There are two scenes in Toy Story 3 that startle me.
1. The Furnace Scene. I don't think I need to elaborate on that one.
2. The scene where Lotso starts ranting about toys being ultimately trash. You know he's a sinister pink bear, but when he basically loses control and looks like he's gonna choke a bitch, the contrast with his warm facade is so stark it's scary.
When the furnace scene was going on, and it was looking increasingly likely they wouldn't get out it, and they were holding hands, I was like "Holy shit, will...will Pixar really? They can't! Think of the kids! Oh shit! Then rescue finally occurs. Bravo Pixar for making us think that though.
Arivia: Assuming that by "AF" you mean armed forces, I'm pretty sure the most popular option is either hanging or exsanguination. If you limit it to suicides committed while deployed, I'm sure it's guns.
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edited October 2010
Oh dear. The hivvy is spreading through the department. Rapid onset hivvy.
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Arivia: Assuming that by "AF" you mean armed forces, I'm pretty sure the most popular option is either hanging or exsanguination. If you limit it to suicides committed while deployed, I'm sure it's guns.
In the submarine force it's guns. People just wait until they are on watch.
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Oh, there actually will be voting on the concepts again. I'm actually surprised given how badly it worked out last time.
That said, The New Kid seems decidedly whack. Sand seems okay from the description, but not so hot from the comic. I hope the third option isn't just more D&D fan fiction.
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Say you have an infinite number of scrabble tiles, and an equal amount of each letter (infinite lol)
what is the probability that on a random draw you will be able to spell a word (lets say, Dog)
Would it just be (1/26)^3?
For a specific three-letter word then yes. As it's just a 1 in 26 chance three times consequently.
man this was easier than I thought, I was trying to make it all complicated and shit
so if it was a 20 letter word the probability would be (1/26)^20
or for the actual example i needed this for, if we had an infinite number of amino acids, and they randomly were joining together (disregarding all the physics), the probability of returning the smallest known functional protein (20 amino acids) is
Say you have an infinite number of scrabble tiles, and an equal amount of each letter (infinite lol)
what is the probability that on a random draw you will be able to spell a word (lets say, Dog)
Would it just be (1/26)^3?
For a specific three-letter word then yes. As it's just a 1 in 26 chance three times consequently.
Shouldn't it be 6 * (1/26)^3? Three ways to succeed on the first letter, 2 on the second, one on the third. 4 instead of six if a letter is repeated in the target word.
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Mojo_JojoWe are only now beginning to understand the full power and ramifications of sexual intercourseRegistered Userregular
Say you have an infinite number of scrabble tiles, and an equal amount of each letter (infinite lol)
what is the probability that on a random draw you will be able to spell a word (lets say, Dog)
Would it just be (1/26)^3?
For a specific three-letter word then yes. As it's just a 1 in 26 chance three times consequently.
Shouldn't it be 6 * (1/26)^3? Three ways to succeed on the first letter, 2 on the second, one on the third. 4 instead of six if a letter is repeated in the target word.
Dog starts with a D, that is one way to succeed.
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Arivia: Assuming that by "AF" you mean armed forces, I'm pretty sure the most popular option is either hanging or exsanguination. If you limit it to suicides committed while deployed, I'm sure it's guns.
In the submarine force it's guns. People just wait until they are on watch.
there was a guy in my battery who went around stealing bootlaces so he could hang himself.
Apparently he got caught by the fireguard and sent home.
So if I am looking to make a specific thing in a specific order (not just drawing D, O, and G at any time, but drawing them in succession to spell DOG) it is just
Where are the government research projects trying to figure out how to make more of Dr Manhattan. Where are the legions of desparate people wanting to get disintegrated in intrinsic field subtractors so they can become like Dr Manhattan.
I mean
Ozymandias gives a bunch of people cancer. Wouldn't, on your death bed, getting disintegrated in a long-shot for immortality and godhood be a fucking worthwhile deal? Why didn't his coworker go for that option?
It seems more telling in the movie when he goes to the effort of poisoning his research staff and then disintegrating them. Like he was worried some of them might be able to come back as Dr Manhattan like entities.
Say you have an infinite number of scrabble tiles, and an equal amount of each letter (infinite lol)
what is the probability that on a random draw you will be able to spell a word (lets say, Dog)
Would it just be (1/26)^3?
I think so. Assuming each infinite set is of the same degree of infinity (the same size, essentially), the chance of getting a certain letter is 1/26.
You're doing this three times, and you want three specific letters. So that's the odds of getting D AND O AND G.
When combining probability with an AND (compared to an OR), you multiply the odds together. So it's (1/26) * (1/26) * (1/26).
Degree of infinity (known as cardinality) is not the same thing as size (known as ordinality). And it's best not to mix transfinite set theory with probability unless you want a massive headache.
Where are the government research projects trying to figure out how to make more of Dr Manhattan. Where are the legions of desparate people wanting to get disintegrated in intrinsic field subtractors so they can become like Dr Manhattan.
I mean
Ozymandias gives a bunch of people cancer. Wouldn't, on your death bed, getting disintegrated in a long-shot for immortality and godhood be a fucking worthwhile deal? Why didn't his coworker go for that option?
It seems more telling in the movie when he goes to the effort of poisoning his research staff and then disintegrating them. Like he was worried some of them might be able to come back as Dr Manhattan like entities.
He does that in the novel. Well aside from the disintegrating part
Where are the government research projects trying to figure out how to make more of Dr Manhattan. Where are the legions of desparate people wanting to get disintegrated in intrinsic field subtractors so they can become like Dr Manhattan.
