Programmers Need To Learn Statistics Or I Will Kill Them All (2005)
Serious question: who here who has at least a BS in CS didn't have a mandatory stats class where you learned all about picking sample sizes to give you an accuracy you're happy with or that an average without a standard deviation is nigh-meaningless?It's just a fact of our profession, there is a significant percentage of people who just slap together APIs and have zero understanding of the maths behind it.I don't see why it takes Zed 1000 words to say it or why he has to get sanctimonious about it.