This will probably be our last Thanksgiving with both the kids living at home. The turkey is in the oven, Christian, is studying by the fire, Lorena and Kelly are cooking and the cats are relaxing.
All fresh fruit!!!
Day: November 28, 2013
Day 829 of 1000
Betty Blonde #13 – 08/04/2008
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Everyone one is still in bed at 9:30 on Thanksgiving morning. Christian stayed up later than everyone to work on his Linear Algebra take-home exam. I stayed up late to give him some moral support. Lorena and Kelly stayed up to watch some wedding video of some of their friends. I woke up this morning at about 7:30 to the cat staring me in the face and yowling like crazy. So I got up to feed her, check the turkey (it has to be close to room temperature before I start cooking it–we are ready to go), have a cup of coffee, and do my morning reading.
There is a fascinating philosophical cat fight between Frequentists and Bayesians going on in the world of Statistics. A blog articles titled Statistical Zealots over at Simply Statistics is about that fight. Be sure to read through the comments. Some of these people are serious as a heart attack about this issue. Kelly and Christian have been telling me about and I meant to read up on it to figure out what it is about. I consume statistical consulting services in my work, so I am sure I will run into this in the future and it will be important to understand the issues. It might take some real work to understand all the issues. Fun stuff.
Another monster topic of great importance today is that my wife and daughter made a lemon merangue pie for us last night. My Finnish grandmother, Ida Jenkins, always made lemon merangue pie, from scratch, at Thanksgiving when I was growing up. It was very tart with a TON of merangue. We plan to make this an annual tradition. This is the first year, so the girls just followed the recipe. It looks awesome. Next year, I am going to lobby to up the tartness and up the merangue.
Update: Here is a blog post with amazingly helpful description of the philosophical issues behind the Bayesian vs Frequentist cat fight. It helped me a lot in my understanding, has some reference links, and even a pointer to “the ugliest blog in the world” which is about Statistics!