…not to be confused with “Baked.”

I would like to apologize to my wonderful, sexy, brilliant, amazing, loyal readers – it is the first test week of the semester. I have been taking a test, will have one tomorrow, the next day, the next day, the next week, and maybe several more on top of that. However! <— Note the boldness of the “However” … HOWEVER, I am learning some pretty awesome stuff. I never knew I would actually enjoy applied probability.
A good topic to start this post off with is the topic of testing. What? …read more

In a perfect world, we would get perfect answers.  In a perfect world, probability would reign supreme.  We don’t live in a perfect world, though (relatively speaking), so why do you plan like we do?  Entrepreneurs can make huge mistakes by making dumb assumptions.  Let’s say you set a release date for some software you are making – you set the official shipping date t0 January 5, 2008… but you still have some developing to do.  Well according to your plans, you should be done with a week to spare!  Uh oh – you forgot one major, missed assumption.  You’re …read more