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Posted on 9/10/16 at 9:55 am to athenslife101
UH...given today's educational requirements....sure, why not.
Posted on 9/10/16 at 10:11 am to Pectus
I've watched you fumblefrick through enough basic math on this site to ever waste my time with your opinions on mathematics.
Posted on 9/10/16 at 10:38 am to Pectus
Seems like you could have used the time you wasted on a useless stat more wisely
Posted on 9/10/16 at 10:40 am to athenslife101
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I may be stupid, but I'm stuppider after reading that.
Should've done like me and forego the reading and go straight for the down vote.
Posted on 9/10/16 at 11:15 am to Pectus
quote:While it is used as an answer a lot, it is not the correct answer 99.9999% of the time. I'm guessing the prevalence of usage skews the data and makes it seem like [288] is a viable answer to 50% of questions (which it is not).
If you jokingly put 288 as a response to a question posted on this forum, you have a good chance (better than a wild guess) of being right!
Computers can't understand sarcasm
Posted on 9/10/16 at 11:50 am to Pectus
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The top 100 words in the English language make up 50% of the English language.
Uh, pretty sure there are more than 100 words in the English language.
Seriously, if you are going to qupte "Wikipedia", quote that shite right. It says one half of the written materials.
This post was edited on 9/10/16 at 11:53 am
Posted on 9/10/16 at 11:57 am to brgfather129
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I've watched you fumblefrick through enough basic math on this site to ever waste my time with your opinions on mathematics.
Were you the guy that told me off for not reading binary right-to-left, when I mistakenly read it left-to-right?
I remember making 2 mistakes on TD, the reading of binary the wrong way was the second. So, if 2 is enough, you are very unforgiving.
And you treated me poorly then as you do now. From that brief interaction and this one, your character does not seem that friendly.
I am sorry I am not as good in math as you. I should have gone to more school. But also, if I am wrong and you declare it as such the only way you can do so is to provide evidence to the contrary in that framework. You are not allowed to say something is wrong without presenting another answer or hypothesis, etc.
Isn't that the way higher education and academia works? Again, I don't know. I should have gone to more school to know that.
Posted on 9/10/16 at 11:58 am to Cowboyfan89
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Uh, pretty sure there are more than 100 words in the English language.
Seriously, if you are going to qupte "Wikipedia", quote that shite right. It says one half of the written materials.
There is nothing wrong with my quote.
If you are working in English you are working with those 100 words half of the time.
Posted on 9/10/16 at 12:04 pm to Hammertime
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While it is used as an answer a lot, it is not the correct answer 99.9999% of the time. I'm guessing the prevalence of usage skews the data and makes it seem like [288] is a viable answer to 50% of questions (which it is not).
That is my overall point. It is more right than some other answers.
Posted on 9/10/16 at 12:10 pm to Pectus
If someone asks a question, that doesn't make it any more right than anything else. It is just answered more often because people write it, so computers think it is the right answer when gathering metadata
Posted on 9/10/16 at 12:12 pm to Hammertime
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If someone asks a question, that doesn't make it any more right than anything else. It is just answered more often because people write it, so computers think it is the right answer when gathering metadata
Right, and that is why it is interesting, philosophically.
Posted on 9/10/16 at 12:14 pm to Pectus
You don't see anything wrong with "the top 100 words in the English Language make up 50% of the English language"?
It's incorrect. You are referring to one quote from that page, and you are referencing it wrong. It clearly says "written material". Written material does not encompass all of the English language. It is merely part of it.
Now, if you had said "the top 100 words in the English language make up 50% of the words used in the English language", that is factual. Because that is what your Wikipedia link shows.
What you said and what you linked are different. Sorry if you can't see that.
It's incorrect. You are referring to one quote from that page, and you are referencing it wrong. It clearly says "written material". Written material does not encompass all of the English language. It is merely part of it.
Now, if you had said "the top 100 words in the English language make up 50% of the words used in the English language", that is factual. Because that is what your Wikipedia link shows.
What you said and what you linked are different. Sorry if you can't see that.
Posted on 9/10/16 at 12:35 pm to Pectus
Three fiddy!
Posted on 9/10/16 at 1:02 pm to Cowboyfan89
Oops. OK! You are right. Thank you for being persistent with me on that.
You are very right how that makes a big difference.
You are very right how that makes a big difference.
Posted on 9/10/16 at 1:15 pm to Pectus
It really isn't. There also isn't anything philosophical about it
Posted on 9/10/16 at 1:17 pm to Pectus
I remember 288 but what was its competition?
Posted on 9/10/16 at 1:32 pm to Hammertime
(upvote)
Posted on 9/10/16 at 1:34 pm to Pectus
popular is not the right word, m'keh?
did you enjoy the appendix in Black Swan?
did you enjoy the appendix in Black Swan?
Posted on 9/10/16 at 1:38 pm to Pectus
Hold up
How does increasing the number of times 288 is answered increase the likelihood that it is correct? Wouldn't you have to increase the number of questions whose answer is 288 in order for your theory to be right?
How does increasing the number of times 288 is answered increase the likelihood that it is correct? Wouldn't you have to increase the number of questions whose answer is 288 in order for your theory to be right?
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