Reciprocal Distribution Puns

Sometimes, even good news isn't quite good enough.

I've posted several times here about some of the peculiar difficulties I've dealt with in my journey toward a PhD in mathematics, either in threads, or as submitted posts like this one. The central problem I've been dealing with is that my research topic—the Collatz Conjecture—and the tools I've been using to study it (harmonic analysis, analytic number theory, and—most recently—non-archimedean (functional) analysis) are all completely outside the purview of the expertise of my university's mathematical faculty.

For most of my time in graduate school, the most troubling manifestation of this problem was that I wasn't certain I would be able to get a PhD, seeing as there was no one in my orbit capable of rendering judgment on the merit of my work. The agreement with I'd reached with my department was that if I could get something of mine published in a reputable journal, that would suffice as the "expert approval" needed to justify conferring upon me the doctoral degree that I've been working toward all this time. Unfortunately, my attempts to get myself published have not met with success—and, certainly, the backlog of excess submissions caused by the pandemic has only made matters worse.

In mid November 2021, however, I received some truly wonderful news: my department decided that they would not require me to get something published. They will accept whatever original work I have done.

Although I have no evidence for this, given the way the head of graduate studies phrased the message, I have a strong suspicion that when I informed my advisor I had independently rediscovered a good deal of the contents of W. M. Schikhof's PhD dissertation (Non-Archimedean Harmonic Analysis, 1967), that was what convinced them that I was worthy of their gracious leap of faith.

While this news has definitely taken a great deal of stress off my shoulders, me being me—that is, obsessive—I've found a new, daunting psychological difficulty to nail to onto my skull:

I'm worried that I don't deserve it, because I haven't done enough.

The positives:

1. I know for a fact that my work is cutting-edge, insofar as novelty goes. The only major antecedent work in a comparable vein that I can point to is Tao's 2019 paper on the Collatz Conjecture—but, even then, the similarity is only in the fact that our approaches share essentially the same central object of study; otherwise, they couldn't be more different. His take is

Hi there,

One of my scales is very positively skewed (skewness = around 6, Kurtosis around 13). This scale has many ‘0’ values, It makes sense because this was a scale that was “select all that apply” with higher score indicating “more impact.”

I have transformed it using a Reciprocal Transformation. It is the only transformation that has so far worked.

However, now my skewness is negative, but both skewness and kurtosis are within reasonable margins.

This variable is being used as a mediator variable in an SPSS PROCESS model. Do I need to add a reciprocal transformation on all variables now? My supervisor said no, but that doesn’t make sense to me!

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

Until recently, I was a loyal, left-leaning Democrat, and I had been my entire adult life. I was the kind of partisan who registered voters before midterm elections and went to protests. I hated Donald Trump so much that I struggled to be civil to relatives on the other side of the aisle. But because of what my family has gone through during the pandemic, I can’t muster the same enthusiasm. I feel adrift from my tribe and, to a certain degree, disgusted with both parties.

I can’t imagine that I would have arrived here—not a Republican, but questioning my place in the Democratic Party—had my son not been enrolled in public kindergarten in 2020.

Late that summer, the Cleveland school system announced that it would not open for in-person learning the first 9 weeks of the semester. I was distraught. My family relies on my income, and I knew that I would not be able to work full-time with my then-5-year-old son and then-3-year-old daughter at home.

Still, I was accepting of short-term school closures. My faith in the system deteriorated only as the weeks and months of remote-learning dragged on long past the initial timeline, and my son began refusing to log on for lessons. I couldn’t blame him. Despite his wonderful teacher’s best efforts, online kindergarten is about as ridiculous as it sounds, in my experience. I remember logging on to a “gym” class where my son was the only student present. The teacher, I could tell, felt embarrassed. We both knew how absurd the situation was.

Children who had been present every day the year before in preschool, whose parents I had seen drop them off every morning, just vanished. The daily gantlet of passwords and programs was a challenge for even me and my husband, both professionals who work on computers all day. About 30 percent of Cleveland families didn’t even have internet in their home prior to the pandemic.

I kept hoping that someone in our all-Democratic political leadership would take a stand on behalf of Cleveland’s 37,000 public-school children or seem to care about what was happening. Weren’t Democrats supposed to stick up for low-income kids? Instead, our veteran Democratic mayor avoided remarking on the crisis facing the city’s public-sch

Do your worst!

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

Objectives of Milvus vector database

When the idea of the Milvus vector database first came to our minds, we wanted to build a data infrastructure that could help people accelerate AI adoptions in their organizations.

Milvus in AI/ML applications Development Cycle

We have set two crucial objectives for the Milvus project to fulfill this mission.

