You also could just use this to disguise your 'style' if you want to say something anonymously going forward (doesn't work for stuff you've already got out there). Just ask an LLM to reword it in a different style before you post, could be a plugin or something, and then it can't be identified as being by you, right?
Yep that's it! Glad my explanation helped.
(Though if we want to be a bit pedantic about it, we'd say that actually a world where 21 heads in a row ever happens is not unlikely (If heaps and heaps of coin tosses happen across the world over time, like in our world), but a world where any particular given sequence of 21 coin flips is all heads is yes very unlikely (before any of them have been flipped)).)
Ah yes this was confusing to me for a while too, glad to be able to help someone else out with it!
The key thing to realise for me, is that the probability of 21 heads in a row changes as you toss each of those 21 coins.
The sequence of 21 heads in a row does indeed have much less than 0.5 chance, to be precise , which is 0.000000476837158. But it only has such a tiny probability before any of those 21 coins have been tossed. However as soon as the first coin is tossed, the probability of those 21 coins all being heads changes. If first coin is tails, the probability... (read more)
Love this way at pointing at this distinction!
Oooo cool I didn't know this github trick!
thanks!
Thank you!
Thanks! What do you mean about the cross referencing?
Thanks!
It seems like one big difference between someone totally unfamiliar with a given field/skill and someone familiar with it is just that the person familiar with it knows a really good (/the best) place (website, forum, potentially even a reference book etc) to... (read 198 more words →)
These are really good descriptions! (Going by my own and friends' experience). For me I might just tweak it to put anxiety as the height rather than the gravity. Thank you for writing these up!