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Anonymous Thu 19 Nov 06:01:41 2020 No.12360906 View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>12361013 >>12361071 >>12361233 >>12362152 >>12362227 >>12364004 >>12364032 >>12364130

ITT: Math life hacks

I'll start:
>You can increase your likelihood of winning the lottery by imagining you've lost a billion times already

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 19 Nov 2020 07:06:48 No.12361013 Report

Quoted By: >>12361077

>>12360906
what if i then lose a billion times

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Anonymous Thu 19 Nov 2020 07:26:14 No.12361046 Report

Quoted By: >>12361286 >>12363583

Whenever you make a decision you should think how to get a bad outcome then change your original decision.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 19 Nov 2020 07:44:11 No.12361071 Report

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>>12360906
basically the sunk costs fallacy but the sunk costs are just delusions

nice

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 19 Nov 2020 07:49:13 No.12361077 Report

Quoted By: >>12361083

>>12361013
it would be extremely painfull

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 19 Nov 2020 07:52:19 No.12361083 Report

Quoted By: >>12361680

>>12361077
For you.

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Anonymous Thu 19 Nov 2020 08:28:13 No.12361160 Report

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If you have to guess the number of jelly beans in a jar, you can improve your accuracy by guessing many times and then taking the average of all your estimates.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 19 Nov 2020 08:55:35 No.12361233 Report

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>>12360906
You can count on one hand the number of days that you’re happy.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 19 Nov 2020 09:19:25 No.12361286 Report

Quoted By: >>12362180

>>12361046
retards on this board won't get it

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 19 Nov 2020 12:00:26 No.12361680 Report

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>>12361083
that would be weird haha

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 19 Nov 2020 15:24:19 No.12362152 Report

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>>12360906
a smart and remarkable idea.
how many times have you won the lottery already?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 19 Nov 2020 15:38:52 No.12362180 Report

Quoted By: >>12362356

>>12361286
>iM a GeNiUs AnD oNLy I uNdErStanD tHe MoNtY HaLL pRobLem!!!1

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 19 Nov 2020 15:47:30 No.12362198 Report

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If you play roulette at a casino, wait until the ball has landed on black 10 times in a row, then bet all your money on red. The chances of getting black 11 times in a row a so small that the chances of winning are over 120%.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 19 Nov 2020 16:01:07 No.12362227 Report

Quoted By: >>12362376

>>12360906
>You can increase your likelihood of winning the lottery by imagining you've lost a billion times already
retard here, could anyone explain what OP meant?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 19 Nov 2020 16:27:07 No.12362289 Report

Quoted By: >>12362314

The next time you want to convince someone that what you say is true, flip 100 coins and tell them: "Either what I say is true, or all of the 100 coins landed on heads."
Because the probability of all 100 coins landing on heads is so low, they will realize that that the alternative scenario (where what you say is true) is far more likely.

Warning: This hack only works if the person you're talking to is good at math.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 19 Nov 2020 16:34:58 No.12362314 Report

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>>12362289
Even more, tell them you are right or you'll pick the number 0.5 from the interval [0,1].
They'll know that because the probability distribution of picking a number between [0,1] is continuous, the probability of picking 0.5 is exactly 0 so you can't pick it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 19 Nov 2020 16:49:49 No.12362356 Report

Quoted By: >>12362365 >>12364026

>>12362180
Kill yourself retard redditor. Nobody likes you.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 19 Nov 2020 16:52:22 No.12362365 Report

Quoted By: >>12362368

>>12362356
Lots of people like me. Also an oldfag on /sci/. You don’t know who you’re talking to.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 19 Nov 2020 16:53:21 No.12362368 Report

Quoted By: >>12362381

>>12362365
Well you're a retard nonetheless for using such reddit memes.

Monitor

Monitor Thu 19 Nov 2020 16:57:28 No.12362376 Report

Quoted By: >>12362678

>>12362227
please some one tell me
i'm curious as to what OP meant

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 19 Nov 2020 16:58:47 No.12362381 Report

Quoted By: >>12362384

>>12362368
It’s an appropriate meme to use as a reply for your initial post. It deserved as much.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 19 Nov 2020 16:59:48 No.12362384 Report

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>>12362381
That was not my post and I agree with the sentiment you expressed in your reply, it's just that you chose to use a faggot reddit meme for some reason, I don't know why.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 19 Nov 2020 18:17:09 No.12362678 Report

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>>12362376
It's a probability life hack. Not many people know about it but it does work.
For instance, instead of buying one billion lottery tickets, you can save yourself the time and money by simply pretending you purchased them, so your chances of winning go up exponentially! It's not like there's a probability overseer that says you must buy one billion lottery tickets after all.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 19 Nov 2020 22:52:29 No.12363583 Report

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>>12361046
Kek

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Anonymous Fri 20 Nov 2020 00:31:27 No.12364002 Report

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As long as you keep moving nothing can catch you.

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Anonymous Fri 20 Nov 2020 00:32:35 No.12364004 Report

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>>12360906
JUST BECOME A FUCKING ROBOT BECAUSE LITERALLY MY FUCKING PROFESSORS DON'T GIVE ENOUGH FUCKING TIME AND ONLY PAY ATTENTION TO CALCULATIONS FUCKING MOTHER FUCKING SHIT

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 20 Nov 2020 00:38:09 No.12364026 Report

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>>12362356
I like him

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 20 Nov 2020 00:39:08 No.12364030 Report

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how do i use probability, combinatorics, expected value, distributions and hypothesis testing to improve my everyday life?
I was told these specific things would really allow me to view the world more rationally

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 20 Nov 2020 00:39:43 No.12364032 Report

Quoted By: >>12364122

>>12360906
>Infinite number of moment in time
>Chance that I'll die at any one of them in particular must be zero
>Never die
chill

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 20 Nov 2020 01:11:43 No.12364122 Report

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>>12364032
Yes I thought op was retarded with that stupid logic. As if you have the capacity to imagine all those loses and what they could do to your fighting spirit. Also there's the issue of being creative enough to imagine how a billion losses would play out. One could argue that if you were that creative, then you'd conclude that lotteries aren't games you can outsmart, it's all about random luck.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 20 Nov 2020 01:14:17 No.12364130 Report

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>>12360906
>you can save postage pay if you switch sender and recipient

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