rk47
Terracotta Army
Posts: 6236
The Patron Saint of Radicalthons
|
Fuck you and your maths. Here's something awesome.
|
Colonel Sanders is back in my wallet
|
|
|
Murgos
Terracotta Army
Posts: 7474
|
as the child of a math professor and a match teacher I was biologically compelled to post.
Are you saying that mathematical ability is genetically inherited? Cos them thar's fightin words. Or, you know, a product of the environment he was raised in.
|
"You have all recieved youre last warning. I am in the process of currently tracking all of youre ips and pinging your home adressess. you should not have commencemed a war with me" - Aaron Rayburn
|
|
|
Simond
Terracotta Army
Posts: 6742
|
Ah, but which one compelled the posting? ObPic: Father & son cosplaying.
|
"You're really a good person, aren't you? So, there's no path for you to take here. Go home. This isn't a place for someone like you."
|
|
|
K9
Terracotta Army
Posts: 7441
|
Parenting win
|
I love the smell of facepalm in the morning
|
|
|
Tale
Terracotta Army
Posts: 8564
sıɥʇ ǝʞıן sʞןɐʇ
|
|
|
|
|
lamaros
Terracotta Army
Posts: 8021
|
Probability is often counter-intuitive. Really a lot of math is counter-intuitive, so it's often dangerous to rely on neat solutions or "common sense."
Here's a similar problem. Say you have three hotels in a row of different levels of quality. You stop by the first one and it's ok but you decide to move on and check out the second one. The second one is worse than the first. Should you continue on to the third hotel? (You can't go back - one way street!) It seems like the common sense answer is it doesn't matter, the third one could be worse or better, who the hell knows? But imagine the hotels are lettered A B C where A is the best and C is the worst. The possible situations you are in (second hotel worse than the first):
ABC BCA ACB
You could be in any of the three above scenarios. In 2 of them going to third hotel is a win. That really does not make intuitive sense but them's the breaks. My intuitive response was "go back!" then you said it was a one way street and it was "go forward!", so it depends on your intuition...
|
|
|
|
Samwise
Moderator
Posts: 19243
sentient yeast infection
|
You stop by the first one and it's ok but you decide to move on and check out the second one. The second one is worse than the first. Should you continue on to the third hotel? (You can't go back - one way street!) It seems like the common sense answer is it doesn't matter, the third one could be worse or better, who the hell knows?
My intuitive response is to go on rather than stay at the worst hotel I've seen so far.
|
|
|
|
rk47
Terracotta Army
Posts: 6236
The Patron Saint of Radicalthons
|
Fucking hell. That was extreme. Or is it another Oblivion bugged AI in action?
|
Colonel Sanders is back in my wallet
|
|
|
Teleku
Terracotta Army
Posts: 10510
https://i.imgur.com/mcj5kz7.png
|
....Is that the Phnom Penh Post?
I mean, I guess the story would fit for the area, I just wasn't expecting English.
|
"My great-grandfather did not travel across four thousand miles of the Atlantic Ocean to see this nation overrun by immigrants. He did it because he killed a man back in Ireland. That's the rumor." -Stephen Colbert
|
|
|
Cyrrex
Terracotta Army
Posts: 10603
|
I mean, the dog was already dead!
|
"...maybe if you cleaned the piss out of the sunny d bottles under your desks and returned em, you could upgrade you vid cards, fucken lusers.." - Grunk
|
|
|
Tale
Terracotta Army
Posts: 8564
sıɥʇ ǝʞıן sʞןɐʇ
|
....Is that the Phnom Penh Post?
I mean, I guess the story would fit for the area, I just wasn't expecting English.
It's an English language newspaper (for the English-speaking community, mostly expats)
|
|
|
|
calapine
Terracotta Army
Posts: 7352
Solely responsible for the thread on "The Condom Wall."
|
Probability is often counter-intuitive. Really a lot of math is counter-intuitive, so it's often dangerous to rely on neat solutions or "common sense."
Here's a similar problem. Say you have three hotels in a row of different levels of quality. You stop by the first one and it's ok but you decide to move on and check out the second one. The second one is worse than the first. Should you continue on to the third hotel? (You can't go back - one way street!) It seems like the common sense answer is it doesn't matter, the third one could be worse or better, who the hell knows? But imagine the hotels are lettered A B C where A is the best and C is the worst. The possible situations you are in (second hotel worse than the first):
ABC BCA ACB
You could be in any of the three above scenarios. In 2 of them going to third hotel is a win. That really does not make intuitive sense but them's the breaks. Yes, BUT, you stated your condition after you declared the commons sense solution wrong. In 'real life' the third hotel could be even worse. As in: | | | OK Hotel | | | | | | | Bad Hotel | | | | | | | | Really Bad Hotel Basically you are stuck with two known solutions and and one unknown.
|
Restoration is a perfectly valid school of magic!
|
|
|
rk47
Terracotta Army
Posts: 6236
The Patron Saint of Radicalthons
|
|
|
« Last Edit: September 05, 2011, 08:50:23 AM by rk47 »
|
|
Colonel Sanders is back in my wallet
|
|
|
Margalis
Terracotta Army
Posts: 12335
|
Yes, BUT, you stated your condition after you declared the commons sense solution wrong. In 'real life' the third hotel could be even worse. As in:
| | | OK Hotel | | | | | | | Bad Hotel | | | | | | | | Really Bad Hotel
Basically you are stuck with two known solutions and and one unknown.
