Programmers MUST Read This
Posted by Jason Fri, 10 Feb 2006 06:13:00 GMT
Programmers Need To Learn Statistics Or I Will Kill Them All by Zed Shaw
I’ve done a little bit of load testing before, and I couldn’t say I believed my results told the complete story. Zed’s article definitely clears up a lot for me.
I will admit that I did pretty much the bare minimum in the area of Statistic in my University career. I slept through the first year course because it was pretty much a course for Arts students. After that, I picked up enough in compsci courses to calculate the number of runs required for a Monte Carlo/Las Vegas algorithm to be correct with a given certainty.
If I were to go back to school, Statistics is something I’d like to revisit. As one of my favourite professors says, Statistics is the field that’s most applicable to real life. (Okay, Al’s wording is much more elegant than mine.)
