BaZiNgA!

'All models are wrong, but some are useful'

-- George Box, American Statistical Association, (1978)

Some Fun Stuff I do

I recently solved a nice question from the 2010 paper of econometrics which took me a while, but it was indeed a nice puzzle waiting to be solved. If you want to have a go at the question, click here.
I recently tried to answer the question: "Rasode Mai Kon Tha?" Using advance econometric tools but turns out it is an identification problem i.e., even with infinite data, I cannot answer the question. It forms a part of THE SET OF KNOWN UNKNOWNS.

Let epsilon be negative -- Yes, if you've been scarred by this, you'll laugh.
The classic "Lucas Tree" model is a stochastic (k, K) model. Empirically it is a failure, but so are all its decendants and it's a useful place to start. -- Prof. Nancy Stokey
Every time you pass a toilet.... Enter it. -- Dr. Vijay Kelkar
If you can't amaze them with brilliance, dazzle them with bullshit. -- Me on every one of my CS practicals

Hearts and Minds will follow once you've got them by the balls. -- Theodore Roosevelt.
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. -- Hanlon's Razor
While a mathematician is a parochial pragmatist, the Engineer is a habitual anarchist. -- Unknown
Do you know Bernard what happens if the right people don't have the power? ... The Wrong People have it! -- Sir Humphrey Appleby
Talent is As Cheap as Salt. -- Prof. Alwyn Young

Here is one of my most favorite dialogs from the Series Yes Prime-Minister (1987):

Jim Hacker : Don't tell me about the Press. I know *exactly* who reads the papers. The Daily Mirror is read by people who think they run the country;

The Guardian is read by people who think they *ought* to run the country;

The Times is read by the people who actually *do* run the country;

The Daily Mail is read by the wives of the people who run the country;

The Financial Times is read by people who *own* the country;

The Morning Star is read by people who think the country ought to be run by *another* country;

and The Daily Telegraph is read by people who think it is.

(--Sourced from imdb.com)