When the startup shut down there were still dozens of netbooks out there in the wild collecting data on the residential houses fitted with our adaptive heating control algorithms, hopelessly attempting to connect to our VPN server that didn’t exist anymore in order to upload all that data to our now-defunct database. That’s a lot […]
It’s Monday afternoon. It’s a holiday but I have a couple of things to catch up from last week that I didn’t finish. The rest of the family is either on holiday camp or taking a nap in the bedroom. I’m working from home. But the home is anything but silent. I can hear the […]
In Trustworthy Online Controller Experiments I came across this quote, referring to a ratio metric $M = \frac{X}{Y}$, which states that: Because $X$ and $Y$ are jointly bivariate normal in the limit, $M$, as the ratio of the two averages, is also normally distributed. That’s only partially true. According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratio_distribution, the ratio of two […]