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

https://explainxkcd.com/3010/

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[–] Dalvoron@lemm.ee 7 points 4 days ago

All points on a triangle lie somewhere between their incircle and their circumcircle, so it checks out.

[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] EarMaster@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

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

[–] style99@lemm.ee 3 points 3 days ago

The classic square peg in a round hole problem.