As for my job, I work as a statistician in a Research center on HIV/AIDS in France. But I resigned and going back to Lebanon, my home country to work as a freelance statistician like i used to do before, which suits me much better.
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nobilis said:As for my job, I work as a statistician
Magnus said:Bayesian or frequentist ?
nobilis said:I'm rather frequentist. Or at least, in 95% of the times i worked on something, my approach was frequentist.
But i'm not rigid, and I think that Bayesian approach could be better in some situations.
Magnus said:I'm studying Actuarial Science/Insurance maths at the University of Copenhagen and work part-time in a pension/life-insurance company.
The Hitch said:I feel your pain. My secondary school (ages 11 - 16 with 17-18 optional, in this country) was the worst experience of my life.
It was a catholic nutjob school
Only boys of course. No coed. 7 years of only boys.
Crappy uniforms of shirts ties and blazers to be warn in hot or cold. Shoes polished and all that.
NO SPORT.
NO RUNNING in playground allowed, not even playing football with a stone which was punishable by detention, no talking in groups of larger than 5.
No mobile phones. Having a mobile phone punished not by detention but by suspension from school for a week
No visiting shops after school. Teachers posted to shops in the area to make sure no one went in. Detention if caught.
Everyone had to use the assigned train station. Years 1-3 one train station. Years 3-5 another. Teachers posted to train stations to make sure no one is using wrong station.
School lunch mandatory even if it sucked. Moreover to get to lunch 1 had to wait in a long line that got 10 minutes shorter every year. Lines were arranged based on year and then alphabetical order (surname)
No outside food allowed. If school lunch sucked, or if it run out which it sometimes did, you just had to make it through the day hungry. Tough.
If it rained, which it often does in this country we had to sit in class but got punished by detention if we tried to do our homework
The school did not have the money to buy space for playground cos instead it spent thousands on its own small church and its own hymn books.
If I dig out my old rule book will probably remind myself of a lot more of these idiotic ideas.
Everytime i vistied a foreign country i felt it had robbed me of my childhood. Feel the same way right now. Hate it as much as when i left nearly 4 years ago.
therealtimshady said:I am a maths teacher so watch what you say about school
Fus087 said:Hello, fellow student!
I'm at the University of Copenhagen too, but studying a far more interesting (or far more boring, depending on the viewpoint ) subject, archaeology.
Red Rick said:What? Last year I told one of my two math teachers he was the worst teacher i've ever had, right in his face
Maaaaaaaarten said:I'm a theology student at the Evangelical Theological Faculty in Leuven.
Not entirely sure what I'll do when I've finished that.
The Hitch said:I feel your pain. My secondary school (ages 11 - 16 with 17-18 optional, in this country) was the worst experience of my life.
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Everytime i vistied a foreign country i felt it had robbed me of my childhood. Feel the same way right now. Hate it as much as when i left nearly 4 years ago.
RedheadDane said:How old are you people? Didn't realize that all boys school still existed
You disappoint me!
The Hitch said:Yeah you got me beat. way worse. when was this if you don't mind my asking.
Glenn_Wilson said:Could not be that long ago because hitch mentions mobile phones in his post.
Red Rick said:I hope everyone who had exams graduated. I'm happy to say I did and to University we go:
LaFlorecita said:I am doing nothing atm.
ElChingon said:Well you may say things are crap now, whether it be school, job (or lack of), etc. but just you wait till the next step up in life, you'll be flashing back and thinking, man it was pretty damn nice back then. . . . .