Or do think there’s something special about the person that makes them flip tails more often?

Yes, that’s the conclusion that the scientist has come to. The chance of getting 20 in a row is so extraordinarily unlikely that it’s reasonable to conclude that the chance is not 50/50 for that particular surgeon.

The normal person thinks that because the last 20 people survived, the next patient is very likely to die.

The mathematician considers that the probability of success for each surgery is independent, so in the mathematician’s eyes the next patient has a 50% chance of survival.

The scientist thinks that the statistic is probably gathered across a large number of different hospitals. They see that this particular surgeon has an unusually high success rate, so they conclude that their own surgery has a >50% chance of success.

not() is a base function that negates what’s inside (turning True to False and vice versa) giving it no parameter returns “True” (because no parameter counts as False)

Actually, not is an operator. It makes more sense if you write not() as not () - the () is an empty tuple. An empty tuple is falsy in Python, so not () evaluates to True.

Let’s not forget Hitachi

It’s a joke.

I don’t think a community for it is an unreasonable idea - at least for now, many AI images are easily identifiable by defects / lack of reasoning in the image. Though there isn’t a good computer program that can do this, I agree.

On macOS you can hold down ‘e’ to do this, too.

It says “hot surface do not touch” in full, actually. Braille uses single characters to represent some common letter combinations (“touch” is “t” + “ou” + “ch”). The words “do” and “not” are each contracted to a single letter (“d” and “n” respectively).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Braille#Contractions

Birds have peckers

!surrealmemes@sh.itjust.works

A common “reason” for why student loans shouldn’t be paid off by the government is that it would be unfair to everyone who has already paid off their student loans.

Italy, Spain and Austria are in purple. “Mixed” means that there was a mix of left and right in various regions of the country.

SponsorBlock automatically skips the entire sponsorship as soon as it starts, so a lot of the time you wouldn’t even know it was there if you didn’t see the green section of the playback bar.

It’s not just for sponsorships, either. You can set it to skip intro animations, reminders to subscribe, self promotion, etc.

“Bulum” means “instrument”, so it literally means “bum instrument”

Well, the button says “pull to start” and the sign says “do not push” so we’re good to start it, right?

Gurkhas are generally very short. The average height of a Nepalese male is 5ft 4.5in according to Wikipedia

The British Army still has Gurkha regiments to this day, along with the Indian Army. And they’re still badass - if you want an example, check out Dipprasad Pun

Some Men Have Extra Ovaries

I love this song. The intro sounds so other-worldly.

Step 2 is optional