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- Comment on rocketman 3 days ago:
Imagine just chilling in the dark, minding your own business, and some asshole comes at you with a light as bright as the sun, and you can’t even close you’re eyes because you don’t have eyelids.
- Comment on anyway, i started blastin' 3 days ago:
Whoa, good work! I think I’m going to have to go over this a few times to grock how it works, especially the Φ(b) - Φ(a) bit. My stats textbook has a bit too much dust on it. ;)
- Comment on anyway, i started blastin' 3 days ago:
Moreover, that’s not how probability works in independent events.
- Comment on anyway, i started blastin' 3 days ago:
Yeah, I was trying to compute the “ballpark” of thr odds, but it’s actually hard to do because of how astronomically improbable it is. Even computation systems that are designed to compute rather big/small numbers (think 100,000,000^1,000,000 big) fail.
Here’s another example: If a human only had 1,000 gut microbes, the chance that over 900 of them get snapped is 1 in ~10^162 [[WA(www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=CDF[BinomialDistribu…)]].
Now if you do that for every human on earth, the probability is still essentially zero. [WA]
When you consider that humans don’t have 1000 gut microbes, they have over 10 trillion, it’s just mind bogglingly improbable.
- Comment on anyway, i started blastin' 4 days ago:
The alternative is even more disturbing: snapped humans leave behind a cloud of poopy gut microbes.
- Comment on anyway, i started blastin' 4 days ago:
That would be incredibly unlikely. Due to the huge number of gut microbes, the chance to even lose 5% off of the median, even with billions of trials, is functionally zero.
- Comment on Wind from Uranus made it harder to probe 4 days ago:
Phrasing!!
- Comment on Today has been a learning experience. 1 week ago:
Oh hey, an upside down bird! Neat!
- Comment on corn starch recommend 2 weeks ago:
Cornstarch or cornmeal?
- Comment on The Divine Dick 2 weeks ago:
Thy will be done
On earth as it is in heaven - Comment on pump up the jamz 2 weeks ago:
Scooter - Maria
- Comment on This feels wrong. I love it. 2 weeks ago:
I never really appreciated them until watching a bunch of 3blue1brown videos. I really wish those had been available when I was still in HS.
- Comment on Pretty sound reasoning here. 2 weeks ago:
No, the finger would stop it.
- Comment on SPOOPY TARDIGRADE 3 weeks ago:
I suspect they may be making a joke that tardigrades are aliens.
- Comment on Honey 4 weeks ago:
And now we have evidence to suggest that we were wrong, thus there is a moral imperative to act based off this new information. There is no evidence that bacteria or similar organisms are capable of pain or suffering. If you want to just disregard all science and biology, that’s your prerogative I suppose.
- Comment on Honey 4 weeks ago:
Although yeast is technically living, it’s more similar to bacteria than animals or other living creatures. It doesn’t feel pain and isn’t a sentient being - there is absolutely no reason not to consume yeast or foods made with yeast.
- Comment on Honey 4 weeks ago:
I’ve deleted so many half written comments thinking “If this is what they think, do I really want to deal with the absolute garbage response I’ll inevitably get back?”
- Comment on House Centipedes 4 weeks ago:
OK, but which direction do the pants open: forwards or up?
- Comment on Nahh 4 weeks ago:
Something about the drudgery of modern existence, I suspect.
- Comment on Equinunerous Sets 4 weeks ago:
Yesn’t.
- Comment on I'd have to hear her argument, but... 4 weeks ago:
Just to give an idea of the unlikelihood we’re talking about here, you can model this as a Bernoulli process with a binomial distribution.
If N is the number of beings potentially snapped, then (√N)/2 is the standard deviation. (If you’re curious about why, you can read more here.) So for a 8.2 billion people, the standard deviation is ~90,000. The chance of being less than ~3 standard deviations is 0.1%. That means there’s only a 0.1% chance of snapping less than 4,099,720,200 people.
- Comment on I'd have to hear her argument, but... 4 weeks ago:
I would think it’s basically a coin flip for each living thing. It’s possible, for example, that all humans survive, however the probability is so astronomically small, it’s functionally impossible.
Same with gut biome. Even with several billion attempts, the probability that even 60% of any individual’s trillion gut microbes get snapped would be essentially functionally impossible.
- Comment on To the center of the earth!📉 5 weeks ago:
all angles have to be absolutely accurate
To what tolerance, though? Writing math exams has now become an engineering problem.
- Comment on To the center of the earth!📉 5 weeks ago:
I think assuming 2 line segments which make up a larger straight line segment to be parallel is generally accepted practice, and that would trump the angles that are drawn inaccurately.
Of course, it’d be better to put a hash through them both to indicate they’re parallel, especially given the deceptively drawn most-likely-not-a-right-angle.
- Comment on To the center of the earth!📉 5 weeks ago:
I’d get out my red pen and write: “Bad diagram. -1pt See me after class.”
- Comment on Assassin Bug 1 month ago:
That’s some dark souls shit right there.
- Comment on Can't. Busy. 1 month ago:
I don’t know, bit I’ve been told
Filling the jar is getting old - Comment on Installation 1 month ago:
Oh, huh. That’s interesting. I’m from the great white north, and our gas hookups are copper from what I’ve seen. If this is indeed iron, then the melting point would be higher: ~ 1,540°C.
Interestingly that colour temperature chart is supposedly fairly consistent across different metals.
- Comment on Installation 1 month ago:
I think you’re right. I was curious, so I looked it up.
The melting point of copper is 1,085°C, and judging from this chart, its definitely getting close:
- Comment on Installation 1 month ago:
While it looks scary as fuck, wouldn’t it not actually explode unless the gas pipe melted through? There’s no oxygen in the fuel, so it can’t combust. I guess as the gas heats up, it’s also possible the for the tank or lines to spring a leak.
Either way, I’d be nopeing out and calling emergency services.