The third hotel is worse than the second hotel only 1/3rd of the time. 1/3rd of the time it's better than the second hotel but worst than the first, and 1/3 of the time it's the best.
|
vampirehipi23: I would enjoy a book written by a monkey and turned into a movie rather than this.
|
|
|
LK
Terracotta Army
Posts: 4268
|
Isn't what you described his ABC?
|
"Then there's the double-barreled shotgun from Doom 2 - no-one within your entire household could be of any doubt that it's been fired because it sounds like God slamming a door on his fingers." - Yahtzee Croshaw
|
|
|
Ingmar
Terracotta Army
Posts: 19280
Auto Assault Affectionado
|
The actual reason it doesn't work in 'real life' is because hotels can be the same quality (or also better or worse than each other by different amounts. Also, money!)
|
The Transcendent One: AH... THE ROGUE CONSTRUCT. Nordom: Sense of closure: imminent.
|
|
|
Lantyssa
Terracotta Army
Posts: 20848
|
Also you can turn around.
|
Hahahaha! I'm really good at this!
|
|
|
NiX
Wiki Admin
Posts: 7770
Locomotive Pandamonium
|
None of this hotel business is awesome.. or in pictures.
Parkour cat is both AND animated.
|
|
|
|
Draegan
Terracotta Army
Posts: 10043
|
There should be a rule where you can post in the awesome picture thread or funny thread if you don't have a picture. 1 day ban if you do.
|
|
|
|
Trippy
Administrator
Posts: 23628
|
and 1 day bans for people who post non-awesome pics
|
|
|
|
luckton
Terracotta Army
Posts: 5947
|
and 1 day bans for people who post non-awesome pics Burn
|
"Those lights, combined with the polygamous Nazi mushrooms, will mess you up."
"Tuning me out doesn't magically change the design or implementation of said design. Though, that'd be neat if it did." -schild
|
|
|
climbjtree
Terracotta Army
Posts: 949
|
This thread is going downhill.
|
|
|
|
01101010
Terracotta Army
Posts: 12004
You call it an accident. I call it justice.
|
Jeff was great in Death Wish... all down hill after though
|
Does any one know where the love of God goes...When the waves turn the minutes to hours? -G. Lightfoot
|
|
|
Tale
Terracotta Army
Posts: 8564
sıɥʇ ǝʞıן sʞןɐʇ
|
|
|
|
|
01101010
Terracotta Army
Posts: 12004
You call it an accident. I call it justice.
|
A few of those got me good...
|
Does any one know where the love of God goes...When the waves turn the minutes to hours? -G. Lightfoot
|
|
|
Rendakor
Terracotta Army
Posts: 10135
|
There should be a rule where you can post in the awesome picture thread or funny thread if you don't have a picture.
1 day ban if you do.
We need this rule for the T&A thread as well.
|
"i can't be a star citizen. they won't even give me a star green card"
|
|
|
Strazos
Greetings from the Slave Coast
Posts: 15542
The World's Worst Game: Curry or Covid
|
BW
|
Fear the Backstab! "Plato said the virtuous man is at all times ready for a grammar snake attack." - we are lesion "Hell is other people." -Sartre
|
|
|
Selby
Terracotta Army
Posts: 2963
|
We had someone do the "no breakdancing" one on a wet floor sign at my last job. We got a stern lecture from the safety officer of our company about how it wasn't a laughing matter and to not deface the signs.
|
|
|
|
01101010
Terracotta Army
Posts: 12004
You call it an accident. I call it justice.
|
We had someone do the "no breakdancing" one on a wet floor sign at my last job. We got a stern lecture from the safety officer of our company about how it wasn't a laughing matter and to not deface the signs. So mission accomplished?
|
Does any one know where the love of God goes...When the waves turn the minutes to hours? -G. Lightfoot
|
|
|
Lantyssa
Terracotta Army
Posts: 20848
|
Safety officers all seem to have a stick up their backside.
|
Hahahaha! I'm really good at this!
|
|
|
Morat20
Terracotta Army
Posts: 18529
|
Safety officers all seem to have a stick up their backside.
It's management's fault. They're constantly on our asses. I got trained as one. My training was ideal for an industrial environment, or at least a working lab with lots of dangerous tools and shit. I work in an office. So I got stuck, for four years, doing weekly walkarounds and pestering people about daisy-chained cords and making sure cables were taped down, and maybe to move their desk a bit to minimize the concussion whenever they jumped up and smashed their head on the shelf overhang nailed to the all there. Because if I didn't, my manager got all over my ass about safety metrics. And the number one workplace injury -- and this INCLUDES the labs and industrial environments I was trained for but never had to go do a walkthrough for? Slips, trips and falls. Not even preventable ones. People tripping over their own fat feet. Some of it was face plants from texting and not noticing a curb, or water spills, but 90% of them were just people suddenly forgetting how to walk or use stairs and falling. But they still end up being lost time accidents which mean I had to go around and remind people "hey, guys, try not to forget how to walk. Turns out falling down can seriously injure you. I realize you think you're walking experts, but frankly it seems a little tough for a lot of people around here. Perhaps we'll have a class on it after we do back safety." SO glad to not have to do that shit anymore.
|
|
|
|
SnakeCharmer
Terracotta Army
Posts: 3807
|
Morat, for the love of God, SHUT THE FUCK UP ABOUT YOUR SAFETY TRAINING NOBODY GIVES A RATS ASS ABOUT IN AN AWESOME PICTURES THREAD. For content, awesome and cute at the same time:
|
|
|
|
K9
Terracotta Army
Posts: 7441
|
|
I love the smell of facepalm in the morning
|
|
|
Lantyssa
Terracotta Army
Posts: 20848
|
For content, awesome and cute at the same time: Truly awesome.
|
Hahahaha! I'm really good at this!
|
|
|
Ingmar
Terracotta Army
Posts: 19280
Auto Assault Affectionado
|
|
The Transcendent One: AH... THE ROGUE CONSTRUCT. Nordom: Sense of closure: imminent.
|
|
|
|