Probability of fuck up at each attempt: 0.001 Probability of no fuck up at one attempt: 0.999
Probability of two no-fuck-ups in a row: 0.999*0.999 Probability of x no-fuck-ups in a row: 0.999^x Five attempts per day, for a year, is 1825 attempts in total. So, probability of getting to the end of the year without a fuck up: 0.999^1825 = 0.16 Probabilty of not getting to the end of the year without a fuck up (i.e., having a fuck up): 1 - 0.16 = 0.84.
84% chance of having a fuck up in a year.
I think it's called the multiplying-things-together-a-bunch-of-times function.
TL:DR; You calculate the chances of it never happening (there's only one way for it to never happen, whereas there are many ways for it to happen - on day one, on day two, etc) and subtract them from 1.
I'd imagine they'd be obliged to broadcast them regardless, and if their forecast disagrees so wildly that they think a Met Office severe warning weather is completely invalid, then they're probably not very good at forecasting.
That's assuming they do any real forecasting of their own. They might just beef up Met Office forecasts.
Paradoxically, if they slowed their speed, they'd find that they themselves were very young, but living in a 13.8 billion year-old Universe.
I'm very young (compared to the universe), but I don't see a paradox when comparing myself to the universe's age.
Okay, that's just me playing with words. But there's no paradox anyway.
Paradoxically, if they slowed their speed...
...then they'd presumably be advanced enough to understand special relativity and take account for it in all their calculations.
The twin paradox has been around - and understood - for over a hundred years. What's next on Slashdot? A Starts-With-A-Bang article on how we only ever see one side of the moon?
And what would they be comparing the universe's age to, anwyay? Unless their planet or something on it had provably existed since the beginning of time and they could prove how old it was, I can't seem them getting too far.
And finally, would someone please take away Ethan's exclamation mark key?
Not that I expect anyone do anything about it; Slashdot stories seem to get posted and abandoned. Correcting spelling mistakes that make you look stupid doesn't attract any more advertisers!
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Probability of fuck up at each attempt: 0.001
Probability of no fuck up at one attempt: 0.999
Probability of two no-fuck-ups in a row: 0.999*0.999
Probability of x no-fuck-ups in a row: 0.999^x
Five attempts per day, for a year, is 1825 attempts in total.
So, probability of getting to the end of the year without a fuck up: 0.999^1825 = 0.16
Probabilty of not getting to the end of the year without a fuck up (i.e., having a fuck up): 1 - 0.16 = 0.84.
84% chance of having a fuck up in a year.
I think it's called the multiplying-things-together-a-bunch-of-times function.
TL:DR; You calculate the chances of it never happening (there's only one way for it to never happen, whereas there are many ways for it to happen - on day one, on day two, etc) and subtract them from 1.
Ask Slashdot: Tips For Getting Into Model Railroading?
He's not asking about trains, he just really wants to coerce Cindy Crawford into doing... something.
I'd imagine they'd be obliged to broadcast them regardless, and if their forecast disagrees so wildly that they think a Met Office severe warning weather is completely invalid, then they're probably not very good at forecasting.
That's assuming they do any real forecasting of their own. They might just beef up Met Office forecasts.
Is a Universal Flu Vaccine On the Horizon?
If it is, that's a stupid place to put it. I'll never get there!
Robots Are Coming For Our Jobs, Just Not All of Them
Right. The rest are coming to kill us!
Court: FTC Can Punish Companies With Sloppy Cybersecurity
Or, as my RSS feed put it:
Court: FTC Can Punish Companies With Sloppy Cyberse...
There is no guarantee that a Slashdot reader will detect a joke; there is only a probability.
Did anyone get it?
checksums will only detect a single bit error
Nope.
I don't believe this one bit.
That's why we have checksums.
In Baltimore and Elsewhere, Police Use Stingrays For Petty Crimes
While it's nice to know they're equipped with the latest tech, they really shouldn't be committing petty crimes in the first place.
Paradoxically, if they slowed their speed, they'd find that they themselves were very young, but living in a 13.8 billion year-old Universe.
I'm very young (compared to the universe), but I don't see a paradox when comparing myself to the universe's age.
Okay, that's just me playing with words. But there's no paradox anyway.
Paradoxically, if they slowed their speed...
...then they'd presumably be advanced enough to understand special relativity and take account for it in all their calculations.
The twin paradox has been around - and understood - for over a hundred years. What's next on Slashdot? A Starts-With-A-Bang article on how we only ever see one side of the moon?
And what would they be comparing the universe's age to, anwyay? Unless their planet or something on it had provably existed since the beginning of time and they could prove how old it was, I can't seem them getting too far.
And finally, would someone please take away Ethan's exclamation mark key?
You buy food at Lave and sell it at Diso.
You buy drugs at Diso and sell them at Lave.
Or was it the other way around?
Good to know they're not wasting time and money on trivial things that won't benefit the human race in any meaningful way.
Next up: can ants be trained to sort tiny screws in space?
The online retailer sites changes
No, they cite changes.
Not that I expect anyone do anything about it; Slashdot stories seem to get posted and abandoned. Correcting spelling mistakes that make you look stupid doesn't attract any more advertisers!
'There's no substitute for cubic inches,' American race drivers used to say and the 747 expresses that truth in the air.
What?
I mean... what?
Hyperloop Getting Closer To Reality, Groundbreaking Set For 2016
Sounds like a Canadian Indie band who are taking things in a new direction next year.
a derrivative work
I had a later stage of the process in mind, but sure, that works too.
Do Russian trolls have another, slightly smaller Russian troll inside them?
Damn, should have played it through to the end:
Tiny Pebbles Built the Gas Giant Behemoths
But they kicked him out of the band after their disastrous tour of Asia, and now he's suing for the royalties.
How is planet babby formed?
Tiny Pebbles Built the Gas Giant Behemoths
I'd been wondering what Tiny Pebbles had been up to since he retired from rap music.
Now they are going to arrest you too.
Compromising police operations. That's a paddlin'.
A significant amount of the effort on a medical device is the 510k submission
That particular stumbling block doesn't apply to 95% of the planet.
This guy was inspired by his work in Gaza.
Ultra-Low Cost Medical Devices*
*for entertainment purposes only, in the USA.
And he swiped my pic-a-nic basket.