TheIvoryTower

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[–] TheIvoryTower@lemmy.world 16 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Fun fact. In statistics, we often use bootstrapping, where a single dataset is repeatedly resampled to provide estimates of the uncertainty/variance.

The idea that you can get reliable estimates of variance just by re-sampling the same data seem illogical, and the term bootstrap derives from the phrase to pull oneself up by one's bootstrap, widely thought to be based on one of the eighteenth century Adventures of Baron Munchausen, by Rudolph Erich Raspe. (The Baron had fallen to the bottom of a deep lake. Just when it looked like all was lost, he thought to pick himself up by his own bootstraps.)

[–] TheIvoryTower@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What's coolmath?

[–] TheIvoryTower@lemmy.world 33 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The best thing we have done is make all computers be in the same room, and no personal digital devices until they are old enough.

Just being able to give oversight is the most important thing.

You do need to be able to say “youre not old enough for that yet” and then explain why. Luckily my kids accept that when its explained.

[–] TheIvoryTower@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Tumeric paprika and cumin on potatoes.

Paprika garlic and chilli on chicken.

Coriander/cilantro on everything asian.

And a tiny bit of salt and sugar on all.

[–] TheIvoryTower@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

So do I have this right:

EFTPOS is free to merchants and customers

VISA charges a fee for their services

Merchants pass the VISA fee on to their customers

VISA wants the fee removed by law

Merchants will be forced to raise prices to compensate

Customers using EFTPOS will end up paying part of the VISA fee ?

[–] TheIvoryTower@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago

Forrest Gump: "I don't know if we each have a destiny, or if we're all just floatin' around accidental-like on a breeze. But I, I think maybe it's both."

OP is Gump lol

[–] TheIvoryTower@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

If you look at all the traits animals and plants have, there are correlations and patterns unrelated to the environment, consistent only with a pattern of descent with modification.

For example, all the animals that produce milk also have fur, while all the animals with beaks and hollow bones also have feathers.

These groups of correlated organisms are found regardless of their environment, so penguins have all the bird traits even though they live in the ocean, seals have all the mammal traits even though they live in the ocean.

This pattern only has one consistent explanation: life on earth is a result of descent with modification: evolution.

[–] TheIvoryTower@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Probably a good idea to let him know how you are being treated.

My partner and I deal with toxic family by cutting them out of our lives. Only got time for kind people.

[–] TheIvoryTower@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Damn this has made me hungry, and I've just had dinner.

[–] TheIvoryTower@lemmy.world 22 points 5 months ago (2 children)

And it lives in fresh water in Lake Baikal! The only exclusively freshwater seal..

[–] TheIvoryTower@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

The food was good. Bathrooms behind secret doors. Recommend.

 

Its been a rough week, the whales under Orison need sacrifice.

 
 
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