🎓 Dr. Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@social.cleverlibre.org

@icedquinn

maybe, but unless he speaks up and explains specifically how he thinks gaussian was misused wrt coronavirus its just noise.. what data/numbers does he think a gaussian was misapplied to when talking about coronavirus? Hell is that even what he is saying, who knows he just keeps posting links.

@funny @js290

@ianmacd yea im eager to get back myself. And seems we agree on the good points too.

@ianmacd I take it your dutch and live there?

@ianmacd born and raised in Philadelphia, though I genuinely dislike americans and american culture (though i know a few good rare americans, most are annoying). Dutch is where I'm happiest and more so identify with in terms of the culture.

@icedquinn

Why roll your eyes? understanding the CLT is pretty important in my line of work and not knowing it would cause a lot of harm.

As for not always using a gaussian distribution, I would say, duh. We have hundreds of distibutions for a reason and of course you should use the one that fits the situation. I never suggested anything of the sort. However the gaussian is a **special** distribution that crops up a lot more often because of the CLT, which explains why it dominates most discussions, and that is not overuse but perfectly normal.

In short anyone trained in this stuff will use all sorts of distributions and will use the correct one for the situation (which is usually not hard to determine)... but in doing so Gaussian will inevitably be the most common thanks to the CLT, not sure how anyone could disagree with that.

All that said, 1) it sounded like he was making some weird coronavirus segway which he didnt elaborate on 2) not sure why he is arguing that there are other distributions, that was never up for debate 3) if thats what he wants to say he should, you know, say it, because right now its just linkpasta with no point and whatever he is arguing against looks like is not even what anyone is saying anyway.

@funny @js290

@ianmacd I have a house there and usually spend most of my year there, however this year with the virus I was absent a lot sadly.

My dutch skills are so far non existent. My past attempts to learn mostly failed but when i go back i intent to get a dutch teacher.

@ianmacd seems they blocked us, which I heard someone say before.. They never gave us a reason other than because we let our users have an uncensored view of the fediverse that makes us worthy of a block, which makes no sense to me, but whatever.

here is what I use for crossposting and it has always worked well for me: https://moa.party/

@js290

im not reading link pasta, stop replying with links unless you have something to say that the link is relevant to.

@icedquinn @funny

@ianmacd it is not blocked from our end. What cross poster are you using?

@cwebber Story of my goddamn life right there.

@cwebber doing good! how have you been?

@Pixificial Great to have you. Notice we do have a few other services like gitlab, discourse, peertube and others you can sign up for if you want to explore other tools.

@pants lawl

@pants Could be, but the about page doesnt really make that clear, so they are doing it deadpan and making it look serious.. but yea could be.

But the truth is NFTs in general are a very useful technology that does in fact accomplish something. I can see reasons to make fun of cryptokitties or other silly uses of them, but NFT itself, meh, thats like making fun of TCP for being useless instead of making fun of stupid websites.

@pants how so? In this case I dont see how this "app" satisfies any requirement of any kind.. I cant see anything it would ever be useful for.

@DevilMayCummies Full on cringe :)

@DevilMayCummies replace the screaming with some sort of liberalist communist anti-money agenda where they rant about NFT's and thats exactly it.

The rant itself is painful enough as it is but the fact that the app they wrote that they thought would somehow "disrupt" NFTs shows they dont have a clue.

It reminds me of that time years back where everyone on mastodon was complaining they didnt get the features they wanted (mostly to make it easier to mass block groups of servers and shit) so they started their own "fork" of mastodon with like a dozen people. Thing is they never wrote a line of code it was all just a wish list of what they wanted because not a single person in the whole group knew how to program in any language at all.