There's this OG coder named Fred George. I hadn't heard about him before and chances are, neither have you. He doesn't have a Wikipedia page and even if he did, I wouldn't write about him but about his talk. This guy, I'll give him the street name OG FG, lays down grade-Ⓐ wisdom. The talk is embedded here, and should probably be watched, though I'll write about what my experiences are with companies turning into States.
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Failure. Defeat. Hardship. These words have pretty much set the mood for today's writing, or all of today. Yesterday was a good enough day. Productive at work with all the freedom the trade brings with it, followed by seeing Skyfall, which was superb, and beers. I'm bad when it comes to certain promises, especially if they involve, say, beer. So a promise not to get all beered up during NaNoWriMo is a risky thing to do. Drinking moderate amounts is helpful, unless the beer you have is exceptionally strong and you don't understand exactly how hard it will hit you.
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So it's November. To me, the least hairy Viking in the world, it isn't about moustache and beard – it's about writing. Well, an honest attempt at it anyway. Which might be enough for the unofficial "competition" National Novel Writing Month. 50 000 words in 30 days. 1667 words a day. What could go wrong?
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7 months ago
In statistics you tend to get rid of outliers, lest they bias your data. This is one of the reasons statistics aren't always very reliable – which doesn't mean they shouldn't be used, but they should be understood as being what they are. But are there applied statistics? Can we come up with something which works like statistics, but is actually in real life? I think I have.
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Would this be the love child hybrid of Snowflake Pro and Scrivener? Brought to us by Black Obelisk Software, Liquid Story Binder XE (4.93) reminds me more of the company's name than anything else. It's a massively complex, sort of black application. Their site contains gothic-style art. This feels daunting and exciting.
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