John Ramey

Don't think…compute.

My recent goal is to surround myself with things in my cubicle that will remind me of my work, so that when I inevitably become distracted, many “get back to work” signs act as a sometimes much needed slavedriver.  Among these signs are charts of probability distributions and their properties, but first, I needed to find a good set of them — concise but all the information I need is presented.  So, I Google’d for “lists of pdfs with properties,” forgetting momentarily that PDFs refer to more than just Probability Density (or Distribution) Functions.  I changed my query to  “probability distributions with properties” and was stunned to see Google’s following suggestion.

google-search-for-probability-distributions

After being curious and clicking the 3rd of these links, I have manually turned on Google’s safe search feature for the first time.

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