FilterItOut
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- Comment on we love those power laws 1 month ago:
Nuclear-Spearman: Huuuun, where’s my atl-atl?!?
Honey: I put it away! Don’t you think about running off doing no nuclear-do!
- Comment on What anime do you like but are afraid/ashamed to admit it? 2 months ago:
Inukami!
It’s constantly lewd, silly, and is simultaneously an example of a harem anime and making fun of perverts. The series has moments that will make you cry from laughing so hard, and times when you get a little emotional, and then you’ll go “fuck yeah” as something cool happens. It sort of has the premise of ‘taming’ spirits and using them to battle bad spirits, but most of the time they end up fighting the over-aggressive nerd who gets a nosebleed around a girl.
- Comment on UK has worst rate of child alcohol consumption in world, report finds 2 months ago:
I believe it. There once was a time, that may or may not be a memory, where the bartender would serve you if you could walk up to the bar and order. You also needed money, but a bit of bartering with scrounged flotsam from the quay could cover costs.
- Comment on I learned so much 2 months ago:
Some classics are good enough to read. The problem is in forcing kids to try to do in-depth analysis. Charles Dickens isn’t all that bad to read, until you are squinting at every third word and wondering if this could mean something in the context of the whole book and just maybe you can write about it well enough in your stupid journal that you really want a B in so your parents don’t whip you with the belt again.
- Comment on HOAs suck 2 months ago:
Yeah, that’s the part that always gets downplayed in these ‘homeowner revenge’ stories. HOAs can really fuck you over. Sometimes they get bankrupted in a lawsuit, sometimes you lose your sanity and your home.
- Comment on Tesla recalls all 3,878 Cybertrucks over faulty accelerator pedal cover 2 months ago:
I love the little aside about the rust. Some journalists still have fun.
- Comment on Just horsey things 2 months ago:
I once found a donkey. It was as desperate for attention as I was to not be working at the moment. Things worked out.
- Comment on best anime to start on 2 months ago:
If you liked the studio ghibli ones, try Wolf’s Rain. It’s a cool story. The creator then took his ideas that he didn’t get to play with (subterfuge and deeply flawed characters) and created Darker than Black, a really awesome take on regular people getting superpowers.
- Comment on best anime to start on 2 months ago:
I mean, it IS basically a self-insert masturbatory ‘little guy is super badass’ anime… but it is a FUN and visually neat one at the same time. I would tell people to watch it if they like the premise. Just don’t read the book. It somehow was more mary sue-ish.
- Comment on Lemmy is growing and they are coming 2 months ago:
There, there, buddy. You don’t have to listen to all the hate. Just screen the hate from your life. Put a big ole metal grating in front of the flow of pejoratives and catch them before they hit your brain space.
- Comment on Court Bans Use of 'AI-Enhanced' Video Evidence Because That's Not How AI Works 2 months ago:
Good god, there are still people who believe in phrenology!
- Comment on acceptable screws 2 months ago:
Interestingly, it was an accidental feature. The original patent application makes no mention of it, but 9 years later they added language about it camming out to the second patent application. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cam_out
- Comment on acceptable screws 2 months ago:
I remember melting plastic pens onto the nintendo screw heads in order to get them out. Fun times.
- Comment on Round 2 🚢 3 months ago:
Or, seeing as it’s billionaire bullshit, it will be an ecological disaster. What do you want to offer for the odds that it will have shit navigation, and throws out pings every 3 seconds if submerged? Goodbye local wildlife, recreational diving, and all other activities taking place underwater.
- Comment on Apex Legends streamers surprised to find aimbot and other hacks added to their PCs in the middle of major competition via anti-cheat software 3 months ago:
That was a strange path my mind took as I read the title, thinking it was a satire piece about competitors trying to sneak in cheats… Like, the “Anti-Cheat Police Department” couldn’t be anything but a laughingstock.
- Comment on This was the first result on Google 3 months ago:
For the AC/DC part, I usually try to tell people it’s like a water wheel that’s been inserted into the hose of water. DC is it spinning one way constantly, while AC is it spinning back and forth. The wheel is turning pretty much the whole time (again, we can try to not be super specific with the way we do phases with AC), and thus you can use it to do stuff on AC or DC.
