X, you will remember, is the independent variable which determines the value of the dependent variable, Y.
I’ve always wondered about their association. In every equation, Y is entirely reliant upon X. As X varies arbitrarily, Y follows. Y can be manipulated at a whim by a teeny variation of X. X is an unknown, so Y must also be unknown. Unknown and dependent: what kind of gormless, clueless existence does Y lead?
That’s just the mathematical application. In biology, the same relationship applies – but doubly so. This explains why two X chromosomes together are infinitely unknowable to a Y.
You Still Look the Same
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4 months ago
Here, in a mere 100 words, Ron Thompson manages to cross not one, but two letters off his list; conflate the worlds of mathematics and biology; and explain the unknowable.
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