Folk wisdom says that for all practical purposes, a Student-t distribution with 30 or more degrees of freedom is a normal distribution. Well, not for all practical purposes. For 30 or more degrees of freedom, the error in approximating the…
Daily Archives: 12 November 2008
Architects versus engineers
Here’s a quote I ran across in the book Operating Systems. When an engineer builds a building, it’s very well built, but it’s so ugly that the people tear it down; when an architect builds a building, it’s very beautiful,…
