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Not the original commenter, but the math is (making some implicit, but arguably reasonable assumptions): Probability that someone in the population has schizophrenia = (1870/500000…

I didn't know the team was so small! Just wanted to say that I love both apps, makes commuting much easier. :)

There's a formalism in math/information theory describing this idea called the Kelly criterion. Not a common/colloquial phrase, but it describes a similar idea of portioning bet si…

Well said. In addition to that, I think a speaker's intended meaning is also important to consider. imo, people often take what people say literally or default to a first-instinct …

I used to keep a diary (that I stopped keeping due to lack of time) and it echoes your experience to a large extent. I mostly wrote about how I was feeling or what I did that day o…

I had a similar experience when I was doing physics in undergraduate as well. I read online and was often told that a physics degree opened a lot of doors - academia, government/in…

Playing around a bit, I think the margin of error is probably the average of the sum of widths (so the width of a finger, if they're equal).

I like this one! I was curious what the margin of error for this was (I'm conjecturing the sum of widths of the fingers touching the stick), so I tried this out, but with a pencil …

Out of curiosity, was the bot based on the bMotion repository? https://github.com/jamesoff/bmotion I remember a friend of mine settings up an IRC bot (named Zeta) like that for his…

Damn, this is news to me. Seems I have some reading to do, thanks for pointing that out.

When a superconductor interacts with a magnetic field, currents generate at the surface of the superconductor that will produce their own magnetic field, which cancels the external…

There's a noticeable distortion of the magnetic field near the superconductor. It's this distortion that keeps the superconductor stable - it's caused currents that appear on the s…

If you're interested in the term, what you noticed with your eyesight is an example of hyperacuity. Coincidentally, I learned about it making the same observation with my own eyes.…

I think what you suggested is an unpopular opinion, but I also wholeheartedly agree with it. :) I'm certainly no expert on copyright law, but my understanding is that its purpose i…

The primary reason (as far as I'm aware) is because buses are (relatively) more massive and structurally different from cars, so they exhibit different collision physics in the eve…

Hopefully I'm not interpreting, but I think latency's point is more epistemological than a comment on "how science is being done". For example, scientists will still use Newtonian …

This has been my experience as well (especially with Anki), though I've always felt like my ability to memorize information to be poor in general. In my experience, I find it easie…

What you're describing is called the "observer effect", which is different from the "measurement effect" that's used to describe the quantum mechanics problem. The misunderstanding…

Also Touhou: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GsZuS-vyM4&list=PL0A503B6DA...

Thank you so much for this, this is hilarious.