Show HN: The Lottery of Life
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Show HN: The Lottery of Life
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#2I was not aware 95% of all life was nematodes and beetles.
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#3I got 15 nematodes in a row which seems a lot even for an 80% chance.
Update: so now I learned something about compounding as well as about nematodes. Prob is about 0.03, much more than I’d have guessed.
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#4There was a game using this mechanic called RealLives https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Lives_(video_game)
You had a random chance at being born anywhere in the world weighted by population. A big lesson from the game is if you are born in Africa and you survive childhood, your best bet is somehow immigrating to the West
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#5I was not aware 95% of all life was nematodes and beetles.
I wonder what the result would be sorted by volume.
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#6I got 15 nematodes in a row which seems a lot even for an 80% chance. Update: so now I learned something about compounding as well as about nematodes. Prob is about 0.03, much more than I’d have guessed.
I think something is broken though. I got 20 nematodes in a row. It's around 1% prob.
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#7The random seed seems fixed, I tried 100 clicks and get Nematode
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#8I got 15 nematodes in a row which seems a lot even for an 80% chance. Update: so now I learned something about compounding as well as about nematodes. Prob is about 0.03, much more than I’d have guessed.
Same
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#9The random seed seems fixed, I tried 100 clicks and get Nematode
I got one beetle at first, then the rest of them were all nematodes.
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#10I think we're all Nematodes.