My wife's phd is in a sub-field of geometry. At $ob she does data analysis that involves proper statistics. (Think high tech industry, ISO, N-sigma, etc.) I've only worked as a one-man band on a handful of systems, but I've never (in 18 years) had occasion to ask her for mathematical expertise. I point this out only to make it clear that I have particularly easy access to full-on math skills, but I've never used them.
So my thought is (from my micro-sized shop experience): It's the basics that matter; The conceptual stuff like how mean-time-between-failure leads to your RAID failure being more likely when you replace a disk that leads to your choice of disk technology/solution. Also, stuff like base-2, -10, -16 basic arithmetic/conceptualization. Sampling choices like, not "what's the fastest response from the software", but the 95%, 99% response averages, etc… not how to compute that stuff, but what does it mean in the logging/monitoring system's reports. Basic ideas like cascade-style failure exists (like broadcast storms et al), or complex systems have non-linear responses; again, not how to compute and analyze, but just that these features/behaviour are there and are not intuitive. --Craig Constantine, http://constantine.name On Sep 17, 2013, at 10:51 AM, Matt Simmons <[email protected]> wrote: Hello everyone! For a long time, I've thought that I'd like to go back and get more math, because I feel like I could use a lot more of a background in statistics than I have, and I'm sure that there are a lot of other things I'd be able to apply. So I thought I would ask you group of folks....if you were going to build a conference tutorial course with the title "Math for System Administrators", what would be included? And if you think the idea is terrible, I'm interested in hearing that, too. Thanks in advance! --Matt ps - I'll probably crosspost this to a couple of lists. Apologies if you get it more than once. -- LITTLE GIRL: But which cookie will you eat FIRST? COOKIE MONSTER: Me think you have misconception of cookie-eating process. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
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