- Comment on Hunger 3 months ago:
Ya’ll must have some strange eating habits. I’m usually hungry before I eat…
- Comment on Hunger 3 months ago:
I’m betting my man would be pretty happy and keep me well fed.
- Comment on Hunger 3 months ago:
Wouldn’t appetizers be the hardest, and desserts the softest?
- Comment on Automakers Are Sharing Consumers’ Driving Behavior With Insurance Companies 3 months ago:
I mean, as someone else pointed out in a comment here, they literally have it in the terms that they can track your sexual activity…
- Comment on YSK: it's not just Tesla, 1/3 of cars in built in the last ten years have passenger/rear windows that are almost impossible to break in an emergency. 3 months ago:
Yes, but remember that you’re dealing with MBAs who make it their sole purpose to save pennies. Pennies saved on a few million cars equals more than their salary, which means they keep their job. So fuck a few people dying.
- Comment on Automakers Are Sharing Consumers’ Driving Behavior With Insurance Companies 3 months ago:
Maybe your phone, but the insurance company’s app lives on a relative’s phone, and it can determine the same things mentioned in the article.
- Comment on Automakers Are Sharing Consumers’ Driving Behavior With Insurance Companies 3 months ago:
I think a carburetor is a bit much. There are plenty of fuel injected machines that were built before insane spying became the new normal.
- Comment on What are the strengths of the scientific method? What are its weaknesses? 3 months ago:
I think most science books are understandable by laypersons, except those that are memorization heavy, like biochemistry, or organic chemistry, or some parts of things like microbiology and pathophysiology. Statistics books and research design were pretty understandable, except for the actual math, heh.
I just thought that understanding the way the null hypothesis is used is important to really grasp what information the p is really conveying.
:D And for the parts about self reporting bias, and definitions and such, I was really, really having to hold myself back from talking about what makes your variables independent or dependent, operational definitions, ANOVA and MANOVA and t-tables and Cohen’s D value and the emphasis on not p but now the error bars and all the other lovely goodies. The stuff really brings me back, eh? ;)
- Comment on What are the strengths of the scientific method? What are its weaknesses? 3 months ago:
To expand on the other fella’s explanation:
In psychology especially, and some other fields, the ‘null hypothesis’ is used. That means that the researcher ‘assumes’ that there is no effect or difference in what he is measuring. If you know that the average person smiles 20 times a day, and you want to check if someone (person A) making jokes around a person (person B) all day makes person B smile more than average, you assume that there will be no change. In other words, the expected outcome is that person B will still smile 20 times a day.
The experiment is performed and data collected. In this example, how many times person B smiled during the day. Do that for a lot of people, and you have your data set. Let’s say that they discovered the average amount of smiles per day was 25 during the experimental procedure. Using some fancy statistics (not really fancy, but it sure can seem like it) you calculate the probability that you would get an average of 25 smiles a day if the assumption that making jokes around a person would not change the 20-per-day average. The more people that you experimented on, and the larger the deviance from the assumed average, the lower the probability. If the probability is less than 5%, you say that p<0.05, and for a research experiment like the one described above, that’s probably good enough for your field to pat you on the back and tell you that the ‘null hypothesis’ of there being no effect from your independent variable (the making jokes thing) is wrong, and you can confidently say that making jokes will cause people to smile more, on average.
If you are being more rigorous, or testing multiple independent variables at once, as you might for examining different therapies or drugs, you starting making your X smaller in the p<X statement. Good studies will predetermine what X they will use, so as to avoid making the mistake of settling on what was ‘good enough’ as a number that fits your data.
- Comment on What are some good games with *zero* replayability? 3 months ago:
I enjoy replaying it, but the contrast between first time and any repeat is mind-boggling, and nearly enough to say that replaying it isn’t worth it. That first time… wow, it just hit so well.
- Comment on What are some good games with *zero* replayability? 3 months ago:
I liked firewatch, even though I usually dislike walking simulators. It really was a good mesh of dialogue and voice actors, unlike others where the dialogue just drags.
- Comment on Experiments with electricity 3 months ago:
He is great, and he’s admitted when he did fuck up without meaning to, like with the jacob’s ladder.