He doesn't want to have demos so he "predicts" that everybody else will do the same, since, if there is only 5 or 10 demos instead of 100, those that do have stand to gain more. More attention, more free advertising.
So, what this guy is saying, has exactly zero chance of happening.
We have a mathematical technique that gives us very precise numbers that seem to be correct. It gives us probabilities where the photon will end up. To get those numbers we need to calculate if the photon went trough both paths at the same time.
On the other hand we can never know which path the photon took, even in principle. To me it looks like those two statements combined together mean that the photon in fact went trough both paths.
As for photons perspective, surely there must be a photons perspective. Why would photons be special? If time slows down for all things that move, it should slow down for photons as well. Same for length contraction.
"In order to find the overall probability amplitude for a given process, then, one adds up, or integrates, the amplitude of postulate 3 over the space of all possible histories of the system in between the initial and final states, including histories that are absurd by classical standards."
So, for a photon that goes trough one or the other slit, you integrate over both, and you end up with the interference pattern in your calculation. Also, the same photon goes to the end of the universe, splits into a pair of two cars (one car, one anti-car) that merge back to a photon, then it goes back to your detector behind slits. However, this contributes very little to the end result. However you add all those probabilities.
But from photon's perspective, the universe is contracted to the length of zero in the direction it travels, so, it gets there in zero time, as if its starting point and end point are one and the same.
If the world was built of billiard balls, how precisely could you measure a position of a ball? There is no light, just other balls. If you send one ball to hit another, perhaps you get some movement, but then you have another problem of measuring the position of the other ball, and so on.
No wonder, since they travel instantaneously wherever they go, also, from their perspective, there is no space, and if you want to calculate where they went, they went trough all possible paths. No wonder they hit this thing that is in two places at once.
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It is doubtful that this phrase will ever reach equilibrium.
Well, your book is wrong. What you are describing is "random with uniform distribution", which is different than random in general.
For example if you throw two dice, the sum is random, yet not uniform. 7 occurs with 1/6 probability, and 2 or 16 with 1/36 probability. Not all possible events have the same probability, yet it is completely random.
I'm sorry, but the last position is not a premium position,
It could be a spot that is better than the average, but it could also be worse. In this case we simply don't know.
To know this stuff you have to test it on real people, then measure. This could be a lot of work because most people would select a browser they wanted or whatever, so you would have some problems how to extract the effect of position in this list over other factors.
My guess is that people that have no clue would simply click the first one.
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He doesn't want to have demos so he "predicts" that everybody else will do the same, since, if there is only 5 or 10 demos instead of 100, those that do have stand to gain more. More attention, more free advertising.
So, what this guy is saying, has exactly zero chance of happening.
In my book, game shattering is even bigger than revolutionary.
"online gambling is just so inherently corrupt."
Make sure to ban all politicians as well.
"Ellison would use his 'Cordwainer Bird' pseudonym to both distance himself from work that he felt had been mangled beyond repair"
Well, so nice to see that it worked so well.
You need a bunch of very powerful people with no connection to reality. Nobody can stop them, nobody can correct them. Thus that movie.
"And the list is very very short."
Good thing that you then posted it here. (since it is so short, after all)
"This is ancient Earth's most foolish program! Why does Ross, the largest Friend, simply not eat the others?"
Very interesting answers.
We have a mathematical technique that gives us very precise numbers that seem to be correct. It gives us probabilities where the photon will end up. To get those numbers we need to calculate if the photon went trough both paths at the same time.
On the other hand we can never know which path the photon took, even in principle. To me it looks like those two statements combined together mean that the photon in fact went trough both paths.
As for photons perspective, surely there must be a photons perspective. Why would photons be special? If time slows down for all things that move, it should slow down for photons as well. Same for length contraction.
From:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path_integral_formulation#Feynman.27s_interpretation
"In order to find the overall probability amplitude for a given process, then, one adds up, or integrates, the amplitude of postulate 3 over the space of all possible histories of the system in between the initial and final states, including histories that are absurd by classical standards."
So, for a photon that goes trough one or the other slit, you integrate over both, and you end up with the interference pattern in your calculation. Also, the same photon goes to the end of the universe, splits into a pair of two cars (one car, one anti-car) that merge back to a photon, then it goes back to your detector behind slits. However, this contributes very little to the end result. However you add all those probabilities.
But from photon's perspective, the universe is contracted to the length of zero in the direction it travels, so, it gets there in zero time, as if its starting point and end point are one and the same.
Can somebody smart connect those two views?
If the world was built of billiard balls, how precisely could you measure a position of a ball? There is no light, just other balls. If you send one ball to hit another, perhaps you get some movement, but then you have another problem of measuring the position of the other ball, and so on.
How do we get out of this loop in real life?
That would be a good thing to know.
I think it is a Russian cat (Soviet) that looks like you.
So it's the photons that do it.
No wonder, since they travel instantaneously wherever they go, also, from their perspective, there is no space, and if you want to calculate where they went, they went trough all possible paths. No wonder they hit this thing that is in two places at once.
I bet this guy could do it faster.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q395-F6hAcg&NR=1&feature=fvwp
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This one is fun:
What is the word with most meanings?
What words have any meaning?
What is the meaning of the word?
What is the meaning of a word you do?
Meaning of words is what to do or what?
What is the meaning of words can do something?
Mean I can make any kind of words?
I can be what the average of the word?
Average word what I can?
Average words What can I do?
Average words I can do?
What words do I average?
What I mean is average?
What is the average that I mean?
What is the average of that mean?
What do you mean average?
I mean what I mean?
What do you mean what I mean?
I mean what you mean why?
What do you mean I mean why?
What do you mean mean why?
What you mean why?
How do you mean why?
I mean why is that?
What I mean why?
How do you mean why?
It is doubtful that this phrase will ever reach equilibrium.
Too bad that you have to have an unused partition on your drive to use this thing.
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No files for you!
For some reason, I got this picture:
http://craphound.com/images/translateservererror.jpg
Well, your book is wrong. What you are describing is "random with uniform distribution", which is different than random in general.
For example if you throw two dice, the sum is random, yet not uniform. 7 occurs with 1/6 probability, and 2 or 16 with 1/36 probability. Not all possible events have the same probability, yet it is completely random.
Same as the result of that sort.
But their genius is in how they have hidden this in a simple 3 line implementation!
As somebody said earlier, the result is totally random, just not with equal probabilities for all browsers.
I'm sorry, but the last position is not a premium position,
It could be a spot that is better than the average, but it could also be worse. In this case we simply don't know.
To know this stuff you have to test it on real people, then measure. This could be a lot of work because most people would select a browser they wanted or whatever, so you would have some problems how to extract the effect of position in this list over other factors.
My guess is that people that have no clue would simply click the first one.
Faster? Are you insane?
Simpler? It's fcking 3 lines, you can get more simple than that.
aBrowserOrderTop5.sort(RandomSort);
function RandomSort (a,b){
return (0.5 - Math.random());}
If you think you can make this in less code, please do and show us the code.
This is some trivial stuff that users will probably run ONCE and then never again. Who cares if it is not uniformly distributed.
I think there is 50% chance that you are not a moron, and 100% chance that you are.
Well, there's this theory:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QER_yqTcmjM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QER_yqTcmjM