Re: Classic xkcd: Estimation

[Dan Kaminsky <dan () doxpara com>]

Celebrities?  Attractive?  SEATTLE?

Somebody's never been to Redmond :)



On Jul 21, 2009, at 9:34 AM, "Buhrmaster, Gary"  
<gtb () slac stanford edu> wrote:

> > rumor has it that they ripped the algorithm off from the unix dump
> > command.
>
> More likely the engineers tried to build a model based on their
> experienced wait time at a trendy Seattle hotspot, and they kept
> having the celebrities and the attractive be let in in front of
> them (what else are you going to do on an elastic line than to
> attempt to model it?)
>
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