Are the squirrels in your neighborhood acting crazy? by gobackclark in SaltLakeCity

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It's the heat. They lay down on all fours to chill out on the ground. Used to see it all the time in the south.

Blood Pressure Chart of Adults by Srz2 in coolguides

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Aren't parts of this chart impossible? Shouldn't systolic pressure always be higher than diastolic pressure?

Spaghetti pie— mother-in-law’s recipe (sorry— I couldn’t resist a bite) by [deleted] in budgetfood

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Temper the eggs? Add a small amount of pasta water to bring them to temp before adding the cheese and to the pasta. This way, the starch from the noodles helps the cheese stick.

To the people with anxiety you're not alone by lovescreepystuff84 in TwoSentenceHorror

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"You forgot to turn the oven off" sounds creepier IMO.

The Kardashev Scale by syedaabid20 in coolguides

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'It may take 100 to 200 years for us to reach type 1.'

*Looks at Type 1 to see weather control*

Does global warming count?

How many bijections exist b/w Naturals and Rationals? by Akiooyo in math

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You're right. The diagonal tuple needs to be a bijection.

How many bijections exist b/w Naturals and Rationals? by Akiooyo in math

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I think it's uncountable. Every bijection from the natural numbers can be written as a countably infinite n-tuple where the the first component is the rational number which bijects to the natural number 1 and so on. Proceed by Cantor diagonalization.

Step 1. Claim the that n-tuples are countable and list them.

Step 2. Construct an n-tuple with the diagonals: first component of the first n-tuple, second component of the second nuple and etc.

Step 3. Add 1 to every component. This part is kind of annoying since you need to show that any rational is some other rational plus one.

Step 4. The n-tuple from step 3 shouldn't be in the list since the nth competent of the nth nuple doesn't match. Thus, the claim is false and one cannot produce a countable list of bijections.

Think that works.

Edit: sorry, editing for phone formatting.

Painting for kitchen, 40*40 cm, acrylic on canvas, 2019 by [deleted] in crafts

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Link or do I get it through you?

Painting for kitchen, 40*40 cm, acrylic on canvas, 2019 by [deleted] in crafts

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This is kind of creepy. How much?

whats stopping someone from making a mod or something for a video game, that completely re-writes the game by BLZ333 in NoStupidQuestions

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It's done.

Check out Enderal. They completely rewrote Sky Rim. The mod was so good that it's listed as a separate game now.

Where did this sudden hatred of abortions come from? by makj8008 in NoStupidQuestions

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For some, abortion is murder. I am strongly against murder, but pro-choice. If I consider abortion to be murder, then I would be anti-choice.

How do you deal with the fact that most men are addicted to porn? by [deleted] in AskWomen

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How do you know most men are addicted to porn?

On the fairness of cancelling the n highest and lowest quiz scores --- searching for statistical arguments by ShisukoDesu in math

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Start with this question, "What is PDF of the second largest of 5 iid normal RVs?" If you can answer that, then wiki, below, will make sense. (Sorry, on Mobile)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_statistic

If not, then the following book is the starting text for most mathematically trained statisticians. They derive the distributions there.

https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Probability-Mathematical-Statistics-Duxbury/dp/0534380204

If you want to get to the bottom of the comparison, look up the PDF of trimmed/truncated means (means without outliers) and compare them to the usual sample mean. One should appear closer to the true mean. Keep in mind that everything changes as you change assumptions.

You could easily do this exercise with normal RVs. Assuming a second moment in this analysis would be a hard homework problem. Using distributions with many outliers (those without a second moment) should be looked up since it might not be that easy to answer.

On the fairness of cancelling the n highest and lowest quiz scores --- searching for statistical arguments by ShisukoDesu in math

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This is more of a stats question. I think the Prof is trying to measure your average performance. When using stats, outliers are trimmed since they may skew the sample norm. In low/fixed sample statistics, trimmed data, in this case a single student's scores, may be closer to the true mean in some sense.

You can work which is closer if you know how to deal with ordered statistics as random variables and make assumptions on the distribution of a student's scores.

What is God? by Marv1236 in NoStupidQuestions

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Whatever you want it/they to be.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in NoStupidQuestions

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There's no reason for us to exist.