🙑 Whence the Meretrix 🙗
For better or for worse, my name rose from a scandal.
And though my thus effort with alia was mislaid in the sense of the best-laid plans of mice and men, I turn lemons into lemonade: I accidentally became the subject of the forum’s most famous sex scandal! [...] Sex scandals are always popular, in the sense of “panem et circenses”; and my dubious distinction as the subject of the forum’s most famous sex scandal has, after all, become a part of my reputational panache.
It all started when a forum Newbie, an alleged camgirl named alia, added an erotic twist to an otherwise boring complaint about the
then-new merit system:
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Re: Why the merit system is heavily lopsided in favour of older usersMerited by PoolMinor (8), TMAN (6), The Sceptical Chymist (1), suchmoon (1), iluvbitcoins (1), nullius (1), zikabra (1)
You're a Newbie but already have 9 Merit... This system seems working for you

I think I'm an outlier. If I have 100 merit in 30 days, I'll eat all my words and post a vid of me masturbating to a merit infographic
This intrigue got attention in high places:
If I have 100 merit in 30 days, I'll eat all my words and post a vid of me masturbating to a merit infographic
Let's see if this is too subtle for forum users to take the hint...
Awhile later, it caught the eye of nullius.
Consistently with his own name, nullius made a pun on
merit: He called the putative camgirl by a Latin loanword that literally means “(female) earner”, by implication one who earns from sex.
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Alia’s merit challenge: Forum destiny awaits thee!Merited by alia (16), Foxpup (6), Lauda (2), akamit (2), LoyceV (1), BTCforJoe (1)
I think I'm an outlier. If I have 100 merit in 30 days, I'll eat all my words and post a vid of me masturbating to a merit infographic
Hello, Alia, you sly
meretrix. [...]
’Twould be a business doing pleasure with you.
The nullian idea of business quickly led to what
could’ve, should’ve been a forum classic thread: The
sexually explicit “Ciphersex 101”, in which nullius gave alia cryptography lessons in the form of live public cybersex. It brought the highest critical acclaim.
This is better than Shakespeare.
Some context is required; I doubt Leo meant that literally! At the time, Leo and “Michael Cassio (AKA Nullius)” had a running gag about Shakespeare.
Yet it takes
not less than two to dance—and alas, there was at hand a scam which,
inter alia, wound up with Leo and RGBKey popping hardcore maths in alia’s face.
Archival snapshot March 06, 2018, 12:12:44 PM, as it’s lulzy to see how everyone’s accounts looked.If the script does not yield 20% ROI 18 times out of 20, I will admit that I "lied", and will leave the forum. I will also send a few bits to people who warned against me.
If the script yields 20% ROI 18 times out of 20 (or more)... well, then I guess my point has been proven.
18 times of 20 is 90%. ROI - 20%. Expected value is 1.08. There's a chance of 92.5% to reach so easy target without using any scripts. So, you would not prove anything.
At a 1% house edge, which both of these sites have, the simple chance of 20% return is 82.5%. The chance of alia getting 18, 19, or 20 of these 82.5% chances in a group of 20 is
as follows:
(For those unfamiliar, this uses the Binomial Distribution to find the chance of k successes out of 20 trials. Here we are interested in k=18, k=19, and k=20 so we sum those results).
This comes out to 0.294233 (rounded to the 6th decimal place), or 29.4233%.
So basically, the chance of alia's script working (according to the known laws of probability) are around 29.4%.I have my doubts about the legitimacy of this because screen recordings can be faked, livestreams could have been pre-recorded and such, but I won't get any more into that in this post.
It is also worth pointing out that 20 runs is statistical noise.
I set up a contigency table, played with the numbers and ran some chi-squared tests on them. I calculated for a p-value of 0.05 (This means that the results we achieve would be achieved by random chance 5% of the time i.e. we are 95% confident the script is working as advertised. This is a common minimum standard required across most fields of scientific.)
Even if the script could
completely eliminate the house edge (which it can't), we would need around 6000 runs to obtain a p-value of <0.05. If the script could half the house edge from 1% to 0.5%, we would need
around 23000 runs to obtain a p-value of <0.05.
alia couldn’t take a hard mathing like a good ciphersex girl.
I'm really not interested in the mathematical mumbo jumbo... all I care about is proving that the script works.

* nullius faints.
For the sake of
cryptological education, where can we find a genuine numberslut?
Hello, Alia, you sly meretrix.
’Twould be a business doing pleasure with you.
| Name: | Meretrix |
| Position: | Copper Member |
| Date Registered: | March 13, 2018, 01:59:50 AM |
To be honest, I only paid extra because I thought “Copper Member” came with a copper dildo. theymos owes it to me good and hard. I mean, a copper dildo is good and hard—or maybe,
an ancient Chinese bronze dildo plus a jade butt plug [linked news article contains photos of ancient Chinese dildo and butt plug].
After all, I’m a cunt. I deserve to play with a Copper Member.
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