Bazza Posted May 21, 2022 Report Share Posted May 21, 2022 23 minutes ago, Pariah said: Because if you fail to do it properly, there's gonna be a heartache tonight. This is the last resort: They called it paradise; I don't know why I’m stuck like a new kid in town in the hotel California until Hell freezes over like a desperado to a witchy woman, which one of the nights, I’m gonna live life in the fast lane in the long run. Phew. Pariah 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted May 21, 2022 Author Report Share Posted May 21, 2022 2 hours ago, Pariah said: I've got no problem with algebra. I can do a little trigonometry when necessary. I can even figure out matrices, given sufficient time and motivation. But calculus is where I reach my limit. I can do some calculus. It's statistics where I'm hopeless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
assault Posted May 21, 2022 Report Share Posted May 21, 2022 Statistics and probability is where roleplayers should shine. How likely is it that your character will be Stunned by a 12DC attack? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted May 21, 2022 Report Share Posted May 21, 2022 Australia goes to the polls. One voter decked out in his formal budgie smugglers. Anyone want to caption the photo? Go on, you know you want too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted May 21, 2022 Report Share Posted May 21, 2022 This only reinforces my idea that Australia is like a good-natured Florida. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted May 21, 2022 Report Share Posted May 21, 2022 I can only assume that "budgie smugglers" is the Australian equivalent to "banana hammock". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted May 21, 2022 Report Share Posted May 21, 2022 15 hours ago, assault said: Statistics and probability is where roleplayers should shine. How likely is it that your character will be Stunned by a 12DC attack? With my luck, he's fortunate if he's *only* Stunned. assault 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted May 21, 2022 Report Share Posted May 21, 2022 15 hours ago, assault said: Statistics and probability is where roleplayers should shine. How likely is it that your character will be Stunned by a 12DC attack? The two are QUITE different. You're talking basic probability. Something of a grind to actually set up *accurately*...not too bad to estimate. The standard deviation for NdS, where N == number of dice, S == number of sides, is SQRT( N * (S^2 -1) / 12 ) So for 6 siders, this is basically SQRT (N * 3), or here, 6. Now you just go, how many StdDevs is it from the mean of 42? Or you just quickly write up some code that'll create the entire sample space...6^12 isn't big for a computer, only a couple billion...and reference that. That said...offhand, I'd say that there was *1* other person in my old RP group...who were college students...that could do either. I'll grant, this was some time ago, but while simple programming is likely to be much more common today, math skills to this point...probably aren't. Stats is much trickier. We had upper division prob and stats...the prob course was easy enough. The stats course kicked most math majors' backside. Stats is when you start asking, ok, are these fair dice, or are they biased? Is this process truly random or not? That's not necessarily the same point...it's not enough to examine the overall collection of trial events, but also whether there are internal patterns. When those patterns are there consistently? Not random. HTHTHTHTHTHT looks like a fair toss, right? Same number of heads as tails. BUT statistics says, that constant flipping is NOT likely...1 in 2048. assault 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted May 23, 2022 Report Share Posted May 23, 2022 Doesn't count as 'news' per se, but just got a shipment from Amazon. Mid-size box, roughly size of a loaf of bread. The interesting thing was the shipping box was pressed out around the product box...to size, basically. First time I've seen this. Has to afford some material reduction overall; with fast 3D scanning to get dimensions, smacking out the raw cardboard should be fast. No waste. Everything's folded and glued...so no tape either. Kinda cool. I'm all for reducing product waste whenever possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted May 23, 2022 Report Share Posted May 23, 2022 On 5/21/2022 at 7:33 AM, assault said: Statistics and probability is where roleplayers should shine. How likely is it that your character will be Stunned by a 12DC attack? 1 DC (District of Columbia) is bad enough. 12 ? Think of all the wretched lobbyists...... In other news the guy who designed starships for Star Wars has died. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-61547986 And on a personal not the headmaster at my old school died aged 92 the local paper has said. He was married for over 65 years wcw43921 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted May 23, 2022 Report Share Posted May 23, 2022 4 hours ago, death tribble said: 1 DC (District of Columbia) is bad enough. 