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.
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Date: 2008-12-12 06:17 pm (UTC)"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.