Cukup

Cukup adalah sebuah keputusan, bukan jumlah Berapa hari ini, ada macam-macam keinginan yang berdiam di kepala. Ingin persoalan A selesai, ingin mendapat kabar baik tentang persoalan B, ingin X, ingin Y, mau mencoba Z, macam-macam pokoknya. Dan lucunya... Saya seperti meyakin-yakinkan diri kalau saja A,B,X,Y,Z tercapai pasti Saya jadi orang yang paling berbahagia di bumi. … Continue reading Cukup

Birth

He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the time of cholera

Statistics

The surprising success of equal-weighting schemes has an important practical implication: it is possible to develop useful algorithm without any prior statistical research. Simple equally weighted formulas based on existing statistics or on common sense are often very good predictor of significant outcome. In a memorable example, Dawes showed that marital stability is well predicted … Continue reading Statistics