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NeoNachtwaechter, in What are the odds of getting a passing grade by sheer guessing here?

Let’s say you use both tries and you remember your previous two respected answers.

Important question here:

If your first try gives you a grade of 50%, do they tell you which one of your answers was the right one and which one was the wrong one?

FatTony, (edited )
@FatTony@lemmy.world avatar

No they don’t! I edited it in the post. Thanks for pointing that out.

cheese_greater, (edited ) in What are some things that you have experienced in fever dreams that don't actually exist in real life?

Not sure if it was a fever dream but probably more opiod medication related…

Its some combination of the following

  • some cartoon wedding segment
  • South Park?
  • there’s like a wedding song that gets cut off but it sort of sounds like this but its like an organ and I’m saying that because its possible I was playing that game a little while South Park was playing in background
  • its only like a 3-4 second motif and I feel like it plays a few times throughout
  • structurally its conjunct and it starts on the tonic,
  • quasi-Pachelbel-esque
Gamers_Mate,

@cheese_greater That would actually sound really cool on an Organ.

fr_mg, in What do you think would happen if Putin was assassinated right now?

A hardliner will take power (Putin is not the most antiwest russian politician) and then…from the total erasing of Ukraine to third world war, anything would be posible, but neither civil war nor colapse of Rusia. That is the OTAN countries wet dream.

RozhkiNozhki,
@RozhkiNozhki@lemmy.world avatar

This is very likely. If anything, the existing system will be perpetuated because there’s no replacement atm. It’s been too long in the making and it will take a lot of work to undo. Also, he may be long dead and it won’t change anything in the near future.

This said there’s always a chance for a change, but not right now.

fr_mg, (edited )

What about a change in the West? In order to avoid another Afganistán, Irak, Sirya, Libya and so on…

RozhkiNozhki,
@RozhkiNozhki@lemmy.world avatar

I’m not sure why you mean by this. A change in Russia from the West?

fr_mg, (edited )

No, the question assumes that Putin is s problem (a bad guy) and almost ask his dead.

Everything is more complex, and if Putin is a bad guy…what about wéstern politicians and their crimes?

I do not like that position: the “West” is right, the rest of the world is not. That is one of the untold premises of the question.

Edit: i am not an english speaker, perhaps my writing is not clear enough.

RozhkiNozhki,
@RozhkiNozhki@lemmy.world avatar

Definitely but that’s unrelated to Putin and his direct actions. The OP’s question also doesn’t mention anything about West right Putin wrong, they are just asking what’s going to happen if Putin is no more.

fr_mg,

Why is that question possible?

“that’s unrelated to Putin and his direct actions”, if not related, why? Why asking about assassinated political leader?

RozhkiNozhki,
@RozhkiNozhki@lemmy.world avatar

I meant to say whatever the West leaders are doing does not pertain to the question. The question is not about them.

fr_mg,

Those kind of questions can not be made without context, it is not a game of words without consequences. If it is a game, just to waste time posting in this or any social network, let’s stop here.

It is about a real person, who is a leader, whose murder would spark grave consequences. And that leader actions, like taking the decision of going to war or not, are related to decisions made by other leaders. Right now there is a campaign demonizing that leader, and that campaign normalizes ideas mirrored by that kind of questions. There lots of memes, jokes and things like that asking for Putin’s dead.

If i asked, what would happen if Donald Trump were assassinated? Or Biden, or Xi Jing Pin, Erdogan, etc? At this moment when all media are strugling to influence public opinion? It won’t be a futile harmless game.

It pertains to the whole picture. IMHO.

RozhkiNozhki,
@RozhkiNozhki@lemmy.world avatar

The question is purely speculative. Try swapping Putin for any western leader and then answer the actual question if it helps.

I can speculate easily what will happen if Biden is assassinated because the probability of anything is not zero. The VP will take his place and so on.

fr_mg, (edited )

So, your position as i understand it: it is just words.

My position: words related to real world are not just words, they have meaning, purpose, intention and consequences.

Edit: if USA president is assassinated VP takes the place, is that all what would happen? ASSASSINATED, not by sickness or accident🤔.

