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Having fun with probability models
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A place for majestic STEMLORD peacocking, as well as memes about the realities of working in a lab.
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This is a science community. We use the Dawkins definition of meme.
I always wondered where the crazy idea that people once believed that the Earth was flat came from.
So, looks like it comes from a single prolific academic that mixed fiction and history, describing people just about a century before him, and that everybody took for gospel. A famous book said "hey, everybody on your grandpa generation believed this", and it became common knowledge!
I'm not sure I'm even surprised by something like this.
sounds like a meme that aged like milk