🎓 Dr. Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@qoto.org

First explainer I've ever seen of Taylor series that really clicked for me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3d6DsjIBzJ4

In general, I wish more of calculus had been taught to me not as a fundmental math that is abstractly internally-consistent, but from its historical origins: "Physics and engineering are hard, here's some brilliant hacks people came up with to make the estimates and calculations tractable." Then you can go from those to why they work to get to the theoretical context-free calculus.

@freemo @niconiconi I don't know if the Emacs for Game Boy to the right is real, but there is at least a Game Boy emulator for Emacs: https://github.com/vreeze/eboy

I haven't found #fountainpen Mastodon yet. Who else is into #fountainpens here?

@vwbusguy @freemo Also into fountain pens: @librarianguish .

Haskell Libraries I Love

https://evanrelf.com/haskell-libraries-i-love

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://evanrelf.com/haskell-libraries-i-love

#haskell #programming

Indeed!

#preservation
I'm downloading a dead wiki from the wayback machine using a script I found on GitHub.
I then plan to restore it using the tool html2mediawiki to then host it on my server.
Did anyone already do something like this and has any advice?

Is this a (cute) Possum?

New on mastodon, time for an #introduction!
I'm eqyo from the Netherlands 🇳🇱, I'm in my twenties and studying #mathematics & #computerscience. I am also: a semi-agnostic churchgoer ⛪, not exactly straight but still figuring things out 🏳️‍🌈, and very much into #classicalmusic 🎻.
(Expect the frequency of emojis and hashtags to drop drastically after this post)
I see myself posting about my life, about #philosophy & #politics, maybe about some #foss-related stuff...

Thanks for the warm welcome, @Pat, @trinsec, @freeschool and @MamGrac !

I probably won't be that active, I'll usually be here once or twice a day and sometimes I'll disappear for a while...
On that note, if you ever notice that I'm posting after midnight Dutch time, please do tell me to get my shit together 😅.

Uh I just got DMed by the COO of Tumblr asking about hiring contractors to make us fully #indieweb compliant, and possibly even #fediverse integration. Anyone out there looking for work?

An explanation I gave a while back as to why gun statistics generally favor the fact that less restrictive gun laws means fewer violence and homicides.

I basically explain why the typical argument of "countries with more guns have more violence" is inherently anti-scientific as it violates fundamental statistical analysis good practices. Instead we would use statistical causality tests for this, not correlation tests. When we actually look at the data from that perspective it generally shows that countries with less restrictive gun laws effectively lowers a nations homicide and violent crime rates.

Reattached the graphs from that post, but best to click the link to the original post where I go into more detail (the graphs are there as well).

#Guns #GunLaws #GunRights
QT: https://qoto.org/@freemo/103766692274567523

@ff0000

Since I cant fit all the data I had on hand in a single post (only allows 4 images to be posted at a time) I attached a few more to this reply for you.

@snow

@ff0000

The actual statistics directly contradict your claims and support my own.

The way we data scientists analyze situations like this is very specific. We look at countries where guns are legal and there is a significant legal change banning guns, then we look at the overall homicide rate or violent crime rate and see if it spikes up or down. We do this across many countries and see if there is a trend.

We also do the converse where we look at relaxed restrictions.

The cause-effect here is very strong, we almost always with only a few exceptions see a huge spike in homicide rates and violent crime rates following a gun restriction law. This spike tends to last on average about a decade before falling back down to almost pre-ban levels but usually never fully recovering.

I provide two attached examples as reference, i can provide more from additional countries if youd like.

@snow