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ylim

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Should I continue to have ylim set to (0,1)? The interesting thing here is the dip around 60, in comparison to the rest of the points, and especially the very last point.
My supervisor thinks I should continue to have it set to (0,1), and I get the arguments in favor. I'm not so sure though.
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There is a data point from when I was 14 years old, based on a several hour long German-test professionally-administered occupational group-setting examination, that claims at that particular point in time I was smarter than 99.7 percent of my peers, with the weight of Galton's statistical instruments. The statistical absurdity of such a rarity has both instilled in me the paranoid delusions: of poor handling of the testing apparatus; of an inflationary scamming psychologist; of everyone receiving the title of the so-called "intellectual superiority" for some either nefarious or white-lie reasons. In parallel and ensuing, I have had twisted feelings of both arrogance and profound insecurity upon that discovery, dreading not only the fools in my vicinity but the missed mark of my potential. These have lead me to pursue reckless risks, especially after discovering critical periods, synaptic pruning, and the fact all of my natural intelligence would reach its highest point in the sky before my 17th year and plummet thereafter, as is the case with every person without a traumatic brain injury in adolescence. Now my acid-addled psyché, with the stressful and traumatizing frictions of my teenage abuse, both within and without, floats in the limbo of post-lockdown NEETdom. My catatonic insanity, wishing to break down and laugh in traumatized hysteria, at odds with my mobilizing rationality, each of the two sparing for the control of my lethargic corpus.
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Someone work out the math on the quickest possible time to unlock all 166 emotes.

You gain 20 points every 5 minutes
It costs, on average, 150 points to unlock an emote. But if you roll for emotes, it's only 10 points per emote.

The trouble is that dupes only return 5 points. So near the end rolling for emotes becomes unprofitable. What's the math on this? How long will it take the average person to get all 166 if they play their cards correctly?

Furthermore, it seems like the rolls are all guaranteed to be unique from one another, that means rolling by 10's is more profitable than rolling by 3's, because rolling by 3's might return the same emote twice.
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STEM undergrad programs in Europe taught in English

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what are the lesser-known but good unis in Europe that have STEM bachelors programs taught in English asides from the UK and Netherlands ? what are your experiences like ?
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What is the best average temperature for human health, growth, & development? Are we meant to get cold weather every now and then or is an average of >20 C or roughly > 70 F ideal?
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Does consciousness exist? If so, is it physical or non-physical?
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honestly, what are the chances you publish something that outlives you? 1 in 100, 1 in 1,000, 1 in 1,000,000? how could you look your loved ones in the eye on your death bed, and say you have no regrets, if you don't contribute to science in a great way?
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Serious question: what is a good supplement for excreting soft easy comfortable stools? Something I could buy at CVS perhaps?
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Psychologist chads where you at?

Here's my take on the slapTM

it started when Chris Rock jokes about bardem and cruz winning oscars and bardem praying for will to win it instead.
although Will laughs, the prospect of actually winning fills him with anticipation and some degree of anxiety since all eyes are on him. This anxiety requires an outlet that the circumstances does not afford him.
Rock moves on to joke about Jada while Will is still processing the emotions of seeing himself winning. he sees Jada upset and before he knows what is happening he finds himself walking on stage.
He probably wasnt even planning on slapping Rock but did so instinctively.
he sits down and realises what he has just done.
the anxiety of assaulting someone on live tv whilst also knowing he might win the top prize forces him to double down and start screaming.

as someone who is very calm and measured until i go apeshit, i can relate to what he felt during the whole incident
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