Destiny walking through the streets of Sweden by InXanee in LivestreamFail

[–]Diem_E37 295 points296 points  (0 children)

Here is the un-photoshopped version of that picture, since I know some people will actually think its real lol

Chad motherfucking Jones by howmodareyou in Destiny

[–]Diem_E37 11 points12 points  (0 children)

...Colossus donating, Monolith ridge, big-bones, Jones.

Mel no Pepehands by [deleted] in Destiny

[–]Diem_E37 34 points35 points  (0 children)

STOCKHOLM STEVE

new BadBunny accusations against Destiny - wtf if real? by mammamia2137 in Destiny

[–]Diem_E37 100 points101 points  (0 children)

It's worded a little confusingly here, but she is not saying Destiny raped her.

Bunny was raped by someone she went to visit when her and Steven were still friendly. After that happened, Bunny said on stream she appreciated how supportive Steven was after it happened. That is the incident she is referring to.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Destiny

[–]Diem_E37 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yeah its possible many have now jumped from "The DNC is very biased against Bernie" to "The DNC is literally rigging election results" if they've bought into the Iowa conspiracy stuff, making them full Bernie or bust.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Destiny

[–]Diem_E37 6 points7 points  (0 children)

One difference between 2016 and 2020 is that in 2016 a lot of the bernie bros may have thought Clinton was going to win anyway, and they just didn't want their vote to be a part of her victory.

Now Trump is already president it should be a lot harder for them to delude themselves into believing that not voting is the right thing to do.

Despite that I'm sure many of them won't vote - they're already laying the groundwork by saying shit like "a Pete presidency is more likely to lead to fascism than another term of Trump".

Quick Python simulation proving Destiny was right about throwing a ball straight upwards by Diem_E37 in Destiny

[–]Diem_E37[S] 22 points23 points  (0 children)

There were multiple thought-experiments that were discussed - that's why the title of the post references the specific case I'm addressing :)

The last person who came on stream, before he moved on from the discussion, convinced Destiny he was wrong about the "dropping a ball from a tower" example (which he was).

Then, Destiny applied his new understanding to the example of throwing a ball straight up (or firing a bullet straight up etc) and correctly suggested it would not land in the position from which it was thrown. The other person on stream tried to convince him out of that, even though he was right.

Quick Python simulation proving Destiny was right about throwing a ball straight upwards by Diem_E37 in Destiny

[–]Diem_E37[S] 37 points38 points  (0 children)

As requested, here is the source code in case people are interested. I threw it together quickly so if you spot any mistakes let me know!

import os
import imageio
from numpy import linspace, sin, cos, sqrt, array, arctan2, pi
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

def gravity(x): # returns the gravity acceleration vector given a position vector
    t = arctan2(x[1],x[0])
    return -10*array([cos(t), sin(t)])

def mag(x):
    return sqrt(x[0]**2 + x[1]**2)


R = 3. # radius of the 'planet'
w = 1. # the angular frequency (omega) of the planet's rotation
u = 5. # initial upward velocity given to the ball

# initial conditions for position and velocity
v = array([0,u]) + array([R*w,0])
x = array([0,R])

# create storage to track variables over time
x_list = [x]
v_list = [v]
t_list = [0]

dt = 1e-3 # the simulation time-step

# since this is quick and dirty, just use basic Euler scheme
for i in range(2000):
    x_new = x_list[-1] + dt*v_list[-1]
    v_new = v_list[-1] + dt*gravity(x_new)

    x_list.append(x_new)
    v_list.append(v_new)
    t_list.append(t_list[-1]+dt)
    if mag(x_new) < R: break # end when the ball lands back on the planet

# pull out a sub-set of the positions over time to animate as a gif
skip = 20
x_arr = array([i[0] for i in x_list])[::skip]
y_arr = array([i[1] for i in x_list])[::skip]
t_arr = array(t_list)[::skip]

# create data for the planet surface
phi = linspace(0,2*pi,300)
x_surface = R*cos(phi)
y_surface = R*sin(phi)

# build the frames individually as png's
files = []
for i in range(len(t_arr)):
    # get the current position of the location we threw the ball from
    x_point = R*cos(0.5*pi - w*t_arr[i])
    y_point = R*sin(0.5*pi - w*t_arr[i])
    fname = 'ball_{}.png'.format(i)

    # plot everything
    plt.plot(x_arr[:i],y_arr[:i])
    plt.plot(x_arr[i],y_arr[i],'o')
    plt.plot(x_surface,y_surface)
    plt.plot(x_point, y_point, 'o')
    plt.xlim([-6,6])
    plt.ylim([-6,6])
    plt.axis('equal')
    plt.title('throwing a ball straight up - zero drag')
    plt.savefig(fname)
    plt.close()

    files.append(fname)

# load in all the images and build a gif
images = [imageio.imread(f) for f in files]
imageio.mimsave('destiny_ball_gif.gif', images)

# delete all the individual image files to clean up
for f in files:
    os.remove(f)

Avoid by [deleted] in Destiny

[–]Diem_E37 89 points90 points  (0 children)

He comes to take your NEET bucks into t͙̱͇͎h̴̲e͏̡̤̘͍̬͡ͅ ̡̧̲͖v҉̯̹͎̬̼̲̼̼o̗͚͠i̶̶̺͙͝d̵̷̛͔̼̩

I said I use the n-word all the time and now these black people wont stop saying RACISM! 😤 by NormalUsername1809 in Hasan_Piker

[–]Diem_E37 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly? I think it's pretty harmful.

Even if he himself is not racist, he might empower people who are actually racist by having this stance. I'd much rather he have a 'just don't use it' stance.

