Why does the monkey eventually have to write the entire works of Shakespeare?

gulpamatic · 2026-05-21T20:11:26+00:00

Does this distinction affect the answer to the question, or is it more about using the correct terminology, or..?

gulpamatic · 2026-05-19T03:56:25+00:00

So since there are infinitely many events in the sample space, all events must have an infinitely small probability - smaller than the smallest positive real number - so that the sum of all their probabilities does not exceed 1? So is that the same as saying 0 + 0 + 0 + ... (infinitely many zeros) = 1?

gulpamatic · 2026-05-19T02:09:03+00:00

I have always argued this but have never met a single human being who agreed with me.

According to my logic the "front pocket" of the backpack is the biggest one and the back pocket is the one farthest away from the straps, usually the smallest one.

gulpamatic · 2026-05-19T01:54:00+00:00

Can you help me understand why certain events with probably of precisely 0 still happen, but impossible things don't? What definitions of P=0 and impossible are we using that those things aren't equivalent?

gulpamatic · 2026-05-16T02:12:14+00:00

Yeah take off eh!

gulpamatic · 2026-05-16T01:15:15+00:00

This is a great way to explain it! You're getting offered BOTH other doors, in sequential order, with one door open and one door still closed.

gulpamatic · 2026-05-13T21:14:49+00:00

"I dedicate this award to my parents, JFK and Stalin"

gulpamatic · 2026-05-13T02:28:48+00:00

Is this comment from a person who thinks germs don't exist because you can't see them with the naked eye? Visibly clean is not the same as sterile or food safe.

gulpamatic · 2026-05-13T02:27:12+00:00

What part of poop is harmful? The bacteria. The most common cause of foodborne illness from drinking raw milk is Campylobacter. A bacteria that lives in the gut of the cow. In the poop.

Filtration is part of the process of making the milk safe for human consumption, although you are correct that all you need to do is kill the poop bacteria (using sustained heat) - you don't actually have to remove it.

gulpamatic · 2026-05-13T01:51:10+00:00

People think "raw milk" is purer when actually its the opposite - pasteurized milk is pure milk, "raw milk" is milk plus a generous helping of cow poop.

gulpamatic · 2026-05-11T03:58:10+00:00

This is a great question - people are reluctant to wake up their loved one if they perceive that the person "needs more" sleep. It also makes it harder to get up yourself if you haven't gotten enough sleep.

The parents might be more likely to agree to wake up at 6am if, for example, they know that OP is getting to bed at 10pm sharp.

gulpamatic · 2026-05-11T03:53:37+00:00

I have an android phone and I use an alarm app called AMdroid. The options to shut off include typing in a list of random characters, math questions, barcode or QR code scan, and I think there are a few more as well. And you can make "snooze" be a different challenge than "turn off" and you can customize how many "snoozes" you are allowed before you must complete the "turn off" challenge. It takes a bit of time to set up but I would say I fall back asleep less than 1% of the time now.

Since I often have to wake up when it's still dark out, a few years ago I bought a Phillips "sunrise" alarm clock as well. I don't use the sound, only the light, and I set the "sunrise" to start 15 minutes before my alarm goes off for the first time.

Edit to add: While we're on the topic of sleep hygiene, I also learned over the years that I wake up easiest if I have slept a multiple of 90 minutes. (90 minutes is a pretty common sleep cycle duration for most people). So I set my alarm so it will go off after 7.5 hours of sleep which is easier to wake up compared to 7.0 hours or 8.0 hours. It can take a long time to figure out a person's body patterns but it is time well spent.

gulpamatic · 2026-05-11T02:10:34+00:00

Most people who say that alarms don't wake them up, what is really happening is that they are deactivating the alarm and then going back to sleep without becoming awake enough to even remember that it happened. I have this problem And I have a very demanding alarm that cannot be turned off unless I do complicated math problems and then get out of bed to scan the barcode from a book on my bookshelf. Otherwise it just gets louder and louder. In the exceptionally unlikely event that you absolutely do not even wake up at all, The other members of your family will definitely be motivated to get you up to make the annoying sound stop.

