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Re:Things I know that it seems like nobody else gets by ronilan on Friday August 30, 2013 @01:10AM (#6300367)
> 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.

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Re:Things I know that it seems like nobody else gets by norswap on Friday August 30, 2013 @08:32AM (#6301337)
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).

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Re:Things I know that it seems like nobody else gets by hannibal5 on Friday August 30, 2013 @01:38AM (#6300431)
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%

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Re:Things I know that it seems like nobody else gets by molecule on Friday August 30, 2013 @01:55AM (#6300454)
> btw. he says 0.1% not 0.01%

it was originally posted as 0.01%.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%...

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