A really nice video that goes beyond annoying “I fucking love science” style of arguments, and actually explains the connection between infinite sums, Cesaro summation, the Riemann zeta function, Ramanujan summation and the series 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuIIjLr6vUA […]
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Oh, this is just gold: “we could add these numbers together and this would give us how much the numbers on average deviate from the mean, but we see that some of the numbers are negative and cancel out the others. This is a problem.” Yes. Yes, that’s the problem here. It’s like the blind […]
Kicking it on a Saturday evening, reading a social scientist’s interpretation of statistics. […]
I think we need a word to describe money laundering but for clothes. […]
New single from CATS ON TREES (you might remember them from Siren’s Call). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMTYZikQAuU […]
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Happy B-day, BOMT! Today it’s 19 years ago the Baby One More Time album was released. […]