Proposal: Games forum reshuffle

[TeeGee]

Quite simply
Forum Games to be made its own forum (currently a sub-forum of OT)
Mafia games to be made a sub-forum of the new Games forum



Can I please have your thoughts on this

[2dimes]

It's not that I don't care. I'm interested in what happens.
I just think I should leave it up to those that use them.

I hope you guys set up a great new thing.

[TeeGee]

It's not that I don't care. I'm interested in what happens.
I just think I should leave it up to those that use them.

I hope you guys set up a great new thing.

That's why we are having the polls, 1 here in OT and an identical one in the mafia forum.

If the majority are against it then I won't go to admin to make the change, but as it stands both sections are struggling and we need to do something

[Dukasaur]

It's not that I don't care. I'm interested in what happens.
I just think I should leave it up to those that use them.

There are four people using the Games forum and four people using the Mafia forum.

My Stats teachers taught me that any sample size less that 30 is inherently suspect.

Polling the 8 people concerned, therefore, is useless...

[TeeGee]

It's not that I don't care. I'm interested in what happens.
I just think I should leave it up to those that use them.

There are four people using the Games forum and four people using the Mafia forum.

My Stats teachers taught me that any sample size less that 30 is inherently suspect.

Polling the 8 people concerned, therefore, is useless...

Does a Canadian education count? Probably more than a Merry can one actually.

My thoughts are by moving games out of OT it may just be visible to 1 or 2 more people

[Dukasaur]

It's not that I don't care. I'm interested in what happens.
I just think I should leave it up to those that use them.

There are four people using the Games forum and four people using the Mafia forum.

My Stats teachers taught me that any sample size less that 30 is inherently suspect.

Polling the 8 people concerned, therefore, is useless...

Does a Canadian education count? Probably more than a Merry can one actually.

My thoughts are by moving games out of OT it may just be visible to 1 or 2 more people

It's worth a try...

[2dimes]

It's not that I don't care. I'm interested in what happens.
I just think I should leave it up to those that use them.

There are four people using the Games forum and four people using the Mafia forum.

My Stats teachers taught me that any sample size less that 30 is inherently suspect.

Polling the 8 people concerned, therefore, is useless...

Not really. No objections one abstained or didn't care. I'd say it's unanimous.

[Symmetry]

Hmm, how many stats teachers did you have, Duk?

[Dukasaur]

Hmm, how many stats teachers did you have, Duk?

I guess three overall.

[DoomYoshi]

Hmm, how many stats teachers did you have, Duk?

I guess three overall.

That is an inherently suspect sample size.

[Dukasaur]

Hmm, how many stats teachers did you have, Duk?

I guess three overall.

That is an inherently suspect sample size.

Yeah. I don't know if I should take 27 more stats courses. Seems like a long grind.

[Symmetry]

Hmm, how many stats teachers did you have, Duk?

I guess three overall.

That is an inherently suspect sample size.

Yeah. I don't know if I should take 27 more stats courses. Seems like a long grind.

I dunno mate, you're having to guess at having three so far.

[Dukasaur]

Hmm, how many stats teachers did you have, Duk?

I guess three overall.

That is an inherently suspect sample size.

Yeah. I don't know if I should take 27 more stats courses. Seems like a long grind.

I dunno mate, you're having to guess at having three so far.

I guess the guess requires an explanation.

In university I had two stats courses, two different years, two different profs. That's an unequivocal two.

The first, however, in high school, leads to the counting problem. The stats I took in high school was not explicitly a stats course. It was called Advanced Algebra and the first half of the course was devoted to Probability and Statistics, while the second half of the course was devoted to Vectors and Matrix Theory. So since only the first half of the course was devoted to Probs and Stats, should I count that only as half a course? In that case, my answer should be that I had 2.5 stats teachers.

But wait! It gets better! Compounding the counting problem is the fact that we had a staffing change during the course.

