Trump 2nd term prediction thread
So, looks like Trump not only smashed the electoral college, but is looking on track to win the popular vote, which seems to be an unexpected turn of events, but a clear sign of the current temperature in the country and perhaps the wider world.
Would be interested to hear views on how his 2nd term will pan out from both sides of the aisle - major happenings, what he's going to get done, what he's not going to get done, the impact of his election on the current conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza, whether his popularity will remain the same, wane, or increase, etc.
A bit of an anemic OP, I know, just interested to hear people's thoughts now that the election uncertainty is over.
You may be right. oh well
By the way, I assumed you knew what it was and were joking, but I see now that when you google that function all the results are about how it has no elementary antiiderivative, which is true, but more relevant is that it is the function that defines the normal distribution, before you add in a bunch of constants to normalise the area under it to 1 and move the mean to the mean of the data set. It's the function of the bell curve. (Still not sure if you knew that or not, wasn't clear from your comment, so FYI just in case).
I predict that FEMA and DHS will be dissolved totally. The FBI and CIA I predict will be saved once they're cleaned out. I would also predict March 2025 will be the approximate timeline when this is talked about publicly.
I deleted because you wrote differently that I had read with parenthesis, but -5^2 is 25 lol
google says -5^2 is -25 ... I have to rethink my life
Anyway, if you know that's the function of the Gaussian, I'm sure you knew what I meant, parentheses or not.
If you hand wrote -5 superscript 2 on a piece of paper, I'd evaluate it to -25. I think. I thought. Now I'm doubting myself.
Anyway, I should have been more careful with the parentheses, no arguments there. I often add in extra parentheses where not strictly necessary when I'm coding for exactly this reason.
I always though negative took precedence over indices. Minus doesn't.
Although this may be a place where grammer matters.
I always though negative took precedence over indices. Minus doesn't.
Although this may be a place where grammer matters.
I mean, if I wrote 0-5^2, you'd evaluate that to -25, right? The presence of the 0 shouldn't really change anything, right?
Just tried it in Excel. "-5^2" evaluates to 25. "0-5^2" evaluates to -25, further confusing the audience.
I always though negative took precedence over indices. Minus doesn't.
Although this may be a place where grammer matters.
ye like 9 +. -5^2
is unambiguously 9+25
like if you "solve for x = -5"
9+X^2 + x
you would substitute in writing by hand 9 + -5^2 + -5 ->
9 + 25 -5 = 29
not 9 + (-5)^2 + (-5) , not by hand at least, not in Italy when I went to high school or college
I mean, if I wrote 0-5^2, you'd evaluate that to -25, right? The presence of the 0 shouldn't really change anything, right?
Just tried it in Excel. "-5^2" evaluates to 25. "0-5^2" evaluates to -25, further confusing the audience.
that's because 0 - something with no parenthesis is a subtraction, while -5^2 alone is a negative number elevated at the power of 2
This is how the Guassian is usually presented (if you do a search on google images for e^-x^2 you will see this for yourself):
This comports with what I'm saying. By your guys' interpretation, that integral diverges, and pretty ****ing quickly at that.
