can’t think of anyone my mothers age asking the ==>>Monkey Riddle<<== I’ll have to agree that we don’t know each other.
adorable-
So ask him where he’ll be biking this Sunday and you can be a fly on the wall.
If it will make things easier we can go visit Bubby BP this Sunday.
Like I was trying to say in another thread- this is why I appreciate my wife so much. She doesn’t start up with burly truck drivers and expect me to be manly and protect her.
Had I not gone out with that other person I never would have known that some people do.
This is probably more of a terrifying moment but since I survived I’ll classify it as an embarrassing moment.
I was on a date with a girl and we were sitting in a cafe drinking soda while I was listening to her talk and talk and talk.
Four burly truck drivers sat down next to us to have lunch and schmooze. One of them cracked a joke and they all started laughing, but one of them was laughing really loud.
“OMG”, she exclaimed, “that guy sounds like a hyena when he laughs”.
I quickly thought of an excuse (“I honestly don’t know who she is, she just sat down across from me and started talking…”), but luckily they didn’t bother us.
squeak-
Do we know each other in real life?
I assume you’re old enough to be my mother.
Sacrilege-
Everyone is different.
APushetaYid-
I thought of another reason:
The harder you work for something the more you appreciate it.
Had my wife been the first one I went out with I might have thought that everyone is normal, but since I had to have so many crazy incidents I appreciate her much more since I know she’s one of a kind.
But I do agree with you that you need bitachon.
BP Totty-
I am laughing so hard as I type this. We took the kids for a walk over the Brooklyn Bridge last Sunday and we both predicted that we were going to see you on the bridge (surveying the new building going up nearby). Each time we passed a Frum person we looked at each other and shook our heads “no”. At one point a chassidishe guy flew by us on a bike with his beard flying in the wind and his payos we horizontal- we looked at each other and simultaneously said “there he is”.
This didn’t happen on YWN but a site that my wife goes on.
My wife has a knack for figuring out who people are and two of the screen names that she figured out are sisters in real life.
Anyway- my wife and I get a kick out of watching their discussions go on and on (apparently they haven’t discovered each other yet but they seem to be good friends).
I really don’t know all the details involved so I can’t comment on your particular situation.
When I was younger there were times that my father had to work late- some times very late. He would come home for supper, help us with homework, tell us a good night story and go back to work. When we got up in the morning he was already in shul to learn and daven. He would eat breakfast with us and go to work.
Does your husband have the option of coming home for an hour or two and then returning? It could make a world of a difference.
Where I work, the company allows remote access from basically any computer connected to the Internet. Does your husbands employer have that option?
I really feel for you, I look forward to getting home at a decent hour to see my wife and kids.
Hopefully something can be worked out.
Good Luck!
Can you at least say what it is? (Or should I just dust off my “Jump to Conclusion” mat?)
I think you knew good and well that there is no way to solve this using a Venn Diagram- it’s not a problem involving subsets.
My original intentions was to get you to divulge what the “wagon” is (and the Venn Diagram involved in that case) but that didn’t work.
If Moish01 ever comes back to visit maybe he’ll show us how to make Venn Diagrams out of text.
What bracha in the regular weekday shemona esrei mentions a person and his grandson but not his son?
squeak and ICOT-
The method is correct but I like to set it up differently.
This riddle falls under the category of Bayesian Estimation with a Discrete Prior. (Sounds innocent to me?)
I like setting it up in a table like a spreadsheet.
There is one column for each category, in this case two.
Line one is the “Prior Probability”, or the probability of being in the category.
Line two is the probability of of that outcome for that group.
Line three is the product of line one and two. It is summed at the end.
Line four is line three divided by the sum of line three. It gives us what’s called the “posterior probabilities”.
in Excel-
0.014285714 0.985714286
0.92 0.02
0.013142857 0.019714286 0.032857143
0.4 0.6Using formulas:
=1/70 =69/70
=0.92 =0.02
=A1*A2 =B1*B2 =SUM(A3:B3)
=A3/C3 =B3/C3So there is a .4 or 40% chance of having the allergy given that he had the allergic reaction.
The benefit of this method is that one doesn’t need a Venn Diagram to solve it.
frumladygit-
Sorry if it wasn’t clear.
I was trying to show off my sholom bayis skills learned in chosson class so I complimented my wife that this is the best supper she ever made. The only problem was that it wasn’t my wife who made supper, it was the guests.
Wow oomis1105- that’s a good one.
This happened indoors but is still embarrassing.
A few months after we got married my sister-in-law and her friends had a G.O. convention or something nearby and asked if they could come over for supper.
I had no idea about this but they came early, told my wife she could have the afternoon off and made supper for her.
Of course I had to show off what a good husband I am so I made sure to compliment my wife. “You know Honey- this is the best supper you ever made.”
After a long, uncomfortable silence someone explained what happened.
oomis1105-
I left you a link in the Limericks thread, I guess you missed it.
Thanks for clearing that up.
minyan gal-
How much did the government spend to put man on the moon?
How much does it cost to provide all citizens with the best medical coverage?
Does that answer your question
Can I use a Venn Diagram?
Where do you live that insurance is only $400 a month? What kind of insurance is that? What does it cover? Our insurance is over $1400 a month (self plus spouse and children, my employer pays most of it).
You probably should look into getting a legal job. Health insurance is very expensive (and it’s going to increase drastically when the new stuff goes into effect).
SJSinNYC-
I agree, Hashem created everyone and everything for a purpose.