Ease of use

AI/ML is an emerging area where new technologies keep coming out. Most developers are not entirely familiar with the fast-growing technologies and tools of AI. Developers have already consumed most of their energies finding, training, and tuning the models. It's hard for them to spend additional efforts handling the large amounts of embedding vectors generated by the models. Not to mention the manipulation of a large volume of data is always a very challenging task.

Thus we give "ease of use" a very high priority since it could significantly reduce the development cost.

Low running costs

One of the primary hurdles of AI in production is to justify the return of investment. We would have more opportunities to put our AI applications into production with lower running costs. And it would be conducive to lifting the margin of potential benefits.

Design principles of Milvus 2.0

We made a start towards these goals in Milvus 1.0. But it's far from enough, especially in scalability and availability. Then we started the development of Milvus 2.0 to improve these points. The principles we have laid down for this new version include:

• Aiming for high scalability and availability
• Building upon mature cloud infrastructure and practice
• Minimum performance compromise in the cloud

In other words, we want to make the Milvus database cluster cloud-native.

The evolution of database clusters

The vector database is a new species of database, as it handles new types of data (vectors). But it still shares the same challenges as other databases, with some of its own requirements. In the rest of this article, I will focus on what we have learned from the existing database cluster implementations and the thinking process of how we designed the new Milvus group architecture.

If you are interested in the implementation details of Milvus group components, please stay on top of the Milvus documentation. We will continuously p

Data is taken from the Covid-19 portal and today's media availability with Premier Jason Kenney, Minister of Health Jason Copping, AHS President Dr Verna Yiu, and public service commissioner Tim Grant. Dr Hinshaw's next availability will be next Tuesday.

RESTRICTIONS

• Multiple restrictions are currently in effect. A summary is given on this page

Proof of Vaccination

• You can get proof of your vaccination here

VACCINE ELIGIBILITY

TESTING AVAILABILITY

1. TOP LINE NUMBERS

• For values where "Current" and "Total" are the same, I have left results under Total

^1 Note that this value is the "net increase" of cases. A small number of p

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

##September 2021 - The ban on all New Entries for tourism will continue at this time. We do not anticipate the borders reopening to International Tourism until 2022, and although there is now movement and plans being set in place for Business/Work Entry - nothing firm has been announced by the Japanese Government in regards to Tourism.

##At present, entry is only permitted for Japanese Nationals, Permanent Residents, Foreign Nationals with residency IN Japan, Spouses or Children of those groups. If you need to travel to Japan as a non-resident under special exceptional circumstances, please contact your Japanese embassy or consulate for further information. All Questions regarding this topic will be removed, and should only be broached with the relevant Government Agencies prior to your trip. Our focus in this subreddit is tourism only - as such we have no answers for you here.

Please check here for previous Pandemic Megathreads on this topic, dating back to 2020.

##Frequently Asked Questions - September 2021

>- "Will Japan reopen for tourism to those who have already been fully vaccinated against the virus?"

>- Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato said at a news conference on March 19th, 2021 that Japan has no plans to ease travel restrictions for travelers with vaccine certificates issued overseas. While Entry requirements for Work/School/Special Exemptions/Family Reasons should not be taken as proof of entry requirements for Tourism, as of September 9th, the Japanese Government has advised that quarantine will be shortened for Business Entry to 10 days from 14 days for people with full doses of Moderna, Pfizer or AstraZeneca vaccines prior to entry.

>- "What about entry procedures for tourism? Will 14 day quarantine still be in place when the borders re-open? What about being vaccinated?"

>- Realistically, it's unlikely 14 day quarantine will be required for all tourists to enter Japan in the future. The process and procedures currently in place for entry by those with valid Visas or ot

Antiwork is for the abolition of work. It doesn’t mean nobody does anything for society or anyone else. It means we don’t HAVE to sacrifice our time, bodies, and minds to bosses who steal the true value of our labor. With the technology at our disposal, work could be entirely voluntary. Productivity has risen exponentially since the industrial revolution, and yet more and more people are forced to work harder, smarter, and longer for less pay.

Won’t some people do nothing? Yeah. That’s okay. They aren’t bothering you. Let people do what they want. If they don’t want to achieve or accomplish anything, that is their prerogative.

Why do we HAVE to work? Because you are trapped in a value system. This means that in addition the whatever an item or service is or does, it has a monetary value attached to it. The monetary value is NOT an intrinsic part of it. Value is introduced to it by the powers that be- the owning class, who price us out of an enjoyable existence unless we can be exploited. This is called false scarcity. False scarcity is one of the most powerful tools of the owning class. Billionaires aren’t the only members of the owning class. Anyone who directly benefits from using their property to extract money without their own labor is an owner.

