by Dwayne Phillips People in distant lands use the same words differently. Time and generations create distant lands. I was fascinated by this story about younger folks putting things on TikTok et al. Then older folks who admit people to college and hire them for jobs noticed those things. The younger folks spoke in the […]
Words and Distant Lands
February 27th, 2023 · No Comments
Tags: Communication · Conversation · Culture · Humility · Language · Time
50% is Not One Half
February 27th, 2023 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips A review of percent may surprise some. Sorry about that. Use this information cautiously. I recently read a contract that purported to calculate 50% of 50%. That struck me as odd, so given too much time on my hands, I thought about it a while. Warning: thinking about basic things for a […]
Tags: Approximation · Concepts · Data Science · Mathematics