yetAnotherUser

Minor notes after researching the tools some more:

• Neither tool is free as in freedom. They're proprietary and the limited source code they released is different from the binaries they provide.
• They have not released a Linux version and any port is impossible due to the proprietary nature.
• They only support Nvidia GPUs.
• The WebGlaze tool is invitation only. This isn't in and itself a bad thing, except you can only request an invitation via Instagram or Twitter.
• One or both of the projects have violated the GPL at one point early on.

I'm not an artist but nearly all of the aforementioned points lead me to have a resoundingly negative view of the project. Maybe I'm cynical but it seems they intend to make the tool subscription-based in the future after gaining enough market share.

I don't think that's why kids hate it. Rather, teachers fail to explain the underlying motivations, the reasoning and the purpose which makes math feel like arbitrary decisions.

I'd argue math is much more uncertain than other subjects. What's the purpose of the endoplasmic reticulum in your cells? Just memorize the textbook. Find all X such that [statement] is true? You better have some creativity! Or a lot, depending on the problem.

Some accompanying evidence for uncertainty: https://xkcd.com/2117/

I am if and only if I am.

Any ban of a political party includes "successor" parties/structures. If a large number of politicians from a banned party joined another, that party is likely to get banned too.

It won't fix the issue but it provides room to breathe. A ban is preferable over doing nothing any day of the week.

Zweibel would be two Bel (or two Decibel, converted to the better known unit) if you forgot about your space key.

Surely you mean Zwiebel.

That's a better first thought than mine, I wondered why "Goosefruit" would be partially censored.

I've found a proper approximation after some time and some searching.

Since the binomial distribution has a very large n, we can use the central limit theorem and treat it as a normal distribution. The mean would be obviously 500 billion, the standard deviation is √(n * p * (1-p)) which results in 500,000.

You still cannot plug that into WA unfortunately so we have to use a workaround.

You would calculate it manually through:

Φ(b) - Φ(a), with
b = (510 billion - mean) / (standard deviation) = 20,000
and
a = (490 billion - mean) / (standard deviation) = -20,000
and
Φ(x) = 0.5 * (1 + erf(x/√2))

erf(x) is the error function which has the neat property: erf(-x) = -erf(x)

You could replace erf(x) with an integral but this would be illegible without LaTeX.

Therefore:

Φ(20,000) - Φ(-20,000)
= 0.5 * [ erf(20,000/√2) - erf(-20,000/√2) ]
= erf(20,000/√2)
≈ erf(14,142)

WolframAlpha will unfortunately not calculate this either.

However, according to Wikipedia an approximation exists which shows that:

1 - erf(x) ≈ [(1 - e^(-Ax))e^(-x²)] / (Bx√π)

And apparently A = 1.98 and B = 1.135 give good approximations for all x≥0.

After failing to get a proper approximation from WA again and having to calculate every part by itself, the result is very roughly around 1 - 10^(-86,857,234).

So it is very safe to assume you will lose between 49% and 51% of your gut bacteria. For a more realistic 10 trillion you should replace a and b above with around ±63,200 but I don't want to bother calculating the rest and having WolframAlpha tell me my intermediary steps are equal to zero.

To expand a little:

For a much smaller sample size of just 1 million, the probability to lose just 1% off of the median is basically zero.

WolframAlpha doesn't even bother to calculate the exact result and just rounds it:

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=P%5B490000+%3C+X+%3C+510000%5D+for+X%7EB%281000000%2C0.5%29

To be fair, people with tumors behind their ears will likely hide it to avoid assholes staring/taking pictures. I don't see many cancer patients attending chemotherapy either because they are wearing hats/wigs.

Still, shouldn't they get cancer on their hands instead? That's the closest body part to your phone at any time on average, isn't it?

Ich hab mich durch den Mist gezogen und hier ist ein tl;dr:

• DIE WIRTSCHAFT™
• Immigranten morden deutsche Kinder
• AKWs abgeschaltet weil dumm
• Bürgergeldempfänger klauen dem Arbeiter ihr Geld
• Irgendwas mit Corona hier und da
• Ideologie™

The walls of the echo-chamber have been built up and reinforced for over a decade. No single election cycle will ever pierce through.

These people are lost causes unless a massive culture shift happens. And it's not looking like that will happen in the next decades. You, just like other countries, will have to deal with a growing strong block of far right, young men who will grow up to be far right seniors.

The warning signs started being obvious with Gamergate but they were ignored. The only thing that can be done is preventing the growth of these echo-chambers but the damage is done. It's just like how carbon capture will not solve climate change, only stopping emitting more as soon as possible.

Yeah, take everything German news agencies have to say about topics involving Israel with grains of salt. A shitton of independent left-wing German news agencies are pro-Israel. Those that aren't are usually full on tankie, pro-Russia and everything for some fucking reason.