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What's a concept that's hard to wrap your head around?
Posted on 2/5/19 at 8:55 pm
Posted on 2/5/19 at 8:55 pm
Flip a coin. 50/50 chance it's a heads. I get it. Flip the coin again. 50/50 chance it's heads again. I can get that too. But let's say you get 100 heads in a row. It's so hard for me to fathom that the next flip is still 50/50 heads. It doesn't make sense it my head.
I know. I know. I am not a smart man (in my best Forrest Gump imitation)
The next one is the string that you fit around the equator of a basketball and the string you fit around the equator of the earth. Lift the string 1" off the surface and the length added to the string is the same in both cases. It's crazy.
I know. I know. I am not a smart man (in my best Forrest Gump imitation)
The next one is the string that you fit around the equator of a basketball and the string you fit around the equator of the earth. Lift the string 1" off the surface and the length added to the string is the same in both cases. It's crazy.
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Posted on 2/5/19 at 8:58 pm to TulaneUVA
If you flipped heads 100 times in a row you have a faulty coin. It will be heads again.
Posted on 2/5/19 at 8:58 pm to TulaneUVA
Mine is reading the Q thread on the politics board and realizing people seriously believes the shite that is posted there... For example.
quote:
This, coupled with the fact that lightning struck Trump tower the night DJT got the nomination, and Baron Trump being in a novel from the 1890s has some thinking Trump from the future, using Tesla's secret tech his uncle oversaw, is using time travel to advert a nuclear apocolypse and WWIII. Then you couple all that with the fact N. Korea almost instantly backed down when Trump took office, and China playing ball in the trade war..... Then to make it even better, people have tried to link Trump to John Titor
This post was edited on 2/5/19 at 8:59 pm
Posted on 2/5/19 at 8:59 pm to TulaneUVA
Posted on 2/5/19 at 9:00 pm to TulaneUVA
HVAC
Posted on 2/5/19 at 9:00 pm to TulaneUVA
Gangsta rap
This post was edited on 2/5/19 at 9:01 pm
Posted on 2/5/19 at 9:00 pm to TulaneUVA
Eternity in the afterlife. That’s a tough one to wrap my head around.
Posted on 2/5/19 at 9:00 pm to TulaneUVA
quote:
It doesn't make sense it my head.
How does that not make sense. Let's say you find a coin and you flip it. It lands on heads. You put the coin back where it was and then pick it up again. Every flip is like finding the coin the first time and flipping it.
Posted on 2/5/19 at 9:00 pm to TulaneUVA
Little kids who have cancer. Its bullshite, and I just can't wrap my head around why.
Posted on 2/5/19 at 9:01 pm to TulaneUVA
That the OT loads during the state of the union address but the poly talk board is plum froze up.
Posted on 2/5/19 at 9:01 pm to TulaneUVA
Posted on 2/5/19 at 9:01 pm to Kafka
Is Kige going play Bingo?
Posted on 2/5/19 at 9:03 pm to TulaneUVA
The vastness of the universe.
Posted on 2/5/19 at 9:04 pm to TulaneUVA
Known universe vs visible universe
Posted on 2/5/19 at 9:04 pm to TulaneUVA
How the human brain works.
How we are able to see with eyeballs.
How we are able to see with eyeballs.
Posted on 2/5/19 at 9:05 pm to TulaneUVA
The human body
Posted on 2/5/19 at 9:05 pm to OweO
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Every flip is like finding the coin the first time and flipping it.
I told you that I get it, but it's hard to reconcile with intuition. Which is the point of the thread.
You're telling me if I flipped the a coin heads 100x in a row, that wouldn't influence you in the slightest to 'bet' on tails? It's the aggregation of consecutive flips that makes you think that there should be an even distribution.
For example, if you flipped a coin 100 times, you would expect the result of heads tails to be roughly 50/50. It seems like there should be a natural reversion to the 'norm'
This post was edited on 2/5/19 at 9:06 pm
Posted on 2/5/19 at 9:06 pm to TulaneUVA
quote:There is an end to the universe somewhere out there.
What's a concept that's hard to wrap your head around?
Posted on 2/5/19 at 9:07 pm to TulaneUVA
You need to stay away from casinos, sir.
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