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To: alicewonders
Read my profile.

I’m an engineer who “does that sort of thing” for a living. I actually get paid to [inter alia] calculate orbits based on measurements and make estimates of the probabilities of events associated with those calculations. Not interplanetary orbits and not quite the same kind of events, but a not very distant cousin.

15 posted on 12/30/2007 9:19:51 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Being an idealist excuses nothing. Hitler was an idealist.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
Sounds like interesting work.

I did check your profile & particularly liked this quote: "In modern usage the word "Nazi" describes a conservative winning an argument with a liberal." Funny, and true!

The reason I asked if you were a math teacher, I just finished a math class where we studied odds & probabilities. I came to the realization that the probability that I like figuring probabilities was actually quite low. I kept getting confused about the differences between probabilities and odds and whether you were figuring something FOR or AGAINST it happening.

I think people are born with mathematical gifts, I don't think I was - but I do have creative gifts.

21 posted on 12/30/2007 10:13:20 AM PST by alicewonders
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
I’m an engineer who “does that sort of thing” for a living. I actually get paid to [inter alia] calculate orbits based on measurements and make estimates of the probabilities of events associated with those calculations. Not interplanetary orbits and not quite the same kind of events, but a not very distant cousin.

Hopefully they don't make you monitor the Klingons around Uranus.

25 posted on 12/30/2007 1:25:50 PM PST by commish (Freedom tastes sweetest to those who have fought to protect it.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Does your work have anything to do with CEP and gravity variations?


28 posted on 12/30/2007 3:19:06 PM PST by ASOC (The Captain doesn't choose the storm....)
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