retrogradeboy.bsky.social
Biologist by trade, straight outta Gangnam
Right now, it's all Korea all the time
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Can we use the phrase, “vis a vis”?
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Neil Kinnock must decide.
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Oh, they are absolutely taking a stand.
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Et tu, Brute?
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He's in for a rude surprise.
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A very sad reminder that Lemmy is no longer with us.
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"Applications of these systems have been plagued by persistent inaccuracies in their output... We argue that these falsehoods... is better understood as bullshit in the sense explored by Frankfurt (On Bullshit...): the models are in an important way indifferent to the truth of their outputs."
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And in South Korea, it was a requirement.
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Also, he’s using (2) as his defense (because it failed, he didn’t mean it). He’s using his own incompetency as his defense.
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Exhibit A
youtu.be/HCXqKEs68Xk?...
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Might be difficult explaining the 의원/요원 defense...
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Surely, it won't take that long. How much is there to investigate?
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Also, what's up with that lawyer at the back (조대현)? He's either smirking or falling asleep. Not sure which.
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as opposed to height-to-height, a fat bar will make the difference look more pronounced. So Sabrina looks much smaller than Taylor, not only because she's shorter but also because she's narrower.
And yes, sometimes tables are better than graphs.
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understand exactly what is being measured.
The more subtle point is that in any bar graph, the width of the bar is also important. Not only should it be consistent bar-to-bar (it is not in the graph above), but it can't be too fat. Because the human eye will naturally compare area-to-area
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There might be good reasons for displaying data on a truncated y-axis (if you are looking at relative differences rather than total magnitude - e.g. you wouldn't display changes in temp yr-to-yr using a scale with 0 deg K).
The point is that students need to pay attention to the y-axis and
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Keeping my fingers crossed.
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He’ll be arrested.
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Actually, I predict that T won’t serve out his term.
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Is the marriage on the SCIDs?