So the owners have us trapped in this system that turns the rest of society into their slaves. What can we do? It is not practical to escape. We need to build a new system, that lets us voluntarily choose when, how, and where we labor.

How do we do that? Promoting class consciousness (like this post) and performing mutual aid. Mutual aid is when you assist members of a/your community by fulfilling their needs WITHOUT asking for anything in return. You remove the value form from the aid you provide. Caring for people without exploiting them is a radical anti capitalist action. Soup kitchens like at your local church, Food Not Bombs, or the Buy Nothing Project are all fantastic examples. Just make sure that your free labor isn’t being turned into someone else’s profits.

Eventually, mutual aid, when enough people consistently contribute, will replace the value form economy with the gift economy. Anthropologists agree that for the majority of human existence, we had a gift economy. What do I mean, gift economy? It’s simple, transactions are one sided, without expectation of reciprocation. No more starving in the street. Not only would the human rights of food and housing be free, so would everything el

They’re on standbi

Pilot on me!!

On certain social issues like abortion, euthanasia, contraception, etc it is well known that the Catholic Church is fairly traditional and conservative on those things. And the Pope has not changed Church doctrine on those things. However on many economic and political issues it would seem Francis would be to the left of most political leaders, including most liberals in an American and Western context. Part of this seems to be his background as a Latin American priest. And part of this is also demonstrated in many of the political leaders he has strong ties with. Some of the Pink Tide leaders in Latin America like Rafael Correa and Evo Morales. Bernie Sanders in America, Naomi Klein, Greta Thunberg and others. Here are some quotes to that lay out some of his views on social, political and economic issues globally:

"The current financial crisis can make us overlook the fact that it originated in a profound human crisis: the denial of the primacy of the human person. We have created new idols. The worship of the ancient golden calf(Ex 32:1-35) has returned in a new and ruthless guise in the idolatry of money and the dictatorship of an impersonal economy lacking a truly human purpose"(The Joy of the Gospel, prg 55)

"While the earnings of a minority are growing exponentially, so too is the gap separating the majority from the prosperity enjoyed by those happy few. This imbalance is the result of ideologies which defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation. Consequently, they reject the right of states, charged with vigilance for the common good, to exercise any form of control. A new tyranny is thus born, invisible and often virtual, which unilaterally and relentlessly imposes its even own laws and rules. Debt and the accumulation of interest also make it difficult for countries to realize the potential of their own economies and keep citizens from enjoying their real purchasing power. To all this we can add widespread corruption and self serving tax evasion, which have taken on worldwide dimensions. The thirst for power and possessions knows no limit. In this system, which tends to devour everything which stands in the way of increased profits, whatever is fragile, like the environment, is defenseless before the interests of a deified market, which become the only rule"(The Joy of the Gospel, prg 56)

"The poor and the poorer peoples are accused of violence, yet without equal opportunities, the different forms of aggression

Nothing, he was gladiator.

This subreddit was founded by Ryan Holiday.

After he became inactive, NotaClickBot got the mod access. In Nov 2020, he was kind to add me as mod to grow and moderate the community.

When I was invited to be the mod, this community had 13K members. This is a nine year old community. Meaning, in eight years, the subreddit acquired 13K members.

From Nov 2020 to until today, under my moderation, we have managed to grow the subreddit by 11K members in just one year.

r/ GrowthHacking grew from 13K to 24K members in just one year

How did I manage to achieve such a sharp growth? In this post, I am sharing all the strategies I used.

Strategy #1: Lead Magnets

I created super valuable lead magnets and shared them on various FB groups, WhatsApp groups and Twitter. The lead magnets sent the traffic back to the community. This helped us revive the community.

• 100+ Content Distribution Channels Proven to Boost Your Traffic and Sales
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Strategy #2: Partnerships

Most Digital Marketing related subreddits have a common mod and that mod has a biased view on Growth Hacking because he doesn't understand it. Hence, we were not able to partner with big marketing subreddits as they have monopolized it unfairly.

However, we were able to partner with subreddits with almost same size as ours. We link to them on our sidebar and they reciprocated.

Strategy #3: LIVE Events and Interviews

I conducted Reddit Marketing events and invited the attendees to join the Growth Hacking subreddit.

I invited marketers from WhatsApp groups, FB groups, Slack communities and Twitter to join Reddit and join our subreddit.

I mentioned the Growth Hacking subreddit in almost all the YouTube and Podcast interviews in 2021.