RozhkiNozhki, (edited )
@RozhkiNozhki@lemmy.world avatar

Yes, assassinated, because things happen and no, I do not intend to assassinate anyone just because I use this word. And because things happen, there are contingency plans written for such scenarios, in every country. Do you think that national security services shy away from this because God forbid they talk about it?

Here’s what happens when the president is no more: …wikipedia.org/…/United_States_presidential_line_…

I could speculate further that there’s always a possibility of unplanned action or power imbalance, or infighting etc etc that may further complicate things, but the bottom line is things of all kinds happen and they will continue to happen regardless of whether I talk about them or not.

fr_mg, (edited )

1- i did not write you intent yo kill anyone, just you are adding your contribution to a toxic environment of manipulation, if you intended or not i do not know.

2- i did not object on religious or moral grounds.

3- you did not ask for a legal answer, that would be too easy. Your question is open ended in order to obtain arguments based on different personal grounds, mine are based on: a) critical thinking. b) been fed up (sorry, do not remember a softer expression) reading such ideas. c) been on the reciving end of that media manipulation, because Putin is not the only political leader who faces this. There are too many in the world, and with them their peoples share the burden of the consequences.

4- last, i am not going to argue about this forever, do not want to win any argument. If you want to feel you are right and me wrong go ahead and be happy.

IanAtCambio, in What is a niche interest or hobby you'd personally like to see represented more on Lemmy

Miss that /r/silverbugs family

catonwheels, in What is a niche interest or hobby you'd personally like to see represented more on Lemmy

A lot of the more nish writing sub’s like magic building or fantasy writers.

9point6, (edited ) in What is a niche interest or hobby you'd personally like to see represented more on Lemmy

It’s not even that niche imo, but just more music production content in general. There was an instance focused on this a few months ago, but it seems to have gone and not returned.

On Reddit, you have communities of music makers around theory, various genres, various software, synths, and deals. It’s definitely a source of inspiration I miss.

fugacity, in What are the odds of getting a passing grade by sheer guessing here?

P(passing) = 1- P(failure)
P(failure) = P(failure first try)*P(failure second try)
P(failure first try)=(3/4)^2
P(failure second try)=(gonna post in reply)

fugacity, (edited )

P(failure second try)=(2/3)^2 since you can eliminate one choice but 2 others are still wrong.

To total:
P(failure)=(3/4)^2*(2/3)^2=1/4
1-1/4=0.75

So the probability of passing is 0.75

Edit:
Remark: this problem is elegant if you attempt to calculate the passing as the complement of failure rather than enumerate all successes. Shouldn't take more than 3 minutes with a clear head if you know the correct approach. If this was an college level intro probability exam question, it should be done the fast way since it's meant to eat up your time otherwise.

shinigamiookamiryuu, in What is a niche interest or hobby you'd personally like to see represented more on Lemmy

Cryptography

girl, (edited ) in What are the odds of getting a passing grade by sheer guessing here?

IIRC from my one stats class almost a decade ago, the math is pretty simple. If it’s truly a random guess then you have a 25% chance to get each question right, all you have to do is multiply them. (0.25)(0.25)=0.0625, you have a 6.25% of getting a 100. The other option to get a 50 is (0.25)(0.75)=0.1875, 18.75%. So there is a 75% chance of failing both.

If you get a second chance and can remember your two wrong answers, each problem now has only three options. To get each right, (0.33)(0.33)=0.1089, 10.89% chance. To get one right, (0.33)(0.67)=0.2211, 22.11% chance. 67% chance of failing both a second time.

Something is amiss with my logic/math here but I’m too tired and am going to sleep now. With this logic, failing both the first time would be (0.75)(0.75)=0.5625 56.25%, the %s don’t add up to 100% so someone please correct me lol

Edit 2: thanks for the corrections everyone, I forgot that the order does matter in this equation

bstix,

You only accounted for the situations with one correct answer in the case where it is the first question.

Hillock, (edited )

Your calculations to get 100% are right but you are off for the 50% and. You are only considering one specific outcome. But it doesn't matter if the first question is wrong or the second so the chance is 0.250.75+0.750.25 which is 37.5 or double your answer. We can double check it by looking at it from the other direction.

The chance of failure is 0.75*0.75= 56.25%.

So there is a 43.75% of passing the first go around. Split between a 6.25% to get 100 and 37.5% to get 50.

