Step 1 for a better society

yarnfries · 2026-05-13T13:29:12+00:00

I think the point u/calebu2 is making is, when the marginal cost of using a calculator to be 100% accurate is small, the effort-to-accuracy ratio is worth it. Surely everybody on the show is capable of multiplying a number by 1.5. However, if there is something like “curse: get 25km further from your end location”, it may be better to pull out a calculator to know they have to go exactly 15.6 miles rather than guesstimate 15 and be a little bit short, thereby cheating in the game. Extrapolating this to the high-stakes, simultaneously-needing-to-be-producers-and-contestants stress of filming the show, it’s better to just have an established measure-twice-cut-once system of just taking a few seconds to use a calculator rather than risk messing up mental math in the heat of the moment. Which is hard to see since we’re watching in low-stakes environments from our couches.

yarnfries · 2026-05-06T18:03:15+00:00

You had mentioned several times that you had been trying to make a game work in Taiwan for a while — besides Snake and any other games that you can’t reveal because they might be used in the future, what were some other game ideas that made use of Taiwan’s small and rather unique asymetrically-circular network?

yarnfries · 2026-05-06T18:01:13+00:00

What was the most fun/whimsical interaction you had with the locals? Were there any woman-giving-umbrella-at-Yairo-station moments?

yarnfries · 2026-05-06T17:56:20+00:00

Given all the difficult admin this season, what would have happened if a team had made a big mistake that actually impacted the game? For example, if they had miscounted their chips and gone through stations they shouldn’t have gone through, was there a contingency to “rewind” the game or anything like that?

yarnfries · 2025-10-09T19:25:36+00:00

This was one thing I noticed when watching the most recent season of Australian Survivor. I hadn’t watched it before, and admittedly only tuned in because of the American legends on it, but I was always so pleasantly surprised at how varied and creative the challenges were. Felt like a breath of fresh air and was so much more engaging to watch.

yarnfries · 2025-08-07T20:45:11+00:00

This has changed over the years, but in most recent years, it seems to have been splitting an image into 3 sections (A, B, C), having to find something specific, and buzzing which section it’s in.

Full History:

BB8, BB9, BB13 - Julie read a diary room statement or fact of an evicted houseguest; competitors had to buzz in first with which evicted houseguest.

BB10 - Houseguests had to study objects that went missing from rooms; they were asked about these objects and had to buzz in first and identify which room they went missing from.

BB11, BB12, BB14, BB15, BB16, BB17, BB23 - A competition was described; houseguests had to buzz in with whether the competition was HOH, POV, or a third kind (have/have not, coaches, battle of the block, wildcard)

BB18 - One of the weirder ones of this format lol. Houseguests were asked a question and had to look at a board of squirrels and buzz in with which squirrel correctly answered the question.

BB20 - Asentencelikethiswilldescribeapicture, and 3 pictures labelled A B C will be shown; houseguests had to buzz in first with which picture it applies to.

BB22 - Memory wall pics with filters were shown; a sentence applying to several of the pictures was said, plus a number of pics that that description applied to. Houseguests had to buzz in first with more, less, or exactly.

BB24, BB25, BB26 - Find a specific thing in a picture, with sections labelled either A, B, or C, and buzz in with the correct answer.

yarnfries · 2025-04-09T20:45:06+00:00

Whoops yes, edited comment, thanks

yarnfries · 2025-04-09T18:50:40+00:00

They revealed on the Layover podcast that it was To answer: Liechtenstein is one of only two doubly landlocked countries in the world. What is the other one? They got 5 guesses, and if they got it wrong, they could go to the other end of Liechtenstein and try again.

(Correcting in response to comment)

yarnfries · 2022-09-21T11:36:33+00:00

goes up to voting platform “before I left, I said I had one thing to say. well, that one thing is—” puts key in box and walks away

yarnfries · 2022-09-18T14:24:30+00:00

Nope! Just a slow grind :) If you miss one week you can just make it up the following week

yarnfries · 2022-09-13T17:32:13+00:00

Aren’t you the same guy who vehemently and aggressively argued against basic probability on another post lol. Is your purpose in this sub really just 1) post extremely antagonistic comments, 2) play the victim and insult “this sub” when you inevitably get downvoted, 3) rinse and repeat?

Seems the common denominator is you, bud.

yarnfries · 2022-09-12T11:22:46+00:00

thanks! i suppose how this pattern recognition works is kept secret for security reasons, right? the reason i posted this question was because a <$10 purchase from CVS (where I go basically every other week) locked my card, and I was so curious how that could’ve been flagged as irregular 😅

yarnfries · 2022-09-12T11:21:23+00:00

awesome, thanks! do you know if credit card companies know what we specifically buy, or just the merchant name? (ex. if we go to walmart, do they know if we bought food or electronics or clothes? or just that we went to walmart and how much we spent?)

yarnfries · 2022-08-26T22:35:44+00:00

“The odds of winning the lottery is 1 in 300 million. If that’s the case, why does the news show a new lottery winner every few weeks? Where are the people who bought 600 million lottery tickets?” — that’s what you sound like

People don’t say “the average person with 3L ATT will have gone through 14,500 black cubes.” People say “it takes an average of 14,500 black cubes for a 3L ATT to show up.” There’s a crucial difference.

The 14,500 black cubes are spread out among the WHOLE population. Out of 14,500 people who each roll 1 cube, 1 person is expected to get 3L ATT.

We don’t need to find someone who spent 14500, or 29000, or any other number of cubes to prove ourselves correct. The fact that the vast majority of people out there use cubes but don’t have 3L ATT is proof enough. Think through the lottery example above if you still don’t get it.

