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by hgsgm 3y ago
To be fair, someone who understands the full problem would be able to explain both solutions.
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by hgsgm 3y ago
Indeed, a lot of "probability" is actually "linguistics". Bertrand Paradox is deeper though -- it's not always obvious when there is more than one plausible sample space; there's good mathematics in studying th
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by hgsgm 3y ago
And what makes probability so hard, is that these word problems describe a situation that never happens in real life, so human-language speaking people interpret the problem as something more sensible, before doing the math
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by hgsgm 3y ago
I cannot make heads or tails of the last statement.
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by hgsgm 3y ago
That's not what's wrong with it. There has been almost no definitive progress in fundamental physics in the past 50-100 years.
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by hgsgm 3y ago
It's a pretty standard belief. We've spent centuries as a species investigating the consequences of simple approcimate rules like F=ma.
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by hgsgm 3y ago
Trashy language appears correlated to low-information and muddled thinking. Neither of those claims are accurate.
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by hgsgm 3y ago
Terrible reporting from Verge and Hollywood Reported. As has always been true, automated or animal works absent human involvement cannot be copyrighted. The requirement for human involvement is a very low bar, and the copyright office and
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by hgsgm 3y ago
What happens to that internal monologue when it is obstructed? Like talking on the phone while walking?
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by hgsgm 3y ago
Paper conclusions are always leaps. They are an embarrassment to science, and journals should ban them or move them to the editorial pages. Doing a bit of research shouldn't be a license to speed BS under cover of fact.
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by hgsgm 3y ago
Ban cars because loud noises are required to make them not kill people? Good idea.
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by hgsgm 3y ago
Clickbait headline. Weddinga and photography have no relations to the substance of the article.
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by hgsgm 3y ago
Then you can choose psychiatric incarceration?
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by hgsgm 3y ago
Surely there is some sense of proportionality? Is refusing to speak worse than the average felony?
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by hgsgm 3y ago
"OpenSea, the biggest NFT marketplace still fully enforcing royalty fees, said today that it plans to stop the mandatory collection of resale fees for artists. " Doesn't have anything to do with NFTs, just some random busines
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by hgsgm 3y ago
So go somewhere else?
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by hgsgm 3y ago
They can convert it to income via loans, tax-free.
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by hgsgm 3y ago
All that money and here is where you waste your most precious resource, time?
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by hgsgm 3y ago
It's very similar in US.
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by hgsgm 3y ago
But also, If you tax the money the government will spend it on their own whims. If you let the rich guy keep it they can spend it on the public good.
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by hgsgm 3y ago
Civic burns more gas and is a little harder to manipulate into small spaces.
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by hgsgm 3y ago
Why don't the trucks have sensors?
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by hgsgm 3y ago
The idiots aren't the minority getting rich.
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by hgsgm 3y ago
That's what the thinkpieces are trying to tell us!
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by hgsgm 3y ago
Why do people reblog old tropw essays, and why do they get upvoted? Such a waste of energy to prop up someone's attempt to build a personal brand. Cite your sources and contribute something new, or just share the more original link.
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by hgsgm 3y ago
If you walk outside you'll see people.
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by hgsgm 3y ago
All finite sets of finite numbers have an average. The value of the average is the result of the biases in data collection. There is obviously a cap in the number of people you can practically greet in a day.
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by hgsgm 3y ago
My pancreas doesn't tell me when I need more sugar.
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by hgsgm 3y ago
Weathered skin doesn't kill you.
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by hgsgm 3y ago
30-year-old men dating/marrying 16 year-olds was common, especially among rock stars and actors.

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