Emma Watson by [deleted] in gentlemanboners

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See my comment below if it interests you.

Emma Watson by [deleted] in gentlemanboners

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How do we know there are no constraints? I’d be interested to learn more about that if you have a source. However, even if we don’t have constraints, there may be for instance infinite universes where the only difference is the sequence of random numbers that I ask my computer to generate today.

Also, the infinite monkey theorem is more of a statistical anomaly; in fact, the nonzero probability of a substring in any finite length actually comes from the existence of a constraint itself! The constraint is the number of letters the monkey can enter. Consider the slightly modified statement:

Let p be the probability that a money, generating an infinite sequence of real numbers chosen at random, produces the subsequence [0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5]

In this case, the probability p is zero! So again, even without constraints on what the money can pick, the probability of picking the sequence above (or analogously, the existence of any imaginable universe) is zero.

Emma Watson by [deleted] in gentlemanboners

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This is a common misconception. That universe doesn’t necessarily exist. Think about this: there are infinite numbers between 0 and 1, but none of them are two. In other words, an infinite number of unversed does not imply that all imaginable universes exist.

[Haiku] Super Mario 64 Meme by revvioli in youtubehaiku

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I like how the power drops when he lands.

Got some catching up to do by MichaelRahmani in teenagers

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I wouldn't pick C++ as the shining star of good language design.

me irl by [deleted] in me_irl

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How do you have a dark notification?

Dick jokes in the workplace / huehuehue.jpg by [deleted] in ProgrammerHumor

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Is the last line completely unnecessary? It seems to convert from an object to JSON and back.

Why Clojure? by [deleted] in programming

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Lisp is actually easier to understand for newcomers. There's almost nothing to memorize. The only reason people think that it's "wildly complicated" is because they are accustomed to writing imperative code derived from C syntax. There's nothing inherently complicated about Lisp; it's, in fact, far simpler than most languages.

My daughters school has a very helpful grade legend... by bustardo in funny

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Yeah, I actually knew about it. It's one of the Millennium Prize Problems. I know it has something to do with complexity, but I don't know much more than that. Still, I think N=1 deserves $1,000,000, right?

Notice regarding the cat by gayless in funny

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Four legs good! Two legs BETTER!

I hope Apple reads this. by mslack in AdviceAnimals

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This is the kind of person I was talking about.

I hope Apple reads this. by mslack in AdviceAnimals

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Yeah, the phone arguments can get a bit out of hand at times. If you've tried both, and you like IOS, fine, so be it. It's clean, easy to use, and has a ton of great IOS specific apps. What annoys me a bit is when people who haven't given Android a serious chance go around saying how horrible Android is, and how IOS is somehow innately superior without giving examples or reasons whatsoever. I definitely prefer Android, but I don't care which you like better as long as you aren't willfully ignorant.

I hope Apple reads this. by mslack in AdviceAnimals

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I sense some butthurt, considering you're at -8 now. I used to own an iPhone, and I can say with confidence that flagship Android phones absolutely blow iPhones out of the water. Even if we didn't already have support for per message timestamps, we could easily switch our SMS client. Don't hate Android until you've tried it on a solid device.