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   Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Sep-2025 08:28:45 JST Bread up, Bro
   the real gentleman likes quartiles
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Sep-2025 08:41:54 JST Bread up, Bro

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     • BroDrillard
     @BroDrillard decimating gets misused because you say "the forces were decimated" - which means seriously reduced in fighting capacity, especially in ancient times
     
     median vs average really falls into the same common misuse, where people treat "middle seeking" methods the same, conversationally.
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     BroDrillard (brodrillard@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Sep-2025 08:41:55 JST BroDrillard

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     There are a few words even reasonably smart people use incorrectly
     
     decimating - means every 10th, not "majority of them"
     exponential - this means a specific growth characteristic (n^x), not just "rather fast", or n^2. That would be quadratic, not exponential.
     median - vs average
     
     Likely there are more, I'm just not remembering them right now.
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Sep-2025 09:02:40 JST Bread up, Bro

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     • ShovelTrouble
     @ShovelTrouble they use it in some social science stuff - basically to do what is done here to show that the data is skewed
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     ShovelTrouble (shoveltrouble@pone.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Sep-2025 09:02:41 JST ShovelTrouble

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     @sickburnbro I've never seen modal average used outside of a classroom.

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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Sep-2025 09:11:56 JST Bread up, Bro

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     • BroDrillard
     @TrevorGoodchild @BroDrillard Joe Rogan has made an entire career of playing dumb
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     Trevor Goodchild:verified::pondering_orb: (trevorgoodchild@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Sep-2025 09:11:57 JST Trevor Goodchild:verified::pondering_orb:

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     • BroDrillard
     @BroDrillard @sickburnbro Gonzalo Lira was a sexpat spic greaser but one of his best bits was playing dumb and asking leftoids to define "ontologically" if they were stupid enough to try to use it to make a point
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Sep-2025 10:29:38 JST Bread up, Bro

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     • Jonny
     @Jonny @TrevorGoodchild @BroDrillard people get too up in their ass about it, ontology is essentially just classifying things
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     Jonny (jonny@annihilation.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Sep-2025 10:29:39 JST Jonny

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     @TrevorGoodchild @BroDrillard @sickburnbro
     I never even heard the word ontology up until a few months ago, from Cliff High on Youtube. He said the opposite of ontology is "grit theory".
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     BroDrillard (brodrillard@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Sep-2025 10:30:36 JST BroDrillard

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     • Gideon
     Yup, exponential basically means the base is constant and the variable quantity is in the exponent: c^x
     
     When the variable is in the base and the exponent is constant it's called a power function: x^c
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Sep-2025 10:30:36 JST Bread up, Bro

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     • Gideon
     @BroDrillard @Gideon which is also not logarithmic
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     Gideon (gideon@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Sep-2025 10:30:37 JST Gideon

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     • BroDrillard
     I've probably used exponentially rather than quadratic without even realizing it. Just not in my vocab wheelhouse. But I would also think it a compliment if someone called me reasonably smart.
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Sep-2025 10:31:13 JST Bread up, Bro

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     • Jonny
     @Jonny @BroDrillard @TrevorGoodchild classifying classification is a task that some people do enjoy
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     Jonny (jonny@annihilation.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Sep-2025 10:31:14 JST Jonny

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     @sickburnbro @BroDrillard @TrevorGoodchild
     Something tells me that the full definition of ontology is yet too be defined.