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Two Photographers Unknowingly Shot the Same Millisecond in Time

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Re: Two Photographers Unknowingly Shot the Same Millisecond in Time

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Post by drivers99 »

OJFord wrote: post #45
skrebbel wrote: post #36

This is typical birthday paradox stuff right? The chance that these two photographers would ever snap the same thing at the same time is small, but the chance that any two photographers, anywhere, would do so is, I bet, pretty big (even if you factor in millisecond precision). With photographers being photographers and the internet being the internet, there's also a pretty decent change that they'd find out about it…

It's made more remarkable IMO that they were two _professional_ photographers though, and that it's not just two snaps that happen to have the same timestamp, they both chose that moment to feature from the burst they probably took around that moment, the hundreds of other moments in proximity, and the thousands (I suppose? I'm no photographer) they each took throughout the day.

That fact makes it possible, but as he pointed out, they were taking photos at different rates of burst mode, and even then they happened to snap at the same millisecond. Usually each picture in burst mode of moving water is completely different. I think in that gas it makes sense that they would choose the same subject and the same photo since it was probably the biggest splash from that wave. As if they were choosing from the same set of photos, even though all their other photos had different moments.

Re: Two Photographers Unknowingly Shot the Same Millisecond in Time

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Post by Retric »

laneb wrote: post #56
skrebbel wrote: post #36

This is typical birthday paradox stuff right? The chance that these two photographers would ever snap the same thing at the same time is small, but the chance that any two photographers, anywhere, would do so is, I bet, pretty big (even if you factor in millisecond precision). With photographers being photographers and the internet being the internet, there's also a pretty decent change that they'd find out about it…

The birthday paradox arises because the probability that two candidates do not match is small compared to the number of candidates. In this case, the candidates are photos and a match in fact requires a match on multiple variables (e.g. angle, timing) that are effectively continuous. A match between 2 arbitrary photos must then have zero-ish probability and a non-match must have one-ish. So it still seems inestimably…

There are probably well over 10 trillion photos taken. Less by professionals, but they are more likely to take the same photo.

Anyway, that low probability applies to every other photo. So, the first photo is compared to every other photo and by the end your talking ~50,000,000,000,000,000,000 comparisons. The odds would have to be mind boggling tiny for this not to happen all the time.

Re: Two Photographers Unknowingly Shot the Same Millisecond in Time

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Post by rflrob »

nolok wrote: post #80
cozzyd wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was working on a long-duration balloon payload (ANITA-IV), so I was in a hangar much of the time. Since it was summer, it wasn't that cold, but the constant daylight is disorienting. The isolation from the rest of the world is the hardest part, even though at McMurdo, unlike pole, there is (slow) internet all day long. McMurdo is an interesting place with a lot of fascinating people and the scenery is very beautifu…

Always been a dream of mine, sadly I don't think as a lowly French IT person that there is a way for me to have that experience. Thanks for sharing

I have a friend who sometimes works at Pole, and they apparently do need people to winter over and manage the IT infrastructure. I don't know whether they have citizenship requirements (it's a US-led station), but it's apparently a hard enough position to recruit for (six+ months in the dark) that they might be flexible.

Re: Two Photographers Unknowingly Shot the Same Millisecond in Time

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Post by logfromblammo »

brudgers wrote: post #97

[I felt like I was playing "Find 8 differences between these pictures" on the comics page] I looked at the large images. Gendon's appears to have been shot slightly earlier based on two differences. 1. The crest of the background wave at the left is horizontal in Gendon's photo and turning down from photo left to right in Risman's. 2. The trough in front of the breaking wave has reached the front of the light house i…

I looked at the two photos as a stereogram--focus through the plane instead of crossing your eyes.

If they were identical, there would be no 3d effect. My eyes can't figure out how to resolve the foreground waves, because the photographers were too far apart, but the spray wraps around the lighthouse as you would expect.

Re: Two Photographers Unknowingly Shot the Same Millisecond in Time

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Post by cat199 »

vardump wrote: post #110
hmottestad wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fyi. This is the cert I'm getting: https://imgur.com/a/D1RQ2

No foul play, also managed to get same cert you got (with public key 92 e0 55 f9 af 61 0d 7e 7e db 21 84 d5 dc 59 21...). Perhaps Google uses multiple certs with same Common Name on different servers. If so, I wonder if there's some security benefit. Or what could the reason for that be?

I could see rolling N copies out so if you needed to revoke one set, another set could remain functional..

Re: Two Photographers Unknowingly Shot the Same Millisecond in Time

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Post by LesZedCB »

jastanton wrote: post #123

I once plugged my usb cable in on the first try. Goes to show you anything is possible!! Edit: upon further inspection it turns out it was USB-C. Nevermind, all is right with the world :)

i know it's a joke, but the usb logo on the plug is always on top, so you can just orient it 'up' according to the underlying board (up for laptops, and facing left for desktops)

Re: Two Photographers Unknowingly Shot the Same Millisecond in Time

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Post by diggan »

jastanton wrote: post #123

I once plugged my usb cable in on the first try. Goes to show you anything is possible!! Edit: upon further inspection it turns out it was USB-C. Nevermind, all is right with the world :)

Something I learned a few weeks ago (after many years of using USB) is that usually cables have the USB logo or marking on the "right side" up. So if you don't know which one is the right side up, the one with the logo should win.

Might help some other lost souls here :)

Re: Two Photographers Unknowingly Shot the Same Millisecond in Time

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Post by mgerdts »

nolok wrote: post #80
cozzyd wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was working on a long-duration balloon payload (ANITA-IV), so I was in a hangar much of the time. Since it was summer, it wasn't that cold, but the constant daylight is disorienting. The isolation from the rest of the world is the hardest part, even though at McMurdo, unlike pole, there is (slow) internet all day long. McMurdo is an interesting place with a lot of fascinating people and the scenery is very beautifu…

Always been a dream of mine, sadly I don't think as a lowly French IT person that there is a way for me to have that experience. Thanks for sharing

Project ice cube seems to always be looking for people to winter over. I suppose the hiking isn't as good then. :)

http://icecube.wisc.edu/jobs

Since the employment would not be in the US, I'm guessing that no work visa would be required. If you are really interested, I think it would be worth your while to contact them.

Re: Two Photographers Unknowingly Shot the Same Millisecond in Time

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Post by raisedbyninjas »

arthurofbabylon wrote: post #17

Totally cool, but not unlikely. With the sheer volume of high-end cameras and photographers using burst mode, this will certainly happen time and time again. It’s likely that this happens several times most days. Some simple math: one camera was taking a photo every 143 milliseconds (roughly) and the other every 196 milliseconds (roughly). If both sit in burst mode continuously, I would expect these cameras to share…

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