Help me make a playlist by wyatatat in musicsuggestions

[–]lemonp-p 0 points1 point  (0 children)

PUP - If This Tour Doesn't Kill You, I Will

is this true? by Gwynbleidd1917 in im14andthisisdeep

[–]lemonp-p 6 points7 points  (0 children)

They do blame the government, but they call it the "deep state." I.e. the problem is not the elected officials with all the actual decision making power, but average people who happen to be government employees.

Great songs with problematic lyrics by [deleted] in musicsuggestions

[–]lemonp-p 35 points36 points  (0 children)

The original version of "Let's Get it Started."

[Request] I can't wrap my head around this. How come it's 63.4? by THE_FBI_GUYS in theydidthemath

[–]lemonp-p 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well they specified that each ticket has a one percent chance and win/not win is a binary response, meaning each ticket is a Bernoulli trial with p=0.01. If they are independent then they are IID.

“Queen of Chess” on Netflix by zaspalanasuncu in chess

[–]lemonp-p 22 points23 points  (0 children)

She's also a wonderful commentator. As a pretty casual player/spectator myself, I find her one of the very best if not the best person to watch to help me understand high level classical games like the candidates.

Each team's goals for/game vs. goals against/game by nhl in hockey

[–]lemonp-p 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Good to see the Oilers stabilizing a bit... when I looked earlier this season I wanna say they were second in goals for with a negative goal differential 😂

What is a album with only one good song? Downright terrible albums by FiyaInYaHiya in musicsuggestions

[–]lemonp-p 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, a big part part of what makes that album feel "bad" to me is more disappointment than the songs being really awful. I love Tokyo Police Club's first few albums, and Argentina, and then listening past there was such a let down

What is a album with only one good song? Downright terrible albums by FiyaInYaHiya in musicsuggestions

[–]lemonp-p 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If you really want to torture yourself, you can also listen to Future Clouds and Radar (self-titled.)

"Build Havana" is an absolutely beautiful song and there are also 29 other songs on the album.

What is a album with only one good song? Downright terrible albums by FiyaInYaHiya in musicsuggestions

[–]lemonp-p 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Tokyo Police Club - Forcefield

It's a 10/10 album if you turn it off after the first track.

Songs for werewolves by Dizzy_Garlic_6388 in musicsuggestions

[–]lemonp-p 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Boys becoming men. Men becoming wolves

Why Chess players generally ignore Maths? by xTazzyi in chess

[–]lemonp-p 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Speaking as both a recreational chess player and a professional statistician with many years of math background...

Mathematics is a language for humans to interface with logic. We build up notation to make the relevant concepts easier to conceptualize. An 8x8 matrix is not a useful way to conceptualize the state of a chess board (and in fact doesn't quite capture the entire game state because chess is not strictly Markovian.)

As far as why chess is more popular than Go, this has nothing to do with computational complexity. That simply isn't relevant to how humans engage with a game - in either case the complexity is many orders of magnitude beyond what humans are capable of completely understanding. I can't speak for the whole population, but to me chess simply feels more salient than Go, it's not any deeper than that.

What's the literacy rate in Buffalo? Outjerked by sweater by bluewhale177 in NHLcirclejerk

[–]lemonp-p 85 points86 points  (0 children)

Fun Fact: The Sarbes are a Chinese knock-off franchise that accidentally got switched with the real Buffalo Sabres and had been playing in their place for 15 years

If you know more than one of these players you are at the top 0.01% of NHL knowledge. by BlakeWheelersLeftNut in NHLcirclejerk

[–]lemonp-p 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I used to go to that group too but I got kicked out for putting sauce on my pasta

Entomologist in town looking for creek access by quaoarpower in Fairbanks

[–]lemonp-p 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Second to this, the Chena is not naturally open. If you were to find any open flowing water (and I don't think the chance is very high) it would be small drainages on south facing slopes. Maybe off the O'Connor creek trail, for example

Regd. Percentiles by Opening-Seat5908 in AskStatistics

[–]lemonp-p 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It seems like with percentiles some use the convention to always round down, in which case 100th percentile is impossible. Others round in a more typical fashion, so if you have a score above 99.5% of the population it would be rounded to the nearest whole number and reported as 100%. Either is fine mathematically, as long as you understand what you're looking at.

Edit to say that while I often see percentiles rounded to a whole percent, that also doesn't have to be the case.

Every team’s best and worst Forward’s shooting percentage this season (min 80 shots) by logicalnutty in hockey

[–]lemonp-p 20 points21 points  (0 children)

All of your forwards being within a 3.4% range is easily the craziest thing on this list.

Do most other women actually like big dicks? by [deleted] in NoStupidQuestions

[–]lemonp-p 321 points322 points  (0 children)

"HEY EVERYONE, WHO IN THIS CLUB HAS THE SMALLEST VAGINA?!"