No, there are defences of Valve that are perfectly reasonable.

Yep. As ever, all that matters are vibes. “Valve bad” = WRONG VIBES! Attacking someone who says “Valve bad” = GOOD VIBES! UPVOTE! Criticising the attack = BAD VIBES! DOWNVOTE!

Doesn’t matter whether it’s bollocks.

Really weird how you’re leaping to the defence of this person who thinks I was the one being downvoted. Aren’t you here in support of ignoring everything said by anyone who says something dumb? The person above said something dumb, so you should be chucking the rest of what they say out, too.

Of course, I didn’t really expect consistency from someone like that.

Dumb shit like not checking the usernames so you’d know the post in question was not mine? Hmm.

Also that comment was 100% reasonable. Nobody has come up with a sensible criticism of it.

I love blocking people who are gleeful about being shitty. I know exactly why.

Literal whataboutism

The downvotes, the shameful, wrong downvotes.

Guess everyone who did so is wrong about everything.

Oh, TIL disabled people can’t have a dirty house, and cannot avail themselves of any of the other options that my non-exhaustive list didn’t cover! I suppose before the invention of the robot vacuum cleaner in the 20th century, disabled people simply did not exist, as the need them.

Or you can re-assess your performative holier-than-thou attitude.

Why does anyone need a robot vacuum cleaner? Nobody does. You can use a normal vacuum cleaner. Or you can have a dirty house. So “why does it need…” is automatically the wrong way of framing it.

So, why do they have:

1. a camera? To use computer vision to try and avoid socks you left on the floor.
2. internet access? Because the cheapest way for a company to let a large market control a device nowadays is through a smartphone app. That means it needs to be network-enabled, so internet-enabled is no extra cost. It brings some benefits, too; it means you can control the device (whatever it is) when you’re out. If you forgot to set the robot vacuum off before you left the house, you could do it while out.
3. a microphone? These are rare, but given that you already have a device that can trundle round the house, is internet-connected, and has a camera in it, why not add a microphone so you can use it as a security camera?

Nobody needs any of these features, but each provides something useful to someone.

If you’re white you probably still get enough, especially if you consume dairy. If you have dark skin and live in more northern latitudes, there’s a higher chance of deficiency.

People who don’t want to read whatever shit comes out of his mouth

“zero fucks given” means “I don’t care” but is a) profane and b) carries extra connotations. “das ist mir wurst” isn’t crude in the same way at all, and I don’t think it carries the same implication of keeping cool.

Translating idioms is hard and they rarely translate exactly, but especially if you pick an idiom which is already a niche way of saying something that there are more common ways to express.

Ok but if you’ve done twelve throws, how off does the distribution have to look to cause suspicion? All sixes is obviously off, but what about four sixes? Five? At some point your assessment goes from “probably uniform” to “probably biased”. The p value quantifies that.

I don’t understand exactly what you did with chatgpt but I wouldn’t trust it on this. A textbook or Wikipedia would be a better source.

In practice p-values are used with a normality assumption. That assumption is widely valid because of the central limit theorem which means that normal distributions show up very very often.

And in practice they’re used as a formula to decide when a result is “statistically significant” i.e to give an idea of how likely an observed difference is due to a real phenomenon. So if people in a drug trial report feeling ill for two fewer days on average, calculating the p value will answer the question “what are the chances there’s actually a difference?”

I’d look for more examples - loaded dice examples are usually easy to understand too.

In general you need to know the distribution in order to calculate p values, though there are statistical methods for deciding - with some confidence level - whether a sample conforms to some distribution.

Right. But that’s what p-values quantify: given the number of trials and the observed variance and means, how likely is it that the two groups are drawn from the same distribution versus actually having different means?

So variance isn’t “more important” than p-values; high variance means that (by definition) your p-value is lower (less confident) than it otherwise would be.

So you have two groups of ten experiments, mean if group A is 100, mean of group B is 105, variance is 25 (for both groups). Obviously we are not confident that these groups differ.

Now suppose we repeat the experiment two billion times. The group A average is now 99, and the group B average is now 103. The variance is still 25. Are you still not confident that the groups are different?

Don’t you mean “*screenshot”

OK? But we’re not calling archery bows and violin bows circular; we’re calling them bows i.e. curved. And we’re calling the rainbow a bow, i.e. curved, which it is. Curved does not imply circular, but circular does imply curved.

Besides, I don’t think the proto-indo-europeans were out there with calipers measuring the precise curvature of objects they decided to label with the *bheug- root.

Did it need anything to run on modern PCs? I fire up UT2k4 at LANs once every couple of years generally and have never had problems.