Hehe, I mean I'm forced to teach by-hand statistics to undergraduates and we have to do... arithmetics. Multiplication. Division. Square roots!

It's a pretty established truth that we don't really do math. Lol

And TIL you all get fries. Huh. Are they any good?

Obligatory shout out to the medical drama Wii game Trauma Team, which takes place in Portland, Maine, and somehow also involves disobeying a fascist US government near the end.

Statisticians in reality are programmers, typically using R or Python to run models. You only ever touch math in undergrad.*

There's a long tradition of skipping hard math, though-- ever have a stats class that has you looking at a t-table for a critical value? That's because it gives us a cutoff to use instead of calculating a p-value (which is hard).

*Note: statistics majors in PhD programs still need the hardcore math. Matrix algebra, calculus, etc. Who else is gonna make the packages we use?

I've seen it used very occasionally as a study tool, which is generally fine until it gets it wrong. Just like you can use Khan Academy (or I guess, YouTube but there's again a chance it's wrong lol). The craziest is when they use an AI delusional statistical theory that doesn't exist, lol.

Iirc, they put herbs and stuff in the nose of those things. They legit were PPE, lol.

I've grappled with this before, and even before people were using AI, take home exams were always open-book by default because of course people will look things up. The irony is, since AI, I've had a lot worse essay submissions-- they simply get shit wrong a lot more relying on AI (especially in my statistics class).

And my stats class only needs to do basic stuff to show work; I let them use excel/sheets to check work. They can't even type in "=correl()" properly and would rather take a photo of the data and send it to ChatGPT. AI gives them wildly wrong steps and it's so obviously wrong...

Oh I typo'd. I can fix it.

(I remember now, I changed the sentence structure after the fact. Sorry about that)

I enjoyed a replay just a year ago and it held up as well if not better than I remember (and with RetroAchevements which is rather painful, not recommended for first time lol).

It's really a contender for best Zelda, but it's kind of a different genre from OoT and BotW. Certainly the best 2D top down, even with how good Awakening is.

The only part that I question is the sussy unsanitary ball pit and maybe that scooter working adequately on the grass. I'm pretty sure they can, I've just never seen it. My vote is real, the rest of the pic matches what I've seen of the event.

I've known about Paxton for way too long, especially as a non-Texan. It's astonishing he's even at 47%; that means 47% of those polled are out of their fucking minds. It's not just adultery and corruption, he's also a complete floundering moron!

Reading this article, ESA feels like the evil archenemies of the Stop Killing Games folks. As SKG put it, the talk of illegality was to mislead a Californian legislator too busy to fact check.

That said, the real fight ESA is pushing is more in regards to private servers for MMOs and other always-online games that SKG wants to be legal as part of preservation. I personally disagree with ESA in that regard, although I can understand their legal argument regarding the lawsuits on World of Warcraft private servers, mentioned in the article.

(Though, my two cents, I personally feel "free market" should mean official servers are better and earn their subscriptions: more people, more reliable, better content, etc... but they usually aren't. So fuck them, lol).