For sg_fignewton, Proportional Hazards (gen, G)

[eve11]

sg_fignewton requested anything connected with Folsom Prison Blues. Gen, humor, ~350 words, no spoilers: (1/24/07--minor edit)



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"Three months. That's gotta be a record."

Jack picked himself up off the floor as a solid white barrier shoomped down across the tiny room's only doorway. He ignored the twinge in his knee and offered a hand up to Daniel, who was staring dejectedly up at the ceiling, silently mouthing a word that could have been "ow".

"It has been some time since our last incarceration." Teal'c eyed the white walls, unconcerned.

"One hundred and seventeen days exactly." Carter almost seemed smug about it, giving the door frame a series of small taps with her knuckles as she spoke. "Definitely a record."

"Ow," Daniel said, sitting up. Then, "Whoa, nine."

"Indeed."

Jack turned to the Jaffa, incredulous. "This one rates a nine?"

Teal'c merely raised an eyebrow in Carter's direction. She was still resolutely tapping her way along the frame, and had produced a screwdriver from somewhere. Suddenly she must've found what she was looking for; she stood back and pointed to a spot that looked no different from the rest of the wall surrounding it.

"Here, Teal'c," she said.

Teal'c took two strides across the room, letting his momentum carry him into a solid, open-palmed strike at Carter's non-spot.

A panel sprung open. Five seconds of screwdriver-ing later, the door shoomped up again, and they were ghosting down the hall.

"Does that even count?" Jack whispered as they found cover in an alcove.

"It better. . . " Carter stopped mid-sentence, suddenly concerned with the tops of her shoes. Jack gave her a look, then stood back.

"You didn't."

Carter had never looked so guilty in her life.

"You . . . they let you in?" Jack answered her silence.

"Siler owed me," she said. "I used him as a proxy. I didn't do anything to influence it, sir. I just used a Cox proportional hazards model with time-varying coefficients to predict a point of failure--"

"Sam," Daniel interrupted. "You joined the pool?"

She let out a sigh. "Yes."

Jack nodded toward the hall, and they were off again. "So," he said over his shoulder as they reached the compound doors. "How much?"

She gave a wicked grin. "Steaks are on me when we get back."



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Comments

[sg-fignewton.livejournal.com]

Oh, Eve, this is just perfect. Exactly the kind of thing I was hoping you'd do!

Just bounced off and recced it, in fact. :)

Thank you for this!

[eve11]

Thanks! And thanks for the rec, too :) Glad you liked it. I saw your request before I left for the gym today, made mental notes of the plot as I was driving into town, cemented the character development arcs and secondary themes as I was tread-milling, and composed it this morning.

Or, in other words, I blearily said to myself this morning, "Sam would totally win the office pool for getting locked up again" and went from there... ;)

[sg-fignewton.livejournal.com]

Hee! The first version sounded so good. The second version, though, sounds so right.

Thanks again for this really yummy fic. :)

[gunhilda.livejournal.com]

LOL!

[eve11]

Aha, my work here is done! Glad you liked it :)

[l-jade.livejournal.com]

Here by sg_fignewton

Heeee... this is great! funny & full of teamy goodness... thank you for the laugh :)

[eve11]

(bah, accidentally posted before I was done...) I meant to say, glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for sharing your comments; I always love to give people a smile :)

[syxp.livejournal.com]

Heh.

That was great.

sharon

[eve11]

Thanks!

[aurora-novarum.livejournal.com]

Very cute. And you know Jack, Daniel, and Teal'c have been in that pool themselves from time to time. LOL

[eve11]

And you know Jack, Daniel, and Teal'c have been in that pool themselves from time to time. LOL

Heh, I imagine Jack asked about Carter getting a berth in the pool because he kept getting blacklisted. He needs to get some dirt on Walter, but I bet Walter would push for a 60-40 split of any profits.

[lem0nb0mbs.livejournal.com]

You know, you could continue this as a series and I would be utterly content.

[eve11]

lol, I think it would quickly devolve into crack!fic from here on out. Of course, that's a selling point for you, I suppose ;)

[holdouttrout.livejournal.com]

Awesome...A nine. hee! Sam could totally rule the world, just by the awesome power of owed favors and Math.

