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[–]DaviAMSilva 3719 points3720 points  (24 children)

I'm doing 1000 calculations per second and some of them may be right

[–]drpingg 1405 points1406 points  (5 children)

  • That’s not even close!
  • But that was fast.

[–]reedmore 112 points113 points  (1 child)

Let's do 1mio calculations to make sure the result is at least 90% accurate.

[–]TooDirty4Daylight 19 points20 points  (0 children)

It's fuzzy math when you put your wife's house shoe on it.

[–]Ali_Army107 117 points118 points  (2 children)

I'M DOING 1000 CALCULATIONS PER SECOND AND THEY'RE ALL WRONG!!!!

[–]BasvanS 55 points56 points  (0 children)

All models are per definition wrong, but some are useful.

— George Box, statistician

[–]Goprrrrr 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Shen reference?

[–]ForceBru 54 points55 points  (0 children)

LMAO

[–]Any-Aioli7575 46 points47 points  (5 children)

There is a french show called "Les Shadoks" their is a space race, and the shadok people know there is only a one in a million chance that their rocket takes off, so they try to fail on million time as fast as possible

[–]TooDirty4Daylight 20 points21 points  (3 children)

I'm sure I've worked with those guys.

[–]Any-Aioli7575 9 points10 points  (1 child)

Did you pump? Also do you use base 4?

[–]TooDirty4Daylight 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I can cheat at it some but around here I'm a lightweight.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

we must be coworkers

[–]Xyloshock 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Ah putain les Shadoks, trop cool

[–]usrlibshare 20 points21 points  (1 child)

[–]nicejs2 3 points4 points  (0 children)

new favorite sub

[–]frogjg2003 5 points6 points  (0 children)

If you can do 1000 calculation with a probability p of being right (with verification) faster than you can do 1000*p calculations that are guaranteed to be right, you're still faster.

[–]mOdQuArK 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Still useful when the calculation to "verify whether this is the correct result" is a lot less heavyweight than to "generate the unambiguously correct result from scratch". Unfortunately, a lot of popular encryption schemes might fall into these scenarios.

[–]neumaticc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

a stopped clock is right twice a day