We had two advanced math teachers. Both of their names escape me now, but one was a fiery redheaded Hungarian (yes, there are redheaded Hungarians, though they are not common. Those damned Vikings fucked their way up and down the Danube just like every other river in Europe and those genes can be found almost everywhere.) He used to jump around the classroom in a highly animated fashion that was halfway between math and circus acrobatics, scribbling his formulas on any available blackboard (sometimes in a non-contiguous fashion) and making huge bold pronouncements with grand flourishes and waves of his arms. He was half Nikola Tesla, half P. T. Barnum, and 100% nuts.

The other one was a meek, soft-spoken, mousy little Englishman with a faint little moustache. He spoke so quietly you had to strain to hear him. He reminded me of Donald Pleasance's character in The Great Escape. (If you've never seen The Great Escape, you really should. It has its flaws, but overall its still one of the great masterworks of cinema.) So anyway, about three weeks into the year, our school had a sudden staff reshuffling. So the Hungarian and the Englishman traded places. Previously, the Hungarian had taught Advanced Algebra and the Englishman had taught Functions and Calculus, but they swapped, so that the Hungarian now taught Functions and Calculus and the Englishman now taught Advanced Algebra. (I was in both classes, so I continued to have both of them.)

So you see my conundrum. By a full counting, I should count both of them, in which case I have had four stats teachers. However, it seems unfair to count someone who only taught the first three weeks of a thirty-week course. It seems especially malodorous since only the first half of that course was devoted to Stats, and by that counting I've only had 2.5. So, I compromised between 2.5 and 4 and decided to call it 3. It's not an entirely satisfactory solution, but it seemed like a decent compromise.

[Symmetry]

Hmm, how many stats teachers did you have, Duk?

I guess three overall.

That is an inherently suspect sample size.

Yeah. I don't know if I should take 27 more stats courses. Seems like a long grind.

I dunno mate, you're having to guess at having three so far.

I guess the guess requires an explanation.

In university I had two stats courses, two different years, two different profs. That's an unequivocal two.

The first, however, in high school, leads to the counting problem. The stats I took in high school was not explicitly a stats course. It was called Advanced Algebra and the first half of the course was devoted to Probability and Statistics, while the second half of the course was devoted to Vectors and Matrix Theory. So since only the first half of the course was devoted to Probs and Stats, should I count that only as half a course? In that case, my answer should be that I had 2.5 stats teachers.

But wait! It gets better! Compounding the counting problem is the fact that we had a staffing change during the course.

We had two advanced math teachers. Both of their names escape me now, but one was a fiery redheaded Hungarian (yes, there are redheaded Hungarians, though they are not common. Those damned Vikings fucked their way up and down the Danube just like every other river in Europe and those genes can be found almost everywhere.) He used to jump around the classroom in a highly animated fashion that was halfway between math and circus acrobatics, scribbling his formulas on any available blackboard (sometimes in a non-contiguous fashion) and making huge bold pronouncements with grand flourishes and waves of his arms. He was half Nikola Tesla, half P. T. Barnum, and 100% nuts.

The other one was a meek, soft-spoken, mousy little Englishman with a faint little moustache. He spoke so quietly you had to strain to hear him. He reminded me of Donald Pleasance's character in The Great Escape. (If you've never seen The Great Escape, you really should. It has its flaws, but overall its still one of the great masterworks of cinema.) So anyway, about three weeks into the year, our school had a sudden staff reshuffling. So the Hungarian and the Englishman traded places. Previously, the Hungarian had taught Advanced Algebra and the Englishman had taught Functions and Calculus, but they swapped, so that the Hungarian now taught Functions and Calculus and the Englishman now taught Advanced Algebra. (I was in both classes, so I continued to have both of them.)

So you see my conundrum. By a full counting, I should count both of them, in which case I have had four stats teachers. However, it seems unfair to count someone who only taught the first three weeks of a thirty-week course. It seems especially malodorous since only the first half of that course was devoted to Stats, and by that counting I've only had 2.5. So, I compromised between 2.5 and 4 and decided to call it 3. It's not an entirely satisfactory solution, but it seemed like a decent compromise.

Hmm, I count a lie, a damn lie and a statistic. I think your little story may have left you worse off than where you started.

[Dukasaur]

One day I'll learn to stop throwing pearls before swine.

