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  2. Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi - Wikipedia

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    Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi (German:; 25 January 1743 – 10 March 1819) was a German philosopher, writer and socialite. He is best known for popularizing the concept of nihilism . He promoted the idea that it is the necessary result of Enlightenment thought and the philosophical systems of Baruch Spinoza , Immanuel Kant , Johann Gottlieb Fichte ...

  3. Jacobi identity - Wikipedia

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    Thus, the Jacobi identity for Lie algebras states that the action of any element on the algebra is a derivation. That form of the Jacobi identity is also used to define the notion of Leibniz algebra. Another rearrangement shows that the Jacobi identity is equivalent to the following identity between the operators of the adjoint representation:

  4. Dunbar's number - Wikipedia

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    Dunbar's number has become of interest in anthropology, evolutionary psychology, [12] statistics, and business management.For example, developers of social software are interested in it, as they need to know the size of social networks their software needs to take into account; and in the modern military, operational psychologists seek such data to support or refute policies related to ...

  5. Estimates of historical world population - Wikipedia

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    Arthur C. Clarke in 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) has the claim that "Behind every man now alive stand 30 ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living", which was roughly accurate at the time of writing. [9] [10] Recent estimates of the "total number of people who have ever lived" are in the order of 100 billion.

  6. Anthropic principle - Wikipedia

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    The anthropic principle states that this is an a posteriori necessity, because if life were impossible, no living entity would be there to observe it, and thus it would not be known. That is, it must be possible to observe some universe, and hence, the laws and constants of any such universe must accommodate that possibility.

  7. Sample size determination - Wikipedia

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    The table shown on the right can be used in a two-sample t-test to estimate the sample sizes of an experimental group and a control group that are of equal size, that is, the total number of individuals in the trial is twice that of the number given, and the desired significance level is 0.05. [4] The parameters used are:

  8. The Key to Understanding Jordan Peele’s ‘Nope’ - AOL

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    The Gordy's Home scene in 'Nope,'centered on a monkey and young Jupe, explains much about Jupe's character, and Jordan Peele's vision of the movie overall

  9. Statistical population - Wikipedia

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    In statistics, a population is a set of similar items or events which is of interest for some question or experiment. [1] [2] A statistical population can be a group of existing objects (e.g. the set of all stars within the Milky Way galaxy) or a hypothetical and potentially infinite group of objects conceived as a generalization from experience (e.g. the set of all possible hands in a game of ...