[eve11]

Thanks! And yeah, math and owed favors -- they're two great tastes that go great together ;)

[sulien.livejournal.com]

*laughing my butt off* Sam... My GODS, I love Sam! Brilliant...again!

[eve11]

Aw shucks, thanks :)

[kuonji14.livejournal.com]

LOL, omg! Sam joined the pool and used complicated math to predict how to win! *dies

Btw, loved this line:

"Ow," Daniel said, sitting up. Then, "Whoa, nine."


I can really see Daniel doing this, and it's a great continuation point to the original fic.

[eve11]

Thanks! :) Glad you liked this little tag :)

LOL, omg! Sam joined the pool and used complicated math to predict how to win! *dies

Because you know she wouldn't cheat (the only thing she could try to do would be to get caught, since we're assuming SG-1's baseline working state is "don't get caught", regardless of the existence of the pool, and trying to get caught is just silly), but she would definitely use all of the available data at her disposal to make a good prediction.

I can really see Daniel doing this, and it's a great continuation point to the original fic.

hee :) And you know Teal'c only gives it a nine because he knows they're going to be out in like, thirty seconds. :)

[secretbutterfly.livejournal.com]

*snerk* This was simply HI-larious, as Jayne Cobb would say. I loved it. :-)

[eve11]

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it :)

[joannindiw.livejournal.com]

*falls over giggling*

[eve11]

*picks you up, dusts you off, and thanks you profusely* :)

[bluemeridian]

Oh fantastic!! *giggles helplessly*

[eve11]

Thanks! And I love your icon!

[bluemeridian]

To be fair, decaf is a perfectly viable option when combined with Bailey's. :P

fabulous

[(Anonymous)]

Eve, this is fabulous! I love it! It's very, very, very short which makes me quite sad but I have to say that the absolute, overall wonderfulness of the story makes up for it. If you are so inclined...would it be too much to request another one? Just a short little follow up? I love this. It's just too cute. Besides, I want to know what happens back on Earth. Wouldn't it be funny if they didn't get kidnapped but got locked in a Wal-Mart or some other superstore or something? Or I don't know...anything to keep my favorite little thread-story going!!!

Re: fabulous

[galaen.livejournal.com]

By the way, that was from me. I didn't remember to log in.

Re: fabulous

[eve11]

Hi, thanks for your comments! At the moment I'm a bit swamped in terms of writing vs. Real life, but if I do come back to this set of stories I'll definitely let you know :) I'm very glad you enjoyed it.

[thraesja.livejournal.com]

Here via Fig's recent CvF meta. Loved the original. Just found this.

"Siler owed me," she said. "I used him as a proxy. I didn't do anything to influence it, sir. I just used a Cox proportional hazards model with time-varying coefficients to predict a point of failure--"

Loved the possible implication that Sam's been Siler's proxy in the past. On what? The next time he got blasted through a door? And you had her use a Cox model? I'm in geeked-out love with you.

[eve11]

Heh, well you know, I figured she was just calling in some favor or another to get Siler to enter her pick into the pool ;)

And you had her use a Cox model? I'm in geeked-out love with you.

:D But does it really count as proportional hazards if the covariates are time-dependent? I mean, that quite messes with the whole partial likelihood thing... *sighs*, it's yet another one of those things I know about in theory and am really glad there's software to fit it for applications, if I'd ever have the need to use one.

[thraesja.livejournal.com]

Heh. I've always been under the impression that the model can be extended to included time dependent covariates, but I think you're right in that it's no longer called proportional hazards. But I must admit that I don't work too closely with the models themselves. I tend to hand the data over to the real math geeks and admire the results in my own bio geek way.

[sjshipper.livejournal.com]

that's awesome.

[dieastra.livejournal.com]

Hehehe! Short but wonderful!

[eve11]

thanks! :)

[cesy.livejournal.com]

Hehe, great.

I love all the banter about betting at the SGC.

[marici.livejournal.com]

Ok, the base deserves whatever they get for letting Sam bet. Who even does that? Thanks for writing this!

[eve11]

Well, technically she strong-armed Siler into it because he owed her a favor, so she only entered surreptitiously ;D

And wow, hey, blast from the past! I'm so glad to see folks are still reading and enjoying these fics; thanks for commenting, even after so long :D