I mean
Ozymandias gives a bunch of people cancer. Wouldn't, on your death bed, getting disintegrated in a long-shot for immortality and godhood be a fucking worthwhile deal? Why didn't his coworker go for that option?
It seems more telling in the movie when he goes to the effort of poisoning his research staff and then disintegrating them. Like he was worried some of them might be able to come back as Dr Manhattan like entities.
The Russians. Just keep on sending loyal dying soldiers into it. They are bound to win the lottery eventually.
Where are the government research projects trying to figure out how to make more of Dr Manhattan. Where are the legions of desparate people wanting to get disintegrated in intrinsic field subtractors so they can become like Dr Manhattan.
I mean
Ozymandias gives a bunch of people cancer. Wouldn't, on your death bed, getting disintegrated in a long-shot for immortality and godhood be a fucking worthwhile deal? Why didn't his coworker go for that option?
It seems more telling in the movie when he goes to the effort of poisoning his research staff and then disintegrating them. Like he was worried some of them might be able to come back as Dr Manhattan like entities.
Wasn't there something in the text segments about the Russians sending dozens of people into disintegration chambers to try and make a counter-Manhatten, and it never worked? Or am I imagining that?
Where are the government research projects trying to figure out how to make more of Dr Manhattan. Where are the legions of desparate people wanting to get disintegrated in intrinsic field subtractors so they can become like Dr Manhattan.
I mean
Ozymandias gives a bunch of people cancer. Wouldn't, on your death bed, getting disintegrated in a long-shot for immortality and godhood be a fucking worthwhile deal? Why didn't his coworker go for that option?
It seems more telling in the movie when he goes to the effort of poisoning his research staff and then disintegrating them. Like he was worried some of them might be able to come back as Dr Manhattan like entities.
I can't remember for sure, but I think trying to create a second Manhattan was hinted at, and implied to have no success before it was finally abandoned. Chapter Four also suggested that it Doctor Osterman's psychological makeup is practically unique, meaning he's one of the few people who could have worked it out. So to create another Manhattan, you'd need the mindset of a watch maker and an almost total grasp of atomic structure.
I don't know. Something about it all bothers me. Like, here's this super-powerful godlike being created with physics. And all I can think of is "if it worked once then it can be made to work again".
And like, Dr Manhattan could probably figure it out and ascend the entire human-race.
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It also seems like it would be trivially easy for the doctor to stop 100% of the missiles fired in a hypothetical WW3. Just send everything above the pacific and atlantic ocean flying into space. Or make a 200 mile long wall of viscous jelly between the two countries. Or just make a million of yourself and individually stop each missile.
Hell, before the first shot is fired just make a million of yourself and go turn each nuke into a marshmallow.
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But fewer people die if you disturb her during it.
any takers, you geeks?
In the submarine force it's guns. People just wait until they are on watch.
Say you have an infinite number of scrabble tiles, and an equal amount of each letter (infinite lol)
what is the probability that on a random draw you will be able to spell a word (lets say, Dog)
Would it just be (1/26)^3?
That said, The New Kid seems decidedly whack. Sand seems okay from the description, but not so hot from the comic. I hope the third option isn't just more D&D fan fiction.
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man this was easier than I thought, I was trying to make it all complicated and shit
so if it was a 20 letter word the probability would be (1/26)^20
or for the actual example i needed this for, if we had an infinite number of amino acids, and they randomly were joining together (disregarding all the physics), the probability of returning the smallest known functional protein (20 amino acids) is
(1/20)^20
I think so. Assuming each infinite set is of the same degree of infinity (the same size, essentially), the chance of getting a certain letter is 1/26.
You're doing this three times, and you want three specific letters. So that's the odds of getting D AND O AND G.
When combining probability with an AND (compared to an OR), you multiply the odds together. So it's (1/26) * (1/26) * (1/26).
Shouldn't it be 6 * (1/26)^3? Three ways to succeed on the first letter, 2 on the second, one on the third. 4 instead of six if a letter is repeated in the target word.
Dog starts with a D, that is one way to succeed.
that is what i want
the correct letters in the correct order
Ah, I thought that was what we were doing. I was wrong.
Powerpuppies is right.
It's three possible "wins", then two, then one.
Edit: Ha, no, I'm right!
Oh. In that case, yes, that's right.
hey, so do I...and one hour from when you posted!
yee-up.
there was a guy in my battery who went around stealing bootlaces so he could hang himself.
Apparently he got caught by the fireguard and sent home.
now i have to leave for school in 25 minutes
great going, time
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So if I am looking to make a specific thing in a specific order (not just drawing D, O, and G at any time, but drawing them in succession to spell DOG) it is just
(1/26)^3
you guys confused me a bit
Yes, that's correct.
thanks geeks
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Where are the government research projects trying to figure out how to make more of Dr Manhattan. Where are the legions of desparate people wanting to get disintegrated in intrinsic field subtractors so they can become like Dr Manhattan.
I mean
It seems more telling in the movie when he goes to the effort of poisoning his research staff and then disintegrating them. Like he was worried some of them might be able to come back as Dr Manhattan like entities.
Degree of infinity (known as cardinality) is not the same thing as size (known as ordinality). And it's best not to mix transfinite set theory with probability unless you want a massive headache.
Wasn't there something in the text segments about the Russians sending dozens of people into disintegration chambers to try and make a counter-Manhatten, and it never worked? Or am I imagining that?
And like, Dr Manhattan could probably figure it out and ascend the entire human-race.
Hell, before the first shot is fired just make a million of yourself and go turn each nuke into a marshmallow.
Edit: @PP Can he do that? I don't think he can do that.