Not the original commenter, but the math is (making some implicit, but arguably reasonable assumptions): Probability that someone in the population has schizophrenia = (1870/500000) = 0.00374 Probability that someone…
I didn't know the team was so small! Just wanted to say that I love both apps, makes commuting much easier. :)
There's a formalism in math/information theory describing this idea called the Kelly criterion. Not a common/colloquial phrase, but it describes a similar idea of portioning bet size according to percentage of available…
Well said. In addition to that, I think a speaker's intended meaning is also important to consider. imo, people often take what people say literally or default to a first-instinct interpretation, rather than trying to…
I used to keep a diary (that I stopped keeping due to lack of time) and it echoes your experience to a large extent. I mostly wrote about how I was feeling or what I did that day or what I was planning to do in the near…
I had a similar experience when I was doing physics in undergraduate as well. I read online and was often told that a physics degree opened a lot of doors - academia, government/industry research, engineering, high…
Playing around a bit, I think the margin of error is probably the average of the sum of widths (so the width of a finger, if they're equal).
I like this one! I was curious what the margin of error for this was (I'm conjecturing the sum of widths of the fingers touching the stick), so I tried this out, but with a pencil instead of a stick. I was consistently…
Out of curiosity, was the bot based on the bMotion repository? https://github.com/jamesoff/bmotion I remember a friend of mine settings up an IRC bot (named Zeta) like that for his sheet music forum many years ago. She…
Damn, this is news to me. Seems I have some reading to do, thanks for pointing that out.
When a superconductor interacts with a magnetic field, currents generate at the surface of the superconductor that will produce their own magnetic field, which cancels the external one. The superconductor doesn't fall…
There's a noticeable distortion of the magnetic field near the superconductor. It's this distortion that keeps the superconductor stable - it's caused currents that appear on the surface which match and cancel* the…
If you're interested in the term, what you noticed with your eyesight is an example of hyperacuity. Coincidentally, I learned about it making the same observation with my own eyes. :)
I think what you suggested is an unpopular opinion, but I also wholeheartedly agree with it. :) I'm certainly no expert on copyright law, but my understanding is that its purpose is to protect the financial interests of…
The primary reason (as far as I'm aware) is because buses are (relatively) more massive and structurally different from cars, so they exhibit different collision physics in the event of a crash. In the event of a crash,…
Hopefully I'm not interpreting, but I think latency's point is more epistemological than a comment on "how science is being done". For example, scientists will still use Newtonian mechanics (as opposed to relativistic…
This has been my experience as well (especially with Anki), though I've always felt like my ability to memorize information to be poor in general. In my experience, I find it easier to memorize things rather through…
What you're describing is called the "observer effect", which is different from the "measurement effect" that's used to describe the quantum mechanics problem. The misunderstanding is understandable though, because it's…
Also Touhou: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GsZuS-vyM4&list=PL0A503B6DA...
Thank you so much for this, this is hilarious.
Not the original commenter, but the math is (making some implicit, but arguably reasonable assumptions): Probability that someone in the population has schizophrenia = (1870/500000) = 0.00374 Probability that someone…
I didn't know the team was so small! Just wanted to say that I love both apps, makes commuting much easier. :)
There's a formalism in math/information theory describing this idea called the Kelly criterion. Not a common/colloquial phrase, but it describes a similar idea of portioning bet size according to percentage of available…
Well said. In addition to that, I think a speaker's intended meaning is also important to consider. imo, people often take what people say literally or default to a first-instinct interpretation, rather than trying to…
I used to keep a diary (that I stopped keeping due to lack of time) and it echoes your experience to a large extent. I mostly wrote about how I was feeling or what I did that day or what I was planning to do in the near…
I had a similar experience when I was doing physics in undergraduate as well. I read online and was often told that a physics degree opened a lot of doors - academia, government/industry research, engineering, high…
Playing around a bit, I think the margin of error is probably the average of the sum of widths (so the width of a finger, if they're equal).
I like this one! I was curious what the margin of error for this was (I'm conjecturing the sum of widths of the fingers touching the stick), so I tried this out, but with a pencil instead of a stick. I was consistently…
Out of curiosity, was the bot based on the bMotion repository? https://github.com/jamesoff/bmotion I remember a friend of mine settings up an IRC bot (named Zeta) like that for his sheet music forum many years ago. She…
Damn, this is news to me. Seems I have some reading to do, thanks for pointing that out.
When a superconductor interacts with a magnetic field, currents generate at the surface of the superconductor that will produce their own magnetic field, which cancels the external one. The superconductor doesn't fall…
There's a noticeable distortion of the magnetic field near the superconductor. It's this distortion that keeps the superconductor stable - it's caused currents that appear on the surface which match and cancel* the…
If you're interested in the term, what you noticed with your eyesight is an example of hyperacuity. Coincidentally, I learned about it making the same observation with my own eyes. :)
I think what you suggested is an unpopular opinion, but I also wholeheartedly agree with it. :) I'm certainly no expert on copyright law, but my understanding is that its purpose is to protect the financial interests of…
The primary reason (as far as I'm aware) is because buses are (relatively) more massive and structurally different from cars, so they exhibit different collision physics in the event of a crash. In the event of a crash,…
Hopefully I'm not interpreting, but I think latency's point is more epistemological than a comment on "how science is being done". For example, scientists will still use Newtonian mechanics (as opposed to relativistic…
This has been my experience as well (especially with Anki), though I've always felt like my ability to memorize information to be poor in general. In my experience, I find it easier to memorize things rather through…
What you're describing is called the "observer effect", which is different from the "measurement effect" that's used to describe the quantum mechanics problem. The misunderstanding is understandable though, because it's…
Also Touhou: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GsZuS-vyM4&list=PL0A503B6DA...
Thank you so much for this, this is hilarious.