The thread of learning something new every day
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@Bones said in The thread of learning something new every day:
Slender doesn't mean what you think it means.
Rebel Wilson cuts a slender figure as she shows off weight loss in busty dress - The Mirror
Rebel Wilson has proudly showed off her dramatic weight loss as she works towards her goal weight of 165lbs (75kg) by the end of this year
It's the theory of relativity
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@Machpants said in The thread of learning something new every day:
@Bones said in The thread of learning something new every day:
Slender doesn't mean what you think it means.
Rebel Wilson has proudly showed off her dramatic weight loss as she works towards her goal weight of 165lbs (75kg) by the end of this year
It's the theory of relativity
It's science!
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@Bones said in The thread of learning something new every day:
Slender doesn't mean what you think it means.
Rebel Wilson has proudly showed off her dramatic weight loss as she works towards her goal weight of 165lbs (75kg) by the end of this year
Fuck I just learned I'm anorexic.
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@JC said in The thread of learning something new every day:
@Bones said in The thread of learning something new every day:
Slender doesn't mean what you think it means.
Rebel Wilson has proudly showed off her dramatic weight loss as she works towards her goal weight of 165lbs (75kg) by the end of this year
Can’t stand Rebel Wilson. Over
weightratedHer only selling point is that she is fat and willing to be the butt (#dadjoke) of fat jokes.
I’ve seen her on a few interview type shows recently and she actually comes across as extremely unfunny and verging on unpleasant. Tries to be “aloof” but comes across as very arrogant.
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Apparently something like 10,000 people that play the National Lottery (UK) every week, pick the numbers 1,2,3,4,5,6...
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@taniwharugby said in The thread of learning something new every day:
Apparently something like 10,000 people that play the National Lottery (UK) every week, pick the numbers 1,2,3,4,5,6...
Are they not just as likely to come up as any other numbers? Slightly lacking in imagination though.
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@Snowy statistically I assume having 6 sequential numbers (be it 1-6 or 12-18 etc) come up must be much higher odds that 6 non-sequential?
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@taniwharugby said in The thread of learning something new every day:
@Snowy statistically I assume having 6 sequential numbers (be it 1-6 or 12-18 etc) come up must be much higher odds that 6 non-sequential?
Not if the draw is fair, all balls are equally weighted, etc. Each ball is a mutually exclusive event, the previous one has already happened. If a one was first, a two is just as likely as any other number. I studied stats at uni and it never seemed quite right to me, but I believe it to be true - never seen it of course, but I've never picked the winning lotto numbers either.
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@Snowy said in The thread of learning something new every day:
Not if the draw is fair, all balls are equally weighted, etc. Each ball is a mutually exclusive event, the previous one has already happened. If a one was first, a two is just as likely as any other number. I studied stats at uni and it never seemed quite right to me, but I believe it to be true - never seen it of course, but I've never picked the winning lotto numbers either.
fuck your 'facts' in my mind, it is less likely.
Anyway, lets say the Lottery was £10,000,000, split between 10,000 people...
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@taniwharugby said in The thread of learning something new every day:
Anyway, lets say the Lottery was £10,000,000, split between 10,000 people...
That changes it completely as to the pay out. The odds of 10,000 people taking the same numbers as your are significantly different.
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@Snowy tahts what I mean, everyone that plays the lottery, does so in hopes of the winning the big one, but given there are supposedly c10,000 people picking those same numbers, and they come up, your big one, just turned into fuck all.
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@taniwharugby said in The thread of learning something new every day:
@Snowy tahts what I mean, everyone that plays the lottery, does so in hopes of the winning the big one, but given there are supposedly c10,000 people picking those same numbers, and they come up, your big one, just turned into fuck all.
Yep. Statistically there are actually some sequences that come up more often but it also depends on the number of events. The theory is that if you did it often enough it would all be equal. Sequential or not.
Sharing the money among winners does make winning a lottery less rewarding monetarily as you say. There are ways around that but as it stands if you happen to pick exactly the same number as everybody else then the return is obvious.
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@dogmeat I googled that, and started reading this...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeno's_paradoxes
now have a headache
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@dogmeat said in The thread of learning something new every day:
this talk reminds me that I once tried to convince the constabulary from writing me a speeding ticket by citing Zeno's paradox. Illogical logic just never wins
Correct, it doesn't.
I can just see you sitting there in an S5 explaining "but officer motion is just an illusion"
There are a few of Zeno's paradoxes so maybe you used a different one?
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@Snowy there's seven aren't there? Yeah infinite divisibility of time and wasn't in an Audi. Try a 1958 metallic blue and purple CA Bedford van, me with hair down mid back and just a mattress and about 10 dozen beer in the back. In Dargaville.
Cop tried to get me for going through a stop sign as well but Zeno did manage to convince him that was impossible... I think he just wanted to get rid of me. Not the first - won't be the last.
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@dogmeat said in The thread of learning something new every day:
@Snowy there's seven aren't there? Yeah infinite divisibility of time and wasn't in an Audi. Try a 1958 metallic blue and purple CA Bedford van, me with hair down mid back and just a mattress and about 10 dozen beer in the back. In Dargaville.
Cop tried to get me for going through a stop sign as well but Zeno did manage to convince him that was impossible... I think he just wanted to get rid of me. Not the first - won't be the last.
Re Zeno - something like that. I think a couple are basically the same so can add or subtract.
Even a hippy in a fuck truck full of piss, can talk to a cop in Dargaville about paradox. Excellent.
We put a V8 in a Bedford van as a service vehicle for a rally car. It was faster than the car.
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@Snowy said in The thread of learning something new every day:
We put a V8 in a Bedford van as a service vehicle for a rally car. It was faster than the car.
That made me laugh as all I could imagine was a massive Bedford van over taking a ford escort (or the like) on the outside of a gravel hairpin corner
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@Hooroo said in The thread of learning something new every day:
@Snowy said in The thread of learning something new every day:
We put a V8 in a Bedford van as a service vehicle for a rally car. It was faster than the car.
That made me laugh as all I could imagine was a massive Bedford van over taking a ford escort (or the like) on the outside of a gravel hairpin corner
Pretty much how it worked. It was usually a "relatively" straight line to be fair to the Chevette (surprisingly good rally car when completely rebuilt). Support crew just need to be involved.
Corners weren't a thing for the Bedford on any road to be fair.We were young, and seriously bloody stupid, so it all just happened without any deaths surprisingly.
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I learned about a museum dedictaed to hangover stories...
Museum of Hangovers