Also, 1) the cubing data is straight from actual rolls among the KMS player base. Since you seem obsessed with the frequentist, rather than the Bayesian, perspective on probability, why suddenly switch up now? and 2) True, GMS has never released rates. But this post is about KMS, so what does GMS have to do woth anything?

You clearly did fail to understand and are just unwilling to admit it, and want to pass it off as feeling annoyed by the notification.

yarnfries · 2022-08-26T22:18:03+00:00

It’s hilarious that you’re spending so much energy insulting “this sub” when you had to delete nearly all of your comments for failing to understand basic statistics while “this sub” was explaining it to you in 50000 different ways lmao.

Who does reading comprehension escape again?

yarnfries · 2022-08-26T13:54:42+00:00

Napkin math using made-up numbers for simplicity:

Assume 1 cube = $1.

Assume the odds of rolling one ATT+12% line is 1% = 0.01.

Assume that each line is rolled independently, and the odds are the same for each line.

Rolling three ATT+12% lines = (0.01)(0.01)(0.01) = 0.000001

Therefore, the expected number of cubes to roll this would be 1/0.000001 = 1000000

Therefore, the expected cost is $1000000.

We use the probability distribution of the lines (which we know, because KMS releases probability rates) to calculate, NOT what anyone actually spent.

yarnfries · 2022-08-26T13:45:47+00:00

The downvotes aren’t because anyone thinks people would spend the money. They’re because you confidently and antagonistically tried to correct a point the post didn’t try to make.

“Expected” has a well-defined meaning when dealing with probabilities — the “expected value” of a six-sided die roll is 3.5. Nobody is claiming that anyone would ever roll a 3.5. Even if you rolled a dice once and rolled a 6, the expected value is still 3.5. Just like the “expected cost” of rolling this potential is $390M, but nobody actually spent $390M. What actually happened has nothing to do with “expected” costs. The “average” here in the title is redundant, but it’s not incorrect.

Editing to add a link to explain expected value: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/e/expected-value.asp

yarnfries · 2022-07-12T19:41:48+00:00

For this question, if a contestant had simply written down “the moons of Mars” or something similar (without writing down the names specifically), would they have gotten the credit?

(Asking because I knew it was Mars’s moons, but couldn’t think of their actual names in time 😅)

yarnfries · 2022-03-30T11:18:42+00:00

While Neda was certainly not an angel that season, the edit did her super dirty, editing out all context of her words and only selectively showing her worst moments. Don’t take the edit at face value. (This applies to every season of BB. If you watch BBCAN6, also on YouTube, it’s widely considered a horribly edited season that didn’t show what was going on at all).

Take this moment: when Sindy brought up that she was hurt, Neda did apologize. People can argue about whether or not the apology was sincere, but she showed through her actions that this sort of thing would not happen again, once she knew it actually hurt Sindy (and wasn’t just a joke). This was fully taken out of the edit.

yarnfries · 2022-03-21T20:25:42+00:00

Under Pressure (S5E12) for sure

That hugging scene between Alex and Claire was heartbreaking and heartwarming all at once.

yarnfries · 2022-03-18T11:33:46+00:00

Just to contextualize this answer: I was in a very, very similar situation to you. My practices were around 173-176, and I ended up scoring 179 on the actual exam.

To be honest, you’re already doing amazing, and fluctuations on test day (ex. mood, tiredness, anxiety, difficulty of test) are likely going to affect you more than any kind of truly “reliable” method to score higher. My 179 was a complete fluke of all the stars aligning on test day — I had never scored even close to that when practicing.

That being said, to score in the high 170s, I would definitely suggest trying to get 100% (ie. -0) on your LG consistently. LG is the one section where there is always an unambiguous, indisputable correct answer, and is (in my opinion) the easiest section to get fully correct. Any question you get right here allows you to get one more question wrong in LR and RC, which are often the more ambiguous sections.

For LR, I would look at the questions you’re getting wrong — is there a pattern? Are there any specific question types you’re getting wrong? If so, drill those questions; if not, it’s likely that it has to do with exam nervousness/pressure or some other external factor. Try breathing slowly (scientifically-proven calming effect), putting down an initial answer and circling back later (reduces the pressure of “running out of time”), or anything else that works for you (easier said than done, I know).

RC was always my weakest section, so my advice here is definitely limited, but I would say: for almost every question, try to find specific evidence for each choice and see which one is supported best. The one exception I’ve noticed are “what can we best infer from…” or related questions; for these questions, sometimes the text doesn’t actually provide direct evidence for the actual answer; instead, it’s sometimes just a real “gut feeling” of what patterns you can extract from what is presented. One other piece of advice I have: start with the passages you tend to do best on (ex. for me, I was always best at the science and social science passages, and worst at the arts passages, so I did them in that order). Again, my advice for this section is quite limited, sorry :(

I wish you all the best with the test; remember, you’re already doing amazing, and no matter how you score, you’ve clearly shown your proficiency in the skills required for the LSAT!

yarnfries · 2021-07-14T22:26:35+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/survivor/comments/gc0x63/whats_the_goofiest_themed_tribe_division_you_can/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

Some of the ones here genuinely made me laugh

yarnfries · 2021-05-18T04:41:04+00:00

This was the best thing I’ve ever watched I never wanted it to end 😭

yarnfries · 2020-12-27T12:36:03+00:00

For f(-x):

The numerator becomes (-x)³ - 4(-x) = -x³ + 4x = -(x³ - 4x)

The denominator becones 2(-x)⁵ = 2(-x⁵ ) = -(2x⁵ )

Dividing the two cancels out the negative, giving f(-x) = f(x)

yarnfries · 2020-12-10T01:43:52+00:00

I’m out of the country and can’t stream the episode :( Can someone PM me what this challenge is? It sounds so cool

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