Ask Ruby: Critique a buggy Script? The birthday problem simulation

cavedave · 2012-05-24T08:22:10.668582+00:00

I am trying to work out the number of people you need to on average have 2 share a birthdate. If you could point out any mistakes I am making in the script that would be great

cavedave · 2012-05-24T06:13:56.832168+00:00

Similar advise about Disney the idea that the side of the road Americans drive on and handedness plays a role is interesting. I've also heard that when lost in the woods people will walk in a large clockwise circle.

Tourist Mazes are frequently set up sp that taking right turns leads you back to an earlier point

Northwest_Smith · 6 days

http://www.reddit.com/r/computervision might be handy

cavedave · 6 days

I dont think computers alone are determining the result. But Take Fischer Versus Spassky. "On the July 1972 FIDE rating list, Fischer's 2785 was a record 125 points ahead of the number two player – Spassky, who had a 2660 rating" which is more of a difference than there is between number 1 and number 30 now.

cavedave · 6 days

I don't think its all you need. just other factors are not as important anymore.

I'm not sure it is sad. maybe for chess it is. but if computers mean instead of one genius level expert we now have 20 that could be massively useful in many other areas of life.

cavedave · 7 days

I think this might well be true. IT wont matter at low level chess. But at the top end it seems that computers are levelling out differences and reducing skill importance.

cavedave · 8 days

I agree the word fascist is inaccurate. One thing about fascism while were ont he subject is it tends to involve selected groups getting special influence. These are the rods in the fascist bundle of rods symbol. So Mussolini's Italy had a corporatist system where different groups (farmers, teachers etc) had particular power.

This meant that these special groups wouldn't unite together against the fascist government as they thought they were divided against each other. You can be corporatist without being fascist. The senate in Ireland is corporatist for example. But I do think the giving special groups power and setting them against each other idea in fascism is an important one to look out for.

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