Growing up – all the way to engineering school and beyond – I was obsessed with mathematical modelling and statistics. The ability to model (correctly) the predictive behaviour of a system (oftentimes a complex system that involves a fairly large number of variables) can seem like pure magic to an outsider (and is a whole…
Month: February 2015
Never Serve a Burnt Sandwich
I saw the Jon Favreau movie Chef the other night. Jon Favreau plays a celebrated chef called Carl Casper, who after receiving a particularly nasty review from a food critic suffers a spectacular meltdown in his restaurant that is captured for posterity on social media. He quits/ is fired from his job and goes on…