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Tuesday, July 13, 2010

The Things That Make Me Laugh...

From the archives of the Three-Toed Sloth...

Major takeaway:
"Sir, you can't work out the answer to that question in any statistically reliable manner, sir, because economic processes are nonergodic, sir, because the economy is subject to positive destabilising feedback sir!"
Very well done that pupil. The rest of you, go back to the books and revise.

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