[tzor]

Hmm, how many stats teachers did you have, Duk?

I guess three overall.

That is an inherently suspect sample size.

Three isn't a stat number ... it's a trinary computation checker. Normally you would expect all three computers, I mean stats teachers to give the same ANSWERS ... When one fails, you fire that one.

[DoomYoshi]

tzor hails from the time when computer was an occupation...

[tzor]

tzor hails from the time when computer was an occupation...

No, not that old. However my Grandmother worked in The Metropolitan Life North Building and I worked in it as well, although that was after the days when the building consisted of clerks that rotated in shifts 24 hours a day processing insurance forms and claims.



But I did hail from a time when a "computer" would occupy an entire basement; when the printers had to be in their own rooms because of all the noise and the dust from the mechanical moving of the paper through the use of a perforations that could be torn off. I am old enough to have watched the original Battlestar Galactica in High School (and I am not talking about reruns). The original IBM PC was released while I was in College.

So, I'm old, not that old, but still old.
I even taught COBOL once in college.

[jonesthecurl]

I used to teach programmers. We used PL/1.

[Dukasaur]

I took courses in Fortran and Cobol. Didn't finish either course.

[TeeGee]

Hmm, how many stats teachers did you have, Duk?

I guess three overall.

That is an inherently suspect sample size.

Yeah. I don't know if I should take 27 more stats courses. Seems like a long grind.

I dunno mate, you're having to guess at having three so far.

I guess the guess requires an explanation.

In university I had two stats courses, two different years, two different profs. That's an unequivocal two.

The first, however, in high school, leads to the counting problem. The stats I took in high school was not explicitly a stats course. It was called Advanced Algebra and the first half of the course was devoted to Probability and Statistics, while the second half of the course was devoted to Vectors and Matrix Theory. So since only the first half of the course was devoted to Probs and Stats, should I count that only as half a course? In that case, my answer should be that I had 2.5 stats teachers.

But wait! It gets better! Compounding the counting problem is the fact that we had a staffing change during the course.

We had two advanced math teachers. Both of their names escape me now, but one was a fiery redheaded Hungarian (yes, there are redheaded Hungarians, though they are not common. Those damned Vikings fucked their way up and down the Danube just like every other river in Europe and those genes can be found almost everywhere.) He used to jump around the classroom in a highly animated fashion that was halfway between math and circus acrobatics, scribbling his formulas on any available blackboard (sometimes in a non-contiguous fashion) and making huge bold pronouncements with grand flourishes and waves of his arms. He was half Nikola Tesla, half P. T. Barnum, and 100% nuts.

The other one was a meek, soft-spoken, mousy little Englishman with a faint little moustache. He spoke so quietly you had to strain to hear him. He reminded me of Donald Pleasance's character in The Great Escape. (If you've never seen The Great Escape, you really should. It has its flaws, but overall its still one of the great masterworks of cinema.) So anyway, about three weeks into the year, our school had a sudden staff reshuffling. So the Hungarian and the Englishman traded places. Previously, the Hungarian had taught Advanced Algebra and the Englishman had taught Functions and Calculus, but they swapped, so that the Hungarian now taught Functions and Calculus and the Englishman now taught Advanced Algebra. (I was in both classes, so I continued to have both of them.)

So you see my conundrum. By a full counting, I should count both of them, in which case I have had four stats teachers. However, it seems unfair to count someone who only taught the first three weeks of a thirty-week course. It seems especially malodorous since only the first half of that course was devoted to Stats, and by that counting I've only had 2.5. So, I compromised between 2.5 and 4 and decided to call it 3. It's not an entirely satisfactory solution, but it seemed like a decent compromise.

I calculate it as 3.14 teachers.

[2dimes]

What's the hold up, I s this caught up in red tape?

[TeeGee]

What's the hold up, I s this caught up in red tape?

viewtopic.php?f=213&t=21590&start=100#p5083430

[2dimes]

Red script.

[tzor]

I took courses in Fortran and Cobol. Didn't finish either course.

Fortran was fun.
Cobol was a little to "formal" for my tastes. (It's still used by Social Security with 60 million lines of code running.)