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There's a maximum likelihood that I'm doing phylogenetics wrong.

https://explainxkcd.com/3010/

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[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Wow! I was so sure that circles and pentagons were closely related. Who would have known.

[–] EarMaster@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure pentagons are a subspecies of bestagons...

[–] kinsnik@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

all are just subspecies of the bestagons:

  • circles are just curvy hexagons
  • polygons are just flawed hexagons
  • triangles are just partial hexagons
[–] style99@lemm.ee 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The classic square peg in a round hole problem.

[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 2 points 8 months ago

You can just drop them all in the square hole. Triangles, semicircles, arches, doesn’t matter. All of them go into the square hole.

Source: Internet

[–] Deebster@programming.dev 1 points 8 months ago

I'm more surprised that trapeziums aren't related to triangles.