Things I know that it seems like nobody else gets(techno-anthropology.blogspot.com)
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Things I know that it seems like nobody else gets
http://techno-anthropology.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-8-things-i-know-that-it-seems-like.html
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> Try one thousand things that you have a 0.01% chance of succeeding in, and in the end you will accomplish one incredible thing.
This is false.
This is false.
Came here to say this. Funny to find that in a post called "things I know that it seems like nobody else gets ".
Keep in mind it's not the point of the article though (which is interesting if a bit bland - I mean you should know most of this).
Keep in mind it's not the point of the article though (which is interesting if a bit bland - I mean you should know most of this).
btw. he says 0.1% not 0.01%
If you try things that have 0.1% change one after another, the change of succeeding has binomial distribution. The probability that you get at least one success is just 63%
If you try things that have 0.1% change one after another, the change of succeeding has binomial distribution. The probability that you get at least one success is just 63%
> btw. he says 0.1% not 0.01%
it was originally posted as 0.01%.
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%...
it was originally posted as 0.01%.
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%...
To a lot of people, religion makes sense while, say, quantum mechanics doesn't.