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Homework: assume that of all mathematicians with an English-language social media account, 1 in 16 is working with expectations on any given day, of which 1 in 1024 comes up with the above joke, of which 1 in 8 decides to post it on their social media, of which 1 in 2 actually do so. Assume the decision whether to post is a Bernoulli trial.

Write down the expectation of the number of times the joke has been or will be made this calendar week (as of this post) given your current information.

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@freemo That got me a short answer

stackoverflow.com/a/73861151/1

that includes a link to a much deeper rabbit hole than I care to explore.

It used to be the case in that

:t 3

would give you

3 :: Num a => a

but

let x = 3
:t x

would give you

x :: Integer

because storing a value in variable forced the system to commit to a specific type.

Nowadays, though, the latter gives you

x :: Num a => a

What changed? I'm at a loss as to how to search the web for an answer to this one.

Was @freemo the Half Life 2 protagonist and hides a Gravity Gun in his basement?

@customdesigned
You dont need an invite the room is open to everyone and registration on the server is open
@QOTO

@freemo Depending on the definition of "butt", do snakes count?

Interesting fact of the day: Fish are the only animal that moves by wiggling their butt.

@barefootstache

browsers are limited in that regard but there are countless apis

@freeschool

@Pat

All true, but I find most speaker RFI in a computer setup is near-field not far-field. Meaning even relatively short runs, since it is adjacent to power carrying lines, pick up a **lot** of RFI. So even short runs of optical line really help. Also the fact that it is digital helps far more than it being optical, but optical is just nice anyway :)

@icedquinn

@icedquinn The big advantage of spidif is you reduce the length of the pre-amplified signal needs to travel and make it digital. So it wont pick as much RF noise

@freemo

"There's got to be some food in that hand somewhere, and I'm going find it...."

@funny

Its amazing how small changes can improve a speaker system. I moved over to running the main audio line as optical/spdif with the conversion to analog adjacent to the speakers. I also moved the speakers to better positions. The audio is noticeably better.

@freeschool The truth is as a moderator I need to translate **all** posts on qoto so I can catch concerning content. As of yet I know of no automatic way to do that other than google.

That said I assure you I'd never lock the QOTO users into google in any way. I know a lot of QOTO users hate them and I go out of my way to honor that choice for them.

"He who learns must suffer"
- Aeschylus

by Freemo

original calligraphy here:
qoto.org/@freemo/1036492614264

Aeschylus often described as the father of tragedy.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeschylu

(525/524 BC - c. 456 BC - died aged ~67)

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