Saturday, April 27, 2013

Richmond Spidermonkeys Ultimate Frisbee Regionals 2013















College Ultimate Frisbee at UR, Richmond: Wake Forest vs. Navy:

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Arvid Trubin plays piano

Call of Magic:

Chopin Waltz in D Flat Major :

Cat's Cap camp old vidios

Thursday, April 25, 2013

Islander song on the Queen Mary 2

My Canadian colleague from CMG has shared this with me. A good retirement project is to start writing and singing songs! YOUTUBE LINK:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhMU8IvhK1M&feature=share&list=LLxIDqOafTtRKs9ZvUXgEezg

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

HELP!!! Wikipedia article "Hydridic Earth theory" was proposed for deletion. Volunteers! Add information to the main article or to the talk page to preserve the article from the mainstream pressure

2015 update:  That wiki page was deleted. The discussion/debate of the topic is still on wiki - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Hydridic_Earth_theory 

Wikipedia article Hydridic Earth theory was proposed for deletion. We are inviting all volunteers, familiar with Wikipedia redaction, to add information to the main article or to the talk page and to preserve the article from the mainstream pressure. You will find more information on the Talk page in wikipediahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydridic_Earth_theory

Thursday, April 18, 2013

Do not blame Excel, blame analyst!

I have been using Excel for more than 20 years and I even had run a class teaching accouters to work with spreadsheets! And sure, time to time some bugs were seen and some inaccurate calculations (e.g. working already as Capacity planner I was pointed by my manger on some not precise trend charts I built and had to redo that by use intercept(), slop() and RSQ() functions to get trends, not trusting to the graphical way to plot them.

BUT I LOVE EXCEL!!! You just need to know what you can and cannot do with it!

So I am LOL reading the following article where wrong global trend were drown from mistaken Excel based analysis. Do not blame excel, blame analyst! And I Applauding to the student who is brave to  find the  error in famous but bad analyst's work!


Here is original American article: http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2013/04/17/rogoff-reinhart-excel-errors
And Russian one I guess about the same fact but under different angle: http://newsru.com/finance/18apr2013/student.html


Plus I personalty enjoy living in debt. Being relatively new here in US (~13 yeas ago I moved with family with ~$10,000 in my pocket), that economical mechanism allowed me to reach almost middle class life level by just lending my brain....


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Igor Trubin began his engineering career in 1979 as an IBM/370 systems engineer. He earned a Ph.D. in Robotics from St. Petersburg Technical University in 1986 and spent 12 years there as a professor teaching CAD/CAM and Robotics. He has published and presented more than 60 technical papers and conference presentations in robotics, artificial intelligence, IT performance, capacity management, anomaly detection, and FinOps. After moving to the U.S. in 1999, Igor worked at Capital One, IBM, and SunTrust Bank in senior engineering, architecture, and management roles. His 2002 CMG paper on exception detection received a Best Paper Award. He later developed Perfomalist.com, based on his original methods for anomaly, change-point, and trend detection, and created the online course “Performance Anomaly Detection.” At Capital One, he led development of cloud capacity-management and FinOps solutions, including the award-winning OptiCloud application. He has served on the CMG Board of Directors since 2015. Now semi-retired, Igor focuses on research, writing, and consulting. His current work expands his concept of the “Area of Normal Functioning” (ANF) from technical systems to human, orga