Ghi chép về việc ... dịch!

Dịch là một việc làm rất ... thù địch!

Thật vậy, quân thù ẩn nấp khắp nơi (phục binh), và ta luôn luôn có thể bị ... đánh úp bất cứ lúc nào!

Đơn cử một ví dụ: hôm nọ đi ăn cơm với khách, lúc tráng miệng có món trái cây thập cẩm, bình thường thì chỉ có dưa hấu (water melon! - well, phải văn ôn vũ luyện chứ nếu không thì khi cần lại quên béng chứ chẳng chơi!), thơm (pineapple!), và có lẽ thường là có bưởi (grape fruit!), hoặc chuối (bannana - well I'm not very sure about the spelling, will have to check), thì tự nhiên hôm ấy trên đĩa trái cây lại xuất hiện thêm một món, là ... củ sắn (????).

Về nhà, kể điều này với con gái 12 tuổi, vốn là một cô bé xem mẹ là nhất thế giới (!) về mọi mặt (?), nhưng nhất là về tiếng Anh (còn phải nói!), thì con bé trả lời ngon lành: tiếng Anh là yam bean! Và tất nhiên là mẹ không tin!

Tra tự điển thì chắc là không có, hoặc cũng khó mà đúng (đúng hơn là khó biết đúng sai), nên PAnh ta bèn tra mạng (trăm năm trong cõi người ta, cái gì không biết thì tra google mà lại!), và ... quả nhiên nó là yam bean!!!!

The moral of this: keep learning (even if it's from your daughter!), and of course, keep reviewing!

Còn hôm nay thì có từ này dịch từ Việt sang Anh đây, ghi lên luôn để cho nó ... nhớ:

paradigm dịch ra tiếng Việt là gì?
một vài từ tương đương tìm thấy trên mạng:
mô thức, hệ thuyết (paradigm shift = chuyển đổi hệ thuyết), khung mẫu, mô hình, hệ hình (!), vv. PAnh ta chọn "mô thức" vì thấy ... nó có vẻ hợp với những gì mình hay gặp với từ paradigm này.

vậy, anh em ơi, paradigm là mô thức, mà mô thức là paradigm nhé! nhớ lấy để đề phòng bị ... đánh úp trong tương lai!

statistics jokes

In God we trust. All others must bring data.

If had only one day left to live, I would live it in my statistics class:
it would seem so much longer.

The latest survey shows that 3 out of 4 people make up 75% of the world's population.

Three statisticians went out hunting, and came across a large deer. The first statistician fired, but missed, by a meter to the left. The second statistician fired, but also missed, by a meter to the right. The third statistician didn't fire, but shouted in triumph, "On the average we got it!"

Did you hear about the politician who promised that, if he was elected, he'd make certain that everybody would get an above average income?

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

Logic is a systematic method for getting the wrong conclusion with confidence.
Statistics is a systematic method for getting the wrong conclusion with 95% confidence.

A statistics major was completely hung over the day of his final exam. It was a True/False test, so he decided to flip a coin for the answers. The stats professor watched the student the entire two hours as he was flipping the coin...writing the answer...flipping the coin...writing the answer. At the end of the two hours, everyone else had left the final except for the one student. The professor walks up to his desk and interrupts the student, saying:
"Listen, I have seen that you did not study for this statistics test, you didn't even open the exam. If you are just flipping a coin for your answer, what is taking you so long?"
The student replies bitterly, as he is still flipping the coin: "Shhh! I am checking my answers!"

There was this statistics student who, when driving his car, would always accelerate hard before coming to any junction, whizz straight over it , then slow down again once he'd got over it. One day, he took a passenger, who was understandably unnerved by his driving style, and asked him why he went so fast over junctions. The statistics student replied, "Well, statistically speaking, you are far more likely to have an accident at a junction, so I just make sure that I spend less time there."

Three professors (a physicist, a chemist, and a statistician) are called in to see their dean. Just as they arrive the dean is called out of his office, leaving the three professors there. The professors see with alarm that there is a fire in the wastebasket.
The physicist says, "I know what to do! We must cool down the materials until their temperature is lower than the ignition temperature and then the fire will go out."
The chemist says, "No! No! I know what to do! We must cut off the supply of oxygen so that the fire will go out due to lack of one of the reactants."
While the physicist and chemist debate what course to take, they both are alarmed to see the statistician running around the room starting other fires. They both scream, "What are you doing?"
To which the statistician replies, "Trying to get an adequate sample size."

I asked a statistician for her phone number... and she gave me an estimate.

A statistician's wife had twins. He was delighted. He rang the minister who was also delighted.
"Bring them to church on Sunday and we'll baptize them," said the minister.
"No," replied the statistician. "Baptize one. We'll keep the other as a control.