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  • 14th_cylon@lemm.eetoTechnology@lemmy.world•Luigi Mangione, CEO shooting suspect, is a tech workerEnglish
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    14 hours ago

    what the fuck is so hard for most people to believe about the idea?

    For me, it is a fact that such establishments are first and foremost matter of convenience, you go there because it is close to where you are at that moment and you expect to get fast food of dubious nutritional quality that is about the same (non)quality as in every other similar place. For fine dining worth prior research you go elsewhere than the McDonald’s.

  • 14th_cylon@lemm.eetoTechnology@lemmy.world•Luigi Mangione, CEO shooting suspect, is a tech workerEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I am not going to watch 70 minutes movie, but according to brief skimming through the discussion it’s about business practice of the Microsoft from times of windows 3.11

    I am talking about his today’s undeniable philantropic work and the fact is he is really far from the rest of the people on your list.

    People are allowed to evolve and if every billionaire in the world would evolve I’m the same direction he did, world would be better place.

  • 14th_cylon@lemm.eetoTechnology@lemmy.world•The GPT Era Is Already EndingEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Except, that’s in the real world of physics. In this (…) scenario, x is infinite.

    oh boy, no. if anything, it would be the other way around. in real world calculations, you can sometime approximate and still get reasonably precise result, or boundary, depending on your needs. not so in math.

    hence the jokes like “for mathematician, pi as a pi. for physicist, pi is roughly 3,14, for civil engineer, pi is roughly 3.”

    Thus the probability is 1.

    it is not.

    It doesn’t just approach infinite, it is infinite.

    x is not infinite. x is a variable, that is to be substituted by specific number. infinity is not a number, it is a concept that express the fact that you explore how the function behaves when you are substituting bigger and bigger numbers. but none of these numbers are “infinity”. it is always specific number and the result never reaches the limit of the function. in this case, it is never 1, no matter how big number you substitute.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limit_of_a_function

  • 14th_cylon@lemm.eetoTechnology@lemmy.world•The GPT Era Is Already EndingEnglish
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    3 days ago

    sure. 100% means something will happen every single time in the observed set. if something does not happen every single time, then it is not 100%.

    this will not happen every single time. among all possible results, there will be results where none of the monkeys start any kind of shakespeare. there will be instances where every single work they start will be just the paper full of letter “a”. or something else than shakespeare. as you add monkeys (approach the infinity) the smaller such chancegets, until it gets extremely unlikely, but it is not going to be zero.

    imagine you are throwing a 6 sided dice hundred times and i ask you - is it possible there will be no 6 among those one hundred throws?

    anyone who passed some basic math understand it is indeed unlikely, but it is not impossible. if you keep throwing long enough, there will be cases with zero 6s in it.

    probability of that happening is (5/6)^100, which is 1,2 x 10^-8, eg it will happen roughly 1,2 times in ten million cases. not likely, but not impossible.

    in 1000 dice throws, the chance drops to (5/6)^1000, roughly 6,6 x 10^(-80), or 6,6 in 100 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 cases.

    fun fact: the above number (1 with 80 zeros) is called One Hundred Quinvigintillion (had to google that indeed).

    if you further increase the number of throws in the series, the chance of not having single 6 will be getting even smaller, but never zero.

    or in other word, if you raise 5/6 to any positive number, the resulting number is always positive number.

    https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=%285%2F6%29%5En

    for further study, the relevant concept here is limit of the function

    we say that limit of the above function is zero, which means it will approach the zero really close (infinitely close), but will never reach it.

  • 14th_cylon@lemm.eetoTechnology@lemmy.world•The GPT Era Is Already EndingEnglish
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    3 days ago

    it is by formal definition 100%.

    it is not

    And y approaches 1 when x approaches infinity, then y = 1 when x = infinite.

    you weren’t paying attention in your calculus.

    y is never 1, because x is never infinite. if you could reach the infinity, it wouldn’t be infinity.

    for any n within the function’s domain: abs(value of y in n minus limit of y) is number bigger than zero. that is the definition of the limit. brush up on your definitions 😆

  • 14th_cylon@lemm.eetoTechnology@lemmy.world•How to properly test my internet speed from ISP?English
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    14 days ago

    1. there will be some bandwidth aggregation, so the speed is perfectly fine from the contract point of view.

    2. second, 1 gbps on network layer is not 1 gbps on application layer. in other words, only part of the data that you download are actual useful data - there is some overhead.

    3. at such speed, there is no such thing as “internet speed”. there is speed to specific source at the specific time. your provider can only guarantee so much. your source being able to push data to you at the speed your last mile might be able to receive them is not among the guaranteeable.

    4. complaining that your internet only does 650 mbps really is first world problem.