Randy Pausch on Life

It is not the things we do that we regret on our death bed..It is the things we did not do, that we regret Find your passion .. You will not find passion in money, things. It has to be something other than that. No matter what you do , passion will always be grounded in people and the relationships with the people around. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcYv5x6gZTA&hl=en_US&fs=1&&w=425&h=344]

Correlation Phantom

Day in , Day out one comes across reports, newspaper articles, business channel anchors using the word correlation. Correlation between NIFTY movement and some sector index, pollution rates Vs number of vehicles in the city, y vs x etc . If one stops to think about the word correlation and ask a few questions, opinions/arguments/citings all tend to fall apart. In the statistical sense of the word, let me take r as a pearson correlation and bring out the first often neglected aspect of correlation.