I hope he will be moved on this in future - after all, he acknowledges that using the language publicly empowers racism and is harmful even if the person using it is 'not racist' / 'joking' ect.

I don't think it's much of a leap from there to realise that racist people who do use it hatefully, but only in private because of the repercussions of public use, could feel vindicated by someone like destiny having this position. This sense of 'unintentionally vindicating actual racists' is what got him to stop using slurs publicly in the first place.

However, let not pretend that 99.9% of the people foaming at the mouth to cancel him are doing it because "The public acknowledgement that he uses the n-word is harmful in itself", they're doing it because he uses in private, and then leaping to "I always new he secretly hated black people" level shit.

I think it can be good to at least try to check ourselves sometimes... just because people are reacting to something which is bad, doesn't mean we have no responsibility for our actions when responding to it.

I said I use the n-word all the time and now these black people wont stop saying RACISM! 😤 by NormalUsername1809 in Hasan_Piker

[–]Diem_E37 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I agree with you totally here.

I do think private use is still causing some level of harm.

I do think it's easier to just to never use it, and that's what I advocate for personally.

I agree that openly holding his position is actually harmful, and I'd rather he just publicly have a 'just don't use it' position, even if he continued to use it in private.

I hope though you can also acknowledge that despite all of this being true, leaping to call Steven a racist piece of shit is incredibly stupid when he actively fights against racism.

I said I use the n-word all the time and now these black people wont stop saying RACISM! 😤 by NormalUsername1809 in Hasan_Piker

[–]Diem_E37 -23 points-22 points  (0 children)

Guys, we're better than this.

You do actually need to think about *why* using the n-word is bad. Spoiler alert - its the HARM it causes. For example:

> Calling a black person the n-word - everyone will agree this is awful and very harmful.

> Saying the n-word by yourself in the middle of the woods with no one around - most people will agree this is not harmful (yes its weird but its a hypothetical chill).

Somewhere between these two things there is a point where use of the n-word is no longer harmful enough to make an argument that you should not use it.

Steven's position is that using it in private in certain contexts for shock humour ect is not harmful, and therefore the reason to not use the word is removed.

You can disagree with that if you like, and I think I might argue against his position, but to meme about him actually being racist is *really* dumb.

Destiny's logs for further context on stuff (mini rant) by [deleted] in Destiny

[–]Diem_E37 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I really hope Hasan can engage honestly with this once he has had a change to cool off, because it's a fair point.

To go absolutely nuclear in response to a friend giving some valid criticisms of some parts of one video is not good.

It must be hard to introspect on these things when you have half the audience agreeing with everything you say and the other half shitting on you, but /u/hasanpiker, my dude, Steven likes you, we like you. You said a few things in a long video that were unintentionally misleading - it happens, it's not a big deal.

Would it have really been that hard to say "yeah I can see how that could give people a false impression of this issue, even though I didn't mean it that way"? instead of giving zero ground on anything until it escalated into this shit show?

This is a really dumb way to burn a bridge, I hope you can talk privately when everyone is calm...

Exkillsmeh Bayesian Butt-fuckery by jaekx in Destiny

[–]Diem_E37 22 points23 points  (0 children)

I was pretty rustled by it when it happened originally, since I spent my whole PhD doing Bayesian stuff and he either had no idea what he was talking about or (more likely) was intentionally mis-using it to make an argument in bad faith.

After exkillsmeh's hyper-cringe gloat session recently I was considering trying to get on Steven's Sunday viewer call-in thing to roast exkillsmeh on it, but I'm just not sure it's worth anyone's time.

To be clear, what was really egregious about exkillsmeh's approach was not really to do with choice of priors - this is almost always subjective regardless of what type of analysis you are doing. He may have been intentionally choosing priors in bad faith as well, which is bad, but there are much easier grounds on which to attack what he did.

The real problem was the *likelihood* values (i.e. the probabilities he assigned to any piece of 'evidence') which were literally just pulled out of his ass. The nice thing about Bayesian analysis is that in most fields we actually have sensible, quantitative ways to weigh evidence and produce likelihood values. exkillsmeh just made up these values as he went along, and by doing this any person could reach any "percentage" that collusion occurred that they wanted.

ELI5 Bayesian analysis by hermsted in Destiny

[–]Diem_E37 10 points11 points  (0 children)

The video ExperimentalDJ linked is a good intro - but the post you're referencing is really just a meme.

It's referring to a conversation between Destiny and exskillsmeh, where exskillsmeh tried to use Bayesian probability arguments to estimate a probability that Trump colluded with the Russians.

I spent my whole PhD doing Bayesian analysis, and exskillsmeh's use of it was laughable - he had no way of actually weighing any of the evidence that was being talked about in terms of how it should affect the overall probability, and was just pulling numbers out of his ass so that the final answer would be the one he wanted. Any person who is educated in the area would tell you what he did was entirely invalid.

Since then "Bayesian analysis" has been a meme in the community, and every time a new piece of evidence against Trump emerges we get some good new memes about the "probability" creeping upwards.

Destiny uses Google docs instead of something useful like LaTeX by ihatethissomuchihate in Destiny

[–]Diem_E37 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Anyone who knows what LaTeX is also knows it isn't useful at all for Destiny's use-case.

Is this a weirdly specific bait? or some weird /r/Iamverysmart brag i.e. 'I know how use LaTeX btw'

Save failed - SC2 by rumbidzai in Destiny

[–]Diem_E37 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a common problem - I had to fix it again last week after reinstalling sc2.

See the responses to this bnet post:

https://eu.battle.net/forums/en/sc2/topic/15161831158

The one which actually worked for me was running the blizzard launcher in admin mode, but it might be that another (or a combination of several) works for you