ze dirty third

the third floor (or attic) of someone’s house in lake forest where naughty stuff happens aka sexy time

wanna go up to ze dirty third

by mspinky July 28, 2020

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nate-silver-thirty

(noun)

parameters and/or random noise added to a predictive model to enable the model to appear to include a wider variety of outcomes than the fundamental mechanism of the model actually includes

(verb)
to add spurious adjustable parameters and/or random noise to a predictive model to enable the model to appear to include a wider variety of outcomes than the fundamental mechanism of the model actually includes
to artificially inflate your estimate of a very unlikely event occurring to ~30% with no justification within your model, simply so you can cover your ass should the unlikely event occur, all while retaining the option to claim that you predicted, with better than 2/3rd probability, that the unlikely event would not occur.

“After realizing her model to predict economic growth didn’t include enough details, and was therefore predicting too narrow a range of possible outcomes, she nate-silver-thirty (ed) her model to get a more satisfactory appearing distribution of outcomes.”

by stats_definer August 28, 2020

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point minus thirty-free

when you've been so out of touch with the world and are suddenly invited to a job interview.

"do i go naked. do i speak french-russian. do i remove my piercings. do i offer to work for free. do i say please and thank you."
"woman, you are point zero, no, point minus thirty-free."

by Krkič September 25, 2020

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