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by joe__f 3y ago
End of the Gulf Stream?
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by joe__f 3y ago
I agree that there is an assumption that the data are well described by a distribution on R instead of some interval [a,b]. I don't know how well justified this is. The assumption of well defined mean and stddev is weak and better supp
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by joe__f 3y ago
If you know that your data has a well-defined mean and standard deviation but you know nothing else about it then you start with a Gaussian distribution. This isn't an assumption. The Gaussian distribution has the highest entropy and h
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by joe__f 3y ago
'Fear porn' is such an interesting concept
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by joe__f 3y ago
Ah thank you. My asterisks certainly have equal aspect ratio though.
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by joe__f 3y ago
Haha I was watching some of him on YouTube yesterday and he has some quite interesting views and choices of topics but I was thinking the whole time, "something about his style is really grating"
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by joe__f 3y ago
How big do you draw your asterisks?
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by joe__f 3y ago
I predict that statistically trans women live a lot less long
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by joe__f 3y ago
My observation was that the rest of our recent prime ministers including Johnson appear quite calculated, making promises to the masses while doing what they can to allow wealth inequality to increase. Truss genuinely seemed to have no idea
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by joe__f 3y ago
Conservative members voting in Liz Truss?
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by joe__f 3y ago
They're not morons they know what they're doing, high inflation isn't harming rich people
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by joe__f 3y ago
How many digits do you need to do this for a given transcendental?
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by joe__f 3y ago
What does it mean to have a transcendental base? I understand algebraic bases but I don't see how you could use a transcendental base to represent integers with a finite number of symbols
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by joe__f 3y ago
This was a really interesting article, thank you. I'm thinking about how this would apply to human psychology of reading and writing numbers. Then it doesn't make sense to measure economy as b floor(log_b(n)+1), because adding in
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by joe__f 3y ago
I think they know. I definitely think they know when they crap on your head.
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by joe__f 3y ago
That's like, the study of concealed animals?
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by joe__f 3y ago
Some key parts of the Internet were developed at CERN in the 80s, as a by product of funding research in high energy particle physics. As I understand, a motivation for Stephen Wolfram developing the Wolfram language was to develop ideas he
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by joe__f 3y ago
Astrophysics was a key starting point for discovering Newtonian mechanics, Newton was thinking about gravity and planetary motion. Hard to understate how much impact Newtonian mechanics has had on the world.
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by joe__f 3y ago
Oh this is a lot less bleak than the title of the article suggested, as you can see I didn't actually read it. Anyway the irony is still palpable, I could almost taste it in the air when I saw the headline
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by joe__f 3y ago
I saw an article the other day that we've got coal power stations on standby in the UK to power all the new air conditioning units
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by joe__f 3y ago
From memory, he was saying that people who go through some kind of trans affirmative procedures have a dissatisfaction rate of 5% and this is likely to be lower than the complication rate. I think I watched the first hour, here's the v
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by joe__f 3y ago
Yeah, I was watching a gender doctor on youtube who was saying something like 'suicide rate in trans people who don't go on HRT as a teenager is 40%, so we put teenagers on Lupron and send them to therapy until they're sure i
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by joe__f 3y ago
You are telling people who are being abused that it's their fault that they didn't leave. This is victim blaming.
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by joe__f 3y ago
Depends on your jurisdiction, what you described sounds like a labour dispute in a very employee hostile place. Where I live it's illegal to fire people who threaten to strike
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by joe__f 3y ago
I used to use the oeis when I was doing research in theoretical physics a few years back. I hadn't actually seen Neil Sloane before, I only knew his name from the website. I just watched some videos of him, he is really wonderful
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by joe__f 3y ago
I understand our healthcare system is funded. Feel free to read my post again and replace 'free' with 'socialised' if it helps.
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by joe__f 3y ago
Bartenders in the UK are going to be earning less than half of that much. The comparison to wages in the USA is not direct because we have free healthcare and other social benefits.
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by joe__f 3y ago
I can get stuck in a bit of a loop watching videos, but on the whole I think YouTube is an incredible resource. I've learnt so many things from it, I think it's worth working out how to use it in moderation rather than just cuttin
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by joe__f 3y ago
Sure but the point was, if Nintendo _didn't_ do that and instead offered these people work
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by joe__f 3y ago
I usually see 'a proton is made up of three quarks'

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