12 ? Think of all the wretched lobbyists...... Well, there's Albany, Sacramento, Austin, Tallahassee, Columbus, Lansing, Harrisburg................ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted May 23, 2022 Report Share Posted May 23, 2022 7 hours ago, death tribble said: 1 DC (District of Columbia) is bad enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted May 23, 2022 Report Share Posted May 23, 2022 Wonder when that meme will be updated to use Mar-a-Lago... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted May 23, 2022 Report Share Posted May 23, 2022 If I had image editing skills.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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DShomshak Posted May 24, 2022 Report Share Posted May 24, 2022 Science That Could Cause Origins Dept.: https://www.npr.org/2022/05/23/1100828758/study-finds-microscopic-life-in-830-million-year-old-crystal-and-it-might-be-ali Though reviving microbes sealed in a salt crystal for 830 million years could only result in a Lovecraftian monster. The scientists say they'll be careful, and anyway after 830 million years of missed coevolution the microbes would be so maladapted they couldn't possibly infect humans, that's just the sort of cocksure statements that scientists always make before The Horror Begins. (Though they also try to preempt fate by saying that yes, the situation sounds like something from a B movie. Not enough, I tell you!) Dean Shomshak Cancer and L. Marcus 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted May 24, 2022 Report Share Posted May 24, 2022 Say hello to my little friend ! The Dragon of Death ! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-61568468 DShomshak 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted May 24, 2022 Report Share Posted May 24, 2022 Hadn’t heard of a mass shooting in America in days. Guess we can count on Texas to pick up the slack. Ranxerox 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted May 24, 2022 Report Share Posted May 24, 2022 2 hours ago, Old Man said: Hadn’t heard of a mass shooting in America in days. Guess we can count on Texas to pick up the slack. Unfortunately they did...so this wasn't in the best of taste. 19 dead at an elementary school shooting, if I read the last update from NYT right... 18 KIDS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted May 25, 2022 Report Share Posted May 25, 2022 39 minutes ago, unclevlad said: Unfortunately they did...so this wasn't in the best of taste. 19 dead at an elementary school shooting, if I read the last update from NYT right... 18 KIDS. This is the incident my post was referring to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted May 25, 2022 Report Share Posted May 25, 2022 Wait, a mass shooting in Texas? The same Texas where everyone has guns? Isn't everyone having guns supposed to prevent mass shootings? I'm pretty sure I heard that somewhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted May 25, 2022 Report Share Posted May 25, 2022 I'm pretty sure what you heard from gun rights fanatics is that the answer is to have MORE guns. Armed guards at schools. And armed teachers. I expect their next suggestion will be to arm the children. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted May 25, 2022 Report Share Posted May 25, 2022 1 hour ago, Pariah said: Wait, a mass shooting in Texas? The same Texas where everyone has guns? Isn't everyone having guns supposed to prevent mass shootings? I'm pretty sure I heard that somewhere. At least two good guys with guns tried to stop this particular bad guy with gun. It's almost as though good-guy-with-gun is just a fantasy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted May 25, 2022 Report Share Posted May 25, 2022 Like an honest politician who tells the truth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted May 25, 2022 Report Share Posted May 25, 2022 54 minutes ago, Lord Liaden said: I'm pretty sure what you heard from gun rights fanatics is that the answer is to have MORE guns. Armed guards at schools. And armed teachers. I expect their next suggestion will be to arm the children. Look, I grew up in rural America and learned how to shoot long before I learned how to drive. I took the hunter safety course, even though I've never actually been hunting. I've got no problem with responsible gun use. But arming teachers, as a matter of policy, is a bad idea. Teachers aren't cops and shouldn't be expected to function as such. And honestly, there are several of my coworkers who have no business being with a hundred meters of a firearm. So put me in the Hawkeye Pierce camp where that's concerned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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