"For those of you who are interested in statistics, this is a five-sigma event. So it's five standard deviations beyond the mean. Which means that if nothing had changed, we'd expect to see a winter like this about once every 7.5 million years.

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She fears a further change in the balance could trigger a tipping point from where it's difficult to reverse the trajectory. "We might end up in a new state," she said. "That would be quite concerning to the sustainability of human conditions on Earth, I suspect.

  • flan [they/them]
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    1 year ago

    It’s the root mean square about the mean of the number set

      • flan [they/them]
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        1 year ago

        just wait til you catch me on eigenvector night

          • aebletrae [she/her]
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            1 year ago

            The whole act is just longer and shorter versions of the same one joke, something about their identity matrix being an attack helicopter? You know, right-multiplication "humour"?