Instamojo and Rohan

Nir Eyal and Rohan Chaubey

Strategy #4: Automated Invites

We briefly used Howitzer to i

Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.

This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.

If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.

Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.

I was suicidal when I was 16 and 25 years of age. Personally, I feel that my experiences in life have led me to understand suffering as much as it now teaches me joy. I have personally known at least 10 people to have committed suicide. Nine of them I was on a personal speaking level with. It never fails to shake me how much we can be saddled with our own manifestations of the struggles we perceive, and the pressure we place upon ourselves. There is so much distribution of pressure across all different people. So many different ways to react to reality.

I am 43 now. I have lived like a pauper and partied like a king, but I seem to always mentally struggle, no matter what “season” I am. It took me over a decade after leaving home at 18 years old to actually feel some level of existential grief for the girl that I was. She didn’t deserve what happened to her. One night the year I turned 30 I cried for her and I let her die. I let her be the memory of what my life once was.

Life is very different now, but I will always suffer from the lasting effects of childhood trauma. I would say I’m almost an expert on trauma, now, because I took my trauma and had to explore every inch of it. I got a degree in psychology at the age of 28. I taught English overseas to take my entire identity to a foreign land where I would learn so much more about myself. I came back and did social work in one of the biggest counties in Texas. Then I did it for a “red” county. All those Republicans that protest against welfare, ha ha! Let me tell you that anyone will have their hand out where money is available. In the county of 4 million people, I saw things I’d never seen before in my isolated Appalachian childhood. I saw poverty and chronic trauma for many children. Trauma coming from all sorts of adults, not just parents.

After I married I went to nursing school and got a bachelors of science in nursing. My husband supported me not working for one year. I got a license in Jan and started a nursing apprenticeship in Feb. Today, have a license to practice nursing that is reviewed and renewed every two years. I became a licensed registered nurse in 2015. I did large city hospital bedside nursing for five years. ICU step-down for little over three years, they floated me everywhere so I experienced the emergency room, medical surgical, and cardiovascular units, mostly. Then I did about eight months of inpatient rehabilitation. I learned so much from other professionals that provided the

I won't be doing that today!

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This morning, my 4 year old daughter.

Daughter: I'm hungry

Me: nerves building, smile widening

Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.

She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.

Thank you all for listening.

You take away their little brooms

There hasn't been a post all year!

Party: Republican

Home State: New York

Term: 1901-1909

Roosevelt was an energetic personality, and it is clear with his opinions of other presidents. He harshly critiqued President Thomas Jefferson in his book ''The Naval War of 1812'' for shrinking the Navy when it would be needed. He called President Franklin Pierce ''a servile tool of men worse than himself ... ever ready to do any work the slavery leaders set him.'' About John Tyler he said: ''He has been called a mediocre man; but this is unwarranted flattery, he was a politician of monumental littleness.'' Damn, Roosevelt roasting other presidents as if he were roasting meat.

DOMESTIC POLICY

Trust-Busting

The defining policy of the Roosevelt decade was trust-busting, a policy of breaking up monopolies. For those who might not completely understand all of these terms, a monopoly is when big businesses eliminate all competition to stay on the top. They stayed on the top by forming a monopoly, pretty much organizing how business will deal with competition. For those with more imaginative minds, it was pretty much a shield used by businesses. As for trust-busting, it was essentially an initiative to break that shield using various policies. In general, much of Congress was worried what to do since a lot supporting monopolies, believing it was necessary to have consistent top-tier businesses always succeeding.

Roosevelt was, at first, not that much of a trust-buster, but agreed to implement the idea as politician bugged him about it. Even though he became an avid and active trust-buster, he still had some criticisms. For instance, when the Supreme Court ordered the break-up of Standard Oil, in an antitrust lawsuit begun under his administration and completed under Taft, Roosevelt said:

“I do not see what good can come from dissolving the Standard Oil Company into 40 separate companies, all of which will still remain really under the same control. What we should have is a much stricter government supervision of these great companies, but accompanying this supervision should be a recognition of the fact that great combinations have come to stay and we must do them scrupulous justice just as we exact scrupulous justice from them.”

This is not to say Roosevelt was not a trust-buster, he absolutely was. His famous brawls with J. P. Morgan (Northern Securities Company) and John D. Rockefeller (Standard Oil) are well remembered. He also won a few Supreme Court cases, such as [*Swift and Comp

Why

It’s pronounced “Noel.”

When I got home, they were still there.

What did 0 say to 8 ?

" Nice Belt "

So What did 3 say to 8 ?

" Hey, you two stop making out "