I found him guilty based on his lawyers stupidity and arrogance but that was before jury selection. I wasn’t picked for the case though. (Supposedly if you stare down the defendant they remove you?)
bombmaniac
a trial by jury is nothing more than a popularity contest. think about, you drag 12 people who were too dumb to get out of jury duty in the first place out of their la Z boys
I think it’s a problem that people have this attitude, if CV one of us were to be on trial what are the chances that we can have a jury of our peers?
Recently when I had jury duty I used it as an opportunity to catch up on personal stuff (my employer gives us off for jury duty).
I met R’ Reuven Feinstein by Shachris, told him that I had jury duty and asked him for advice. His response was “If I could go why can’t you”. (My intended question was “What are my responsibilities as a Yid in a secular court?”)
By the way, I didn’t notice any other Frum people there.
Some old timers may remember when the were two people who went by the name Joseph.
During the CRs infancy the title under the screen name was a link to the members’ profile.
As it turns out- one was Joseph and one was Josephf but he somehow kept the “f” invisible.
Both of them haven’t been heard from in a long time.
4. What word becomes shorter by adding letters to it?
Short becomes shorter when adding the er to it.
squeak-
We use it for both frequency and severity (as long as the variance is less than the mean and the distribution is discrete).
I don’t work with credit scores.
squeak-
You don’t need it in that case, you can use it if you wish.
Where do you need to use it?
There sure is a standard deviation.
(Given parameters m and q the standard deviation is (m * q * (1-q) )^.5)
If you tell me what the “wagon” is I’ll tell you why you need it.
Squeak:
Here’s my question for you-
If the binomial distribution is discrete why do you care what the standard deviation is?
1=3
2=3
3=5
4=4
5=4
6=3
7=5
8=5
9=4
10=3
11=6
12=6
Pashuteh Yid-
Reminds me of a post in the “Funny Shidduch Stories” thread about a friend of SJSinNYC who fell in love with her step-brother while inhaling the strong chemicals in the cleansers while cleaning for Pesach.
They got married.
new2thescene-
If you have any questions feel free to post them here, some of us should be able to help you.
Also if you’re a former student of mine keep in mind that I offer free unlimited tutoring for life.
I can only try-
I was just teasing you- making a reference to the comment about teaching new tricks to old dogs.
oomis1105-
Yikes!
I hope he didn’t take anything with him.
Sacrilege-
That’s one of the buildings I was referring to, I’m not sure which post you’re talking about.
I can only try-
Can I teach an old dog another new trick?
Would you like to learn how to put links in HTML?
BP Totty-
It was this week, 29 years ago, that a Russian submarine named Whiskey ran aground in Sweden.
Just thought I’d share it with you.
Josh31-
I’m assuming that the person can no longer be living.
Correct,
And let me guess how you knew that- you thought I shouldn’t go out with her and know that we can’t agree on anything? 🙂
apushatayid-
I heard that Satmar comes from St. Mary.
Have you heard that?
Ben Torah-
Oy vey, I knew someone was going to ask.
Story was- shadchan tries to set me up with a girl, I already knew enough about her to know that she wasn’t for me (not just a personality issue but a skeleton hiding in the closet). Being that there was nothing to discuss (no point in saying any loshon hora) I didn’t give any reason just a strong “no”. The shadchan, not knowing about the skeleton, just assumed I was nervous to start dating and told the girl I wanted to go out with her.
We both agreed that if it’s a strong “no” then there’s no reason to give the shadchan any reason. What we didn’t agree on was if I should have gone out with her or not.
My grandmother told me that when you feel the “click” you’ll know she’s the right one.
After a few dates with my wife I had to seriously think if she was my bashert or not. I mentally replayed all of our dates replacing her face with the face of the least appealing person I dated to make sure it was her personality that I liked and not just her looks.
I was more positive that she was the right one but didn’t feel the “click” until my wife asked me if we can have an argument to see if we can agree to disagree. We had the argument (we still don’t agree on that issue) but we saw that we can respect each other’s opinion even if we don’t agree.
That’s when I felt we “clicked”.
This story was going around in the early 90s. It probably never happened as each time there was a different ending to the story.
The teacher was late for lab and when he was heard coming some guys turned on the gas and they all slumped over (either their desk or the floor) with their tongues hanging out the side of their mouths.
Here are the different endings I heard:
1. The teacher got up on his desk and danced a jig,
2. The teacher grabbed a chair and smashed a window,
3. The teacher went home and called in sick,
4. The teacher came in, gave his lecture as usual and left.
Feel free to make up your own ending.
Ben Torah-
I can’t answer for “anon for this” since I know very little about her (although I think she’s an engineer).
What I could tell you is that when I took Differential Equations I used the outline for extra help with Laplace Transforms. Have I used it since then? Probably not.
What is the purpose of learning all these things?
There are a couple of answers:
1. It was part of a course that I was required to take to graduate, and there’s now way I could have gotten the job that I have without a college degree. The hiring manager who made me the offer said he wouldn’t consider a candidate without a college education since they can bluff their way through an interview but the only way to know for sure if they are capable of performing the tedious calculations is to see how they performed in these upper level math courses.
2. As was mentioned in a different thread last year- equations for a mathematician are like tools for a plumber. A plumber will buy some tools that he’ll never use just in case he ever needs it. There was a riddle that Squeak posted in “The Riddle Thread…” which I solved using a function that I only used in one other time.
3. Many courses are more for the discipline than for the material. These upper level math courses teach students more how to look at the equation and know how to tackle it than how to solve a specific problem.
So to answer your question- she probably doesn’t use Fourier Transforms but the learning it and understanding it is what actually helps her today.
The mean is 2/3 and the variance is 88/144 => the standard deviation is .781735959970572.
3 is 7/3 from the mean which is 2.98481002897854 standard deviations.