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8 votes
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Nvidia AI plays Minecraft, wins machine learning conference award
9 votes -
Metallica - Lux Æterna (2022)
5 votes -
Why do God of War's characters keep spoiling puzzles?
1 vote -
In 2017, I made an unofficial transit diagram covering the Oslo region in Norway – now, five years later, it's time for a revisit
4 votes -
What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them?
What have you been playing lately? Discussion about video games and board games are both welcome. Please don't just make a list of titles, give some thoughts about the game(s) as well.
16 votes -
We need a library economy
8 votes -
Brodie Buttons - Leaving Again (2022)
3 votes -
Why Andor feels so real
13 votes -
Chinese takeout fried rice secrets revealed
9 votes -
Building an electric guitar from scratch with the pros
5 votes -
The Irish art of lilting
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An egg drop from space - and the failures along the way
5 votes -
James Cameron breaks down his most iconic films
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Can anyone recommend a specific type of statistics course?
I would like to find a good Statistics course to do for myself, and also to recommend to others, down the road ... one that specifically focuses on risk, and the discrepancy between actual...
I would like to find a good Statistics course to do for myself, and also to recommend to others, down the road ... one that specifically focuses on risk, and the discrepancy between actual statistical probability vs humans' intuitive sense of risk.
I recall a quote, which The Interwebs informs me right now, came from Albert A. Bartlett ... "The Greatest Shortcoming of the Human Race Is Man’s Inability To Understand the Exponential Function".
Alternately, Mark Twain popularized (but did not originate) the saying "There are lies, damned lies, and statistics".
That's the kind of course I'm looking for, that focuses on questions like how much should we actually worry about supervolcanoes, asteroid strikes, Covid 2.0, WWIII, Trump getting re-elected, etc.
There are two parts to this. One, people often (naturally, human nature, how our brains are wired to handle Risk) obsess about a short list of risks in life that are overblown, or appear to be more of a concern than they actually are.
The other part is, some things have a very small risk of actually happening, but when considered in conjunction with the potential consequences (asteroid strikes, WWIII, global pandemic), are still worthy of aggressive efforts to prevent ... and people often focus on the first element (statistically unlikely) and dismiss or overlook the second piece (devastating consequences).
Anyway, stuff like that ... ideally an actual, hands-on MOOC-type Statistics course, but even a good youtube video or blog article would suffice.
As usual, thanks in advance.
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This video tells the story of the Nakagin Capsule Tower, its design, construction, life, and ultimate demise
4 votes -
Congress passes law banning non-disclosure agreements in sexual harassment cases
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The insane world of Chinese shlockbusters. Movies don't have to be good to be fun.
6 votes -
When life doesn't give you lemons (three sour Costa Rican citruses) | Weird Fruit Explorer
2 votes -
The secret skills of US Coast Guard rescue swimmers
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MEUTE - Ticino (2022)
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Let's unpack some of America's most popular myths while I make early American cocktails. Our founding fathers sure knew how to have a good time.
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The insane scale of Europe's new mega-tunnel – Denmark is building a record-breaking tunnel to Germany
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Medieval Myth Busting - Arrows vs Armour 2, using historically accurate reproductions from time of the Battle of Agincourt (1415)
ARROWS vs ARMOUR 2 - FULL MEDIEVAL ARMOUR TESTED Other extra videos in the series: ARROWS vs ARMOUR 2 - ARMOUR PLATE TESTS ARROWS vs ARMOUR 2 - MAIL TESTS ARROWS vs ARMOUR 2 - ARROWHEAD MATERIAL...
ARROWS vs ARMOUR 2 - FULL MEDIEVAL ARMOUR TESTED
Other extra videos in the series:
ARROWS vs ARMOUR 2 - ARMOUR PLATE TESTS
ARROWS vs ARMOUR 2 - MAIL TESTS
ARROWS vs ARMOUR 2 - ARROWHEAD MATERIAL TESTSAnd they have also created a website for the project now too:
https://todtodeschini.com/youtube-projects/arrows-v-armour-2/Previous series of tests from a few years ago:
https://tild.es/h3u6 votes -
Transhumanism: "The world's most dangerous idea"
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Writers Roundtable: Jordan Peele, Rian Johnson, Daniel Kwan, Tony Kushner and more
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King Charles III's new cypher is a design classic
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Looking for a very specific kind of submarine video game
Maybe you guys can help me out since I found a lot of games that are kinda like this but not quite. It doesn't need to be a full-blown simulation, but it needs to be convincing. What I want is a...
Maybe you guys can help me out since I found a lot of games that are kinda like this but not quite.
It doesn't need to be a full-blown simulation, but it needs to be convincing.
What I want is a game that puts me inside a submarine, looking at screens full of radar and sensor information, and letting me control the sub in a realistic manner, only with the information provided in the control room. It's okay if the game jumps to an external view just to show the ultimate consequence of conflict, but mostly, I should be in the sub looking at screens.
Is there such a game?
Ideally, I play on the Xbox. My laptop is a potato, so it's only good for very old or otherwise lightweight games (technically speaking, this could easily be a command line game... like naval
htop
). Other kinds of naval simulation are good for this thread.Thanks!
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The world depends on this government warehouse's collection of strange Standard Reference Materials. They're not cheap.
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Hacking a weird TV censoring device
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How long would society last during a total grid collapse?
4 votes -
The Third Place
10 votes -
Why build a diving board twice the Olympic height?
4 votes -
WebTV returns with custom server emulating 1999 experience
6 votes -
Ghost – Spillways (2022)
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Qatar World Cup
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What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them?
What have you been playing lately? Discussion about video games and board games are both welcome. Please don't just make a list of titles, give some thoughts about the game(s) as well.
10 votes -
Disney Channel's theme: A history mystery
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Johnny vs. Sonic Frontiers
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We bought HD movies on cassette tape and they're amazing!
7 votes -
First Aid Kit – Palomino (2022)
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Boxplot - Human Again (2022)
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Who has served the most time? Ex cons rank themselves
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How do seatbelts work?
2 votes -
How Qatar bought the World Cup
5 votes -
Anna of the North – Red Light (2022)
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Why do people think using this controller is cheating?
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Artino - Be The First (feat. Synga) (2022)
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ROBLOX_OOF.mp3
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Why you wouldn’t want to fly the first Soviet jetliner
3 votes