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AnnMargaret Tutu · Follow 5 min read · -- Source: Apple Music As Super Bowl LIX approaches, anticipation for Kendrick Lamar’s halftime performance is reaching a fever pitch. With confirmed guest SZA and swirling rumors about surprise appearances from artists like Future, Travis Scott, and even Oasis, fans and industry insiders alike are speculating on what the setlist might entail.

According to Google, the Central Limit Theorem(CLT) states that “under many conditions, independent random variables summed together will converge to a normal distribution as the number of variables increases.” Essentially, CLT says that a distribution of sample means will approximate a normal distribution as the sample size gets larger, regardless of the original distribution.

Image Source: AWS With all the talk about the Segwit2x fork (that has now been postponed), I decided to get my feet wet in mining cryptocurrencies. Initially, I chose to mine ether, then Monero coins, on Ubuntu 16.04 servers using their accelerated computing instances, but my curiosity got the best of me and I started wondering what it would take to mine actual bitcoins. Every forum and blog I searched advised against even trying.