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no, @jplaza's point was that you're describing a different type of real-valued random variable, and that calling it "Gaussian" is a mistake. normally, this wouldn't matter much, but you keep insisting you're right, which reinforces the appearance that you don't know what you're talking about...

(2) is a non sequitur. The interval between me encountering a bagpiper is long on average, but the median is quite short as bagpipers often come in groups. The frequency of appearance allows no conclusion as to the distribution of appearances of rainbows. Specifically, if the weather conditions...

what about "a type of" is unclear to you?

is there an actual theory that admits to that possibility? in the sense of a complex web of thought? if yes, is the idea that all rainbows are flowing from that kind of theoretical cause also possible?

no, but a question I am asking of you. can you answer it?

There's a spate of Zaporizhzya-related news from the IAEA that I haven't had time to report on, mostly related to the military actions involving the site. Ukrainian authorities shut down the last active reactor at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) on September 11. Ukrainian nuclear...

Kharkiv oblast is mostly liberated. Comparing Sep 11 to Sep 4: Ukraine Kharkiv Kherson The current counter-offensive will not end the war. The campaign in northeast Ukraine will eventually culminate, allowing the Russians to re-establish a tenable defensive line and possibly even...

@LilWabbit how likely is it that a superpower causes all rainbows in Britain all the time?

There's a common error in thinking that sometimes holds something specific more likely than the general group. The example goes something like this: you meet a guy in a bait&tackle shop, and find out he works at IBM. Is it more likely that a) he's a software engineer, or that b) he's a software...

if we have "AI enhancement" adding information, is that artificial pareidolia?

do we know if the pod can roll at different speeds?

then why do you complain, instead of doing the work you claim is needed?

Yes, "politics".

oh, they're all sure that once column 79 went, the others did, too Weidlinger doesn't commit to whether 79 failed first out of 79, 80, 81, but they're all in agreement that this is when the collapse really started to get going.

The easier test is to take a plastic tube and some water up a seaside mountain, fill it up, and then sight across the ends to the horizon, which then will appear to be below eye level both ways.

I don't know, but politics is a big factor.

This results in ?t=262 being appended to the URL, which gives the time in seconds. ?t=4m22s also works.

I'm not sure there's much a line between curious and skeptic. We, too, would like to know there's aliens, but we won't just believe it without good evidence.

If you are equalizing, you are going to near zero pressure differential driving the water flow, at which point stuff like wind blowing across the open ends becomes noticeable. Define success.

I remember the experiment was done on the bank of some river in Austria or southern Germany, but suffered from the small diameter of the plastic tubes which impeded the levels equalizing when the contraption was filled. 2019 or 2020?