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Things I know that it seems like nobody else gets

• ronilan 13y ago
  > Try one thousand things that you have a 0.01% chance of succeeding in, and in the end you will accomplish one incredible thing. This is false.
  • hannibal5 13y ago
    btw. he says 0.1% not 0.01% If you try things that have 0.1% change one after another, the change of succeeding has binomial distribution. The probability that you get at least one success is just 63%
    • molecule 13y ago
      > btw. he says 0.1% not 0.01% it was originally posted as 0.01%. http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Ftechno-anthropology.blogspot.com%2F2013%2F08%2Fthe-8-things-i-know-that-it-seems-like.html&rlz=1C5CHFA_enUS550US550&oq=cache%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Ftechno-anthropology.blogspot.com%2F2013%2F08%2Fthe-8-things-i-know-that-it-seems-like.html&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i58.1702j0&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%...
  • norswap 13y ago
    Came here to say this. Funny to find that in a post called "things I know that it seems like nobody else gets ". Keep in mind it's not the point of the article though (which is interesting if a bit bland - I mean you should know most of this).
• valtron 13y ago
  > anything someone really really tries to get you to believe is probably false if it doesn't make sense to you. To a lot of people, religion makes sense while, say, quantum mechanics doesn't.
  • molecule 13y ago
    “Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.” - Albert Einstein
  • hannibal5 13y ago
    You don't see people walking around and trying to make you believe in quantum mechanics.
    • valtron 13y ago
      I talk about it any chance I get :)