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@jamestanton I meant to bring to light that if one is watching at Sun marble and Earth marble from infinity & is asked about the size of marble that is "average" of these two, as difference bw sun & earth marbles is gigantic, GM works better thn AM. Cuz AM would be a value close to Sun's size

@KriteeshP No bedrock rules in math. All context. Since mass is dictated by V, let me use mass. In physics, grav force F=G*M1*M2/r^2 so here can replace each M by geom mean and still cool, if helpful. (Not sure how?) Most people find arithmetic mean (M1+M2)/2 appropriate in most contexts.

On average, there are 930 million people living on each planet of the solar system. Context, in math, and most things, matters! So what sort of figures are you looking to average (masses?), for what purposes? This will help guide what math you might want to use and if helpful.

@OneOnEpsilon @jamestanton How do we calculate the average of earth and the sun. What size occurs in between ? Geometric mean or arithmetic mean?

Our monthly Curious Epsilon blog post: Why would you use the geometric mean or the harmonic mean as an average? Isn't the arithmetic mean good enough? 1onepsilon.com/single-post/20…

@GuruAnaerobic The old answer.

Lean people can get extremely strong, if they have the genetics. Fat people can get very strong, if they have the genetics. But, strength is only one marker of health (after a point their is no additional benefit to health - most are nowhere near that point) What is better?

This is Kubera, also known as Vaishravana (Mauryan Era). The dikpala of the North Direction. He is known in Mahayana Buddhism as Vaishravana. Notice the belly, this belly travelled to China and gave us the laughing Buddhas, now popularized by Feng Shui. Wise, Happy gods, we love.

Bottom row (2nd left) is a piece of dice, from Harappan era (4000 year old). It has six faces, with all the appropriate dots. This elongated dice was the reason why Chausar (middle pic) had them. Chausar -> Pachisi -> Ludo(right). Board design remained same. Games follow #lindy

Notice the image on the left. Notice the image on the right. These two images are distanced by 4500 years in time. Basic human designs are created and evolved, but what survives, only lives longer. This is an illustration of Lindy Effect. #lindy

@GuruAnaerobic Bad for health, tastes like shit. A strict no no.

Do any of my Indian followers use? 'VANASPATI' vegetable cooking oil is used by millions of Indians as a replacement for Ghee, and used repeatedly by restaurants and street vendors.

@CamFAwesome @AJA_Cortes I knew that someone would say this.

@SatchinPanda What would the people living in south Asia do then?

Some pesticides in human body have half lives of >6 years. South Asian immigrants in England have very high level of pesticides even 10 years after immigration. They are at disproportionately higher risk for type 2 diabetes. academic.oup.com/jes/article/2/…

@FrWikinson @MidnightRambl20 @jedikiller420 @cyvault @RubinReport @ericweinstein Man, Dell brought these esoteric puns online.

@ericweinstein Yes, yes, spinors, that’s it, spinors!

@nntaleb @yaneerbaryam @financequant Is mythology the most lindy proof network of memes in a culture ? Is that why mythology repeats, spreads and becomes universal, because time cannot kill it.

@yaneerbaryam @financequant They are... working. And #Lindy means statistical significance >>> theories.

@nntaleb Thanks a lot for this sir.

The thread explains why most of the papers with "empirical evidence" using "correlations" and "p-values" are BS. Actually, in some fields, almost all papers are BS but you need to look deep into the statistics. The p-value hacking paper: arxiv.org/pdf/1603.07532… twitter.com/nntaleb/status…

@nntaleb @RichardHaass @tomfriedman @FareedZakaria But do they have enough stuff for a large hippocampus ?

One is allowed to reveal the low IQ of these pseudo-experts s.a. @RichardHaass, @tomfriedman or @FareedZakaria is because, while clueless abt complex interactions & basic properties, they feel empowered to lecture others on what to do. They shd driving Ubers not more.

In the past, the weapons industry would have right wing warmongers shill for them & perpetuate states of bellicosity. They got smarter. They now enlist shills who managed to label themselves on the "left".

@PsychoSchmitt No one has called me hot. Some have called me cute. Most call me ugly. So either it is long term, or just celibacy. 🤔

differing activation of attachment and sexual motives...it's almost like we might have distinct long-term and short-term mating psychologies! twitter.com/Jess_A_Maxwell…

@Koenraad_Elst Airyana Vaijeh (iranwiz) isnt it connected to arya ? I assume Airyana means - of aryas.

The Shastras cited here as giving "Arya" a moralistic sense are much younger than the RgVedic hymns with the ethnic sense (also in Hittite, Iranian). The elitist connotation was there throughout, as in Vedic > civilized > noble; also in Iranian, even in its Chinese loan "Hua". twitter.com/KoochBhii/stat…

@nntaleb @HardeepSPuri Are you in India ??

Promoting the ideas of Jane Jacobs (and her books) on organic urbanism —with Minister @HardeepSPuri in charge of building tens of millions of homes in the next 5 years.