P(X=x) = exp(lambda)???
Sometimes i fail to understand life.
and people.
Like the QM prof.
When he gave us a problem today, "Assume a hen hatches eggs according to a poisson distribution...."
WHAT THE??
Does IT even know?
And why should i bother aT ALL??
wat good is this to the world??
Stumped...
and people.
Like the QM prof.
When he gave us a problem today, "Assume a hen hatches eggs according to a poisson distribution...."
WHAT THE??
Does IT even know?
And why should i bother aT ALL??
wat good is this to the world??
Stumped...
posted by Girish at 6:20 AM
20 Comments:
ROFL - outrageously good da...LOL - "hen laying eggs according to Poisson distribution" - hahaha
ps - dei nallaa padi da ithellam...i m feeling now for not doing them that good then "THOSE DAYS" - several factors - my IQ not reaching upto it or extrapolating, dumb teachers who were themselves absolute zuk in them, me with not enuf hunger to know...
i shall say the same old words!!!
fraking hilarious!! ROTFL!!! =))
u defnly made my day!
hahahahaha.....sooper appu...now i get the diff between IIMa and any other place...
hehe.. G, comedy! IIM A, Kozhi, muttai and the Poisson Distribution in which the kozhi muttai pottufies... chance ille... idhelam padichapron oru company join panni 60 lakhs sambalam vera!!!
:) enna panndradhu.
one just gets the feeling that this could be just the kind of.... enna solla vandhen-ne marandhu pochu. ippo dhaan match-la ravi shastri commentary kettuttu varen..
well i dont write often here...but my friend... it is useful to the world...hen laying eggs might not be a typical example of poisson distribution (as we use it for more rare events like a tsunami..or actually "me writing to my friends" or a "cock laying eggs", the latter having a higher probability of occuring) well IMO tht is the fundamental distribution used at the Barclays research team in UK to predict stock market crashes ...
you can guess who...
ok well i cant guess who.
Hee hee. This is completely out of context but I like the way the word poisson sounds.
hehe...it was me "anonymous" :-)
Rishi..
so how is life working out for you otherwise? i am doing ok...still havent had the chance to meet ur laetitia casta...(not sure abt the spelling though)...experiencing snow for the first time and learning to ski...!
dai Rishi... kalakkara da.
and yeah, u caught us completely off guard... i mean YOU!! commentin on a blog.. hehe...
and yeah spelling right da.
now tsup to u to find her... oru photo eduthukko da avakooda. jenma saabalyam...
dei Rishi!
ennada ithu? girsh figure nu pesaraan... and nee therila nu sollra!?!!! is THAT how much u have changed... ;) :-p
but good to see u around! do comment more often and on all the blogs too!
hey girish and makesh..
vishayatha kelu...nambha laetitia casta nu sonna...inga ellarum aishwarya photova vechittu alayaranga :-) she is everywhere...bus stops in advertisements for swiss watches, diamond...etc.etc..and pple here (not the french but ppl in morocco, tunisia etc.) are crazy about bollywood...where ever i go they want me to tell them something about sharukh khan...
i did tell them something that shocked them to death...that sharukh khan actually doesn't sing all his songs!!!
LC actually lives in england i guess..not sure though..
otherwise how is life at IIMA?
bingo!
well said...and finally it trickles down to ur mckinsey question...."SO WHAT???!!!"
:D
and to the anonymous who had written abt the barclays thingy.....this is NOT useful to the world...probably to u the world is just composed of the rich n all, but my friend, there is more to the world than stock markets and distributions...broaden ur horizons..!!
So Manish - u mean to say that u expect to learn how to help ppl at the B schools?
And as a side-note, whoever told u equities and co. are not applicable to non-rich ppl...
ps -
1. I donno what Poisson distribution is exactly about except that it s related to statistics.
2. I am not too sure Poisson and co. are not applicable to rural development in any way...mebbe we need to ask the couple of IIM A and C guys that ve taken to the rural areas for applying their knowldege for the betterment of rural India and CERTAILY not those who land up in these I-banks and marketing co.s
hey manish...
it doesnt mean it is for the rich...if i talk about stock markets..
the stock market example was given only because, my friend girish is involved in the domain...and i thought that would make more sense to him...
and by no way tsunami refers to the rich in particular...makes me wonder how u havent read the complete comment but went ahead to advice me to broaden my horizon!
And something at the tip of my fingers..waiting for me to type it...
lets draw an example,
lets say girish is not "rich"
(at least at present...god knows how much he is gonna draw after graduating from IIM A..giri enna marandhudadha..) and lets assume he is gonna work for an investment banking company, i guess it is he who would think of stock market crash and not the guy who is actually investing with him..who by the way is sure to be filthy rich and knows nuts about poisson...
coming back to the point...tell me a field concerning the "poor" or the "rich" and i will give u myriad examples of how we use statistics in tht field to improve/predict the situation...
:-)
Welcome to the blog G-Glow! (thats manish's nickname here, and manish is my seat neighbor in class)
interestin debate this.
for starters... I AM NOT GOIN TO WORK FOR AN INVESTMENT BANK. EVER.
Neways, dont u studs take this discussion off on a tangent. Twas a bored post about a very boring topic, which i thought didnt mean much to me. i still believe that, btw. period.
Lets not have another ISPE debate here. already hated today's debate like crazy. :) (ISPE - Indian Social and Political Environment, i guess).
LOL... Guess i owe some more here, to brahmaputra (aka) BK...
Rich, poor, black, white, whatever.
See.
The point is, IT TOTALLY SUCKS to sit in a QM class and learn how an egg hatches eggs according to a poisson distribution.
Nothing more than that.
(Of course i do realise what we swallow as a bitter pill might be life-saver pill tomoro, or whatever)
My point is made. And quite simply, at that.
hey sleepyhead!
i HATED the ispe lecture too.. i wonder why we even have the course. just tired of being bracketed into the rich/arrogant/brat category simply b/c i got into iima! tired of people telling us we're upto no good.
incidentally tired of ppl running down investment banking.. but that's a different post on a different blog :)
'running down' not at all. at least not me.. tis just something that is so not me. period. :)
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