Recently an old essay of mine Programmers Must Learn Statistics Or I Will Kill Them All hit a few of the nerd hangouts. As per usual, the commenters on the site can’t string together more than a few comments but feel they can critique my writing. I apparently have to work on my presentation because nobody is going to read my rant and it will never change how they think about statistics. Nope, I write like a retarded teenager who’s an arrogant prick and an asshole so obviously nobody is going to read my essay on statistics.
Yet, they all read it, and then their comments are just as arrogant and “retardedly teenager” as my writing:
It’s also possible the author of the article is a know-it-all douchebag who tries to solve problems with overwrought solutions.
The author of TFA should do well to realize that even fellow statisticians would probably slap the shit out of him over some of his beliefs about how to properly go about utilizing stats toolsets.
But he’s wrong about how to go about this, and he’s nearly as much of an egotistical prick as he always was.
It’s like I wrote those in one of my better rants. Are they merely an homage to my writing? Maybe my influence is so great my writing style infects people who absolutely hate me. Either way, for a bunch of guys who say they hate how I write and what I write has no impact, they sure do like writing almost exactly like me.
So here we have a bunch of guys who think I’m a “tosser” who’s wrong. They of course can’t point me at any Ph.D. level material that shows I’m wrong, let alone any basic math that shows I’m wrong. Nope, I’m just wrong that programmers need to learn stats. Their skills at math are bad ass. Their reasoning is off the charts.
These entirely humble people easily trounced my reasoning and math in the comments on slashdot and Hacker News, to the roaring of mouse clicks on the +1 clits of their respective comment systems.
Yet, you wanna know something funny? I purposefully placed two direct errors in that essay as canaries. Only one person, out of all the people who read it, every found them. He was a statistician in New Zealand I believe. Pointed them right out.
You dickwads are too busy writing your anti-Zed comments in almost the exact same way I write my essays to notice them.
Good job. I’m glad I’m right.