Same mistake for the second calculations. 44.22% is the chance to get 50%

Nibodhika, (edited )

There are a couple of errors, that I could spot, but I just woke up so my math might also be wrong hahaha.

(0.25)(0.25)=0.0625, you have a 6.25% of getting a 100.

Correct

The other option to get a 50 is (0.25)(0.75)=0.1875, 18.75%.

Almost, that’s only true if the first one is the one you get right, but you can also get the second one right (3/4 * 1/4), meaning that it’s double your answer, or 37.5% chance of getting at least one right.

So there is a 75% chance of failing both.~

56.25% as per above

~If you get a second chance and can remember your two wrong answers, each problem now has only three options. To get each right, (0.33)(0.33)=0.1089, 10.89% chance.

That assumes you got both wrong the first time around.

To get one right, (0.33)(0.67)=0.2211, 22.11% chance. 67% chance of failing both a second time.~

Same as above, also same as getting the second one right.

unclad8226, in What are the odds of getting a passing grade by sheer guessing here?

Let’s assume you get every answer wrong every time. For the first try you have a 75% chance of getting each question wrong. So this is 0.75x0.75 for both questions being wrong. This is a 56.25% chance of being incorrect on the first test.

The second test you now have 3 possible answers for each question since you can now eliminate the incorrect answers from the previous test. You now have a 66.6% chance of getting each question wrong. This is now 0.66x0.66 to get both wrong, so a 43.56% chance of failing a second time.

Now let’s find the chance that you fail both the first and second attempt. This is 0.5625x0.4356 which gives 24.5% chance of failing both. We can do 1-0.245 to find the chance of passing, which gives a 75.5% chance of passing on one of the two attempts.

Been a long time since I’ve done something like this, so please correct if wrong. You should be able to do the opposite and calculate all the different ways of passing a and total to 100%, but that is longer than this and I cannot be bothered to check.

seaQueue, (edited ) in Honestly - How much will you sacrifice for a better world?
@seaQueue@lemmy.world avatar

I’ll sacrifice enough of my time to help build the guillotines we’ll need to deal with the root cause of these problems.

In case it’s not apparent already none of these problems are things that can be solved by personal sacrifices of average individual citizens. We need sweeping government and economic reforms if we’re going to do anything except kick the can down the road for another generation or three while the wealthy continue to loot the planet for their own benefit. If anyone needs to make sacrifices right now it’s the 0.01% sitting on top of enough money and influence to solve all of these problems.

NeoNachtwaechter,

I’ll sacrifice enough of my time to help build the guillotines we’ll need to deal with the root cause of these problems.

Billions of guillotines??

I do not want to know your dreams at night…

Bizarroland,
@Bizarroland@kbin.social avatar

We can do it as an arts and crafts project for our YouTube channels

brygphilomena, in Let's get raunchy

In Newport Beach, in the sand next to the ocean. Sex on the beach kind of sucks, sand gets places that aren’t so comfy and it’s really abrasive.

At a playground, right out in the open at night.

At a friends house in their living room while they were upstairs watching a movie.

In a hot tub a few times and it always sucks. Water does terrible things to the natural lubrication.

In a random church parking lot after going sledding up in the mountains.

In the back seat of my car in many, many places.

Then when I got a new car, I no longer had a backseat, so in random parking lots we would fuck on or against my car.

I’d fuck pretty much anywhere and everywhere, I’m an exhibitionist and enjoy the risk of people seeing us.

shinigamiookamiryuu, in What is your best story when you were in a foreign country?

I was born. That’s pretty much it. I was in my current country early on.

SharkEatingBreakfast,
@SharkEatingBreakfast@sopuli.xyz avatar

Anything cool happen after that?

H4mi,

Sadly he died again

SharkEatingBreakfast,
@SharkEatingBreakfast@sopuli.xyz avatar

Wow. Very sad. RIP in peace. Get well soon!

Alborlin,

Damn I think I landed in TikTok somehow…

ComradeR, in What is a niche interest or hobby you'd personally like to see represented more on Lemmy

Not exactly a hobby. But lost media/lost wave.

technomad, in What is a niche interest or hobby you'd personally like to see represented more on Lemmy

How about a community for paracord stuff?

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