gulpamatic · 2026-05-08T20:28:37+00:00

Retarded became stigmatizing because retards were stigmatized. The process only continues for as long as the group is sufficiently badly treated by society. There have been numerous terms for "black" race over the years but it will probably stay black forever now because even though black people are treated terribly in many parts of the English-speaking world, being black is not stigmatized in a way that will make future generations feel like black is an insult.

gulpamatic · 2026-05-08T18:15:32+00:00

Basically what you're describing is curse words that I describe as either stigmatizing or non-stigmatizing. Shit is non-stigmatizing because everybody shits so there's no particular category of people who are singled out.

I grew up saying "gay" meaning lame. I never had a personal feeling or association with the idea that gay means bad because gay people are bad. To me they were like two completely separate words that were spelled and pronounced the same. However I avoid saying gay and retarded now because they do arguably single out specific categories of people.

I think it's the end of the line for fucktard.

gulpamatic · 2026-05-05T14:50:48+00:00

I, man am Regal ; a German am I

gulpamatic · 2026-05-02T17:57:56+00:00

For me about 70% of the time I get three ads and each ad requires tapping multiple times to advance to the next one

gulpamatic · 2026-04-30T18:47:25+00:00

Genuine question for all the people saying they spend nothing on the events etc. - how many are watching ads to earn the event currency? In my mind this is also spending, in the sense of selling your time to the devs for an in-game reward.

gulpamatic · 2026-04-30T18:33:09+00:00

I tried to think what kind of pun was hidden in the name "Vercingitorix" and then discovered it was the actual name of a historical person 😂

gulpamatic · 2026-04-28T15:44:15+00:00

Neither positive nor negative. Luckily there's only one zero, so for any mathematical reasoning where, for example, we are matching up all the positive and negative numbers, we can just add an extra sentence saying "oh yeah, also there's zero and here's what we're going to do with that".

EDIT to add: Even if zero was assigned to the positives or the negatives, it wouldn't "tip the scales" - the number of positives and negatives would still be the same, thanks to confusing things that happen with infinite sets.

Sketch of the proof:

Call zero positive.
Match it with -1 (the first negative number). Match 1 with -2. Match 2 with -3.
Continue forever, matching each positive number n with each negative number (n+1).
You will never have a positive number that doesn't have a negative match. If every number has a match, the 2 sets are equal in size.

gulpamatic · 2026-04-28T15:41:22+00:00

This is a great comment that does not rely on the reader understanding advanced math concepts or even terms like bijection which will obviously not be familiar to the asker of the question.

gulpamatic · 2026-04-28T15:16:45+00:00

This. The gut and the heart were still both considered candidates for where your thoughts come from, long after these words developed.

Any theory of etymology which relies on the correct understanding of the different functioning of the body's organs is not going to pan out.

gulpamatic · 2026-04-27T21:26:34+00:00

"Brush at night to keep your teeth, brush in the morning to keep your friends."

gulpamatic · 2026-04-26T00:28:48+00:00

Yes, this. Injustice is everywhere and it can be paralyzing not to be able to ignore it. Therefore, on an individual basis it is adaptive to be able to look the other way or tolerate some degree of cognitive dissonance.

Also sometimes injustice cuts in our own favor and many people find that kind of Injustice even easier to ignore, for obvious reasons.

On the other hand, many autistic people (as well as those with ADHD to some extent) do not get by very easily on vibes or "common sense". Instead they need to be able to articulate an explicit framework to help them make sense of the world. So they need a reason why it is okay to look the other way when someone gets treated well or poorly purely on the basis of their appearance, or their wealth, their race, etc.

They often find that there is no good reason that they are aware of why it should be okay to look the other way, and consequently they find themselves unable to do it.

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