heavily favoring statistics
mean vs median and when you want to use each (usually median).
mode
standard deviation
variance
quantization (e.g. into buckets to calculate distributions)
numerical distributions (poisson, uniform, random, etc.). brief
graph theory (directed, undirected). CLOS networks, brief coverage
queueing theory (one queue with a worker 2<x> speed is *always* faster
than 2 queues of <x> speed. It's mathematically proven.)
using logarithms
bloom filters (more devopsy)
spanning tree reduction calculations (yup, applied math)
MTBF (based upon a population throwing out the early and late failures;
The MTBF for a human is ~800 years when replaced as directed)
hamming codes (brief)
XOR (parity)
Reed solomon (brief)
Erasure coding (brief)
On 9/17/2013 10:51 AM, Matt Simmons 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.
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